Quantum Plasmadynamics: Magnetized Plasmas

✍ Scribed by Donald Melrose (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 498
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 854
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Covariant Fluid Models for Magnetized Plasmas....Pages 1-39
Response Tensors for Magnetized Plasmas....Pages 41-104
Waves in Magnetized Plasmas....Pages 105-160
Gyromagnetic Processes....Pages 161-200
Magnetized Dirac Electron....Pages 201-249
Quantum Theory of Gyromagnetic Processes....Pages 251-307
Second Order Gyromagnetic Processes....Pages 309-337
Magnetized Vacuum....Pages 339-391
Response of a Magnetized Electron Gas....Pages 393-463
Back Matter....Pages 465-490

✦ Subjects

Astrophysics and Astroparticles;Quantum Physics;Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction;Plasma Physics