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Hi,
could someone direct me or recommend me some materials which deal with those problems?
I would like to get deeper understanding of it (I know it requires qm), see how exactly such things happens and be able to quantify it (not just with phenomenological theory).
For example when I get charged and move myself near enough to the metal door frame a spark will occur, or when I take piezo lighter - the electrode has "big enough charge/at same sharper places big enough electric field" that it's able to ionize the air around it.
But does it use already existing ions, or is it strong enough to create new ones? What exactly happens in processes of ionization and neutralization between an atom of particular gas and a certain metal (more elaborately than simple statement that electron jumps/tunnels from one thing to another)? Does an ion of some gas always neutralize itself when it "collides" with zero voltage (grounded) piece of metal? And so on...
could someone direct me or recommend me some materials which deal with those problems?
I would like to get deeper understanding of it (I know it requires qm), see how exactly such things happens and be able to quantify it (not just with phenomenological theory).
For example when I get charged and move myself near enough to the metal door frame a spark will occur, or when I take piezo lighter - the electrode has "big enough charge/at same sharper places big enough electric field" that it's able to ionize the air around it.
But does it use already existing ions, or is it strong enough to create new ones? What exactly happens in processes of ionization and neutralization between an atom of particular gas and a certain metal (more elaborately than simple statement that electron jumps/tunnels from one thing to another)? Does an ion of some gas always neutralize itself when it "collides" with zero voltage (grounded) piece of metal? And so on...