Conduction in strongly anisotropic metals

✍ Scribed by N. Kumar; P.A. Lee; B. Shapiro

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 357 KB
• Volume: 168
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(90)90397-b

✦ Synopsis

A model for conduction in a strongly anisotropic metal is considered. It is shown that a region of temperatures can exist such that in the planes (the easy direction) transport is of the usual Boltzmann type, whereas between planes (the hard direction) transport consists of a sequence of incoherent jumps. In this temperature region the product O'110"± is independent of temperature (crll and cr I are, respectively, conductivities in the planes and in the direction perpendicular to the planes).