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Quantum Theory of Gyromagnetic Processes

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First order processes are described by a Feynman diagram with a single electron-photon vertex. In the presence of a static magnetic field, such a diagram describes six allowed processes: emission and absorption of a photon by an electron or a positron, and one-photon pair creation or annihilation. These are referred to here as the first-order gyromagnetic processes.

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Melrose, D. (2013). Quantum Theory of Gyromagnetic Processes. In: Quantum Plasmadynamics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 854. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4045-1_6

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