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Coherent description of electrical and thermal impurity-and-phonon limited transport in simple metals
The electrical resistivity, thermoelectric power and electronic thermal
conductivity of simple (isotropic) metals are studied in a uniform way.
Starting from results of a variational solution of the Boltzmann equation, a
generalized Matthiessen rule is used in order to superpose the inelastic (or
not) electron-phonon and elastic electron-impurity scattering cross sections
("matrix elements"). The temperature dependence relative to these processes is
given through simple functions and physical parameters over the usually
investigated range of temperature for each transport coefficient. The coherence
of such results is emphasized.Comment: 22 pages, 5 figures; to appear in International Journal of Modern
Physics