A model of electrical conductivity of liquid metallic hydrogen

Abstract

We apply the Ziman theory (1961) to calculate the electrical conductivity of liquid metallic hydrogen. The pseudopotential between the ions and the conduction electrons is chosen to be a screened Coulomb potential. Two forms of the radial distribution function are used; one is from the result of density functional theory calculation while the other is from the molecular dynamics simulation result. Our result agrees with the experimental data by Nellis et al (1997).