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Radiation reaction in quantum field theory

Atsushi Higuchi et al.Aug 2, 2002
We investigate radiation-reaction effects for a charged scalar particleaccelerated by an external potential realized as a space-dependent mass term inquantum electrodynamics. In particular, we calculate the position shift of thefinal-state wave packet of the charged particle due to radiation at lowestorder in the fine structure constant alpha and in the small h-barapproximation. We show that it disagrees with the result obtained using theLorentz-Dirac formula for the radiation-reaction force, and that it agrees withthe classical theory if one assumes that the particle loses its energy toradiation at each moment of time according to the Larmor formula in the staticframe of the potential. However, the discrepancy is much smaller than theCompton wavelength of the particle. We also point out that the electromagneticcorrection to the potential has no classical limit. (Correction. Surface termswere erroneously discarded to arrive at Eq. (59). By correcting this error wefind that the position shift according to the Lorentz-Dirac theory obtainedfrom Eq. (12) is reproduced by quantum field theory in the hbar -> 0 limit. Wealso find that the small V(z) approximation is unnecessary for this agreement.See Sec. VII.)
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