Classical and Quantum Interaction of the Dipole

TL;DR

This paper provides a unified relativistic framework for electric and magnetic dipole interactions with electromagnetic fields, introduces new force effects, and proposes experiments to observe topological phase shifts.

Contribution

It offers a novel, fully relativistic treatment of dipole interactions and proposes four experiments to observe predicted topological phase effects.

Findings

New relativistic forces on dipoles derived

Four experiments proposed to detect topological phase shifts

Unified treatment of electric and magnetic dipole interactions

Abstract

A unified and fully relativistic treatment of the interaction of the electric and magnetic dipole moments of a particle with the electromagnetic field is given. New forces on the particle due to the combined effect of electric and magnetic dipoles are obtained. Four new experiments are proposed, three of which would observe topological phase shifts.