Quantum Plasmadynamics Unmagnetized Plasmas /

• Main Author: Melrose, Donald B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 735
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Astrophysics.; Atoms.; Matter.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Quantum Physics.; Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction.; Plasma Physics.

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 genera...

Table of 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.