Einstein-Hopf drag on an anharmonic oscillator moving through random radiation and through the classical electromagnetic zero-point field
- 15 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 29 (4) , 648-652
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.29.648
Abstract
After deriving a general expression for the drag force on an anharmonic oscillator with quartic potential moving through random electromagnetic radiation, we specialize for the thermal and for the zero-point field (ZPF) radiation cases. It is explicitly shown that, as should be physically expected because of ZPF Lorentz invariance, the drag force cancels to all orders in and in the oscillator coupling parameter for the case of motion through the ZPF. This provides a simple positive test on the self-consistency of the usual techniques of stochastic electrodynamics under nonlinear potentials.
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