Electronic- Transport Properties of Solid Liquid Metals by Modified Pseudo Potential Theory

Abstract

Our understanding of metals begin in 1900,when Drude suggested that the electrons werefree to run through the entire metal rather thansimply associated with individual atoms andSomerfield applied quantum statistic to explainthis phenomenon(John, 2001; Ashcroft andMermin, 1976; Yu and Cardona, 1996; Charles,1996; Burns, 1995). Theoretical understanding ofa wide variety of properties developed rapidlyusing the nearly free electrons approximation ofZiman and Bradley have given expressions forthe computation of electrical resistivity,conductivity thermoelectric power etc of solidand liquid metals by using modified pseudopotential theory (Ziman, 1967)