[Wien] Relaxation time in BoltzTraP

georg@chem.au.dk georg at chem.au.dk
Tue Sep 26 16:55:16 CEST 2006


> I would like to ask you a question on relaxation time in BoltzTrap. You
> mentioned in
> your article that "In the present we will use the simplest approximation for
> relaxation time, namely to keep it cinstant, which is the most often used in
> praxis"
> Does it mean the relaxation time is energy-independent and you handle it as
> a
> constant value? Or you fixed scattering mode as for instance acoustic phonon
> or
> something else?
It means that the relaxation time is energy independent.

 Best wishes
   Georg


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