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Radiation friction vs ponderomotive effect

Plasma Physics 2015-06-22 v1 Computational Physics Optics

Abstract

The concept of ponderomotive potential is upgraded to a regime in which radiation friction becomes dominant. The radiation friction manifests itself in novel features of long-term capturing of the particles released at the focus and impenetrability of the focus from the exterior. We apply time scales separation to the Landau-Lifshitz equation splitting the particle motion into quivering and slow drift of a guiding center. The drift equation is deduced by averaging over fast motion.

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@article{arxiv.1408.0362,
  title  = {Radiation friction vs ponderomotive effect},
  author = {A. M. Fedotov and N. V. Elkina and E. G. Gelfer and N. B. Narozhny and H. Ruhl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.0362},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures

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