Calculation of the electrical resistivity of liquid rate earth. II. Trivalent elements

For pt.I see ibid., vol.9, p.505 (1979). The electrical resistivities rho of liquid La, Gd and Lu are calculated in the following way: using phase shifts of muffin-tin potentials for liquid La, Gd and Lu the authors evaluate Fermi energy, total and partial densities of states in a single-site approximation. For calculating rho modified single-ion potentials are then constructed taking into account some many-body effects in a simple way. The results for rho are in good agreement with experiment, the increase from La to Lu being due to an increase in the effective number of conduction electrons.