Effect of Thomas Rotation on the Lorentz Transformation of Electromagnetic fields.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
26 Mar 2020
26 Mar 2020
Historique:
received:
12
08
2019
accepted:
09
03
2020
entrez:
29
3
2020
pubmed:
29
3
2020
medline:
29
3
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
A relativistic particle undergoing successive boosts which are non collinear will experience a rotation of its coordinate axes with respect to the boosted frame. This rotation of coordinate axes is caused by a relativistic phenomenon called Thomas Rotation. We assess the importance of Thomas rotation in the calculation of physical quantities like electromagnetic fields in the relativistic regime. We calculate the electromagnetic field tensor for general three dimensional successive boosts in the particle's rest frame as well as the laboratory frame. We then compare the electromagnetic field tensors obtained by a direct boost [Formula: see text] and successive boosts [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] and check their consistency with Thomas rotation. This framework might be important to situations such as the calculation of frequency shifts for relativistic spin-1/2 particles undergoing Larmor precession in electromagnetic fields with small field non-uniformities.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32218444
doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62082-z
pii: 10.1038/s41598-020-62082-z
pmc: PMC7099098
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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