Paradoxical nonmonotonic behavior of spatial profiles of excitation rates in bounded plasmas have been analyzed. It is shown that the effect is related to the nonlocal character of the electron distribution function.

Original languageEnglish
Article number015001
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume94
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Jan 2005

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