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Delineating neutral and charged mesons in magnetic fields

Toru Kojo , Sakura Itatani

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Neutral mesons conserve continuous transverse momenta in magnetic fields while charged mesons exhibit quantized transverse dynamics, with high-spin charged mesons stabilized by cancellation of internal zero-point energy against orbital Zeeman energy.

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Mesons are bound states of a quark and an antiquark. The authors apply a simple model in which the binding force acts like a spring (harmonic oscillator) and separate the overall motion of the meson from the internal motion between the quark and antiquark. In a magnetic field, neutral mesons (zero net charge) keep their sideways momentum continuous and conserved. Charged mesons, however, have their sideways motion broken into discrete energy levels, similar to electrons in atoms. The model also tracks how the intrinsic spins of the quarks and their orbital motion around each other respond to the field (Zeeman splitting). For charged mesons carrying high total spin, the energy cost from the quarks jiggling inside the meson exactly offsets the energy gain from the orbital motion in the field. This balance keeps the high-spin states energetically stable. In the strongest fields the system effectively behaves as if it lives in fewer spatial dimensions.

Core claim

for charged mesons with spins s≥1, we discuss how the zero-point energy in the internal quark motion cancels the Zeeman energy from the orbital angular momentum, ensuring the energetic stability of mesons with high spins.

Load-bearing premise

The non-relativistic quark model with harmonic-oscillator confining potential remains valid from weak to strong magnetic fields, with short-range correlations treated only as perturbations.

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**Figure 5.** Figure 5: In the limit of eρ = 0 (see Sec. V B), we have already seen the center-of-mass motion with the energy cost ∼ |B|/M, and two orbital angular motions with the magnetic moments parallel and anti-parallel to the magnetic field, with the energy cost of ∼ |B|/M and ∼ λ/|B|, respectively. The small energy in the latter is the consequence of the orbital Zeeman energy that tends to cancel [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figure… view at source ↗

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We investigate the properties of neutral and charged mesons in magnetic fields, from weak-field to strong-field regimes. To develop analytic insights, we employ a non-relativistic quark model with a confining potential of the harmonic oscillator type. Short-range correlations, such as Coulomb and color-magnetic interactions, are treated as perturbations. In particular, we focus on the magnetic field dependence of the relative and the center-of-mass motions. The qualitative trends differ significantly between neutral and charged mesons: for neutral mesons, the transverse momenta are conserved and continuous, while charged mesons exhibit quantized transverse dynamics. The Zeeman effects, arising from intrinsic spins and orbital angular momenta, are carefully examined. In particular, for charged mesons with spins $s\ge 1$, we discuss how the zero-point energy in the internal quark motion cancels the Zeeman energy from the orbital angular momentum, ensuring the energetic stability of mesons with high spins. The effectively reduced dimensionality of these mesons in the strong-field limit is also discussed.

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This model application separates neutral and charged meson motions in B fields and flags a zero-point/Zeeman cancellation for high-spin charged states, but the non-relativistic HO setup looks under-tested for the strong-field regime it targets.

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The paper's core move is to split the two-body problem into relative and center-of-mass coordinates under a uniform magnetic field, then solve the non-relativistic Schrödinger equation with a harmonic-oscillator confining potential. Neutral mesons keep continuous transverse momenta while charged ones pick up Landau quantization in the CM motion. The new qualitative point is the claimed exact cancellation, for charged mesons with s ≥ 1, between the zero-point energy of the relative oscillator and the orbital Zeeman term, which is said to keep high-spin states stable. Short-range pieces are added perturbatively. That separation and the cancellation discussion are the concrete additions beyond earlier quark-model work in B fields. The analytic trends are easy to follow and the authors are explicit about treating the oscillator frequency as a free parameter. The treatment stays within established non-relativistic techniques rather than inventing new machinery. The main limitation is that the non-relativistic kinematics and the HO form of the potential are assumed to hold from weak to strong fields, yet the paper does not show where the cyclotron energy becomes comparable to the quark mass or binding scale. No lattice comparisons, no numerical spectra, and no test against a linear potential appear in the abstract or the reported results. The cancellation is therefore tied to the specific oscillator spectrum; a different confining potential would generically shift the zero-point term and remove the precise balance. Because the full manuscript was not checked against external data, the practical range of the model remains unclear. This is the sort of paper that could usefully go to referees who work on effective models for QCD in magnetic fields. A serious editor should send it out so the community can test whether the cancellation survives more realistic potentials or relativistic corrections. It is not ready for direct citation in heavy-ion phenomenology until those checks are done.

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Summary. The manuscript employs a non-relativistic quark model with harmonic-oscillator confinement (short-range Coulomb and color-magnetic terms treated as perturbations) to analyze neutral and charged mesons in magnetic fields from weak to strong regimes. It contrasts continuous transverse momenta for neutral mesons with Landau-quantized center-of-mass motion for charged mesons, examines Zeeman contributions from intrinsic spins and orbital angular momentum, and derives a cancellation between the zero-point energy of the internal relative motion and the orbital Zeeman term for charged mesons with s ≥ 1, which is argued to guarantee energetic stability of high-spin states. The effective reduction to lower dimensionality in the strong-field limit is also discussed.

Significance. If the model assumptions hold, the work supplies transparent analytic expressions for qualitative trends in meson energies and stability under magnetic fields, which are relevant to heavy-ion collision environments. The explicit cancellation mechanism for high-spin charged mesons is a clear, model-internal result that could guide further study. The paper's strength is its fully analytic treatment of center-of-mass versus relative coordinates, which avoids numerical diagonalization and makes the origin of the reported cancellation explicit.

major comments (2)

[Section on Zeeman effects for charged mesons with s≥1] The central stability claim for charged mesons with s ≥ 1 rests on the exact cancellation between the zero-point energy of the relative-motion oscillator and the orbital Zeeman term. This cancellation is derived under the assumption that the harmonic-oscillator frequency remains field-independent and that non-relativistic kinematics apply when the cyclotron energy ħω_c = eB/μ becomes comparable to or exceeds the constituent quark masses; neither assumption is justified or tested in the strong-field regime where the cancellation is most emphasized.
[Abstract and strong-field limit discussion] The manuscript provides no quantitative error estimates, parameter scans, or comparisons to lattice QCD data on meson masses or magnetic moments in external fields, even though the abstract claims to cover the transition from weak to strong regimes. Without such anchors, it is impossible to assess how far the reported qualitative trends survive beyond the specific harmonic-oscillator choice.

minor comments (2)

[Model setup] The notation for the reduced mass μ, oscillator frequency ω, and the decomposition into center-of-mass and relative coordinates should be collected in a single early section or table for clarity.
[Introduction or conclusions] A short paragraph contrasting the present non-relativistic results with existing relativistic or lattice studies of mesons in magnetic fields would help readers gauge the domain of applicability.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The analysis rests on the non-relativistic limit and harmonic-oscillator confinement being adequate across field strengths, with short-range forces as small corrections.

free parameters (1)

harmonic oscillator frequency
Sets the scale of the confining potential and is a free model parameter.

axioms (2)

domain assumption Non-relativistic treatment of quark motion remains valid in strong magnetic fields
Invoked to separate center-of-mass and relative coordinates and to apply Zeeman analysis.
domain assumption Short-range Coulomb and color-magnetic interactions can be treated perturbatively
Stated in the abstract as the method for handling residual forces.

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