https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2019-12489-1
Regular Article
A semiclassical treatment of the interaction of non-uniform electric fields with the electric quadrupole moment of a neutral particle
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Caixa Postal 5008, 58051-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
* e-mail: kbakke@fisica.ufpb.br
Received:
8
November
2018
Accepted:
2
January
2019
Published online:
22
February
2019
By applying the WKB (Wentzel, Kramers, Brillouin) approximation, we analyse the interaction of the electric quadrupole moment of a neutral particle with radial electric fields produced by a non-uniform electric charge densities. Then, we show particular cases of this interaction where a discrete spectrum of energy can be achieved for the s-waves of the neutral particle.
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature, 2019
