Electrons in Strong Electromagnetic Fields: An Advanced Classical and Quantum Treatment

by V.R. Khalilov

This book presents a quantum-theoretical consideration of some important and interesting processes occurring in the presence of intense electromagnetic fields, in both quasiclassical and essentially quantum regions of electron motion. The material is based on results obtained by the author and his colleagues, and includes a number of exact expressions and equations for the quantum processes he studies. The 'exact solutions method' applied in this book to solve various charged particle interaction problems is the most effective method when external fields are strong enough to make perturbation theory methods virtually inapplicable. Furthermore, the author has deduced a new equation to describe the distribution of electrons in atoms with a fully occupied shell as well as the charge distribution in the vacuum electron shell of the nucleus in a superstrong magnetic field.
In addition to this, the author describes the effect of a superstrong magnetic field on the beta-decay type neutrino emissivity of neutron stars and on the chemical equilibrium of neutron, proton and electron gases in the neutron star core. The book also contains a full discussion of the behaviour of the anomalous magnetic moment in external magnetic fields for the electroweak theory.
This important book will prove invaluable to anyone pursuing research in theoretical and high-energy physics, and could also be of interest to astrophysicists.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1996