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T1 - On the entropy of radiation reaction
AU - Burton, David
AU - Noble, Adam
N1 - This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2014/3/7
Y1 - 2014/3/7
N2 - The inexorable development of ever more powerful laser systems has re-ignited interest in electromagnetic radiation reaction and its significance for the collective behaviour of charged matter interacting with intense electromagnetic fields. The classical radiation reaction force on a point electron is non-conservative, and this has led some authors to question the validity of methods used to model ultra-intense laser-matter interactions including radiation reaction. We explain why such concern is unwarranted.
AB - The inexorable development of ever more powerful laser systems has re-ignited interest in electromagnetic radiation reaction and its significance for the collective behaviour of charged matter interacting with intense electromagnetic fields. The classical radiation reaction force on a point electron is non-conservative, and this has led some authors to question the validity of methods used to model ultra-intense laser-matter interactions including radiation reaction. We explain why such concern is unwarranted.
KW - Radiation reaction
KW - Ultra-intense lasers
KW - Thermodynamics
U2 - 10.1016/j.physleta.2014.02.006
DO - 10.1016/j.physleta.2014.02.006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 378
SP - 1031
EP - 1035
JO - Physics Letters A
JF - Physics Letters A
SN - 0375-9601
IS - 14-15
ER -