Abstract
Transport in metals with a strongly anisotropic single-particle spectrum is studied. Coherent band transport in all directions, described by the standard Boltzmann equation, is shown to withstand both elastic and inelastic scattering as long as . A model of phonon-assisted tunneling via resonant states located in between the layers is suggested to explain a nonmonotonic temperature dependence of the -axis resistivity observed in experiments.
- Received 10 April 2007
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.196602
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