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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4774063
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG05-80ET-53088]
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A theory for lifting equations of motion for charged particle dynamics, subject to given electromagnetic like forces, up to a gauge-free system of coupled Hamiltonian Vlasov-Maxwell like equations is given. The theory provides very general expressions for the polarization and magnetization vector fields in terms of the particle dynamics description of matter. Thus, as is common in plasma physics, the particle dynamics replaces conventional constitutive relations for matter. Several examples are considered including the usual Vlasov-Maxwell theory, a guiding center kinetic theory, Vlasov-Maxwell theory with the inclusion of spin, and a Vlasov-Maxwell theory with the inclusion of Dirac's magnetic monopoles. All are shown to be Hamiltonian field theories and the Jacobi identity is proven directly. (C) 2013 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4774063]
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