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Rothwarf 1973
Rothwarf 1973
F. Rothwarf
U.S. Army Electronics Technology and Devices Laboratory (ECOM),
Fort Monmouth, New Jersey 07703, U.S.A.
and
L.W. Dubeck
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Table 1
Pressure T~ (dh\
(kbar) (K) (Oe) kdr,11
TinI
37311 3061113 1.7518
1.8913 1.8712
1.87
1.413
11.9 3.6613
3.21 31YJ
255 1.73 1.85
20.0 2.86 228 1.77
31.6 2.57 198 1.72
Tin 11113
240 4.17 67.2 1.84
270 4.00 63.5 1.81
Indium
011 34]i1 28211 1.8017 1.77’s
1.8 3.35 272 1.91 1.77
9.6 3.04 244 1.88 1.75
15.0 2.82 224 1.83
26.0 2.41 192 1.85
Zinc11
0 0.875 54.0 1.68
3.0 0.816 49.7 1.82
7.3 0.688 41.2 1.81
11.8 0.604 36.7 1.84
15.6 0.510 29.2 1.81
19.8 0.447 24.9 1.84
23.9 0.374 22.3 1.62
26.2 0.336 18.9 1.73
Aluminium14’15
O 1.15 104 1.79
5.2 1.02 92 1.87
12.0 0.87 77 1.77
15.0 0.79 69 1.88
21.6 0.73 57 1.93
Cadmium16
0 0.543 28.6 2.00
1.5 0.510 27.6 2.00
3.7 0.454 25.1 2.00
6.6 0.411 22.8 2.00
9.0 0.377 19.7 2,00
12.0 0.339 16.7 2,00
15.3 0.272 14.1 2.00
20.8 0.199 9.9 2.00
26.4 0.123 5.2 2.00
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Table 1 (continued)
nature of the umklapp processes and thus vary the ~/kT~, goes from the weak to the intermediate
relative importance of the transverse and longitudinal and back to the weak coupling regimes.
phonons causing the value of ~/kT~ to change from a
weak to intermediate coupling regime, e.g., aluminium In summary, the use of the Toxen relationship
and gallium become stronger coupling with pressure. permits one to interpret as pressure variations of the
The cadmium ~/kT~ remains unchanged up to 26 kbar energy gap the previously unexplained small deviations
since H~(p,r) does not deviate from the similarity from the similarity principle found in high pressure
principle, while for zinc over the same pressure range, critical field measurements.
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