Discussion of the conditional-probability function for electric fields in a plasma

Earl W. Smith; Roland Stamm; J. Cooper

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.30.454

Discussion of the conditional-probability function for electric fields in a plasma

Earl W. Smith, Roland Stamm, and J. Cooper

Phys. Rev. A 30, 454 – Published 1 July 1984

Abstract

The conditional-probability function plays a central role in the development of stochastic models for spectral line shapes in plasmas. We discuss some of the physical properties of this function using various analytic models as well as the results of a computer simulation.