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EPL
Volume 100, Number 4, November 2012
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| Article Number | 45004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Physics of Gases, Plasmas and Electric Discharges | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/100/45004 | |
| Published online | 04 December 2012 | |
Spin alignment induced by spin-orbit coupling in quantum plasmas
School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Wuhan 430074, PRC
Received: 20 August 2012
Accepted: 13 November 2012
We develop a quantum hydrodynamic fluid model including spin-orbit coupling effects for electrons in quantum plasmas. An effective field being analogous to the magnetic field of the magnetic moment is found. In the strong-radiation case, this effective field has a more important influence on the motion of plasmas than the usual Bohm potential correction. We find a resonance-like mechanism by which the transverse electromagnetic (TEM) wave and the Langmuir wave both propagating in plasmas with the same frequency can cause a stationary alignment of spins. This alignment will become a traveling wave when the frequency increases. Then it will vanish when the reciprocal of the difference between the frequencies of TEM and Langmuir waves reaches a value shorter than the characteristic spin relaxation time.
PACS: 52.35.-g – Waves, oscillations, and instabilities in plasmas and intense beams / 42.65.Hw – Phase conjugation; photorefractive and Kerr effects / 71.36.+c – Polaritons (including photon-phonon and photon-magnon interactions)
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