Propagator of a Charged Particle with a Spin in Uniform Magnetic and Perpendicular Electric Fields
Abstract
We construct an explicit solution of the Cauchy initial value problem for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for a charged particle with a spin moving in a uniform magnetic field and a perpendicular electric field varying with time. The corresponding Green function (propagator) is given in terms of elementary functions and certain integrals of the fields with a characteristic function, which should be found as an analytic or numerical solution of the equation of motion for the classical oscillator with a time-dependent frequency. We discuss a particular solution of a related nonlinear Schrödinger equation and some special and limiting cases are outlined.
- Publication:
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Letters in Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- June 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s11005-008-0239-6
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0801.3246
- Bibcode:
- 2008LMaPh..84..159C
- Keywords:
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- Mathematical Physics
- E-Print:
- 17 pages, no figures