Wigner-Moyal description of free variable mass Klein-Gordon fields

DOI10.1063/1.2049169MaRDI QIDQ3438631zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 16 May 2007

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0508027

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Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Dispersion theory, dispersion relations arising in quantum theory (81U30)

Abstract: A system of coupled kinetic transport equations for the Wigner distributions of a free variable mass Klein-Gordon field is derived. This set of equations is formally equivalent to the full wave equation for electromagnetic waves in nonlinear dispersive media, thus allowing for the description of broadband radiation-matter interactions and the associated instabilities. The standard results for the classical wave action are recovered in the short wavelength limit of the generalized Wigner-Moyal formalism for the wave equation.

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