Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
1999-07-12
Physics
Quantum Physics
25 pages + 1 EPS figure
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.372444
Recently, we developed a method for calculating the lifetime of a particle inside a magnetic trap with respect to spin flips, as a first step in our efforts to understand the quantum-mechanics of magnetic traps. The 1D toy model that was used in this study was physically unrealistic because the magnetic field was not curl-free. Here, we study, both classically and quantum-mechanically, the problem of a neutral particle with spin S, mass m and magnetic moment mu, moving in 3D in an inhomogeneous magnetic field corresponding to traps of the Ioffe-Pritchard, `clover-leaf' and `baseball' type. Defining by omega_p, omega_z and omega_r the precessional, the axial and the lateral vibrational frequencies, respectively, of the particle in the adiabatic potential, we find classically the region in the $(\omega_{r}% (omega_r -- omega_z) plane where the particle is trapped. Quantum-mechanically, we study the problem of a spin-one particle in the same field. Treating omega_r / omega_p and omega_z / omega_p as small parameters for the perturbation from the adiabatic Hamiltonian, we derive a closed-form expression for the transition rate 1/T_{esc} of the particle from its trapped ground-state. We find that in the extreme cases, the expression for 1/T_{esc} is dominated by the largest of the two frequencies omega_r and omega_z.
Gov Shahar
Shtrikman Shmuel
Thomas Helmuth
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