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We investigate the quantum motion of a neutral Dirac particle bouncing on a mirror in curved spacetime. We consider different geometries: Rindler, Kasner-Taub and Schwarzschild, and show how to solve the Dirac equation by using geometrical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Boulanger , Fabien Buisseret , Philippe Spindel

We obtain a system of exact solutions of the Dirac equation for an electron moving in a constant homogeneous external magnetic field with account of its vacuum magnetic moment and assumed Lorentz invariance violation in the minimal CPT-odd…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 I. E. Frolov , V. Ch. Zhukovsky

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

Electron accelerations of the order of $10^{21} g$ obtained by laser fields open up the possibility of experimentally testing one of the cornerstones of general relativity, the weak equivalence principle, which states that the local effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 L. Á. Gergely , T. Harko

We investigate the dynamics of a charged particle interacting with a multimode quantized electromagnetic field and obtain an analytic solution for the full electron--field system. This framework enables the calculation of position…

Coherent scattering of an electron beam by the Kapitza-Dirac effect from a standing laser wave which comprises two frequency components is studied. To this end, the Schr\"odinger equation is solved numerically with a suitable ponderomotive…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Matthias M. Dellweg , Carsten Müller

Relativistic electron beams produced by intense lasers over short distances have important applications in high energy density physics and medical technologies. Vacuum laser acceleration with plasma mirrors injectors has garnered…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Jiaxin Liu , Zeyue Pang , Hehanlin Wang , Zi-Yu Chen

A motion of a classical free charge in an electromagnetic plane wave can be found exactly in a fully relativistic case. We have found an approximate non-parameter form of the suitable equations of motion. In a linearly polarized wave, in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. H. Bauer

The concept of Lorenz invariant mass and mean propagation velocity have been investigated in detail for various multiphoton wave-packet states of light. Based on photodetection theory and straightforward kinematics, we presented a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 S. V. Vintskevich , D. A. Grigoriev

We study two counter-propagating electromagnetic waves in the vacuum within the framework of the Heisenberg-Euler formalism in quantum electrodynamics. We show that the non-linear field equations decouple for ordinary wave case and can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Hedvika Kadlecová , Sergei V. Bulanov , Georg Korn

We consider the wave equation on non-compact star graphs, subject to a distributional damping defined through a Robin-type vertex condition with complex coupling. It is shown that the non-self-adjoint generator of the evolution problem…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-05 David Krejcirik , Julien Royer

In this paper, we develop a model to describe the generalized wave-particle instability in a quasi-neutral plasma. We analyze the quasi-linear diffusion equation for particles by expressing an arbitrary unstable and resonant wave mode as a…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Seong-Yeop Jeong , Daniel Verscharen , Robert T. Wicks , Andrew N. Fazakerley

A relatively simple model problem where a single electron moves in two relativistically-strong obliquely intersecting plane wave-packets is studied using a number of different numerical solvers. It is shown that, in general, even the most…

The theory of linear acceleration emission is developed for a large amplitude electrostatic wave in which all particles become highly relativistic in much less than a wave period. An Airy integral approximation is shown to apply near the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 D. B. Melrose , Q. Luo

We prove that for a Dirac operator with no resonance at thresholds nor eigenvalue at thresholds the propagator satisfies propagation and dispersive estimates. When this linear operator has only two simple eigenvalues close enough, we study…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nabile Boussaid

We present here a semi-analytical solution of the problem of particle acceleration at non-linear shock waves with a free escape boundary at some location upstream. This solution, besides allowing us to determine the spectrum of particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Caprioli , E. Amato , P. Blasi

A Lorentz-covariant system of wave equations is formulated for a quantum-mechanical three-body system in one space dimension, comprised of one photon and two identical massive spin one-half Dirac particles, which can be thought of as two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Lawrence Frolov , Samuel E. Leigh , A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh

Accelerating electrons are known to radiate electromagnetic waves, a property that is central to the concept of many devices, from antennas to synchrotrons. While the electrodynamics of accelerating charged particles is well understood, the…

We derive the semiclassical (with accuracy of $\hbar$) motion equation for relativistic electron, which follow from the Dirac equation. We determine both the evolution equation for electron polarization, which takes the non-Abelian Berry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Yu. Bliokh