Eberlein, Claudia and Bennett, Robert (2013) Anomalous magnetic moment of an electron near a dispersive surface. Physical Review A, 88. 012107. ISSN 1050-2947
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Abstract
Changes in the magnetic moment of an electron near a dielectric or conducting surface due to boundary-dependent radiative corrections are investigated. The electromagnetic field is quantized by normal mode expansion for a nondispersive dielectric and an undamped plasma, but the electron is described by the Dirac equation without matter-field quantization. Perturbation theory in the Dirac equation leads to a general formula for the magnetic-moment shift in terms of integrals over products of electromagnetic mode functions. In each of the models investigated, contour integration techniques over a complex wave vector can be used to derive a general formula featuring just integrals over transverse electric and transverse magnetic reflection coefficients of the surface. Analysis of the magnetic-moment shift for several classes of materials yields markedly different results from the previously considered simplistic “perfect-reflector” model, due to the inclusion of physically important features of the electromagnetic response of the surface such as evanescent field modes and dispersion in the material. For a general dispersive dielectric surface, the magnetic-moment shift of a nearby electron can exceed the previous prediction of the perfect-reflector model by several orders of magnitude.
Item Type: | Article |
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Schools and Departments: | School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy |
Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics > QC0170 Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter Including molecular physics, relativity, quantum theory, and solid state physics Q Science > QC Physics > QC0501 Electricity and magnetism > QC0522 Electricity > QC0680 Quantum electrodynamics |
Depositing User: | Claudia Eberlein |
Date Deposited: | 01 May 2014 09:19 |
Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2017 00:15 |
URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/26702 |
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