Circular modes of a charged isotropic oscillator

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An isotropic planar harmonic oscillator of positive charge in a perpendicular magnetic field has two circular normal modes of opposite handedness. With and , the signed angular frequencies have the displayed form for trajectories . A static electric field shifts the equilibrium without changing these frequencies. The clockwise mode has the larger frequency magnitude.

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