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... discussion of screening , an elementary course might also bypass the essays on what is overlooked by the relaxation - time approximation [ 16 ] and by the neglect of electron - electron interactions [ 17 ] . Work functions and other ...
... discussion of screening , an elementary course might also bypass the essays on what is overlooked by the relaxation - time approximation [ 16 ] and by the neglect of electron - electron interactions [ 17 ] . Work functions and other ...
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... discussion in these cases will be highly qualitative . For simplicity we shall discuss only cubic crystals in this chapter , and consider the energy of the solid as a function of the cubic cell side , a . In so doing we are ignoring ...
... discussion in these cases will be highly qualitative . For simplicity we shall discuss only cubic crystals in this chapter , and consider the energy of the solid as a function of the cubic cell side , a . In so doing we are ignoring ...
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... discussion of electronic transport in metals in Chapters 1 and 2 . For simplicity , we continue to treat only monatomic Bravais lattices , where the phonon spectrum has only acoustic branches . Since we are concerned primarily with ...
... discussion of electronic transport in metals in Chapters 1 and 2 . For simplicity , we continue to treat only monatomic Bravais lattices , where the phonon spectrum has only acoustic branches . Since we are concerned primarily with ...
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The Drude Theory of Metals | 1 |
The Sommerfeld Theory of Metals | 29 |
Failures of the Free Electron Model | 57 |
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