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Phys. Rev. Lett. 42, 1776 - 1779 (1979)

Analysis of the Anomalous Temperature-Dependent Resistivity on Potassium below 1.6 K
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Marilyn F. Bishop and A. W. Overhauser
Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907

Received 9 March 1979

Recent precision measurements of the resistivity of potassium between 0.38 and 1.6 K revealed a surprising T1.5 temperature dependence. We show that scattering of electrons by phasons—the collective excitations of an incommensurate charge-density wave—can provide an explanation.


©1979 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v42/p1776
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.42.1776

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