Description
Book SynopsisMaintaining a practical perspective, Electronic Transport Theories: From Weakly to Strongly Correlated Materials provides an integrative overview and comprehensive coverage of electronic transport with pedagogy in view. It covers traditional theories, such as the Boltzmann transport equation and the Kubo formula, along with recent theories of transport in strongly correlated materials. The understood case of electronic transport in metals is treated first, and then transport issues in strange metals are reviewed. Topics discussed are: the Drude-Lorentz theory; the traditional Bloch-Boltzmann theory and the Grüneisen formula; the Nyquist theorem and its formulation by Callen and Welton; the Kubo formalism; the Langevin equation approach; the Wölfle-Götze memory function formalism; the Kohn-Luttinger theory of transport; and some recent theories dealing with strange metals. This book is an invaluable resource for undergraduate students, post-graduate students, and researchers w
Table of Contents
Introduction and objective of the study. The traditional Boltzmann equation based approaches. Some techniques from nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. The Zwanzig-Mori-Gotze-Wolfle memory function formalism. The Kohn-Luttinger theory: Quantum mechanical basis of the Bloch-Boltzmann equation. Strange metals: A survey. Electronic transport theories from simple to strange metals: A summary. Supporting material and practice exercises.
