Electronic Transport Theories : From Weakly to Strongly Correlated Materials

The issue of transport in strongly correlated materials is of current interest. This book presents a concise and pedagogical introduction to a wide range of topics in electronic transport. There are plenty of books that cover the traditional theories (Boltzamnn transport equation and Kubo formula) however, there is no such book that covers the traditional theories along with the recent theories of transport in strongly correlated materials. Being useful to both graduates and researchers, this book deals with the challenging problems in this area.

Maintaining 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 with a background in quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and mathematical methods.