A practical difficulty in Monte Carlo simulations of electron transport occurs when the electron number density changes significantly over the time or length scale of the simulation. In this letter, we present a simple scaling procedure to resolve this difficulty that is easy to implement and that is exact for linear collision operators. A simulation of electron transport in nitrogen at high electric field strength is included to illustrate this rescaling procedure.
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Li et al. (1989) studied this question.