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  title info:
    title: Quantum Plasmadynamics
    sub title: Magnetized Plasmas
  name:
    name part: Melrose, Donald.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 490 p. 41 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The covariant (4-tensor) theory for relativistic quantum plasmas presented in the first volume is generalized to magnetized plasma in this second volume. The first four chapters are concerned with classical theory, including covariant forms of cold-plasma, MHD and kinetic theory and the theory of gyromagnetic emission. The response 4-tensor for an arbitrary distribution is evaluated, using both the forward-scattering and Vlasov methods, applied to a relativistic thermal distribution and used to discuss wave dispersion in relativistic magnetized plasmas. In the second half of the book, solutions of Dirac's equation for a magnetized electron are used to develop a magnetized version of QED. This form of QED is applied to gyromagnetic processes, the response of the magnetized vacuum and the response of a magnetized electron gas. The theory has a potentially wide range of applications, such as super-strong magnetic fields in pulsars, high-powered lasers and spin-dependence in a laboratory electron gas.
  table of contents: Preface -- Chapter 1: Covariant Fluid Models for Magnetized Plasmas -- Chapter 2: Response Tensors for Magnetized Plasmas -- Chapter 3: Waves in Magnetized Plasmas -- Chapter 4: Gyromagnetic Processes -- Chapter 5: Magnetized Dirac Electron -- Chapter 6: Quantum Theory of Gyromagnetic Processes -- Chapter 7: Second Order Gyromagnetic Processes -- Chapter 8: Magnetized Vacuum -- Chapter 9: Response of Magnetized Electron Gas -- Appendix A: Special Functions -- Index.
  note: by Donald Melrose.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Atoms
  subject:
    topic: Matter
  subject:
    topic: Plasma (Ionized gases)
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics and Astroparticles
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction
  subject:
    topic: Plasma Physics
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: 523.01
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Lecture Notes in Physics, 854
  identifier: 9781461440451
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4045-1
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    record creation date: 120920
    record change date: 20151030051055.0
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