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It is generally assumed that the retarded Lienard-Wiechert electromagnetic field produced by a point particle depends on the acceleration of that source particle. This dependence is not real, it is an illusion. The true electromagnetic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Calin Galeriu

We derive the Lorentz self force for an arbitrarily moving charged particle via averaging the retarded fields. The derivation is simple and at the same time pedagogically accessible. We obtain the radiation reaction for a charged particle…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Asrarul Haque

We provide for the first time the exact solution of Maxwell's equations for a massless charged particle moving on a generic trajectory at the speed of light. In particular we furnish explicit expressions for the vector potential and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Francesco Azzurli , Kurt Lechner

It has been known for some time that the classical concept of radiation is not covariant: for uniformly accelerated particles, it depends on the state of motion of the observer relative to the particle emitting it. Moreover, recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Felipe Ignacio Portales Oliva

We develop a numerical formulation to calculate the classical motion of charges in strong electromagnetic fields, such as those occurring in high-intensity laser beams. By reformulating the dynamics in terms of SL(2,C) matrices representing…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 C. Harvey , T. Heinzl , N. Iji , K. Langfeld

The system describing a single Dirac electron field coupled with classically moving point nuclei is presented and studied. The model is a semi-relativistic extension of corresponding time-dependent one-body Hartree-Fock equation coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Federico Cacciafesta , Anne-Sophie de Suzzoni , Diego Noja

We compute the electromagnetic field created by an ultrarelativistic charged particle in vacuum at distances comparable to the particle Compton wavelength. The wave function of the particle is governed by the Klein-Gordon equation, for a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Balthazar Peroutka , Kirill Tuchin

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

It is well known that supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies are capable of accelerating charged particles to very high energies. In many cases, the particle acceleration by black holes occurs electromagnetically through an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Bakhtinur Juraev , Zdeněk Stuchlík , Arman Tursunov , Martin Kološ

We determine for the first time the electromagnetic field generated by a generic massless accelerated charge, solving exactly Maxwell's equations. This result may shed new light on the possible existence of such particles in nature.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Francesco Azzurli , Kurt Lechner

The Dirac equation with a U(1) vortex in the mass-term is solved in the presence of magnetic-like fields at zero energy. By drawing an analogy to classical mechanics, it is shown that the four-component Dirac equation in arbitrary magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 Igor F. Herbut

From the development of the electron theory by H. A. Lorentz in 1906, many authors have tried to reformulate this model named "radiation reaction". P. A. M. Dirac derived the relativistic-classical electron model in 1938, which is now…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-02-04 Keita Seto

The force of electromagnetic radiation on a dielectric medium may be derived by a direct application of the Lorentz law of classical electrodynamics. While the light's electric field acts upon the (induced) bound charges in the medium, its…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-29 Masud Mansuripur , Armis R. Zakharian , Jerome V. Moloney

A new approach to classical electrodynamics is presented, showing that it can be regarded as a particular case of the most general relativistic force field. In particular, at first it is shown that the structure of the Lorentz force comes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-14 Stefano Re Fiorentin

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

When accelerated by a constant force in the lab frame, a classical charge experiences no self force. In this case, the particle radiates without dissipating its kinetic and potential energy. But what happens when the particle enters another…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Yuan Shi

Second order Newton equations of motion for a radiating particle are presented. It is argued that the trajectories obeying them also satisfy the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac (ALD) equations for general 3D motions in the non-relativistic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-13 Alejandro Cabo Montes de Oca , Nana Geraldine Cabo-Bizet

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

Equations of motion for an electrically charged string with a current in an external electromagnetic field with regard to the first correction due to the self-action are derived. It is shown that the reparametrization invariance of the free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 P. O. Kazinski

To improve the presentation we modified the title and used the framework of perturbation modeling of long-term dynamics so as to present the Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation as the lowest order, asymptotic differential relation for the…

General Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Marijan Ribaric , Luka Sustersic