SOVIET PHYSICS JE TP VOLUME 31, NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY, 1971

ANOMALOUS SKIN EFFECT IN A CYLINDRICAL CONDUCTOR LOCATED IN A MAGNETIC

FIELD

B. E. MEIEROVICH

Institute of Physics Problems, USSR Academy of Sciences

Submitted February 5, 1970
Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 59, 276-287 (July, 1970)

The effect of the curvature of the sample surface on the skin effect in metals located in a magnetic
field is studied theoretically. A general expression for the current density in a cylindrical conductor
in a magnetic field parallel to the axis is found for an arbitrary law of conduction-electron scattering
by the sample surface. The case of a strong anomalous skin effect, when the skin depth is small com-
pared with the mean path, cylinder radius, and Larmor radius, is considered in detail. Expressions
are obtained for the surface impedance in the region of specular [condition (3.4)] and nonspecular
[condition (3.5)] scattering of the current carriers by the sample surface. The size effect in a cylin-
drical sample, due to the appearance of new electron trajectories in the case when the Larmor radius
exceeds the cylinder radius, is considered.

1. INTRODUCTION ticularly the conductivity, since, depending on the ratio

of the Larmor radius to the dimensions of the sample,
WE develop in this paper a theory of the anomalous the electron orbits either lie entirely inside the metal,
skin effect in a cylindrical metal sample in the presence or are bounded by the surface. It will be shown below
of a constant and homogeneous magnetic field parallel that in the highly interesting region of strong skin effect
to the cylinder axis, at arbitrary scattering of the con- (when the depth of penetration of the field in the metal
duction electrons from the surface. is small compared with the radius of the cylinder), the
Theoretical studies of the anomalous skin effect have curvature of the surface has a strong influence only
been carried out as a rule for samples with flat surfaces when the Larmor radius is of the order of or larger
(see, for example, lt- 3 J ), and the experiments were per- than the cylinder radius. This circumstance makes it
formed on samples whose linear dimensions are fre- possible to study separately the influences of the sur-
quently comparable with the mean free path of the car- face curvature and of the magnetic field on the anom-
riers. In this connection, it is of interest to ascertain alous skin effect. The curvature of the surface is im-
the degree to which the final results are effected by the portant in the region of the strongly anomalous skin ef-
curvature of the surface of the investigated samples. fect. On the other hand in a strong magnetic field (when
The influence of the surface curvature is conveniently the radii of the orbits are of the order of the skin-layer
investigated with cylindrical samples. The anomalous thickness, so that the conditions for strong anomaly of
skin effect in thin cylindrical conductors without a mag- the skin effect is violated) the surface curvature does
netic field, assuming a large mean free path (compared not enter in the final results. It is therefore sufficient
with the radius of the cylinder), was investigated by the to investigate the influence of the magnetic field on the
author earlierl 4 l. In particular, it was shown inl 4 l that degree of anomaly of the skin effect by using a half-
under conditions of a strong skin effect and nonspecular space as an example.
reflection of the electrons from the surface of the sam- In this paper, a general expression is derived for the
ple, the surface impedance does not depend at all on the conductivity kernel of cylindrical conductors in a mag-
radius of the cylinder, and is apparently also indepen- netic field for an arbitrary law of scattering of the elec-
dent of the shape of the cross section. In the case of trons by the sample surface. This is followed by a de-
specular reflection, this dependence is relatively weak. tailed study of the most significant region of small skin-
There arises, however, an appreciable dependence of layer thickness (compared with the radius of the cylin-
the surface impedance on the law governing the scatter- der, the Larmor radius, and the mean free path). It is
ing of the electrons from the surface, the impedance shown that in the case of nonspecular carrier scattering
decreasing strongly when the reflection is close to from the sample surface the surface impedance depends
specular. on the radius R of the cylinder only in the region R < rF
No less important is the question of the influence of (rF = vo/n is the Larmor radius, Vo is the Fermi veloc-
the magnetic field on the anomalous skin effect in me- ity, and n is the Larmor frequency of the electrons).
tals. The dependence of the surface impedance on the On the other hand, if R > rF, then the surface imped-
magnetic field was calculated only for samples with flat ance does not depend at all on the radius of the cylinder
surfaces, as a rule in connection with cyclotron reson- and has the same form as in the case of a sample with a
ance ls- 9 J. It is physically clear, however, that in pure flat surface. In the case of specular reflection from the
metals with a mean free path on the order of the dimen- surface, the impedance depends most strongly on the
sions of the sample the curvature of the surface can cylinder radius in the region R - rF·
greatly influence the electromagnetic properties, par- In the region r Rj rF, there takes place a size effect

