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Anomalous c-axis transport in layered metals

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-03-22 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

Transport in metals with strongly anisotropic single-particle spectrum is studied. Coherent band transport in all directions, described by the standard Boltzmann equation, is shown to withstand both elastic and inelastic scattering as long as EFτ1E_F\tau\gg 1. A model of phonon-assisted tunneling via resonant states located in between the layers is suggested to explain a non-monotonic temperature dependence of the c-axis resistivity observed in experiments.

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@article{arxiv.0704.0613,
  title  = {Anomalous c-axis transport in layered metals},
  author = {D. B. Gutman and D. L. Maslov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0613},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages 2 figures