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Electrical resistivity of dilute, interacting fermions

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A first-principles calculation of the initial decay of a current-carrying state is used to infer the electrical resistivity ofinteracting fermions (electrons or holes). This approach is useful when it is impractical to apply the Kubo formalism.

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Mattis, D. Electrical resistivity of dilute, interacting fermions. J Stat Phys 77, 383–396 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02186848

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