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connected with the appearance of electron orbits of a In the equation for the function L, we make the change
new type in the region rF > R (see Fig. 4b below). In a of variable cp = rr - cp', after which we omit the prime
narrow interval of lrF - R I of the order of the depth of sign. As a result the interval lcp I < rr /2 becomes the
penetration, the size-effect line shape is strongly influ- region where both functions f. and f_ are defined. The
enced by electrons moving on orbits located to a con- current density can be expressed in terms of f. and f_
siderable extent in the skin layer. in the following manner:
It is assumed in the calculations that the Fermi sur- 22 a• ~ • W
face of the metal is a sphere and that the electron gas is j,(r)=- eh~ J v3 -idv Jsin9cos9de J U++f-)drp. (2.5)
degenerate. The calculations are carried out within the 0 0 -!1/2

framework of classical mechanics 1 >' and the collision Putting

integral in the kinetic equation is written in the relaxa- ~= (1 + i<u1:) I !:h (2.6)
and
tion-time approximation. (2.7)
2. CURRENT DENSITY IN CYLINDER (rH is the projection of the Larmor radius on the plane
We consider a sufficiently long cylindrical non- z = 0), we reduce the equations for the functions f. and
magnetic metal sample, placed in a constant inhomo- L to the form
geneous magnetic field H parallel to the cylinder axis,
~/±±rncosrp-±
of± [ 1--sinrp
rn ] -=rnctg9E,(r),
of± I'PI< n/2.
and in an axially symmetrical alternating field (of fre-
quency w), the electric vector E of which is parallel to or r orp (2.8)
the vector H and depends only on the distance r to the The functions f. depend on the arguments rand cp, and
cylinder axis. Let R be the radius of the cylinder. also on the parameters () and rH. Equation (2.8) is a
Eliminating from Maxwell's equations the ac component linear partial differential equation of first order. Its
of the magnetic field and neglecting the displacement solution reduces to finding the characteristics on which
current compared with the conduction current, we obtain the functions f + and L are constant. The solution of the
for the electric vector E the equation characteristic equations
~E= 4niw . (2.1) dr drp n
c2 J. da=--
rncos rp !a!<z- (2.9)
Here j is the current density vector in the metal, and c
is the speed of light. The current density in the cylin- can be represented in the form
der, in turn, depends on the field and on the electronic
properties of the metal. To find this dependence, we use r = (r~ + ro + 2r rn sin a) == r(a),
2 0 'h (2.10)
Boltzmann's kinetic equation linearized with respect to (2 .11)
the field E. Introducing a cylindrical reference frame
The integration constant r 0 is the coordinate of the cen-
in coordinate space and a spherical frame in velocity
ter of the Larmor circle. Relations (2.10) and (2.11)
space:
Vr = V sin 6 COS q>, V~ = V sin 6 sin q>, Vz = V COS 6, represent the well known geometrical cosine law for the
o ~ e ~ n, -n i 2 ~ 'I' ~ 3n I 2, (2.2) triangle made up of the segments r, rH, and ro (Fig. 1).
we reduce the kinetic equation to the form The quantity a introduced in (2.9) is the angle variable
in the reference frame connected with the center of the
LW+-1 ) h+vr-+
(. o/J ( Q -vlf-) -=e-v,E,.
o/J ofo
(2.3) electron trajectory. The characteristic (2.10) enables
'tor r orp oe us to write down the general solution of (2.8) in the fol-
We introduced the following notation: lowing form:
fo = {exp[ (s- I!) IT] + 1}- 1
f± = e"H~ {A±(ro) ± rn ctg e J E,(r(a') )e±~a· da'}. (2.12)
is the equilibrium Fermi distribution function of the
electrons in the metal; f 1 is the correction, linear in Here A.(ro) and A_(ro) are arbitrary functions. The
the field E, to the equilibrium distribution function, E is variable a can be expressed with the aid of (2.10) and
the electron energy, T is the relaxation time, n = eH/mc (2.11) in terms of rand cp, while ro is given by expres-
is the Larmor frequency of the electrons, m is the ef- sion (2.11).
fective mass, Tis the temperature, and IJ. is the chem- Just as in the case of a flat surface (see, for exam-
ical potential. ple, [aJ), the functions A:t(ro) are determined by the
Just as in l 4 J, it is convenient to solve the kinetic character of motion of the electrons. The trajectories
equation by introducing in place of f 1 two functions f.
and L corresponding to electrons moving away from
and towards the center of the cylinder:
ofo n
e"ik""f+, I'PI<2 (2.4)
FIG. I. Larmor trajectory of electron.
0-cylinder axis. 0' -center of Larmor cir-
!)The most significant error occurring here is apparently connected cle.
with neglect of the quantum properties of the surface electrons, i.e.,
with the surface levels. The magnetic surface levels in a cylindrical sam-
ple were investigated by Prange [ 10 ]. The conditions under which the
surface levels can be regarded quasiclassically can be found in the au-
thor's earlier papers ( 14 , 11 ].
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of electrons whose Larmor radius and center coordin-

