A study of the electronic properties of liquid alkali metals: a self-consistent approach

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Brazilian Journal of Physics

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003-06

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We study the electronic properties (density of states, conductivity and thermopower) of some nearly-freeelectron systems: the liquid alkali metals and two liquid alloys, Li-Na and Na-K. The study has been performed within the self-consistent second order Renormalized Propagator Perturbation Expansion (RPE) for the self-energy. The input ionic pseudopotentials and static correlation functions are derived from the neutral pseudoatom method and the modified hypernetted chain theory of liquids, respectively. Reasonable agreement with experiment is found for Na, K, Rb and Na-K, whereas for Li and Cs and Li-Na the agreement is less satisfactory.

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