The electric moment of a spherical particle,with the conductivity of the particle and medium taken into account

The behavior of a solid particle in an inhomogeneous electric field depends on the size and sign of the electric dipole moment of the particle. The dipole moment of a spherical particle is calculated, taking into account the conductivity of the particle and the surrounding medium.     

Electric dipole moment of Dirac fermionic dark matter

The direct limit of electric dipole moment and direct searches for dark matter by electric dipole interaction are investigated with including the electromagnetic nuclear form factor, in case that the dark matter candidate is a Dirac particle. The electric dipole moment of dark matter constrained by direct searches must be lower than 7×¹⁰−22e cm for dark matter mass of 100 GeV to satisfy the current experimental exclusion limits at XENON10 and CDMS II. The CP violation of electric dipole moment and the dark matter discovery by electric dipole interaction in the future are considered.     

Dynamics of the Photoinduced Rotation of a Spherical Particle in a Constant Electric Field

Technical Physics - The rotation of a spherical particle in a constant electric field (an effect found earlier) has been analyzed. The particle is illuminated to induce the electric dipole moment...     

Plasma Polarization Around Dust Particle in an External Electric Field

The effect of plasma polarization around a negatively charged dust particle is investigated with the help of Monte Carlo simulation of ion trajectories in the electric field of the dust particle and an external electric field. The induced dipole moment of such a system was estimated in a wide range of dust particle and plasma parameters. It is shown that the dipole moment is very large, and has a non‐monotonous dependence on the external electric field. For a small external electric field, it weakly depends on the charge of the dust particle. The dipole moment reduces with the decrease of ion mean free path (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Effect of ion mean free path length on plasma polarization behind a dust particle in an external electric field

In this paper, a self‐consistent numerical model that describes the behavior of plasma around an isolated, highly charged dust particle is presented. Using the developed model, self‐consistent distributions of the space charge density and plasma potential in the presence of an external electric field are obtained. These distributions are thoroughly analysed though Legendre decomposition. For different dust plasma parameters, such as the radius of the dust particle, the amplitude of the external field, and the mean free path of ions, the dipole moment of the ion cloud surrounding the dust particle is calculated. It turns out that the dependencies of the dipole moment on the value of the external electric field obtained for different parameters are reduced to a single curve by simple scaling.     

Reversal of the dipole vortex in a negative index of refraction material

When a small particle is illuminated by a circularly polarized laser beam, the induced electric dipole moment rotates in a plane. The flow lines of the emitted electromagnetic energy are the field lines of the Poynting vector. When the particle is embedded in a dielectric, these field lines have a vortex structure, and the rotation in the vortex has the same orientation as the rotation direction of the dipole. We show that when the embedding medium is a negative index of refraction material, the direction of rotation in the vortex is reversed.     

Force and torque on a sphere with electric dipole moment moving in a dielectric fluid in the presence of a uniform magnetic field

The torque exerted by a magnetic field on a sphere with permanent electric dipole moment moving steadily in a dielectric fluid is calculated to lowest order in the dipole moment. Hence the force exerted on a steadily rotating sphere with electric dipole moment is found by Onsager symmetry. The modification from the vacuum values of torque and force depends only on the slip parameter and the static dielectric constant of the fluid. It is suggested that for a macroscopic ferro electric sphere the calculated effects could be measured experimentally without great difficulty.     

Zitterbewegung in Quantum Mechanics

The possibility that zitterbewegung opens a window to particle substructure in quantum mechanics is explored by constructing a particle model with structural features inherent in the Dirac equation. This paper develops a self-contained dynamical model of the electron as a lightlike particle with helical zitterbewegung and electromagnetic interactions. The model admits periodic solutions with quantized energy, and the correct magnetic moment is generated by charge circulation. It attributes to the electron an electric dipole moment rotating with ultrahigh frequency, and the possibility of observing this directly as a resonance in electron channeling is analyzed in detail. Correspondence with the Dirac equation is discussed. A modification of the Dirac equation is suggested to incorporate the rotating dipole moment.     

Magnetic quadrupole moment of W-boson in Kobayashi-Maskawa model

Due to CP-invariance violation a vector particle can acquire a T- and P-odd electric dipole moment and a magnetic quadrupole one. The W-boson magnetic quadrupole moment is calculated in the Kobayashi-Maskawa model. This is the only known CP-odd moment arising in this model in two-loop approximation.     

Solution of the Dipoles in Noncommutative Space with Minimal Length *

The single neutral spin-half particle with electric dipole moment and magnetic dipole moment moving in an external electromagnetic field is studied. The Aharonov-Casher effect and He-McKellar-Wilkens effect are emphatically discussed in noncommutative (NC) space with minimal length. The energy eigenvalues of the systems are obtained exactly in terms of the Jacobi polynomials. Additionally, a special case is discussed and the related energy spectra are plotted.     

