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The non-relativistic Goedecke equation (1975), which describes the motion of a point charge taking into account the radiation reaction, has no "runaway" solutions. A "physical" method of covariant generalization of this equation is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Anatoliy V. Sermyagin

We investigate the relativistic generalization of the classical St\"{o}rmer problem, which describes the motion of charged particles in a purely magnetic dipole field. By incorporating special relativistic effects, the particle dynamics is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

A fully relativistically covariant formulation of the classical Maxwell electrodynamics of an arbitrarily-moving point charge is presented, purely in terms of gauge invariant potentials without entailing any gauge fixing. A new,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Anarya Ray , Parthasarathi Majumdar , Zahid Ansari

There are known problems of Lorentz-Dirac equation for moving with acceleration charged particle in classical electrodynamics. The model of extended in one dimension particle is proposed and shown that electromagnetic self-interaction can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Vlasov

In many astrophysically relevant situations radiation reaction force acting upon a charge can not be neglected and the question arises about the location and stability of circular orbits in such regime. Motion of point charge with radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-24 Arman Tursunov , Martin Kološ , Zdeněk Stuchlík , Dmitri V. Gal'tsov

We extend our previous work (see arXiv:quant-ph/0501026), which compared the predictions of quantum electrodynamics concerning radiation reaction with those of the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac theory for a charged particle in linear motion.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Atsushi Higuchi , Giles D. R. Martin

This paper considers the relativistic motion of charged particles coupled with electromagnetic fields in the higher-order theory proposed by Bopp, Land\'e--Thomas, and Podolsky. We rigorously derive a world-line integral expression for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Alan Baza , Aaron DeLeon , Angel Harb , Vu Hoang , Maria Radosz

The effective equations of motion for a point charged particle taking account of radiation reaction are considered in various space-time dimensions. The divergencies steaming from the pointness of the particle are studied and the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 P. O. Kazinski , S. L. Lyakhovich , A. A. Sharapov

An accelerated charged particle emits electromagnetic radiation. If the driving force is sufficiently strong, the radiated energy becomes comparable to the kinetic energy of the particle and the back-action of the emitted radiation…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-09-23 Christian F. Nielsen , Jens B. Justesen , Allan H. Sørensen , Ulrik I Uggerhøj , Robert Holtzapple

We present and numerically solve a modified form of the equation of motion for a charged particle under the influence of an external force, taking into account the radiation reaction. This covariant equation is integrodifferential, as…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-09-25 Guillermo Garcia Alcaine , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

The problem of self forces and radiation reaction is solved by conservation of energy methods. The longstanding problem of constant acceleration is solved, and it is shown that the self force does indeed affect the particle's motion, as…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 Richard T Hammond

The radiation-reaction problem in classical electrodynamics has long resisted a consistent solution: the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac equation admits runaways and pre-acceleration, while the Landau-Lifshitz (LL) equation avoids these pathologies…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Hadi Z. Olyaei

Schr\"odinger-Pauli equation (SP-eq) derived from weakly relativistic approximation (WRA) of Dirac eq, combined with Electromagnetic (EM) field Lagrangian for variational principle, is expected to give a new level of EM response theory. A…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Kikuo Cho

It has been shown by Gupta and Padmanabhan that the radiation reaction force of the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac equation can be obtained by a coordinate transformation from the inertial frame of an accelerating charged particle to that of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 O. Oron , L. P. Horwitz

Working within the framework of the classical theory of electrodynamics, we derive an exact mathematical solution to the problem of self-force (or radiation reaction) of an accelerated point-charge traveling in free space. In addition to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 Masud Mansuripur

We investigate radiation-reaction effects for a charged scalar particle accelerated by an external potential realized as a space-dependent mass term in quantum electrodynamics. In particular, we calculate the position shift of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Atsushi Higuchi

LaTeX transcription (2025) of a 1989 honours thesis (University of Adelaide) on point charges in classical electrodynamics and the Lorentz-Dirac radiation-reaction equation. The thesis reviews the retarded field of an arbitrarily moving…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Jonathan Baxter

We derive from a microscopic Hamiltonian a set of stochastic equations of motion for a system of spinless charged particles in an electromagnetic (EM) field based on a consistent application of a dimensionful 1/c expansion of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 C. H. Fleming , P. R. Johnson , B. L. Hu

We consider the self-action problem in classical electrodynamics of a massive point-like charge, as well as of a massless one. A consistent regularization procedure is proposed, which exploits the symmetry properties of the theory. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 Yurij Yaremko

While he derived the equation for the radiation force, Dirac (1938) mentioned a possibility to use different choices for the 4-momentum of an emitting electron. Particularly, the 4-momentum could be non-colinear to the electron 4-velocity.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Igor V. Sokolov