A.Khvedelidze  and I.Rogojin
Laboratory of Information Technologies,
 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
I. Introduction 
    With this article we aim to discuss  quantum effects in charged spin-1/2 particle dynamics   caused  by a high intensity of  a laser field.  
    A charged particle's dynamics in the electromagnetic background, classical as well as quantum strongly depends  on the vales of a electromagnetic  field strength. When the intensity of a time dependent electromagnetic field is low the standard dipole approximation is well justifiable and consistent with the non-relativistic treatment of a charged particle dynamics [1].  With the growing intensity the retardation effects and  the influence of the magnetic part of the  Heaviside-Lorentz cannot be ignored.  In another words a charged particle's classical motion is ruled out by a nonlinear equations. This, particularly, leads to   a higher order harmonics appearance  in the Thomson scattering radiation pattern  (cf. [2,3,4]).  Moreover,  it turns  that the background radiation intensity plays affects a charged particle's spin evolution as well.  It is well established that  for a vanishing  field strength a charged particle's spin behaves adiabatically,  linearly responding to the  magnetic component of the electromagnetic field.  When   intensity is increasing   the standard quantum-mechanical dipole approximation breaks down, non-linear effects come in force and  the adiabatic non-relativistic picture of spin precession turns to be inadequate and relativistic treatment  becomes necessary (see detailed discussion in [5,6] and references therein).
In the present work, having in mind the necessity of the dipole approximation scheme modification, we will discuss the dynamics in an “intermediate regime”,  when the values of a laser field strength  lead to the post  non-relativistic type of dynamics. We address the question what is the effect of complete treatment of the Heaviside-Lorentz force (non ignoring its magnetic part) on the particle's spin  evolution.  Concentrating  on a charged spin-1/2 particle motion in  a strong monochromatic plane wave and the induced evolution of  particle's spin,  the deviation from the standard  spin precession will be  demonstrated. The claimed results developed  out of our studies of a charged particle's classical dynamics  beyond the dipole approximation [4] and  the semi-classical analysis of the  spin-1/2 evolution in a strong laser field [5,6].
          II Deviations from the dipole approximation  results 
    Within the semi-classical approach, one can point several examples of deviations of particle's spin evolution from its non-relativistic adiabatic counterpart. The combined action of several factors, such as the retardation effect, the role of the magnetic part of Heaviside-Lorentz force in distortion of a particle's classical orbit as well as the Thomas correction,  brings changes into  the non-relativistic result of adiabatic spin precession. Taking into account  all  these factors we will show that  instead of  an expected  adiabatic  behavior of a particle's spin the following manifestations of a laser intensity impact  occurs:
•    A spin-flipping process in a strong  monochromatic plane with  the  resonant form of  the spin-flipping transition probability with respect to a laser intensity;
•    Effect of non-linear dependence of a spin precession frequency on a laser intensity and polarization;
•    Appearance of a non-trivial,  intensity depended phase of a particle’s wave function in a strong  circularly polarized laser field background.
             III Concluding remarks
          Analytical  and numeric studies of the modified Pauli equation for a charged spin-1/2 particle' s interacting with the  elliptically laser field  have been performed.  Several effects,  including the spin-flipping resonance depending  on polarization,  have been found  taking into account  the  relativistic corrections due to the laser field intensity.  
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