Modified Deformable Potential for Thermal Scattering of Electrons
- 15 January 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 105 (2), 476-479
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.105.476
Abstract
In order to study thermal scattering of moderately bound electrons in a metal, corrections are considered to a deformable scattering potential. A constant multiple of the dilatation is derived that must be added to account for the correct zero of potential in a homogeneously deformed crystal. In an inhomogeneously deformed crystal (a crystal undergoing thermal vibrations), a function of the strain must be added to take care of charge redistribution. The deformable potential must also be modified to treat umklapp processes consistently. The modification provides that as the phonon wave vector increases in magnitude, some umklapp character must gradually be added to the scattering amplitude.Keywords
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