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100 1 _aMelrose, Donald.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aQuantum Plasmadynamics
_h[electronic resource] :
_bMagnetized Plasmas /
_cby Donald Melrose.
260 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bSpringer New York :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2013.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bSpringer New York :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2013.
300 _aXIV, 490 p. 41 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aLecture Notes in Physics,
_x0075-8450 ;
_v854
505 0 _aPreface -- 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.
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aPhysics.
650 0 _aQuantum theory.
650 1 4 _aPhysics.
650 2 4 _aAstrophysics and Astroparticles.
650 2 4 _aQuantum Physics.
650 2 4 _aAtoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction.
650 2 4 _aPlasma Physics.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
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776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aLecture Notes in Physics,
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