Quantum Plasmadynamics: Unmagnetized Plasmas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781441925381)

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.

Author: Donald Melrose
ISBN-10: 1441925384
ISBN-13: 9781441925381
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2010
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.98d