• DocumentCode
    2891654
  • Title

    Point charges, radidiation reaction, and quantum mechanics

  • Author

    Marx, Egon

  • Author_Institution
    National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    17-21 Aug. 1992
  • Firstpage
    508
  • Lastpage
    512
  • Abstract
    Moving point charges generate nonsinusoidal electromagnetic fields, and the motion of the charges is in turn determined by the fields. The full dynamical problem includes radiation reaction, which is discussed here. Nonsinusoidal fields are also associated with relativistic quantum mechanics, where the notion of causality is extended. Cerenkov radiation and the Aharonov-Bohm effect are two other topics.
  • Keywords
    Acceleration; Electromagnetic fields; Lagrangian functions; Lorentz covariance; Optical propagation; Partial differential equations; Relativistic quantum mechanics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electromagnetic Compatibility, 1992. Symposium Record., IEEE 1992 International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-0713-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISEMC.1992.626156
  • Filename
    626156