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Moving Charges, Detectors, and Mirrors in a Quantum Field with Backreaction
Chad R. Galley, B. L. Hu, Philip R. Johnson
This is a progress report on our current work on moving charges, detectors, and moving mirrors in a quantum field treated in a fully relativistic way via the Feynman-Vernon influen…
Worldline Influence Functional: Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac-Langevin Equation from QED
Philip R. Johnson, B. L. Hu
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-Lorent…
Is there emitted radiation in Unruh effect?
B. L. Hu, Alpan Raval
The thermal radiance felt by a uniformly accelerated detector/oscillator/atom--the Unruh effect-- is often mistaken to be some emitted radiation detectable by an observer/probe/sen…
Beyond Unruh Effect: Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics of Moving Charges
B. L. Hu, Philip R. Johnson
We discuss some common misconceptions in Unruh effect and Unruh radiation for the cases of linear and circular uniform acceleration of a charged particle or detector moving in a qu…
Stochastic Theory of Relativistic Particles Moving in a Quantum Field: I. Influence Functional and Langevin Equation
Philip R. Johnson, B. L. Hu
We treat a relativistically moving particle interacting with a quantum field from an open system viewpoint of quantum field theory by the method of influence functionals or closed-…
Coherence and Fluctuations in the Interaction between Moving Atoms and a Quantum Field
B. L. Hu, Alpan Raval
Mesoscopic physics deals with three fundamental issues: quantum coherence, fluctuations and correlations. Here we analyze these issues for atom optics, using a simplified model of…