{
  "id": "quant-ph/0510043",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2005-10-06T12:59:47.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-10-06T12:59:47.000Z",
  "title": "Radiation reaction on charged particles in three-dimensional motion in classical and quantum electrodynamics",
  "authors": [
    "Atsushi Higuchi",
    "Giles D. R. Martin"
  ],
  "comment": "Latex, 20pages",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 025019",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.73.025019",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We extend our previous work (see arXiv:quant-ph/0501026), which compared the predictions of quantum electrodynamics concerning radiation reaction with those of the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac theory for a charged particle in linear motion. Specifically, we calculate the predictions for the change in position of a charged scalar particle, moving in three-dimensional space, due to the effect of radiation reaction in the one-photon-emission process in quantum electrodynamics. The scalar particle is assumed to be accelerated for a finite period of time by a three-dimensional electromagnetic potential dependent only on one of the spacetime coordinates. We perform this calculation in the $\\hbar\\to 0$ limit and show that the change in position agrees with that obtained in classical electrodynamics with the Lorentz-Dirac force treated as a perturbation. We also show for a time-dependent but space-independent electromagnetic potential that the forward-scattering amplitude at order $e^2$ does not contribute to the position change in the $\\hbar \\to 0$ limit after the mass renormalization is taken into account.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2005-10-06T12:59:47.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "03.65.-w",
      "12.20.-m"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "charged particle",
      "three-dimensional motion",
      "three-dimensional electromagnetic potential dependent",
      "quantum electrodynamics concerning radiation reaction",
      "scalar particle"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. D"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 20,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 694826
    }
  }
}