High field conduction in dielectric liquid with ramped voltage application: a theory of the mechanism

A theory of the ramped voltage application technique is developed, based on field stimulated detrapping and electron injection into the fluid in the high-stress regime. A sine-Gordon soliton is launched into the fluid and detrapping in the wavefront creates quasiparticles which can be called `beltramions´ since they are constituted from tiny cells of fluid in a Beltrami flow mode. The electrohydrodynamics of the system is closely analogous to electromagnetic theory and the properties of this model agree well with a number of results obtained experimentally