[Lecture Notes in Physics] Quantum Plasmadynamics Volume 854 || Magnetized Dirac Electron

✍ Scribed by Melrose, Donald

• Book ID: 115516036
• Publisher: Springer New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 513 KB
• Edition: 2013
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1461440459
• DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4045-1_5

✦ Synopsis

Quantum Plasmadynamics is a synthesis of the kinetic theory of plasmas and quantum electrodynamics (QED). In this volume, the approach applied to unmagnetized plasmas in volume 1 is generalized to magnetized plasmas. First, a covariant version of nonquantum kinetic theory is formulated for single-particle (emission and scattering)  processes and the collective-medium response. The relativistic quantum treatment is based on solutions of Dirac's equation for an electron in a magnetostatic field, and single-particle processes are treated using a magnetized version of QED. The response of an electron gas is derived by generalizing the derivation of the response of the magnetized vacuum.