Some aspects of stochastic electrodynamics connected with the thermal effects of acceleration for harmonic oscillator dipole systems
The theory of stochastic electrodynamics involves the behavior of classical charged particles in the presence of classical electromagnetic zero-point radiation. Past researchers have shown that this theory has close connections with quantum phenomena. Here, this theory is further explored with regard to its predictions of the physical behavior of classical harmonic dipole oscillators relativistically uniformly accelerated through classical electromagnetic zero-point radiation. Part One treats a uniformly accelerated oscillator, unrestricted in its direction of oscillation. In Part Two, for the first time in either the classical or quantum literature, the thermal effects of acceleration are shown to hold for a particular spatially extended system. A set of relationships are derived in Part Three between the electromagnetic fields of an unaccelerated, fluctuating electric dipole oscillator and the correlation functions of homogeneous, isotopic random classical electromagnetic radiation.
- Research Organization:
- City Univ. of New York, NY (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5678451
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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