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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Impact of quantum effects on relativistic electron motion in a chaotic regime
A V Bashinov1, A V Kim1, A M Sergeev1
1Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and University of Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Abstract:
The impact of quantum effects on electron dynamics in a plane linearly polarized standing wave with relativistic amplitudes is considered. Using spectral analysis of Lyapunov characteristic exponents with and without radiation losses we show that the contraction effect of phase space due to the radiation reaction force in the classical form does not occur in the quantum case when the discreteness of photon emission is taken into account. It is also demonstrated that electron bunch kinetics has a diffusion solution rather than the d'Alambert type solution as in the classical description. For this case, we applied the Markov chain formalism and showed that this method gives exact characteristics of electron bunch evolution, such as motion of the center of mass and electron bunch dimensions.
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