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Electrical Transport in Fermi Liquids
  • Flaviu Cipcigan
Flaviu Cipcigan

Corresponding Author:flaviu.cipcigan@gmail.com

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Abstract

This report is aimed at answering the following question: “why do real metals oppose the flow of current?” The simple answer is “because electrons can’t be accelerated indefinitely by an external field without loosing energy”. I aim at discussing this question in the framework of Fermi Liquids – however, a large part of the argument only depends on weakly interacting charge carriers, irrespective of them being Landau quasiparticles. The main elements that make Landau quasiparticles unique in the context of conductivity is the fact that they have an intrinsic decay time. As we’ll see, this phenomenon leads to both a \(T^2\) temperature dependence of the resistivity and a form of magnetoresistance.