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Plasma Effective Field Theory Advertised, Then Illustrated by e , p , H‐Atom Gas
Author(s) -
Brown L.S.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3986(200103)41:2/3<143::aid-ctpp143>3.0.co;2-g
Subject(s) - plasma , physics , atomic physics , electron , partition (number theory) , hydrogen , hydrogen atom , limit (mathematics) , ground state , atom (system on chip) , atoms in molecules , quantum mechanics , computer science , mathematics , group (periodic table) , mathematical analysis , combinatorics , embedded system
The first part is a lightning fast overview of the application of ideas of modern effective quantum field theory (which originated in elementary particle theory) to plasma physics. An exhaustive account is presented in a long report with L. G. Yaffe [1] which contains all the details set out in a self‐contained and pedagogical fashion. The second part shows how the low temperature but dilute limit of the partition fnction at two‐loop order describes a gas of electrons, protons, and hydrogen atoms in their ground state. Hydrogen atoms emerge automatically from the general framework which does not begin with an explicit consideration of atoms.