Interaction of Two Charges in a Uniform Magnetic Field: II. Spatial Problem |
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Authors: | D Pinheiro R S MacKay |
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Institution: | (1) Departamentos de Matemática, Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal;(2) Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK |
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Abstract: | The interaction of two charges moving in ℝ3 in a magnetic field B can be formulated as a Hamiltonian system with six degrees of freedom. Assuming that the magnetic field is uniform and the
interaction potential has rotation symmetry, we reduce this system to one with three degrees of freedom. For special values
of the conserved quantities, choices of parameters or restriction to the coplanar case, we obtain systems with two degrees
of freedom. Specialising to the case of Coulomb interaction, these reductions enable us to obtain many qualitative features
of the dynamics. For charges of the same sign, the gyrohelices either “bounce-back”, “pass-through”, or exceptionally converge
to coplanar solutions. For charges of opposite signs, we decompose the state space into “free” and “trapped” parts with transitions
only when the particles are coplanar. A scattering map is defined for those trajectories that come from and go to infinite
separation along the field direction. It determines the asymptotic parallel velocities, guiding centre field lines, magnetic
moments and gyrophases for large positive time from those for large negative time. In regimes where gyrophase averaging is
appropriate, the scattering map has a simple form, conserving the magnetic moments and parallel kinetic energies (in a frame
moving along the field with the centre of mass) and rotating or translating the guiding centre field lines. When the gyrofrequencies
are in low-order resonance, however, gyrophase averaging is not justified and transfer of perpendicular kinetic energy is
shown to occur. In the extreme case of equal gyrofrequencies, an additional integral helps us to analyse further and prove
that there is typically also transfer between perpendicular and parallel kinetic energy.
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Keywords: | Hamiltonian dynamical systems Nonintegrability Euclidean symmetry Reduction Reconstruction Scattering map |
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