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Nature 387, 558-559 (5 June 1997) | doi:10.1038/42372

Electromagnetism:  The secret life of the dipole

Jeeva S. Anandan1

We are familiar with the acceleration of charged particles, such as protons and electrons, by uniform electromagnetic fields. But neutral particles can be accelerated by uniform fields too, if they possess a magnetic dipole1, 2.

  1. Jeeva S. Anadan is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA, University of Oxford, UK.