Nonequilibrium dynamics of charged particles in a quantized electromagnetic field: causal, stable and self-consistent dynamics from \(1/c\) expansion (Q2901530)

The authors present a derivation of a set of stochastic equations of motion for a system of particles in a second-quantized electromagnetic field based on a consistent application of a dimensionful \(1/c\) expansion where \(c\) is the speed of light. This expansion is commonly used for many other problems, but it has not been applied to the problem of charged-particle backreaction. The authors were able to find that the proposed method is consistent with the Eliezer and Breit equations. Moreover, the results presented in this paper can be considered as promising in the rigorous analysis of radiation reactions. However, the dipole approximation is inconsistent with the results of the \(1/c\) expansion.NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper is divided into five sections and one appendix. After the introduction and preliminaries, in Sections 2 and 3, the analysis of nonrelativistic quantum particles in the electromagnetic field starting from the usual Hamiltonian (Section 2) with its expansion in terms of orders of powers in \(1/c\) (Section 3) are presented. The authors are able to reproduce the standard results and, in Section 4, applying a consistent \(1/c\) expansion (at order \(1/c^3\)), obtain the multiparticle stochastic equations of motion with stable backreaction and self-consistent noise. Section 5 is a summary of the paper. In the appendix, the authors give the derivation of the backreaction in the quantum Brownian motion (QBM).