We study relativistic twisted (orbital-angular-momentum) states of a massive charged particle propagating through an axially symmetric, longitudinally inhomogeneous solenoid field and a codirected accelerating or decelerating electric field. Starting from the Dirac equation and using controlled spinless and paraxial approximations, we show that the transverse envelope obeys an effective nonstationary Schrödinger equation governed by a Caldirola-Kanai Hamiltonian. The longitudinal energy gain or loss encoded in $f\left(z\right)={[E_0-V\left(z\right)]}^2-m^2$ generates an effective gain or damping rate $\tilde{\gamma }\left(z\right)={\partial }_{z}f\left(z\right)/\left[2f\left(z\right)\right]$ and a $z$-dependent oscillator frequency $\tilde{\omega }\left(z\right)=p_0\mathrm{\Omega }\left(z\right)/\sqrt{f\left(z\right)}$. Exploiting the Ermakov mapping (unitary equivalence of Caldirola-Kanai systems), we obtain a closed-form propagated twisted wave function by transforming the stationary Landau basis. The transverse evolution is controlled by a single scaling function $b\left(z\right)$ that satisfies a generalized Ermakov-Pinney equation with coefficients determined by $E_z\left(z\right)$ and $B_z\left(z\right)$. In the limiting cases of uniform acceleration with $B_z=0$ and of solenoid focusing with negligible acceleration, our solution reduces to previously known analytic results, providing a direct bridge to established models.

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• Beam optics transport
• Dirac equation
• Electron beams & optics
• Optical lattices & traps
• Quantum state engineering
• Semiclassical physics
• Single-particle dynamics
• Electrons
• Angular momentum
• Electric moment
• Electron microscopy
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• Schroedinger equation
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