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Derivation · draft

Electrical Conductivity from the Boltzmann Equation

Statement

Solve the linearized Boltzmann equation in the relaxation-time approximation to derive the conductivity tensor and recover the Drude result from Fermi-surface averages.

Depends on

Effective Mass and Semiclassical Electron Dynamics, Sommerfeld Free-Electron Heat Capacity

Used by

PU-303/L18