A theory of the electrical properties of liquid metals iv. quantitative calculations of resistivity and thermoelectric power

Abstract

Following the lines of the pseudopotential approach to the electronic transport properties of liquid metals as presented in I (Ziman 1961) and II (Bradley et al. 1962), systematic quantitative calculations have been made for the electrical resistivity and thermoelectric power of the liquid metals: Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Zn, Hg, Al, Tl, Pb and Bi. The pseudopotential used is that of Heine and Abarenkov (1964). The results are in fair agreement with experiment. Some deviations from the experimental figures may perhaps be rectified by refinements to the pseudopotential employed, and in other cases the correlation functions, as deduced from x-ray and neutron diffraction experiments, may be in error.