On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: If free electrons had a spin magnetic moment, then I would expect this to > also > happen for cyclotron radiation. > > If it does, then I'm obviously wrong about electron intrinsic spin. >
It would be interesting to know about whether there's line splitting in cyclotron radiation. If the electron does not have intrinsic spin, we would need to rethink Fermi statistics and electron degeneracy pressure. Following a link in an answer to the physics.SE question that was posed yesterday, I found this interesting article that says that the "intrinsic" spin of the electron is not magical in the way it is sometimes described and instead corresponds to actual angular momentum in the EM field of the electron: http://www.physics.mcmaster.ca/phys3mm3/notes/whatisspin.pdf Eric
