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It is shown that the momentum density of free electromagnetic field splits into two parts. One has no contribution to the net momentum due to the transversality condition. The other yields all the momentum. The angular momentum that is…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-01 Chun-Fang Li

We study the motion of a particle in a 3-dimensional lattice in the presence of a Coulomb potential, but we demonstrate semiclassicaly that the trajectories will always remain in a plane which can be taken as a rectangular lattice. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Diego Sanjinés , Evaristo Mamani , Javier Velasco

Particle spin polarization is known to be linked both to rotation (angular momentum) and magnetization of a many particle system. However, in the most common formulation of relativistic kinetic theory, the spin degrees of freedom appear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Leonardo Tinti , Wojciech Florkowski

Strong rotating magnetic fields may cause a precession of the electron's spin around the rotation axis of the magnetic field. The superposition of two counterpropagating laser beams with circular polarization and opposite helicity features…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-17 Sven Ahrens , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel , Rainer Grobe

This preprint concerns a mathematically rigorous treatment of an interesting physical phenomenon in relativity theory. We would like to draw the reader's attention particularly to the abstract mathematical formalism of relativity (which was…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Matolcsi , M. Matolcsi , T. Tasnádi

L. H. Thomas, in his 1927 paper, "The Kinematics of an Electron with an Axis", explained the then-anomalous factor of one-half in atomic spin-orbit coupling as due to a relativistic precession of the electron spin axis. Thomas's explanation…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 David C. Lush

The current status of Mach's principle is discussed within the context of general relativity. The inertial properties of a particle are determined by its mass and spin, since these characterize the irreducible unitary representations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-29 B. Mashhoon

Newton's Theorem of Revolving Orbits derives the force that is necessary to explain a particular precession that leaves the shape of an orbit unchanged. Newton showed that for an orbiting body that is already subject to any central force,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Nolan Samboy , Joseph Gallant

This document is on considerations and findings on modelling of spinning beams. Spinning has been proposed for stabilizing beams against perturbations notably risen by non-linear space charge forces, see [Y.-L. Cheon et al., Effects of beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 L. Groening

The angular momentum of radiation from an arbitrarily moving relativistic charge is studied. The angular momentum is presented as the sum of the angular momentum relative to the point where the charge is located at a retarded moment of time…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Vladimir Epp , Ulyana Guselnikova , Julia Janz

In particle physics, most of the classical models consider that the centre of mass and centre of charge of an elementary particle, are the same point. This presumes some particular relationship between the charge and mass distribution, a…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Martin Rivas

We study the precessing motion of a vortex in a Bose-Einstein condensate of atomic gases. In addition to the former zero-temperature studies, finite temperature systems are treated within the Popov and semiclassical approximations.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 Tomoya Isoshima , Jukka Huhtamäki , Martti M. Salomaa

Astrophysical fluids, including interstellar and interplanetary medium, are magnetized and turbulent. Their appearance, evolution, and overall properties are determined by the magnetic turbulence that stirs it. We argue that examining…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Lazarian , A. Beresnyak , H. Yan , M. Opher , Y. Liu

We develop a complete relativistic theory to describe the dynamics of electronic angular momentum including both spin (S) and orbital (L) contributions in magnetic systems. We start with the relativistic Dirac-Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian under…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Subhadip Santra , Ritwik Mondal , Marco Berritta , Peter M. Oppeneer

The physics involved in the fundamental conservation equations of the spin and orbital angular momenta leads to new laws and phenomena that I disclose. To this end, I analyse the scattering of an electromagnetic wavefield by the canonical…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-04 Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas

We derive the asymptotic winding law of a Brownian particle in the plane subjected to a tangential drift due to a point vortex. For winding around a point, the normalized winding angle converges to an inverse Gamma distribution. For winding…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Huanyu Wen , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

In this article the quasi-Keplerian parameterisation for the case that spins and orbital angular momentum in a compact binary system are aligned or anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum vector is extended to 3PN point-mass,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-08 Manuel Tessmer , Johannes Hartung , Gerhard Schäfer

Particle-laden turbulence involves complex interactions between the dispersed and continuous phases. Given that particles can exhibit a wide range of properties, such as varying density, size, and shape, their interplay with the flow can…

We study the center-of-mass motion in systems of trapped interacting particles with space- and velocity-dependent friction and anharmonic traps. Our approach, based on a dynamical ansatz assuming a fixed density profile, allows us to obtain…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-05-16 Alain Olivetti , Guillaume Labeyrie , Robin Kaiser

The motion of a particle with a spin in spherical harmonic oscillator potential with spin-orbit interaction is studied. We have focus our attention on spatial motion of wave packets, giving a description complementary to motion of spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Rozmej , R. Arvieu