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In this paper, we discuss the leading order correction to the equation of motion of the particle, which presumably describes the effect of gravitational radiation reaction. We derive the equation of motion in two different ways. The first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Yasushi Mino , Misao Sasaki , Takahiro Tanaka

A fully relativistic calculation of the double photoionization of helium-like atoms is presented. The approach is based on the partial-wave representation of the Dirac continuum states and accounts for the retardation in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 V. A. Yerokhin , A. Surzhykov

A covariant relativistic formalism for the electron-photon and nuclear dynamics is summarised making more accurate predictions in agreement with experiments for Compton scattering in shells with large electron binding energy. An exact…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 Salwa Alsaleh

The possibility of the breaking of Lorentz symmetry has been discussed in many models of quantum gravity. In this paper we follow the Lorentz violation model in Ref. [1] (i.e., our previous work) to discuss the Doppler frequency shift of…

General Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Jinwen Hu , Huan Hu

Within the scope of the relativistic quantum theory for electron-laser interaction in a medium and using the resonant approximation for the two degenerated states of an electron in a monochromatic radiation field [1] a nonperturbative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. K. Avetissian , A. L. Khachatryan , G. F. Mkrtchian

We propose a new approach to obtain the momentum expectation value of an electron in a high-intensity laser, including multiple photon emissions and loops. We find a recursive formula that allows us to obtain the $\mathcal{O}(\alpha^n)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Greger Torgrimsson

In coherent radiation of an ensemble of electrons, radiation field from electrons resonantly drives the other electrons inside to produce stimulated emission. The radiation reaction force on the electrons accounting for this stimulated…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Zhuoyuan Liu , Xiujie Deng , Tong Li , Lixin Yan

The main features of radiation by relativistic electrons are well approximated in the Weizsacker-Williams method of virtual quanta. This method is best known for its application to radiation during elementary particle collisions, but is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Max S. Zolotorev , Kirk T. McDonald

This work continues the investigation of radiation phenomena from atom-field interactions, extending our earlier study of quantum radiation from a stationary atom's internal degree of freedom, modeled by a harmonic oscillator, to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-12 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Greger Torgrimsson

After a brief review of the modified (by transition forces) causal Lorentz-Abraham (LA) classical equation of motion for an extended charged sphere and its limit to the mass-renormalized modified causal Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac (LAD) equation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Arthur D. Yaghjian

In an atom, the interaction of a bound electron with the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field leads to complex shifts in the energy levels of the electron, with the real part of the shift corresponding to a shift in the energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 G. Jordan Maclay

These notes provide two derivations of the Lorentz-Dirac equation. The first is patterned after Landau and Lifshitz and is based on the observation that the half-retarded minus half-advanced potential is entirely responsible for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Poisson

We review recent results on a mean-field model for relativistic electrons in atoms and molecules, which allows to describe at the same time the self-consistent behavior of the polarized Dirac sea. We quickly derive this model from Quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Mathieu Lewin

In this article we investigate novel signatures of radiation reaction via the angular deflection of an electron beam colliding at 90 degrees with an intense laser pulse. Due to the radiation reaction effect, the electrons can be deflected…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Philipp Sikorski , Alec G. R. Thomas , Stepan S. Bulanov , Matt Zepf , Daniel Seipt

We study the electromagnetic fields of an arbitrarily moving charged particle and the radiation reaction on the charged particle using a novel approach. We first show that the fields of an arbitrarily moving charged particle in an inertial…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Abhinav Gupta , T. Padmanabhan

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

Generalized with respect to the Stark interaction of atoms with a vacuum field of zero photon density, Dicke's model is used to describe the Raman superradiance of a localized ensemble of identical atoms in a coherent non-resonant light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 A. M. Basharov , A. I. Trubilko

Relativistically covariant form of equation of motion for real particle (neutral in charge) under the action of electromagnetic radiation is derived. Various formulations of the equation of motion in the proper frame of reference of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jozef Klacka

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