ON THE MATHIEU EQUATION DESCRIBING ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC FERMIONS EVOLVING IN A TIME-HARMONIC ELECTRIC FIELD PARALLEL TO A STATIC MAGNETIC INDUCTION
Marina–Aura Dariescu, Ciprian Dariescu
The present work is studying the behavior of relativistic fermions in parallel electric and magnetic fields, oriented along Oz. As expected, in the particular case of static field intensities, the temporal part of the wave function is expressed in terms of the parabolic cylinder functions. When the static electric field is replaced by a time-harmonic one, the ultra-relativistic particles are described by a Mathieu-type equation, of purely imaginary parameter. Below the first branching point, which imposes a maximum value for the electric intensity, one may use a series expansion of the Mathieu's functions to derive the corresponding wave functions and the conserved current density components. Finally, we obtain a nontrivial quantization law of the longitudinal momentum, pz.
Modern Physics Letters A•Oct 17, 2013•4 citations