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Spontaneous emission is one of the most fundamental out-of-equilibrium processes in which an excited quantum emitter relaxes to the ground state due to quantum fluctuations. In this process, a photon is emitted that can interact with other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Erik Petrovish Navarro-Barón , Herbert Vinck-Posada , Alejandro González-Tudela

The spontaneous decay of an excited atom by photon emission is one of the most common and elementary physical process present in nature and in laboratories. The decay is random in time with constant probability density, as it can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Marcello Baldo

Bremsstrahlung radiation emission is an important energy loss mechanism for energetic electrons in plasmas. In this paper we investigate the effect of spontaneous bremsstrahlung emission on the momentum-space structure of the electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ola Embréus , Adam Stahl , Tünde Fülöp

This work is dedicated to the study of radiation reaction signatures in the framework of classical and quantum electrodynamics. Since there has been no distinct experimental validation of radiation reaction and its underlying equations so…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Norman Neitz , Naveen Kumar , Felix Mackenroth , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel , Antonino Di Piazza

Impacts of quantum stochasticity on the dynamics of an ultra-relativistic electron beam head-on colliding with a linearly polarized ultra-intense laser pulse are theoretically investigated in a quasi-classical regime. Generally, the angular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Guang Hu , Wei-Qiang Sun , Bing-Jun Li , Yan-Fei Li , Wei-MinWang , Meng Zhu , Hua-Si Hu , Yu-Tong Li

Radiative cooling of electron beams interacting with counter-propagating electromagnetic waves is analyzed, taking into account the quantum modification of the radiation friction force. Central attention is paid to the evolution of the…

It has been shown that the spontaneous emission rate of photons by free electrons, unlike stimulated emission, is independent of the shape or modulation of the quantum electron wavefunction (QEW). Nevertheless, here we show that the quantum…

The emission of a photon by an electron in an intense laser field is one of the most fundamental processes in electrodynamics and underlies the many applications that utilize high-energy photon beams. This process is typically studied for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-14 Martin S. Formanek , John P. Palastro , Dillon Ramsey , Antonino Di Piazza

Dynamics of an electron beam head-on colliding with an ultraintense focused ultrashort circularly-polarized laser pulse are investigated in the quantum radiation-dominated regime. Generally, the ponderomotive force of the laser fields may…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Yan-Fei Li , Yong-Tao Zhao , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel , Jian-Xing Li

This study investigates the influence of quantum effects on Coulomb explosion dynamics using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) simulations, comparing classical, semi-classical, and quantum approaches. The goal is to elucidate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Samuel S. Taylor , Cody Covington , Kálmán Varga

The first order quantum correction to the power of spontaneous radiation of electrons in an arbitrary two-component periodic magnetic field was obtained. The phenomenon of selfpolarization of the spin of electrons in a process of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Bagrov , V. V. Belov , M. M. Nikitin , A. Yu. Trifonov

The spontaneous emission rate of a radiating atom reaches its time-independent equilibrium value after an initial transient regime. In this paper we consider the associated relaxation effects of the spontaneous decay rate of atoms in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-31 Martijn Wubs , L. G. Suttorp

We consider the effects of radiation damping on the electron dynamics in a Gaussian beam model of a laser field. For high intensities, i.e. with dimensionless intensity a0 \gg 1, it is found that the dynamics divide into three regimes. For…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Chris Harvey , Mattias Marklund

It is shown that the point charge and magnetic moment of electron produce together such a field that total electromagnetic momentum has a component perpendicular to electron velocity. As a result classical electron models, having magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Melekhin

Phenomena of free-electron X-ray radiation are treated almost exclusively with classical electrodynamics, despite the intrinsic interaction being that of quantum electrodynamics. The lack of quantumness arises from the vast disparity…

The annular electron beam has significant practical potential in high-energy physics and condensed matter physics, which can be used to edge-enhancement electron imaging, collimation of antiprotons in conventional linear accelerators,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Yangchun Liu , Dong Wu , Tianyi Liang , Zhengmao Sheng , Xiantu He

We analytically investigate the recently proposed and implemented discrete-time quantum walk based on a kicked Bose-Einstein condensate. We extend previous work on the effective dynamics by taking into account spontaneous emission due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Caspar Groiseau , Sandro Wimberger

We study the dynamics of a particle in continuous time and space, the displacement of which is governed by an internal degree of freedom (spin). In one definite limit, the so-called quantum random walk is recovered but, although quite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Claude Aslangul

Charged particles accelerated by electromagnetic fields emit radiation, which must, by the conservation of momentum, exert a recoil on the emitting particle. The force of this recoil, known as radiation reaction, strongly affects the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 T. G. Blackburn

The mechanical effects in finite two-dimensional electron systems (quantum dots or droplets) in a strong perpendicular magnetic field are studied. It is shown that, due to asymmetry of the cyclotron dynamics, an additional in-plane electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lucjan Jacak , Jurij Krasnyj , Dorota Jacak , Arkadiusz Wojs