ates satisfy the condition
To+ TH < R, (2.13)
lie entirely inside the cylinder (Fig. 2a). At the points
B (a= 1T/2) and C (a= -1T/2), the radial velocity of the
electron reverses sign. The conditions that the distri-
bution function be continuous at the points B and C de-
termine uniquely the functions A. and A_ in the region
0 0
(2.13). As a result we get FIG. 2. Trajectory of an electron that does not collide (a) and col-
TH Ctg ij "( 2
J . 1
1++1-=-- E,(T(a'))[ch~(a+a')+chp(n-!a-a'!)]da,
sh ~lt -c:2
lides (b) with the surface of the cylinder.

To+TH<R. (2.14)
The electrons whose parameters ro and rH are such
that FIG. 3. Region of integration with
respect to r 0 and fH in formula (2.19).
To+ TJI > R, (2.15)
collide with the surface (Fig. 2b). In this case reversal
of the sign of the radial velocity of the electrons takes
place both inside the metal (at the point C, a = -1T /2)
and upon collision with the surface of the (at the point D, the aid of relations (2.7) and (2.11), we obtain for the
a = aR, where current density the expression
(2.16)
. 8e 2m 2Q 2
Jz(T)=--h-a-
S2ctgede sTII OTJI
~
fJio
2
dTH
s [4T2TJI2-(r2+TH2-To2)2]'1•
'+'II
(f+ + 1-)To dTo

