Quantum Plasmadynamics: Unmagnetized Plasmas

✍ Scribed by Donald B. Melrose (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 464
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The field of quantum plasmas has a long and diverse tradition and is becoming of increasing current interest, motivated by applications to micro-electronics and to focused high-power lasers. In this book, plasma kinetic theory is developed in a covariant (4-tensor) notation, which facilitates generalizations to include all relativistic and electromagnetic effects. Relativistic quantum effects are included by using quantum electrodynamics (QED) to calculate the plasma response 4-tenors. The effects of the plasma are included in QED by replacing the photon propagator in vacuo by that in the medium, such that the poles of this propagator correspond to the natural wave modes of the medium.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXI
Response 4-tensors....Pages 1-36
Covariant theory of wave dispersion....Pages 37-75
Particle and wave subsystems....Pages 77-115
Dispersion in relativistic plasmas....Pages 117-167
Classical plasmadynamics....Pages 169-232
Quantum field theory....Pages 233-278
QPD processes....Pages 279-321
Responses of a quantum plasma....Pages 323-370
Isotropic quantum plasmas....Pages 371-408
Spin, MMR and neutrino plasma....Pages 409-452
Back Matter....Pages 453-464

✦ Subjects

Plasma Physics