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Classical radiation reaction is the effect of the electromagnetic field emitted by an accelerated electric charge on the motion of the charge itself. The self-consistent underlying classical equation of motion including radiation-reaction…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 A. Di Piazza , T. N. Wistisen , U. I. Uggerhøj

From the expression for the electromagnetic field in the neighborhood of a point charge we determine the rate of electromagnetic momentum flow, calculated using the Maxwell stress tensor, across a surface surrounding the charge. From that…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-20 Ashok K. Singal

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

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

Using physical arguments, I derive the physically correct equations of motion for a classical charged particle from the Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equations (LAD) which are well known to be physically incorrect. Since a charged particle can…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fritz Rohrlich

We apply the open systems concept and the influence functional formalism introduced in Paper I to establish a stochastic theory of relativistic moving spinless particles in a quantum scalar field. The stochastic regime resting between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Philip R. Johnson , B. L. Hu

Photon emission from a uniformly accelerated charge is among the most mysterious physical phenomena. Theories based on the Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation mostly conclude that a uniformly accelerated point charge cannot feel radiation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Teyoun Kang , Adam Noble , Samuel R. Yoffe , Dino A. Jaroszynski , Min Sup Hur

An effective model for describing the relativistic quantum dynamics of a radiating electron is developed via a relativistic generalization of the Lindblad master equation. By incorporating both radiation reaction and vacuum fluctuations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Andre G. Campos , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

We study a system of a finite size charged particle interacting with radiation field by exploiting the Hamilton's principle for non-conservative system introduced recently by Galley[1]. The said formulation leads to the equation of motion…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Sandeep Aashish , Asrarul Haque

An unsolved problem of classical mechanics and classical electrodynamics is the search of the exact relativistic equations of motion for a classical charged point-particle subject to the force produced by the action of its EM self-field.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Tessarotto , M. Dorigo , C. Cremaschini , P. Nicolini , A. Beklemishev

It is underlined that the Lienard-Wiechert solutions indicate that after the external force is instantly removed from a small charged particle, the field in its close neighborhood becomes a Lorentz boosted Coulomb field. It suggests that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-13 Alejandro Cabo Montes de Oca , Jorge Castiñeiras

A fundamental issue in classical electrodynamics is represented by the search of the exact equation of motion for a classical charged particle under the action of its electromagnetic (EM) self-field - the so-called radiation-reaction…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-09-22 M. Tessarotto , C. Cremaschini , M. Dorigo

We propose classical equations of motion for a charged particle with magnetic moment, taking radiation reaction into account. This generalizes the Landau-Lifshitz equations for the spinless case. In the special case of spin-polarized motion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-05 Arnab Kar , S. G. Rajeev

A renormalization scheme which relies on energy-momentum and angular momentum balance equations is applied to the derivation of effective equation of motion for a massless point-like charge. Unlike the massive case, the rates of radiated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 Yurij Yaremko

In the context of electromagnetism and nonlinear optical interactions damping is generally introduced as a phenomenological, viscous term that dissipates energy, proportional to the temporal derivative of the polarization. Here, we follow…

Radiation reaction in classical electrodynamics is traditionally described by the Lorentz Abraham Dirac equation (LAD), whose point particle formulation leads to well known difficulties including runaway solutions, pre acceleration, and the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Patrick BarAvi

While the Landau-Lifshitz equation, which describes classical radiation reaction, can be solved exactly and analytically for a charged particle accelerated by a plane electromagnetic wave, no such solutions are available for quantum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 T. G. Blackburn

We consider a self-action problem for an electric charge arbitrarily moving in flat spacetime of three dimensions. Its electromagnetic field satisfies the Maxwell equations in Minkowski space of three dimensions. In this space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-24 Yurij Yaremko

The problem of the electromagnetic radiation of an accelerated charged particle is one of the most controversial issues in Physics since the beginning of the last century, representing one of the most popular unsolved problems of the Modern…