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The region very close to an electron ($r << r_0 = e^2/mc^2 \approx 2.8\times 10^{-13}$ cm) is, according to quantum electrodynamics, a seething maelstrom of virtual electron-positron pairs flashing in and out of existence. To take account…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. M. Blinder

The shape of the electron is studied using lowest-order perturbation theory. Quantities used to probe the structure of the proton: form factors, generalized parton distributions, transverse densities, Wigner distributions and the angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-10 Gerald A. Miller

Asymptotical formulas for the photon distribution function of a quantum oscillator with time-dependent frequency and damping coefficients, interacting with a thermal reservoir, are derived in the case of a large mean number of quanta.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 V. V. Dodonov

We investigate the quantum dynamics of systems involving small numbers of strongly interacting photons. Specifically, we develop an efficient method to investigate such systems when they are externally driven with a coherent field.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-20 Mohammad Hafezi , Mikhail D. Lukin , Jacob M. Taylor

Starting from the Heisenberg-Euler effective Lagrangian, we determine the photon current and photon polarization tensor in inhomogeneous, slowly varying electromagnetic fields. To this end, we consider background field configurations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-02 Felix Karbstein , Rashid Shaisultanov

A fractional quantization in a two dimensional space is proposed. The angular momenta of the two dimensional electrons are quantized in fractional numbers by the boundary conditions on a multi-layered Riemann surface. Extended wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyeong Rag Lee

A state of a single particle can be represented by a quantum blob in the corresponding phase space, or by a cell in its 2-D subspace. Its area is frequently stated to be no less than one half of the Plank constant, implying that such a cell…

General Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Moses Fayngold

The open nonlinear electrodynamic system - nonlinear transverse non-homogeneous dielectric layer, is an example of inorganic system having the properties of self-organization, peculiar to biological systems. The necessary precondition of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Yatsyk

In quantum electrodynamics, the quantitatively most successful theory in the history of science, intercharge forces obeying the inverse square law are due to the exchange of space-like virtual photons. The fundamental quantum process…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-07-13 J. H. Field

The self-localized quasi-particle excitation of the electron-positron field (EPF) is found for the first time in the framework of a standard form of the quantum electrodynamics. This state is interpreted as the ``physical'' electron…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-19 Ilya D. Feranchuk , Sergey I. Feranchuk

The Wigner eigenfunctions of a free quantum particle propagating on a plane are derived. Two possibilities are analysed. Firstly, the particle of given energy and angular momentum is discussed. In that case, a special choice of coordinates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Hubert Jóźwiak , Jaromir Tosiek

By using a method, previously established to calculate electromagnetic fields, we compute the force of light upon a metallic particle. This procedure is based on both Maxwell's Stress Tensor and the Couple Dipole Method. With these tools,…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. C. Chaumet , M. Nieto-Vesperinas

Quantum diffusion is studied via dissipative Madelung hydrodynamics. Initially the wave packet spreads ballistically, than passes for an instant through normal diffusion and later tends asymptotically to a sub-diffusive law. It is shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-21 Roumen Tsekov

The propagation of surface plasmons on a quantum plasma half-space in the absence of any external confinement is investigated. By means of Quantum Hydrodynamic Model in the electrostatic limit it is found that the equilibrium density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 D. I. Palade

We present numerically exact energy estimates for two-dimensional electrons in a parabolic confinement. By application of an extension of the recently introduced many-body diffusion algorithm, the ground-state energies are simulated very…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Luczak , F. Brosens , J. T. Devreese , L. F. Lemmens

Calculations of propagating quantum trajectories associated to a wave function provide new insight into quantum processes such as particle scattering and diffraction. Here, hydrodynamic calculations of electron beam imaging under conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-12 Samantha Rudinsky , Raynald Gauvin

As well known, an electron will produce radiative reaction force when the electron emits electromagnetism radiation. The electron radiative effect had not been considered in Schr\"{o}dinger wave equation. In this paper, we give the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-02 Xiang-Yao Wu , Xiao-Jing Liu , Bai-Jun Zhang , Yi-Heng Wu

We calculate the distributions in recoil momenta and their energy distributions for the high energy non-relativistic double photoionization of helium caused by the quasifree mechanism of the process. The distributions obtain local maxima at…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 M. Ya. Amusia , E. G. Drukarev , E. Z. Liverts , A. I. Mikhailov

We present for the first time the nonlinear dynamics of quantum electrodynamic (QED) photon splitting in a strongly magnetized electron-positron (pair) plasma. By using a QED corrected Maxwell equation, we derive a set of equations that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Brodin , M. Marklund , B. Eliasson , P. K. Shukla

We outline a rigorous method which can be used to solve the many-body Schroedinger equation for a Coulomb interacting electronic system in an external classical magnetic field as well as a quantized electromagnetic field. Effects of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-11 Olafur Jonasson , Chi-Shung Tang , Hsi-Sheng Goan , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson