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Phys. Rev. E 66, 035501(R) (2002) [3 pages]

Spontaneous emission of bound photons from relativistic free electrons

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H. Nitta and T. Miyazaki
Department of Physics, Tokyo Gakugei University, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8501, Japan

Received 18 April 2002; published 20 September 2002

If the states of photons are bound, another type of spontaneous emission becomes possible for a relativistic electron due to the symmetry breaking in space. We obtain the radiation probability for a relativistic electron passing through a box-shaped cavity. The radiation spectrum is discrete in which line positions are determined by the boundary condition of the cavity.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.66.035501
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.66.035501
PACS:
41.60.-m
 
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