Quantum mechanics of bending of a nonrelativistic charged particle beam by a dipole magnet

TL;DR

This paper derives a quantum transfer map for a charged particle beam bent by a dipole magnet, showing it closely aligns with classical mechanics with tiny quantum corrections, explaining classical theory's success.

Contribution

It provides the first derivation of a quantum transfer map for beam bending in dipole magnets, highlighting the negligible quantum corrections compared to classical predictions.

Findings

Quantum transfer map includes classical map as main part

Quantum corrections are negligibly small

Classical mechanics accurately describes beam bending

Abstract

Quantum mechanics of bending of a nonrelativistic monoenergetic charged particle beam by a dipole magnet is studied in the paraxial approximation. The transfer map for the position and momentum components of a particle of the beam between two transverse planes at different points on the curved optic axis of the system is derived starting with the nonrelativistic Schr\"{o}dinger equation. It is found that the quantum transfer map contains the classical transfer map as the main part and there are tiny quantum correction terms. The negligibly small quantum corrections explain the remarkable success of classical mechanics in charged particle beam optics.