is determined from the condition r(a) = R). At the point Jr-rHI

C, located inside the metal, there takes place again the (2.19)
condition for continuity of the distribution function. The The region of integration with respect to ro and rH in
scattering of the electrons by the surface of the cylinder (2.19) is shown in Fig. 3. In region I, the expression for
will be taken into account by means of the phenomeno- f. +Lis given by formula (2.14), and in region II by
logical boundary condition of Fuchsu 2 J: formula (2.18).
Expression (2.19) for the current density in the cylin-
(2 .17) der is valid for an arbitrary ratio of the mean free path
The only parameter p (specularity coefficient) in condi- of the carriers, the Larmor radius, the cylinder radius,
tion (2.17) must be regarded as dependent, generally and the depth of penetration of the field into the metal,
speaking, on the angle with which the electron is incident and also for an arbitrary law of electron scattering from
on the surface. The condition for the continuity of the the surface of the sample. In the limiting case rF » R,
distribution function at the point C and the boundary con- expression (2.19) for the current density coincides with
dition (2.17) determine uniquely the functions A. and A_ that obtained earlier (l 4 J, formula (3.10)). On the other
in the region (2.15). Putting hand, if the cylinder radius is much larger than all the
1
other parameters with the dimension of length, the
x==-lnp, sample surface can be regarded as flat. In this case
2~
we gee) formula (2.19) reduces to the corresponding expression
"R
for the current density in a flat sample (see, for exam-
I++ I-= sh~(n~~~g:R-x) L~z(T(:z')) [ch~(; -aR+a+a'+x) ple, formula (2.14) inc 8 J).

+ch~(n/2+aR-!a-a'!-x) ]da', To+TII>R. (2.18) 3. STRONGLY ANOMALOUS SKIN EFFECT

Changing over in (2.5) from integration with respect We confine ourselves below to the case of a strongly
to v and cp to integration with respect to rH and r 0 with anomalous skin effect. We assume that the depth of
penetration of the field into the metal o is much smaller
2lWe present also expressions for the functions f+ and L them- than the radius of the cylinder, the Larmor radius, and
selves. In the region ( 2113) we have the electron mean free path l:
(3.1)
Within the framework of conditions (3.1), the relations
and in the region (2.15) between R, rF, and l can be arbitrary. The smallness of
the depth of penetration makes it possible to use, when
solving the problem, the Fourier integral transforma-
tion with the function E(r) continued into the region
r > R in even fashion. Changing over with the aid of
(2.10) from integration with respect to r to integration
When r 0 +rH = R, the distribution function is discontinuous if p =I= I. with respect to a, we obtain the following expression for
152 B. E. MEIEROVICH

the Fourier component of the current density:

w

j (k) = J~ (k') ~(k, k') cJ.k', (3.2)

0
where
R

J
~(k)=2 E,(r)cosk(R-r)dr
0

is the Fourier component of the field in the metal and

l;(k, k') is the conductivity kernel ink-space, given by
H-> FIG. 4. "Convex" (a) and "concave" (b) trajectories of surface
8e2m'~l' n/2 R. H
electrons.
~(k,k')=---.-"-f ctg2
nh o
8d8{.Jo drH f
o
dro

very close to unity. To the contrary, condition (3.5)

