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Due to the nonvanishing average photon population of the squeezed vacuum state, finite corrections to the scattering matrix are obtained. The lowest order contribution to the electron mass shift for a one mode squeezed vacuum state is given…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Volkmar Putz , Karl Svozil

An experiment is proposed which can distinguish between two approaches to the reality of the electric field, and whether it has mechanical properties such as mass and stress. A charged pendulum swings within the field of a much larger…

General Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 Eliahu Cohen , Paz Beniamini , Doron Grossman , Lawrence Horwitz , Avshalom C. Elitzur

The evolution of an electron beam colliding head-on with a strong plane-wave field is investigated in the framework of strong-field QED including radiation-reaction effects due to photon emission. Employing a kinetic approach to describe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-07 Norman Neitz , Antonino Di Piazza

The colliding between ultra-relativistic electrons and an ultra-intense laser pulse is a powerful approach to testify the physics in strong-field QED regime. By considering spin-dependent radiation-reaction during laser-electron collision…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 X. S. Geng , L. L. Ji , B. F. Shen , B. Feng , Z. Guo , Q. Q. Han , C. Y. Qin , N. W. Wang , W. Q. Wang , Y. T. Wu , X. Yan , Q. Yu , L. G. Zhang , Z. Z. Xu

The work examines the effect of multiple photon emission on the quantum mechanical state of an electron emitting synchrotron radiation and on the intensity of that radiation. Calculations are done with the variant of perturbation theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. M. Filippov

The interaction between a quantum particle's spin angular momentum and its orbital angular momentum is ubiquitous in nature. In optics, the spin-orbit optical phenomenon is closely related with the light-matter interaction and has been of…

A distribution of electromagnetic fields presents a statistical assembly of a particular type, which is at scale h a quantum statistical assembly itself and has also been instrumental to concretisation of the basic probability assumption of…

General Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 J. X. Zheng-Johansson

Non-dipole effects in strong-field photoelectron momentum spectra have been revealed experimentally [C.T.L. Smeenk et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 193002 (2011); A. Ludwig et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 243001 (2014)]. For certain laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Th. Keil , D. Bauer

Quantum electrodynamics (QED) with self-conjugated equations with spinor wave functions for fermion fields is considered. In the low order of the perturbation theory, matrix elements of some of QED physical processes are calculated. The…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 V. P. Neznamov , V. E. Shemarulin

We consider the forces acting on electrons in magnetic field including the constraints and a condition arising from quantum mechanics. The force is calculated as the electron mass, $m_e$, multiplied by the total time-derivative of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-02 Hiroyasu Koizumi

We have developed new methods to calculate dispersion curves (analytically in the simpler cases) from which we are able to derive the spatial distribution of electron and current densities. We investigate the case where the magnetic field…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Hofstetter , J. M. C. Taylor , A. MacKinnon

Boundary-dependent radiative corrections that modify the magnetic moment of an electron near a dielectric or conducting surface are investigated. Normal-mode quantization of the electromagnetic field and perturbation theory applied to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-12 Robert Bennett , Claudia Eberlein

We combine Maxwell's equations with Eulers's equation, related to a velocity field of an immaterial fluid, where the density of mass is replaced by a charge density. We come out with a differential system able to describe a relevant…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-26 Daniele Funaro

Following the very recent experimental realisation of electron vortices, we consider their interaction with matter, in particular the transfer of orbital angular momentum in the context of electron energy loss spectroscopy, and the recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sophia Lloyd , Mohamed Babiker , Jun Yuan

The electromagnetic momentum transferred transfered to scattering particles is proportional to the intensity of the incident fields, however, the momentum of single photons ($\hbar k$) does not naturally appear in these classical…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-10 Michael Mazilu

The Standard Model cannot explain the dominance of matter over anti-matter in our universe. This imbalance indicates undiscovered physics that violates combined CP symmetry. Many extensions to the Standard Model seek to explain the…

We undertake an investigation of particle acceleration in the context of non-linear electrodynamics. We deduce the maximum energy that an electron can gain in a non-linear density wave in a magnetised plasma, and we show that an electron…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-21 David A. Burton , Stephen P. Flood , Haibao Wen

We apply the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) approach to the Hamiltonian field theory of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in free space. We solve for the mass eigenstates corresponding to an electron interacting with a single photon in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Xingbo Zhao , Heli Honkanen , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary , Stanley J. Brodsky

We summarize and explain the current status of time variations of the electron mass in cosmology, showing that such variations allow for significant easing of the Hubble tension, from the current $\sim5\sigma$ significance, down to between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Nils Schöneberg , Léo Vacher

We investigate the dynamical spin polarization of a massless electron probing an electron plasma in locally thermal equilibrium via the Moller scattering from the quantum kinetic theory. We derive an axial kinetic equation delineating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-12 Shuo Fang , Shi Pu , Di-Lun Yang