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Gauge-independent canonical formalism for nonrelativistic electrodynamics

✍ Scribed by K Rza̧żewski; K Wódkiewicz

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1980
Tongue: English
Weight: 742 KB
Volume: 130
Category: Article
ISSN: 0003-4916
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(80)90225-0

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✦ Synopsis

Gauge-independent canonical formalism for nonrelativistic electrodynamics is discussed. Field strengths are the only objects used as canonical variables. A series of equivalent Hamiltonians of different appearances is derived with a precise physical interpretation of the employed canonical variables. Except in the dipole approximation, new Poisson brackets are not canonical and do contain information about the interaction of the charged particles with the electromagnetic field.