High-field electrodynamics. (©2002)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Frederic V. Hartemann.
• Other Names: Hartemann, Frederic V
• Contents: FOUNDATIONS; Overview; The Relativistic Intensity Regime; The Schwinger Critical Field; Maxwell's Equations; Fields & Inductions, the Minkowski Formalism; Potentials, Gauge Condition, & Wave Equation; The Coulomb Potential & Plane Waves; The Lorentz Transformation; The Special Lorentz Transform; Four-Vectors; Addition of Velocities; Four-Acceleration & Hyperbolic Motion; Variation of the Mass with Velocity; The Energy-Momentum 4-Vector; Transformation of Forces; Transformation of Energy; Transformation of Angular Momentum; Transformation of Length, Surface, Volume & Density; Relativistic Plasma Frequency; The General Lorentz Transform; Thomas Precession; Schwinger's Approach; References; Covariant Electrodynamics; Four-Vectors & Tensors; The Electromagnetic Field Tensor; Covariant Form of the Maxwell-Lorentz Equations; A Few Invariants, 4-Vectors, & Tensors Commonly Used; Transformation of the Fields; Electron & QED Units; Covariant Electromagnetic Lagrangian & Hamiltonian; Field 4-Momentum & Maxwell Stress Tensor; Metric & Christoffel Symbols; Solid in Rotation, Sagnac Effect; Dual Tensors & Spinors, Dirac Equation; Notes; References; Gauge Condition & Transform; Lorentz Gauge; Coulomb Gauge & Instantaneous Scalar Potential; Other Gauge Conditions; Charge Conservation; Noether's Theorem; Yang-Mills and Non-Abelian Gauge Fields; Weyl's Theory; Kaluza-Klein 5-Dimensional Space-Time; Charged Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, & Inflation; Superstrings and Dimensionality; The Bohm-Aharanov Effect; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; Green & Delta Functions, Eigenmode Theory of Waveguides; Introduction; The Dirac Delta Function; Fourier, Laplace, & Hankel Transforms; Green Functions in Vacuum; Liénard-Wiechert Potentials; Green Functions with Boundary Conditions: Cylindrical Waveguide; Point Charge in Rectilinear Motion in Vacuum; Multipoles, Spherical Harmonics & the H Atom; Group Velocity Dispersion, Higher-Order Effects, and Solitons; Plane Waves & Photons; Quantization of the Free Electromagnetic Field; Creation & Annihilation Operators; Energy and Number Spectra; Momentum of the Quantized Field; Angular Momentum of the Quantized Field; Classical Spin of the Electromagnetic Field; Photon Spin; Vacuum Fluctuations; The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox; Squeezed States; Casimir Effect; Reflection of Plane Waves in Rindler Space; Relativistic Transform of the Refractive Index: Cerenkov Radiation; Classical Theory of Cerenkov Radiation; Fields and Inductions, Polarization and Nonlinear Susceptibilities; Transform of Linear Refractive Index: Minkowski Formulation; Anomalous Refractive Index & Cerenkov Effect; Linear Isotropic Medium: Induced-Source Formalism; Covariant treatment of Nonlinear Effects; Three-Dimensional Waves in Vacuum, Ponderomotive Scattering, Vacuum Laser Acceleration; Exact Solutions to the 3D Wave Equation in Vacuum; The Paraxial Propagator; Bessel Functions & Hankel's Integral Theorem; Plane Wave Dynamics, Lawson-Woodward Theorem; Ponderomotive Scattering; Electron Dynamics in a Coherent Dipole Field; Chirped-pulse Inverse Free-Electron Laser; Free-Wave Acceleration by Stimulated Absorption of Radiation; Plasma-Based Laser Acceleration Processes; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRONS AND RADIATION; Coherent Synchrotron Radiation, Relativistic Fluid Theory; Coherent Synchrotron Radiation in Free-Space; Coherent Synchrotron Radiation in a Waveguide; Instantaneous Power Flow in the Waveguide; Time-Dependent Chirped Wavepacket; Propagation in Negative GVD Structure; Relativistic Eulerian Fluid Perturbation Theory; Compton Scattering, Coherence, and Radiation Reaction; Classical Theory of Compton Scattering; Electron Beam Phase Space; Three-Dimensional Theory of Compton Scattering; Stochastic Electron Gas Theory of Coherence; Harmonics and Nonlinear Radiation Pressure; Radiative Corrections: Overview; Symmetrized Electrodynamics: Introduction; Symmetrized Electrodynamics: Complex Notation; Symmetrized Direct-Lorentz Equation; Conceptual Difficulties: Electromagnetic Mass Renormalization, Runaways, Acausal Effects; Schott Term; Maxwell Stress Tensor; Hamiltonian Formalism; Symmetrized Electrodynamics in the Complex Charge Plane and the Running Fine Structure Constant; Bibliography; References; Index; Each chapter also contains Notes and References sections
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Copyright Date: 2002
• Extent: 1 online resource (669 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 537.6; Electrodynamics; Electrodynamics; SCIENCE -- Physics -- Electricity; Electrodynamics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0849323789; 9780849323782; 1420038559; 9781420038552
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-661) and index.
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