TY - GEN digital ID - 131511675 TI - Quantum Plasmadynamics : Magnetized Plasmas PY - 2013 SN - 9781461440451 PB - New York, NY Springer DB - UniCat KW - Astrophysics KW - Quantum mechanics. Quantumfield theory KW - Plasma physics KW - Optics. Quantum optics KW - Experimental atomic and molecular physics KW - Physics KW - moleculen KW - quantumfysica KW - astrofysica KW - plasmafysica KW - laserspectroscopie KW - fysica KW - atomen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131511675 AB - The 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. ER -