Electromagnetic phenomena in matter : statistical and quantum approaches / Igor N. Toptygin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Equations of steady electric and magnetic fields in media --
2. Electrostatics of conductors and dielectrics --
3. Stationary currents and magnetic fields in media --
4. Quasi-stationary electromagnetic field --
5. Maxwell equations for alternating and inhomogeneous fields --
6. Propagation of electromagnetic waves --
7. Coherence and nonlinear waves --
8. Electromagnetic oscillations in finite bodies --
9. Interaction of charged particles with equilibrium and nonequilibrium media --
Bibliography --
Index.

Modern electrodynamics in different media is a wide branch of electrodynamics which combines the exact theory of electromagnetic fields in the presence of electric charges and currents with statistical description of these fields in gases, plasmas, liquids and solids; dielectrics, conductors and superconductors. It is widely used in physics and in other natural sciences (such as astrophysics and geophysics, biophysics, ecology and evolution of terrestrial climate), and in various technological applications (radio electronics, technology of artificial materials, laser–based technological processes, propagation of bunches of charges particles, linear and nonlinear electromagnetic waves, etc.). Electrodynamics of matter is based on the exact fundamental (microscopic) electrodynamics but is supplemented with specific descriptions of electromagnetic fields in various media using the methods of statistical physics, quantum mechanics, physics of condensed matter (including theory of superconductivity), physical kinetics and plasma physics. This book presents in one unique volume a systematic description of the main electrodynamic henomena in matter.