Helical beams of electrons in a magnetic field: New analytic solutions of the Schr\"odinger and Dirac equations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14797v1
• Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 19:09:12 GMT
• Title: Helical beams of electrons in a magnetic field: New analytic solutions of the Schr\"odinger and Dirac equations
• Authors: Iwo Bialynicki-Birula and Zofia Bialynicka-Birula
• Abstract summary: We derive new solutions of the Schr"odinger, Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations. Our solutions exhibit the behavior of quantum particles which very closely resembles classical helical trajectories.
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• Abstract: We derive new solutions of the Schr\"odinger, Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations which describe the motion of particles in a uniform magnetic field. In contrast to the well known stationary solutions, our solutions exhibit the behavior of quantum particles which very closely resembles classical helical trajectories. These solutions also serve as an illustration of the meaning of the Ehrenfest theorem in relativistic quantum mechanics.

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