Relation between the Kubo-Greenwood formula and the Boltzmann equation for electrical conductivity
- 1 October 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Philosophical Magazine
- Vol. 32 (4) , 877-879
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14786437508221628
Abstract
It is shown that if it is assumed that the stationary states for electrons in a weakly disordered solid are incoherent superpositions of plane-wave states the standard relaxation-time formula for the conductivity follows from the Kubo-Greenwood formula.Keywords
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