A kinetic treatment to incorporate the effect of a strong ambipolar field on nonlocal heat transport in laser-produced plasmas is presented. The numerically calculated nonlocal propagators are found to be significantly modified and consequently the flux inhibition factor for steep thermal and density gradients turns out to be much lower than predicted previously. The classical Spitzer-Harm result is also recovered in the local case.
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