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It is shown that polarizable neutral systems can drift in crossed magnetic and electric fields. The drift velocity is perpendicular to both fields, but, contrary to the drift velocity of a charged particle, it exists only if the fields vary in space or time. We develop an adiabatic theory of this phenomenon and analyze conditions for its experimental observation.
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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 63, No. 8, 652–657 (25 April 1996)
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Kasantsev, A.P., Dykhne, A.M. & Pokrovsky, V.L. Hall effect for neutral atoms. Jetp Lett. 63, 694–700 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.567088
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