TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - Quantum Plasmadynamics Unmagnetized Plasmas T2 - Lecture Notes in Physics, A1 - Melrose, Donald. LA - English PP - New York, NY PB - Springer New York : Imprint: Springer YR - 2008 ED - 1st ed. 2008. UL - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/978-0-387-73903-8 AB - 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 (4-tensor) notation, which facilitates generalizations to include all relativistic and electromagnetic effects. Relativistic quantum effects are included by using quantum electrodynamics (QED) to calculate the plasma response 4-tenors. The effects of the plasma are included in QED by replacing the photon propagator in vacuo by that in the medium, such that the poles of this propagator correspond to the natural wave modes of the medium. OP - 464 CN - QB460-466 SN - 9780387739038 KW - Astrophysics. KW - Quantum physics. KW - Atoms. KW - Physics. KW - Plasma (Ionized gases). KW - Astrophysics and Astroparticles. KW - Quantum Physics. KW - Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction. KW - Plasma Physics. ER -