Radiation Reaction of a Jiggling Dipole in a Quantum Electromagnetic Field
Quantum Physics
2019-12-18 v1
Abstract
We show how to derive a consistent quantum theory of radiation reaction of a non-relativistic point-dipole quantum oscillator by including the dynamical fluctuations of the position of the dipole. The proposed non-linear theory displays neither runaway solutions nor acausal behaviour without requiring additional assumptions. Furthermore, we show that quantum (zero-point) fluctuations of the electromagnetic field are necessary to fulfil the second law of thermodynamics.
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@article{arxiv.1905.06068,
title = {Radiation Reaction of a Jiggling Dipole in a Quantum Electromagnetic Field},
author = {Adrián E. Rubio López and Oriol Romero-Isart},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.06068},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
4 pages article, 5 pages of Appendices