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arXiv:hep-th/9508160 · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Adiabatic motion of a quantum particle in a two-dimensional magnetic field

Paolo Maraner

Published May 7, 1996• 8 citations
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Abstract

The adiabatic motion of a charged, spinning, quantum particle in a two-dimensional (i.e. of constant direction) magnetic field is studied. A suitable set of operators generalizing the kinematical momenta and the guiding centre operators of a particle moving in a homogeneous magnetic field is constructed. This allows us to separate the two degrees of freedom of the system into a fast and a slow one which are, in the classical limit, the rapid rotation of the particle around the guiding centre and the slow guiding centre drift. In terms of these operators the Hamiltonian of the system can be rewritten as a power series in the magnetic length , and the fast and slow dynamics separates. The effective guiding centre Hamiltonian is obtained to second order in the adiabatic parameter and reproduces correctly the classical limit.

DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/29/9/030

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A quantal guiding centre theory is presented which allows a systematical study of the separation of the different time scale behaviours of a quantum charged spinning particle moving in an external inhomogeneous magnetic field. A suitable set of operators adapting to the canonical structure of the problem and generalizing the kinematical momenta and guiding centre operators of a particle coupled to a homogeneous magnetic field is constructed. This allows us to rewrite the Pauli Hamiltonian as a power series in the magnetic length making the problem amenable to a perturbative analysis. The first two terms of the series are explicitly constructed. The effective adiabatic dynamics turns out to be in coupling with a gauge field and a scalar potential. The mechanism producing such magnetic-induced geometric-magnetism is investigated in some detail.
The motion of a neutral particle with a magnetic moment in an inhomogeneous magnetic field is considered. This situation, occurring, for example, in a Stern-Gerlach experiment, is investigated from classical and semiclassical points of view. It is assumed that the magnetic field is strong or slowly varying in space, i.e., that adiabatic conditions hold. To the classical model, a systematic Lie-transform perturbation technique is applied up to second order in the adiabatic-expansion parameter. The averaged classical Hamiltonian contains not only terms representing fictitious electric and magnetic fields but also an additional velocity-dependent potential. The Hamiltonian of the quantum-mechanical system is diagonalized by means of a systematic WKB analysis for coupled wave equations up to second order in the adiabaticity parameter, which is coupled to Planck's constant. An exact term-by-term correspondence with the averaged classical Hamiltonian is established, thus confirming the relevance of the additional velocity-dependent second-order contribution.
A connection between quantum mechanical and classical adiabatic invariance is shown for the special case of a charged particle moving in a homogeneous, time-dependent magnetic field. The relationship consists of the fact that the transition probability between energy eigenstates corresponding to the magnnetic field at two different times is a function of a certain classical adiabatic invariant alone. From this relation follows the well-known result that during sufficiently slow changes of the magnetic field the particle will remain in one quantum state which passes continuously through the different instantaneous energies. The adiabatic invariance of this classical quantity is shown directly by solving the equations of niotion when the magnetic field changes linearly with time. (auth)
We study a scheme of fast-forward adiabatic quantum dynamics of a (2 + 1) Dirac particle. This scheme was originally proposed by Masuda and Nakamura. In this scheme, we include the adiabatic parameter that maintains the adiabatic motion of the particle and fast forward its motion by introducing a time scaling parameter. The fast forward adiabatic state is obtained by determining the regularization term and driving potential. We introduce the proposed method to the system with the Dirac particle using a (2 + 1) dimensiontime- dependent Dirac equation and obtain the regularization term, the driving scalar potential VFF and the driving vector potential AFF . By tuning the driving electric field, this method can accelerate the adiabatic dynamics of an electron as a Dirac particle trapped in the ground state in the plane xy and an electric field in the x direction and a constant magnetic field in the y direction. This acceleration will preserve the ground state of the wave function from the initial time to the final time.
Abstract I consider a quantum spinless charged particle moving in the xy plane under the action of a time-dependent magnetic field described by means of the linear vector potential in the ‘circular’ gauge A = B ( t )(− y , x )/2 and in the presence of the confining potential m g 2 x 2 + y 2 / 2 . This potential guarantees finite values of all second-order moments in the initial equilibrium (thermal) state. Time-dependent mean values of the energy and magnetic moment are expressed in terms of solutions to the classical equation of motion ε ̈ + Ω 2 ( t ) ε = 0 . Simple approximate results are found in the cases of the sudden jump of magnetic field, the parametric resonance, and the adiabatic evolution. They are compared with exact solutions in terms of the hypergeometric function for the specific function B ( t ) of the Epstein–Eckart type. A great amplification of the magnetic moment is discovered for the initial high-temperature states, both for the fast and slow monotonous variations of the magnetic field. Classical adiabatic invariants do not exist if the magnetic field slowly goes to zero or changes its sign.
The motion of a particle with charge q and mass m in a magnetic field given by B = kB0 + B1 [icos(omegat) + jsin(omegat)] and an electric field which obeys Ñ ×E = - ¶ B/ ¶ t is analysed classically and quantum-mechanically. The use of a rotating coordinate system allows the analytical derivation of the particle classical trajectory and its laboratory wavefunction. The motion exhibits two resonances, one at omega = omegac = -qBo/m, the cyclotron frequency, and the other at omega = omegaL = -qBo/2m, the Larmor frequency. For omega at the first resonance frequency, the particle acquires a simple closed trajectory, and the effective hamiltonian can be interpreted as that of a particle in a static magnetic field. In the second case a term corresponding to an effective static electric field remains, and the particle orbit is an open line. The particle wave function and eigenenergies are calculated.