CONCENTRATION OF CHARGE CARRIERS IN THE METASTABLE PLASMA WITH STRONG COULOMB’S COUPLING

Yu. V. Dumin

Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radiowave Propagation RAS, Troitsk, Moscow region, Russia

E-mail: dumin@center.izmiran.troitsk.ru

Conditions for the transition of expanding plasma cloud into the state with strong Coulomb coupling are discussed. An efficient method for the reduction of many-electron distribution functions to the one-electron function is presented, and concentration of free charge carriers in the strongly coupled state is found. Attention is drawn to some interesting analogies with properties of degenerate Fermi-gas.