On electrodynamics of rapidly moving sources

Abstract

Rapidly moving sources create pairs in the vacuum and lose energy. In consequence of this, the velocity of a charged body cannot approach the speed of light closer than a certain limit which depends only on the coupling constant. The vacuum back-reaction secures the observance of the conservation laws. A source can lose up to 50% of energy and charge because of the vacuum instability.

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References in corpus (3)

• Particle creation in the effective action method
• Vacuum amplification of the high-frequency electromagnetic radiation
• The vacuum backreaction on a pair creating source

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• Aspects of Nonlocality in Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity and Cosmology