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A simple model of chiral asymmetry is proposed to interpret the origin of the strong toroidal magnetic field. The electrons relevant to dynamics forming the the field are in a quantume degenerate state with ultra-relativistic Fermi energy.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-11 Naoki Onishi , Tomoyuki Maruyama

In this paper we correct previous work on magnetic charge plus a photon mass. We show that contrary to previous claims this system has a very simple, closed form solution which is the Dirac string potential multiplied by a exponential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-27 Michael Dunia , Tim Evans , Douglas Singleton

We calculate the electromagnetic self-force on a stationary linear distribution of four-current in the spacetime of multiple cosmic strings. It is shown that if the current is infinitely thin and stretched along a line which is parallel to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 E. R. Bezerra de Mello , V. B. Bezerra , Yu. V. Grats

We discuss the basic properties of the gonihedric string and the problem of its formulation in continuum. We propose a generalization of the Dirac equation and of the corresponding gamma matrices in order to describe the gonihedric string.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. K. Savvidy , K. G. Savvidy

The spin force operator on a non-relativistic Dirac oscillator ( in the non-relativistic limit the Dirac oscillator is a spin one-half 3D harmonic oscillator with strong spin-orbit interaction) is derived using the Heisenberg equations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 M. S. Shikakhwa

In this paper we obtain exact solutions of a 2D relativistic Dirac oscillator in the presence of a constant magnetic field. We compute the energy spectrum and discuss its dependence on the spin and magnetic field strength.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. M. Villalba , A. Rincon Maggiolo

The Dirac equation for an electron in two spatial dimensions in the Coulomb and homogeneous magnetic fields is discussed. For weak magnetic fields, the approximate energy values are obtained by semiclassical method. In the case with strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Choon-Lin Ho , V. R. Khalilov

We find exact, simple solutions to the Proca version of Maxwell's equations with magnetic sources. Several properties of these solutions differ from the usual case of magnetic charge with a massless photon: (i) the string singularities of…

General Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Timothy J. Evans , Douglas Singleton

We consider the Dirac equation in the magnetic-solenoid field (the field of a solenoid and a collinear uniform magnetic field). For the case of Aharonov-Bohm solenoid, we construct self-adjoint extensions of the Dirac Hamiltonian using von…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , A. A. Smirnov

We obtain the fields and electromagnetic self-force of a charge distributed on the surface of a sphere undergoing rigid motion at constant proper acceleration, where the charge distribution has axial symmetry about the direction of motion.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-28 Andrew Steane

Recently it is found that, due to Weyl anomaly, an external magnetic field can induce anomalous currents near a boundary. In this note, we study anomalous currents for complex scalars and Dirac fields in general dimensions. We develop a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Peng-Ju Hu , Qi-Lin Hu , Rong-Xin Miao

The spin-dependent inertial force in an accelerating system under the presence of electromagnetic fields is derived from the generally covariant Dirac equation. Spin currents are evaluated by the force up to the lowest order of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Mamoru Matsuo , Jun'ichi Ieda , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

We study the problem of a Dirac field in the background of an Aharonov-Bohm flux string. We exclude the origin by imposing spectral boundary conditions at a finite radius then shrinked to zero. Thus, we obtain a behaviour of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. G. Beneventano , M. De Francia , E. M. Santangelo

The electric or magnetic field of an ideal dipole is known to have a Dirac delta function at the origin. The usual textbook derivation of this delta function is rather ad hoc and cannot be used to calculate the delta-function structure for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Edward Parker

A new static and azimuthally symmetric magnetic monopolelike object, which looks like a Dirac monopole when seen from far away but smoothly changes to a dipole near the monopole position and vanishes at the origin, is discussed. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Shinichi Deguchi , Kazuo Fujikawa

We calculate the self-energy and self-force for an electrically charged particle at rest in the background of Gott-Hiscock cosmic string space-time. We found the general expression for the self-energy which is expressed in terms of the $S$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 N. R. Khusnutdinov , V. B. Bezerra

We present a relativistic quantum calculation at first order in perturbation theory of the differential cross section for a Dirac particle scattered by a solenoidal magnetic field. The resulting cross section is symmetric in the scattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 G. Murguia , M. Moreno

The one-loop effective potential of a thermodynamic fermion loop under constant magnetic field is studied. As expected, it can be interpreted literally as a discretized sum of $(D-2)$-dimensional energy density above the Dirac sea.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 H-T. Sato

Magnetic Monopole is a cosequence of the existence of the duality symmetry in electromagnetics. Although, no conclusive experimental evidence have so far been found but the subject is still of much interest to physicist. The theory of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 Siamak Khademi , Masoumeh Shahsavari , Amir Hosein Saeid

We consider a Dirac electron in the presence of an exponentially decaying magnetic field. We obtain exact energy eigenvalues with a zero-energy state and the corresponding eigenfunctions. We also calculate the probability density and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-01 Tarun Kanti Ghosh