CP noninvariance and the possibility of a sizable neutron electric dipole moment

The electric dipole moment of the neutron will be measured to a precision of 10^?25 e-cm in the near future. We explore a new theoretical possibility that P and CP noninvariance leads to a sizable electric dipole moment. We calculate an electric dipole moment of about 10^?25 e-cm. In this phenomenological theory, we calculate CP-violating observables in non-leptonic decays from theK ⁰ ? \(\bar K^0 \) ,Λ ⁰ ?Λ ⁰ andK ⁺?K ^? systems. In connection with CP noninvariance, the possible observable occurrence of ΔS=2 decays is discussed. We calculate possible branching ratios; in particular that forΞ ⁰ → π^? p can be as high as about 10^?6. The possible existence of a weakly interacting, neutral scalar boson, which violates P and CP in the course of its propagation as a virtual particle, is considered.     

Schiff moment of the mercury nucleus and the proton dipole moment

We calculated the contribution of internal nucleon electric dipole moments to the Schiff moment of (199) Hg. The contribution of the proton electric dipole moment was obtained via core polarization effects that were treated in the framework of random phase approximation with effective residual forces. We derived a new upper bound |d(p)|<5.4 x 10(-24)e cm of the proton electric dipole moment.     

Time-reversal-violating generation of static magnetic and electric fields and a problem of electric dipole moment measurement

It is shown that in the experiments for the search of the electric dipole moment of an electron (atom, molecule) the T-odd magnetic moment induced by an electric field and the T-odd electric dipole moment induced by a magnetic field will be also measured. How to distinguish these contributions is discussed here.     

Mesoscopic fluctuations of the dipole moment and the electric polarizability

We consider mesoscopic fluctuations of the dipole moment and the electric polarizability of a disordered thin film in the diffusive regime. It is shown, that the requirement of a fixed particle number is crucial for obtaining finite fluctuations at low temperatures. For systems with sufficient disorder and a long screening length a spontaneous dipole moment should be observable with an atomic force microscope.Dedicated to Prof. H. Wagner on the occasion of his 60th birthday     

均匀电场中颗粒簇偶极矩的确定

置于均匀电场中的一簇球形颗粒,由于其内部的相互作用而耦合在一起．这致使簇的感应偶极矩与簇的几何结构,大小以及颗粒的介电常数等参量有关．试图通过已知的链的偶极矩确定任意大小长方结构的簇的偶极矩．假定颗粒链可以被具有同样偶极矩的一个等效介质球代替,并将具有空间结构的颗粒簇处理成面结构簇,再将面结构简化成一个颗粒链,从而确定簇的偶极矩．在这一过程中,通过不断增加等效球的尺寸,将颗粒间的相互作用包含在簇的偶极矩中．数值分析了立方结构簇的偶极矩,结果是可接受的. 关键词：     

Spin resonance conditions for intrinsic and induced electric dipole moments of a spin-1 particle

We show that spin resonance caused by the tensor polarizability of a spin-1 particle rotating in a storage ring designed to measure the intrinsic electric dipole moment (EDM) is canceled on the average over time when conditions for the spin resonance caused by this EDM are precisely met. This solves the problem of a false EDM signal created by polarizability.     

Spin Chromaticity of Beam: Orbit Lengthening and Betatron Chromaticity

Physics of Atomic Nuclei - One possible method of measuring the electric dipole moment of an elementary particle consists in measuring the average spin precession frequency of a polarized beam. The...     

A comment on the analogous confinement of a neutral particle to a quantum dot via noninertial effects

In this contribution, we discuss the nonrelativistic limit of the Dirac equation for a neutral particle with a permanent electric dipole moment interacting with external fields in a noninertial frame. We show a case where the geometry of the manifold can play the role of a hard-wall confining potential due to noninertial effects, and can yield bound states analogous to a confinement of the spin-half neutral particle interacting with external fields to a quantum dot described by a hard-wall confining potential [33].     

One-dimensional Rydberg gas in a magnetoelectric trap

We study the quantum properties of Rydberg atoms in a magnetic Ioffe-Pritchard trap which is superimposed by a homogeneous electric field. Trapped Rydberg atoms can be created in long-lived electronic states exhibiting a permanent electric dipole moment of several hundred Debye. The resulting dipole-dipole interaction in conjunction with the radial confinement is demonstrated to give rise to an effectively one-dimensional ultracold Rydberg gas with a macroscopic interparticle distance. We derive analytical expressions for the electric dipole moment and the required linear density of Rydberg atoms.     

Electric dipole moments of charged leptons in the split fermion scenario in the two Higgs doublet model

We predict the charged lepton electric dipole moments in the split fermion scenario in the framework of the two Higgs doublet model. We observe that the numerical value of the muon (tau) electric dipole moment is of the order of the magnitude of 10^-22 e cm (10^-20 e cm) and there is an enhancement in the case of two extra dimensions, especially for the tau lepton electric dipole moment. Received: 15 July 2005, Published online: 6 October 2005