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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…

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The expression for the electromagnetic field of a charge moving along an arbitrary trajectory is obtained in a direct, elegant, and Lorentz invariant manner without resorting to more complicated procedures such as differentiation of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-05-08 Hamsa Padmanabhan

The problem of the `infinite energy' of a point charge is well known in connection with the Lorentz--Abraham--Dirac equation and, more significantly, in quantum electrodynamics. Though it is not stated usually, this is strongly related to…

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We revisit the Lagrangian formulation of stochastic inflation, where the path-integral approach is employed to derive the Langevin equation governing the dynamics of long-wavelength fields, in contrast to the standard method where the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-06 Rajat Kumar Panda , Sukanta Panda , Abbas Tinwala

We study the action for a non-Abelian charged particle in a non-Abelian background field in the worldline formalism, described by real bosonic variables, leading to the well known equations given by Wong. The isospin parts in the action can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-25 Amitabha Lahiri , Tae-Hun Lee

LaTeX transcription (2025) of a 1989 honours thesis (University of Adelaide) on point charges in classical electrodynamics and the Lorentz-Dirac radiation-reaction equation. The thesis reviews the retarded field of an arbitrarily moving…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Jonathan Baxter

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 classic Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac self-force of point-like particles is generalized within an effective field theory setup to include linear spin and susceptibility effects described perturbatively, in that setup, by effective couplings in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-06 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen

We establish a direct connection between the Feynman-Vernon path integral formalism for open quantum systems and the Wiener path integral used in classical stochastic dynamics. By considering a generalized influence functional in the strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Antonio Camurati , Felipe Sobrero , Bruno Suassuna , Pedro V. Paraguassú

We consider a generalization of the classical nonrelativistic St\"{o}rmer problem, describing the motion of charged particles in a purely magnetic dipole field, by taking into account the effects of the dissipation, assumed to be of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 Tiberiu Harko , Gabriela Raluca Mocanu

We explore the connections between the theories of stochastic analysis and discrete quantum mechanical systems. Naturally these connections include the Feynman-Kac formula, and the Cameron-Martin-Girsanov theorem. More precisely, the notion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Anastasia Doikou , Simon J. A. Malham , Anke Wiese

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

Using the influence functional formalism we show how to derive a generalized Einstein equation in the form of a Langevin equation for the description of the backreaction of quantum fields and their fluctuations on the dynamics of curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Be-lok Hu , Andrew Matacz

An accelerating electric charge coupled to its own electromagnetic (EM) field both emits radiation and experiences the radiation's reaction as a (self-)force. Considering the system from an Effective Field Theory perspective, and using the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Ofek Birnholtz

We derive from a microscopic Hamiltonian a set of stochastic equations of motion for a system of spinless charged particles in an electromagnetic (EM) field based on a consistent application of a dimensionful 1/c expansion of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 C. H. Fleming , P. R. Johnson , B. L. Hu

There are known problems of Lorentz-Dirac equation for moving with acceleration charged particle in classical electrodynamics. The model of extended in one dimension particle is proposed and shown that electromagnetic self-interaction can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Vlasov

A fully relativistically covariant formulation of the classical Maxwell electrodynamics of an arbitrarily-moving point charge is presented, purely in terms of gauge invariant potentials without entailing any gauge fixing. A new,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Anarya Ray , Parthasarathi Majumdar , Zahid Ansari

This note represents a stepping stone from the discovery of the precise mathematical formula for electromagnetic field generated by a moving point charge, the amended Feynman formula, see Bogdan arXiv:0909.5240, and leading to the to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-07 Victor M. Bogdan

The linear Boltzmann equation for elastic and/or inelastic scattering is applied to derive the distribution function of a spatially homogeneous system of charged particles spreading in a host medium of two-level atoms and subjected to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Rossani , A. M. Scarfone

We investigate the motion of a wave packet of a charged scalar particle linearly accelerated by a static potential in quantum electrodynamics. We calculate the expectation value of the position of the charged particle after the acceleration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Atsushi Higuchi , Giles D. R. Martin