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On galvanomagnetic size effects in metals

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The importance of open electron trajectories formed by specular reflections of charge carriers by the sample boundary to the metal electric conductivities in the strong magnetic fieldH is analyzed. It is shown that the electric conductivity of the near-surface layerσ skin is rather sensitive to the state of the conductor surface. The electron-hole Umklapp processes during the surface scattering of charge carriers do not change the dependenceσ skin(H), while skipping from the closed Fermi surface section to the open one is able to affectσ skin essentially only in bulk samples. The method is proposed to restore the indicatrix of conduction electron scattering by the sample boundary through an experimental investigation of the Sondheimer effect and the static skin effect.

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Peschanskii, V.G. On galvanomagnetic size effects in metals. J Stat Phys 38, 253–266 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01017861

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