• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.90.053847
• Corpus ID: 119232669

Radiation friction versus ponderomotive effect

@article{Fedotov2014RadiationFV,
  title={Radiation friction versus ponderomotive effect},
  author={Aleksandr M. Fedotov and Nina Elkina and Evgeny Gelfer and Nikolay Narozhny and Hartmut Ruhl},
  journal={Physical Review A},
  year={2014},
  volume={90},
  pages={053847}
}

• A. M. Fedotov, N. Elkina, +2 authors H. Ruhl
• Published 2 August 2014
• Physics
• Physical Review A

The concept of ponderomotive potential is upgraded to a regime in which radiation friction becomes dominant. The radiation friction manifests itself in novel features of long-term capturing of the particles released at the focus and impenetrability of the focus from the exterior. We apply time scales separation to the Landau-Lifshitz equation splitting the particle motion into quivering and slow drift of a guiding center. The drift equation is deduced by averaging over fast motion.