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In high-intensity laser-plasma interactions, particles can lose a substantial fraction of their energy by emitting radiation. Using particle-in-cell simulations, we study the impact of radiation reaction on the dynamics of an underdense…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Caleb Redshaw , Matthew R. Edwards

We study the transition from classical radiation reaction, described by the Landau-Lifshitz model, to the quantum mechanical regime. The plasma is subject to a circularly polarized field where the self-consistent plasma current is the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Haidar Al-Naseri , Gert Brodin

We present a novel technique for studying the evolution of a particle distribution using single particle dynamics such that the distribution can be accurately reconstructed using fewer particles than existing approaches. To demonstrate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 Samuel R. Yoffe , Yevgen Kravets , Adam Noble , Dino A. Jaroszynski

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

The dynamics of relativistic particles in an intense electromagnetic field can be described by the Landau-Lifshitz (LL) equation, where the adiation reaction (RR) is accounted for via a self-force, and interparticle fields are often…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Michael J. Quin , Antonino Di Piazza , Christoph H. Keitel , Matteo Tamburini

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

When the parameters of electron - extreme power laser interaction enter the regime of dominated radiation reaction, the electron dynamics changes qualitatively. The adequate theoretical description of this regime becomes crutially important…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Sergei V. Bulanov , Timur Zh. Esirkepov , Masaki Kando , James K. Koga , Stepan S. Bulanov

Dynamics of a centrifugally driven particle moving along a magnetically prescribed trajectory (e.g. pulsar magnetic field line) in a spacetime of a rotating massive body is considered. We do assume that the particle is on a zero Landau…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Giorgi Khomeriki , Andria Rogava

In studies of interaction of matter with laser fields of extreme intensity there are two limiting cases of a multi-beam setup maximizing either the electric field or the magnetic field. In this work attention is paid to the optimal…

A critical look at the Landau-Lifshitz equation, which has been recently advocated as an "exact" relativistic classical equation for the motion of a point charge with radiation reaction, demonstrates that it generally does not conserve…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. E. Baylis , J. Huschilt

The description of the dynamics of an electron in an external electromagnetic field of arbitrary intensity is one of the most fundamental outstanding problems in electrodynamics. Remarkably, to date there is no unanimously accepted…

The electron dynamics in the ultra-high intensity laser pulse with radiation friction force in theLandau-Lifshitz form are studied. It is demonstrated that widely used approximation, where onlythe term dominating the dissipation of electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Yanzeng Zhang , Sergei Krasheninnikov

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

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

We explore a novel method of describing the radiation friction of particles traveling through a mechanically resistive medium. We introduce a particle motion induced matter warping along the path in a manner assuring that charged particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-23 Martin Formanek , Andrew Steinmetz , Johann Rafelski

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

The radiative correction to the equation of motion for a moving charged particle is one of the oldest open problems in physics. The problem originates in the emission of radiation by an accelerated charge, which must result in a loss of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Yarden Sheffer , Yaron Hadad , Morgan H. Lynch , Liang Jie Wong , Ido Kaminer

Accelerated charges emit electromagnetic radiation and the consequent energy-momentum loss alters their trajectory. This phenomenon is known as radiation reaction and the Landau-Lifshitz (LL) equation is the classical equation of motion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-14 A. Di Piazza , G. Audagnotto

It is generally accepted that the dynamics of relativistic particles in the lab frame can be described by taking into account the relativistic dependence of the particles momenta on the velocity, with no reference to Lorentz…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Gianluca Geloni , Vitali Kocharyan , Evgeni Saldin

As a follow-up to our previous work on particle acceleration simulation near neutron stars, in this paper, we discuss the impact of radiation reaction on test particles injected into their magnetosphere. We therefore neglect the interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-23 Ivan Tomczak , Jérôme Pétri