Pseudo-Atom Phase Shifts for Monovalent Metals and Alloys. I. Electrical Resistivities and Thermoelectric Powers of the Monovalent Liquid Metals

Abstract

Electrical resistivities and thermoelectric powers of the monovalent liquid metals are found using electronion scattering amplitudes calculated by partial-wave analysis rather than Born approximation. The results all correlate with experiment. An expression is derived for the thermoelectric power which emphasizes the importance of the gradient of the structure factor in the back-scattering direction and which could account for the fact that most monovalent (in contrast to polyvalent) metals have positive thermoelectric powers.