Charge and current density profiles of a degenerate magnetized free-electron gas near a hard wall

Authors
Publication date 1998
Journal Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General
Volume | Issue number 31 | 31
Pages (from-to) 6547-6560
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract The charge and current densities of a completely degenerate free-electron gas in a uniform magnetic field are found to have a damped oscillatory spatial dependence near a wall that is parallel to the magnetic field. For large distances from the wall the behaviour of the associated profile functions are analysed by means of systematic asymptotic expansions. Both densities are shown to decay to their bulk values through a Gaussian tail, with prefactors that depend algebraically and logarithmically on the distance from the wall.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/31/31/002
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