Relativistic Lindblad description of the electron's radiative dynamics
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24341v1
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:49:52 GMT
- Title: Relativistic Lindblad description of the electron's radiative dynamics
- Authors: Andre G. Campos, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, Christoph H. Keitel,
- Abstract summary: An effective model for describing the relativistic quantum dynamics of a radiating electron is developed.<n>By incorporating radiation reaction and vacuum fluctuations into the Dirac equation within an open quantum system framework, our approach captures the Zitterbewegung of the electron.<n>Our results offer a robust framework for investigating quantum radiation reaction effects in ultrastrong laser fields.
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- Abstract: An effective model for describing the relativistic quantum dynamics of a radiating electron is developed via a relativistic generalization of the Lindblad master equation. By incorporating both radiation reaction and vacuum fluctuations into the Dirac equation within an open quantum system framework, our approach captures the Zitterbewegung of the electron, ensuing noncommutativity of its effective spatial coordinates, and provides the quantum analogue of the Landau-Lifshitz (LL) classical equation of motion with radiation reaction. We develop the corresponding phase-space representation via the relativistic Wigner function and derive the semiclassical limit through a Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation. The latter elucidates the signature of quantum vacuum fluctuations in the LL equation, and shows its relationship with the corrected Sokolov equation. Our results offer a robust framework for investigating quantum radiation reaction effects in ultrastrong laser fields.
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