Radiation reaction: a case study

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/48/485201MaRDI QIDQ3107389zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Herbert Spohn

Publication date 23 December 2011

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4470

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Motion of charged particles (78A35)

Abstract: We are interested in the motion of a classical charge coupled to the Maxwell self-field and subject to a uniform external magnetic field, B. This is a physically relevant, but difficult dynamical problem, to which contributions range over more than one hundred years. Specifically, we will study the Sommerfeld-Page approximation which assumes an extended charge distribution at small velocities. The memory equation is then linear and many details become available. We discuss how the friction equation arises in the limit of "small" B and contrast this result with the standard Taylor expansion resulting in a second order equation for the velocity of the charge.

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