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Description of a gas discharge as a kinetic transition

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The ignition of a gas glow discharge is described as a kinetic transition, for which the charge-carrier concentrations in the plasma region play the role of order parameter, while the external parameter is the field strength in the cathode space.

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  1. Kursk Polytechnic Institute, USSR

    V. M. Fat'yanov, A. I. Olemskoi, V. V. Umrikhin, S. I. Barbin & V. G. Repin

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  1. V. M. Fat'yanov
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  2. A. I. Olemskoi
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 6, pp. 3–8, June, 1986.

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Fat'yanov, V.M., Olemskoi, A.I., Umrikhin, V.V. et al. Description of a gas discharge as a kinetic transition. Soviet Physics Journal 29, 423–427 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898004

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