An interpretation of the infrared singularity of the effective electromagnetic field
Quantum Physics
2011-01-27 v1
Abstract
The problem of infrared divergence of the effective electromagnetic field produced by elementary particles is revisited using the non-equilibrium model of an electron interacting with low-temperature photons. It is argued that the infrared singularity of the effective field can be interpreted as a thermalization of the electron. It is shown that this thermalization is negligible in actual field measurements as it is completely dominated by the usual quantum spreading.
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@article{arxiv.1006.1200,
title = {An interpretation of the infrared singularity of the effective electromagnetic field},
author = {Kirill A. Kazakov and Vladimir V. Nikitin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.1200},
year = {2011}
}
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8 pages, 3 figures