Quantum plasmadynamics : unmagnetized plasmas / Donald B. Melrose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melrose, D. B., 1940- author.

Series:

Lecture notes in physics ; 735.

Lecture notes in physics ; 735

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plasma dynamics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2008.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Springer, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Response 4-tensors

Covariant theory of wave dispersion

Particle and wave subsystems

Dispersion in relativistic plasmas

Classical plasmadynamics

Quantum field theory

QPD processes

Responses of a quantum plasma

Isotropic quantum plasmas

Spin, MMR and neutrino plasma.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780387739038

0387739033