Analog Landau-He-McKellar-Wilkens quantization due to noninertial effects of the Fermi-Walker reference frame

Journal Article · Sat May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.81.052117· OSTI ID:21413363

Bakke, Knut ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford OX1 3PU (United Kingdom)

We will show that when a neutral particle with permanent electric dipole moment interacts with a specific field configuration when the local reference frames of the observers are Fermi-Walker transported, the Landau quantization analog to the He-McKellar-Wilkens setup arises in the nonrelativistic quantum dynamics of the neutral particle due the noninertial effects of the Fermi-Walker reference frame. We show that the noninertial effects do not break the infinity degeneracy of the energy levels, but in this case, the cyclotron frequency depends on the angular velocity.

• OSTI ID: 21413363
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Vol. 81, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.052117; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ANGULAR VELOCITY
CONFIGURATION
CYCLOTRON FREQUENCY
ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS
ENERGY LEVELS
NEUTRAL PARTICLES
QUANTIZATION
DIPOLE MOMENTS
ELECTRIC MOMENTS
VELOCITY