1st Edition
Statistical Physics of Dense Plasmas Elementary Processes and Phase Transitions
1 Introduction
2 Fundamentals
3 Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves
4 Charged Particles or X-Rays Injected in Plasmas
5 Thermodynamics of Classical OCP and Quantum Electron Liquids
6 Phase Diagrams of Hydrogen
7 Transport Processes
8 Stellar and Planetary Magnetisms
9 Nuclear Fusion in Metallic Hydrogen
10 Phase Diagrams of Nuclear Matter
11 Plasma Phenomena Around Neutron Stars or Black Holes
12 Dawn of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
Appendix 1 The -Functions
Appendix 2 Fourier Analyses and Application
Appendix 3 The Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem
Appendix 4 Fermi Integrals
Appendix 5 Functional Derivatives
Biography
Setsuo Ichimaru is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, where he was a faculty member for nearly fifty years. He earned his doctorate in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a world renowned expert in the area of statistical physics of plasmas, and was the 2014 recipient of the Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics from the Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies. He was also awarded the Humboldt-Forschungspreis prize from Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. He was a visiting member at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, San Diego, and a guest professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Johannes Kepler University, and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics.
