Absence of particle drift in magnetic fields of translational symmetry
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- letter
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 22 (2), 381-382
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.862591
Abstract
It is shown that a charged particle moving in a magnetic field described by the vector potential Ay=Bx+f (z) experiences no drift motion. This, of course, includes the case of parabolic field lines Ay=Bzx+αz2.Keywords
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