On the study of electrical transport properties of some liquid metals by pseudopotential method

Abstract

ABSTRACT Our recently evolved pseudopotential is used to study the electrical transport properties such as electrical resistivity ( ρ ), thermal conductivity ( σ ) and thermoelectric power ( TEP ) of some monovalent (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs), divalent (Mg, Zn, Ca) and polyvalent (Al, Ga, In, Pb, Sn, Bi, Sb) liquid metals. The model potential theory in conjunction with Ziman, mean free path, t-matrix, and Kubo models are implemented in the above-mentioned work for the first time. The Taylor’s local field correction function (T) is taken for observing the exchange and correlation effect with one component plasma (OCP) structure factor method of liquid metals with Hartree dielectric function (H). The presently computed findings are extremely comparable with available data, either theoretical or experimental results that exist in the literature.