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View SchemaWorldline Influence Functional: Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac-Langevin Equation from QED
| Authors | Philip R. Johnson, B. L. Hu |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0012135 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0012135 |
Abstract
We present a stochastic theory of charges moving in an electromagnetic field using nonequilibrium quantum field theory. We give a first principles' derivation of the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac-Langevin equation which depicts the quantum expectation value for a particle's trajectory and its stochastic fluctuations by combining the worldline path integral quantization with the Feynman-Vernon influence functional or closed-time-path effective action methods. At lowest order, the equations of motion are approximated by a stochastic Lorentz-Dirac equation.
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