The Bloch–Boltzmann theory of electronic transport

Abstract The Boltzmann equation is at the heart of the semiclassical Bloch–Boltzmann theory of electronic transport in solids. The kinetic theory of gases based on the Boltzmann equation, originally developed for dilute classical gases, has since been applied successfully to the electron gas in metals and in semiconductors, despite of the fact that this latter gas is neither classical (except in non-degenerate semiconductors) nor dilute.