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Although relativistic electrodynamics is more than 100 year old, there is one neglected topic in its presentation and application: relativistic transformations of electromagnetic integrals. Whereas in theoretical and applied electrodynamics…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Oleg D. Jefimenko

A thoughtless treatment of Maxwell's equations can lead to the interpretation of the existence of a causal relationship between their different terms and, therefore, that an electric field that varies in time generates a magnetic one and…

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New Lagrangians, depending on the field strengths and the electric and magnetic sources are found, which lead to the Maxwell equations. One new feature is that the equations of motion are obtained by varying the Lagrangian with respect to…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Gersten

Application of the generalized continuity equation reveals that the drift current in conductors is equivalent to a negative diffusion current. A phenomenological model of conductivity is developed using the generalized continuity equations.…

General Physics · Physics 2011-08-19 Arbab I. Arbab

The theory of electromagnetic in nature new component of electrical current is suggested. In classical physics approximations for the cases of the free electron plasmas in semi-conductive media, the atom or molecular electrons of liquids…

General Physics · Physics 2009-08-12 P. M. Mednis

Conservation of current and conservation of charge are nearly the same thing: when enough is known about charge movement, conservation of current can be derived from conservation of charge, in ideal dielectrics, for example. Conservation of…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-20 Bob Eisenberg

An expression for the conductance of interacting electrons in the diffusive regime as a function of the ensemble averaged persistent current and the compressibility of the system is presented. This expression involves only ground-state…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Richard Berkovits , Yshai Avishai

We derive a master equation for the electron transport through molecular wires in the limit of strong Coulomb repulsion. This approach is applied to two typical situations: First, we study transport through an open conduction channel for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Franz J. Kaiser , Michael Strass , Sigmund Kohler , Peter Hänggi

Although standard quantum mechanics has some non-local features, the probability current of the Schr\"odinger equation is locally conserved, and this allows minimal electromagnetic coupling. For some important extensions of the…

General Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 G. Modanese

Ohmic currents induced prior to decoupling are investigated in a standard transport model accounting both for the expansion of the background geometry as well as of its relativistic inhomogeneities. The relative balance of the Ohmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-13 Massimo Giovannini , Nguyen Quynh Lan

The action of certain static magnetic fields on charged test particles is interpreted as a consequence of the interaction of the particles with electric dipole distributions emitted by other charged particles in relative motion. The dipole…

General Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 Bhola N. Dwivedi , Horst Wilhelm , Klaus Wilhelm

The master equation for the reduced density matrix of a charged particle interacting with a translation invariant weakly coupled environment is considered. The electric current is renormalized by the system-environment interaction, leading…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Janos Polonyi , Ines Rachid

A simple model of eddy currents in which current is computed solely from magnetic forces acting on electrons proves accessible to introductory students and gives a good qualitative account of eddy current forces. However, this model cannot…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 P. J. Salzman , John Robert Burke , Susan M. Lea

Quasistatics is introduced so that it fits smoothly into the standard textbook presentation of electrodynamics. The usual path from statics to general electrodynamics is rather short and surprisingly simple. A closer look reveals however…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Jonas Larsson

Interacting particles diffusing in single-file is a fundamental model of transport in narrow channels where particles cannot bypass each other. An important result has been obtained by Kollmann [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 180602 (2003)] for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Théotim Berlioz , Olivier Bénichou , Aurélien Grabsch

We investigate the subtle effects of diffuse charge on interfacial kinetics by solving the governing equations for ion transport (Nernst-Planck) with realistic boundary conditions representing reaction kinetics (Butler-Volmer) and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bonnefont , F. Argoul , M. Z. Bazant

Though electrical noise and conduction current are assigned to corpuscle-like electrons drifting in solid matter, this model hardly fits in the Fluctuation-Dissipation framework. However, fluctuations of energy due to displacements of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-17 Jose-Ignacio Izpura

We consider an electron constrained to move on a surface with revolution symmetry in the presence of a constant magnetic field $B$ parallel to the surface axis. Depending on $B$ and the surface geometry the transverse part of the spectrum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Pavel Exner , Alain Joye

The ambiguity involved in the use of Maxwell's equation particularly in electron plasmas is discussed. It is pointed out that in the slow time scale perturbations the displacement current is ignored but it does not imply that the electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-07-20 H. Saleem

Maxwell defined a true or total current in a way not widely used today. He said "... true electric current ... is not the same thing as the current of conduction but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must be taken into…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-01-03 Robert S. Eisenberg