An interpretation of the infrared singularity of the effective electromagnetic field
arXiv:1006.1200 · doi:10.1209/0295-5075/92/61001
Abstract
The problem of infrared divergence of the effective electromagnetic field produced by elementary particles is revisited using the non-equilibrium model of an electron interacting with low-temperature photons. It is argued that the infrared singularity of the effective field can be interpreted as a thermalization of the electron. It is shown that this thermalization is negligible in actual field measurements as it is completely dominated by the usual quantum spreading.
8 pages, 3 figures