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I have a question about how my book derives a formula. It starts with:
We have an electron free too move on a cylinder and from the cylinder there is an electric field pointing radially outwards.
Now for an electron moving in an electric field it sees local magnetic field given by:
B = 1/c^2 v x E (1)
And from spin pertubation theory we now get the following pertubation of the Hamiltonian:
H' = -μ [itex]\bullet[/itex] B = C L[itex]\bullet[/itex]S
I don't understand the last equality. I know μ(the magnetic moment) is proportional to the spin but how do we get L from (1)? - and how does it even make sense to use "v" the velocity in classical electrodynamics in a quantum mechanical system?
We have an electron free too move on a cylinder and from the cylinder there is an electric field pointing radially outwards.
Now for an electron moving in an electric field it sees local magnetic field given by:
B = 1/c^2 v x E (1)
And from spin pertubation theory we now get the following pertubation of the Hamiltonian:
H' = -μ [itex]\bullet[/itex] B = C L[itex]\bullet[/itex]S
I don't understand the last equality. I know μ(the magnetic moment) is proportional to the spin but how do we get L from (1)? - and how does it even make sense to use "v" the velocity in classical electrodynamics in a quantum mechanical system?