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By Donald Melrose

The box of quantum plasmas has a protracted and numerous culture and is turning into of accelerating present curiosity, influenced via purposes to micro-electronics and to targeted high-power lasers. during this publication, plasma kinetic thought is constructed a covariant (4-tensor) notation, which enables generalizations to incorporate all relativistic and electromagnetic results. Relativistic quantum results are included through synthesizing the idea with quantum electrodynamics (QED), together with the plasma responses in QED, and utilizing QED to calculate the plasma reaction 4-tensors.

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12) by adopting the temporal gauge Gtα = [1, 0].

19) implies B µ (k) = µνρσ kν u ˜ρ Eσ (k)/k˜ u, which also implies kB(k) = 0 and u˜B(k) = 0. 7 Response 3-tensors for plasmas There are several different conventions for describing the response of a plasma in its rest frame in terms of different response 3-tensors. These arise from different choices for the vectors that describe the disturbance and the response. The disturbance is described by either the electric field, E(ω, k), or by the vector potential in the temporal gauge, given by iωA(ω, k) = E(ω, k).

This corresponds to Π L = Π T = −ε0 ωp2 . 9) are used. 1) to write down the response tensor for a cold plasma which is streaming with 4-velocity u. 1) implies that this is Π µν (k) = −ε0 ωp0 in terms of the number density, n0 say, in the rest frame of the streaming particles. The number density is the time component of a 4-vector, and hence the number density, n, in the frame in which the plasma is streaming is n = γn0 . With ωp2 defined as the plasma frequency in the frame in which the plasma 2 .

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