Charged particle motion in spherically symmetric distributions of magnetic monopoles
Abstract
The classical equations of motion of a charged particle in a spherically symmetric distribution of magnetic monopoles can be transformed into a system of linear equations, thereby providing a type of integrability. In the case of a single monopole, the solution was given long ago by Poincaré. In the case of a uniform distribution of monopoles, the solution can be expressed in terms of parabolic cylinder functions (essentially the eigenfunctions of an inverted harmonic oscillator). This solution is relevant to recent studies of nonassociative star products, symplectic lifts of twisted Poisson structures, and fluids and plasmas of electric and magnetic charges.
- Publication:
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Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- November 2022
- DOI:
- 10.1063/5.0105653
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2206.05822
- Bibcode:
- 2022JMP....63k2703L
- Keywords:
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- Mathematical Physics;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Physics - Plasma Physics
- E-Print:
- 20 pages 1 figure