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Hall effect at finite temperature in conventional metals

There are lots of measurements showing strong temperature ($T$) dependence of Hall coefficient ($R_H$) in correlated materials (eg. cuprate superconductors and other oxide materials) and such plots ...
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Why does the free electron theory of metals work?

Free electron theory of metals works unreasonably well in spite of the fact that we neglect the Coulomb repulsion between the electrons. Is there deeper reason why this should work? Somewhere I heard ...
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