Quantum Plasmadynamics : Unmagnetized Plasmas PDF
by Donald Melrose
Part of the Lecture Notes in Physics series
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The idea of synthesizing quantum electrodynamics (QED) and the kinetic theory of plasmas ?rst 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 synthesized theory.
Both QED and the kinetic theory of plasmas areconcerned with the int- action between charged particles and the electromagnetic ?eld, but they are radically di?erent in the way the interaction is described.
The kinetic theory of plasmas is a collective-medium theory: a plasma is not a collection of - dependent particles in a given electromagnetic ?eld, but a medium in which the particles collectively modify the ?eld, and the ?eld modi?es the par- cles.
The charge and current densities associated with the particles are part of a self-consistent ?eld.
Conventionally, the kinetic theory of plasmas is a classical theory: the motions of particles are treated using classical dynamics.
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- Publisher:Springer New York
- Publication Date:29/12/2007
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