Classical and quantum radiation reaction in conformally flat spacetime

Details Classical and quantum radiation reaction in conformally flat spacetime Classical and quantum radiation reaction in conformally flat spacetime

2009-03-10

arxiv.org/abs/0903.1777v2

Phys.Rev.D79:105023,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

v1: 17 pages. v2: Revised version as submitted to journal (reference added); 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.79.105023

We investigate the physics of a charged scalar particle moving in conformally flat spacetime with the conformal factor depending only on time in the framework of quantum electrodynamics (QED). In particular, we show that the radiation-reaction force derived from QED agrees with the classical counterpart in the limit $\hbar \to 0$ using the fact that to lowest order in $\hbar$ the charged scalar field theory with mass $m$ in conformally flat spacetime with conformal factor $\Omega(t)$, which we call Model B, is equivalent to that in flat spacetime with a time-dependent mass $m\Omega(t)$, which we call Model A, at tree level in this limit. We also consider the one-loop QED corrections to these two models in the semi-classical approximation. We find nonzero one-loop corrections to the mass and Maxwell's equations in Model A at order $\hbar^{-1}$. This does not mean, however, that the corresponding one-loop corrections in Model B are nonzero because the equivalence of these models through a conformal transformation breaks down at one loop. We find that the one-loop corrections vanish in the limit $\hbar \to 0$ in Model B.

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