2017/02/01 by Julian W. Mielniczuk, Mielniczuk, Julian W., D. R. Lamm +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1702.00498
openalex publication_date 2017/02/01 · openalex created_date 2017/02/17 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We analyze the spectrum of the Hamiltonian of a photon propagating in a strong magnetic field B∼ B_\rmcr, where B\rm cr= (m2)/(e) ≃ 4.4 × 1013 Gauss is the Schwinger critical field . We show that the expected value of the Hamiltonian of a quantized photon for a perpendicular mode is a concave function of the magnetic field B. We show by a partially analytic and numerical method that the anomalous magnetic moment of a photon in the one loop approximation is a non - decreasing function of the magnetic field B in the range 0≤ B ≤ 30 B\rm cr We provide a numerical representation of the expression for the anomalous magnetic moment in terms of special functions. We find that the anomalous magnetic moment μγ of a photon for B=30 B\rm cr is 8/3 of the anomalous magnetic moment of a photon for B = 1/2 ~ B\rm cr.