Analysis of the Anomalous Temperature-Dependent Resistivity on Potassium below 1.6 K
- 25 June 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 42 (26) , 1776-1779
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.42.1776
Abstract
Recent precision measurements of the resistivity of potassium between 0.38 and 1.6 K revealed a surprising temperature dependence. We show that scattering of electrons by phasons—the collective excitations of an incommensurate charge-density wave—can provide an explanation.
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