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The Dirac equation is solved exactly for an electron interacting with a quantized and a classical plane wave traveling in the same direction. It is shown that in a certain sense the system can be regarded as consisting of noninteracting quasiparticles.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 7, pp. 60–64, July, 1974.
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Bagrov, V.G., Gitman, D.M. & Kuchin, V.A. Electron in the field of a classical and a quantized plane wave traveling in the same direction. Soviet Physics Journal 17, 952–956 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00891066
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