• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.047504
• Corpus ID: 118799067

Electric charge is a magnetic dipole when placed in a background magnetic field

@article{Adorno2014ElectricCI,
  title={Electric charge is a magnetic dipole when placed in a background magnetic field},
  author={Tiago Adorno and D. M. Gitman and Anatoly E. Shabad},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={2014},
  volume={89},
  pages={047504}
}

• Tiago Adorno, D. Gitman, A. Shabad
• Published 16 February 2014
• Physics
• Physical Review D

It is demonstrated, owing to the nonlinearity of QED, that a static charge placed in a strong magnetic field\ $B$\ is a magnetic dipole (besides remaining an electric monopole, as well). Its magnetic moment grows linearly with $B$ as long as the latter remains smaller than the characteristic value of $1.2\cdot 10^{13}\unit{G}$ but tends to a constant as $B$ exceeds that value. The force acting on a densely charged object by the dipole magnetic field of a neutron star is estimated.