Quantum Plasmadynamics Unmagnetized Plasmas
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
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Donald B. Melrose
Quantum Plasmadynamics Unmagnetized Plasmas
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Author Donald B. Melrose School of Physics University of Sydney NSW, Australia Sydney 2006 E-mail: [email protected]
Donald B. Melrose, Quantum Plasmadynamics: Unmagnetized Plasmas, Lect. Notes Phys. 735 (Springer, New York 2008), DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-73902-1
ISBN: 978-0-387-73902-1
e-ISBN: 978-0-387-73903-8
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Preface
The idea of synthesizing quantum electrodynamics (QED) and the kinetic theory of plasmas first occurred to me in the early 1970s [1, 2]. The project to do so has been carried out bit by bit over the subsequent years. The name “quantum plasmadynamics” (QPD) is my own jargon [3] for the syn
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