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Resummation of quantum radiation reaction and induced polarization

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-09-22 v1 Plasma Physics

Abstract

In a previous paper we proposed a new method based on resummations for studying radiation reaction of an electron in a plane-wave electromagnetic field. In this paper we use this method to study the electron momentum expectation value for a circularly polarized monochromatic field with a0=1a_0=1, for which standard locally-constant-field methods cannot be used. We also find that radiation reaction has a significant effect on the induced polarization, as compared to the results without radiation reaction, i.e. the Sokolov-Ternov formula for a constant field, or the zero result for a circularly monochromatic field. We also study the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac equation using Borel-Pad\'e resummations.

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@article{arxiv.2105.02220,
  title  = {Resummation of quantum radiation reaction and induced polarization},
  author = {Greger Torgrimsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.02220},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages, 8 figures