arXiv · 2303.10855
Electron Wave Spin in Excited States
Abstract
The wave spin of an electron can be fully characterized by the current density calculated from the exact four-spinor solution of the Dirac equation. In the excited states of the electron in a magnetic field-free quantum well, the current density has a multiple vortex topology. The interaction of the current with a magnetic potential produces a finer structure of anomalous Zeeman splitting. When the magnetic potential is comparable to the size of the individual vortices, fractional or zero spin effects can be observed.
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Ju Gao, Fang Shen. 2023-03-20. Electron Wave Spin in Excited States. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10855
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