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Guiding center drift atoms
- Source :
- Physics of Plasmas. 11:2382-2393
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2004.
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Abstract
- Very weakly bound electron-ion pairs in a strong magnetic field are called guiding center drift atoms, since the electron dynamics can be treated by guiding center drift theory. Over a wide range of weak binding, the coupled electron-ion dynamics for these systems is integrable. This paper discusses the dynamics, including the important cross magnetic field motion of an atom as a whole, in terms of the system constants of the motion. Since the dynamics is quasi-classical, quantum numbers are assigned using the Bohr–Sommerfeld rules. Antimatter versions of these guiding center drift atoms likely have been produced in recent experiments.
Details
- ISSN :
- 10897674 and 1070664X
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physics of Plasmas
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........62c7192433b4cf54c0fc8acc5d8e358d