Variational principle equivalent to the quasi-equilibrium condition (ion recombination)
- 28 March 1979
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 12 (6) , L209-L211
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/12/6/004
Abstract
A description of ionic recombination in a low-density ambient gas in the form of a variational principle is formulated, and its equivalence to the quasi-equilibrium condition is proved. Application to the computational procedure of the quasi-equilibrium statistical theory is discussed.Keywords
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