holds in a considerable range of variation of the specu-
larity coefficient.)
Omitting the intermediate steps, we write down first
the asymptotic expression (under conditions (3.1) and
(3 .6)) for the conductivity kernel in the region of non-
rorH 3 8fo , specular scattering (3.5):
X----cos[k(R-r(a))]cos[k'(R-r(a ))]. (3.3)
r(a) 8rH
, _ 2n2e2m2v0 2 {r6(k-k') _ 2s -Ztln(klk') }.
Conditions (3.1) enable us to change over to an ~(k,k)- h3 k (k+k')(kk')'" k'-k''
asymptotic expression for the conductivity kernel, (3.7)
which can be calculated by the saddle-point method. Here
The main contribution to the integrals, just as in the 1+p 1-pA 2 r, (1-p)(1..L"J'
case of a half-space, is made by small sections of the r=(1-f,)--+ r,----'---- s=
1-p (1-A)(1-pA) 8:rt (1- A) (1- pA)
electron trajectories near the saddle points, which are
determined from the condition that the radial velocity t=-1_1+p
n 2 1- p
[t- r,4 (1+p)(1-A)]•
1- pA
A=e- 2 "~.
vanish. The computational difficulties are connected
with the fact that in specular reflection of the electrons 1, TF <R
{
from the metal surface the integrand in (3.3) has an fz= 2
-2 [ arcsin-+-
R R 1/
V 1- ( - R ) ] , rF>R. (3.8)
additional singularity at the saddle point aR = -1T /2. n TF TF TF
This singularity is due to the "hopping" electrons in With the aid of (2.1), (3.2), and (3.7) we obtain the fol-
the skin layer, (also called "surface" electrons) (Fig. lowing equation for the Fourier component of the field
4). The main difference from the flat case lies in the in the cylinder:
fact that when rF > R there exists, besides the "con- k"
vex" surface trajectories whose centers lie on the { k 2 +irT )~(k)
opposite side of the surface (Fig. 4a) also "concave"
trajectories, shown in Fig. 4b. Such electrons are con- j.
. a ...
- 2!ko o~ (k)
, [
(k
s
+ k') (kk') •;,
+t ln(klk')
k'- k''
1dk'- -2E '(R)
- z (3.9)
tinuously located in the skin layer, as a result of which
their contribution to the conductivity becomes dominant where
if the reflection from the surface is close to specular.
The asymptotic expression for the conductivity ker- (3.10)
nel (3.3) depends in a radical fashion on the relation We note that if the Larmor radius rF is smaller than
between the scattering of the "surface" electrons inside the radius of the cylinder R, the latter drops out com-
the metal (by impurities, phonons, lattice defects, etc.) pletely from Eq. (3.9), which coincides in this case with
and scattering by the surface. If the reflection is so the equation for a bulky sample with a flat surfacelal.
close to specular that The influence of the surface curvature becomes mani-
1-p~ lf'>l(6lrF)'1', (3.4) fest only in the region rF > R.
An equation of the type of (3.9) was obtained by
then, in spite of frequent collisions with the surface, Azbel' and Kaner in the theory of cyclotron resonance
the "surface" electrons are scattered predominantly in metalslsl. Its exact solution was obtained by Hartman
in the interior of the metal. With increasing degree of and Luttingerl 13 J. For the surface impedance in the
diffuseness of the scattering by the surface, the condi- region of nonspecular scattering, we obtain the following
tion (3.4) is violated, and in the region expression:
(3.5) Z = _ 4:rtiffi E,(R) = Zct_i_ r sin(nzt/3)s~n(nz,f3) ]' ( 3 .ll)
the electrons "hopping" in the skin layer are scattered c2 Ez'(R) r'f, sin(nzt/2)sm(:rcz,j2)
predominantly by the surface inhomogeneities. (It is as- where Zd = 2-/3?Twei1T 13 / c2ko is the surface impedance of
sumed that the Larmor radius and the radius of the a bulky sample with a flat diffuse surface, and the quan-
cylinder are of the order of the electron mean free . tities z 1 and z 2 (0 :s Re zi :s 1, i -1, 2) are determined
path. Therefore, by virtue of the condition (3.1) we have from the equation
lfll(6lrF)'/,~f, jflj(6IR)';,~1,
(3.6) (cos nz)2- (1- 2ns I r- :rc 2t I r)cos :rcz- 2nsl r = 0.
so that inequality (3 .4) takes place only for values of p In the region rF < R, expression (3.11) for the sur-
 ANOMALOUS SKIN EFFECT IN A CYLINDRICAL C OND UC TOR LOCATED 153

face impedance does not depend on the radius of the .!!J dl

Z dH
cylinder and coincides with formula (3.7) of 18 J. In the
limiting case R « rF, the surface impedance depends O,J
on neither the magnetic field nor on the cylinder radius:
1- p
Z=Zd ( - -
)'I• . (3 .12)
l/l, 0.2
1+p

Formula (3.12) was obtained in 14 J by assuming a large 0.1

electron mean free path (compared with the radius of
the cylinder). From (3.6) it follows, however, that ex-
pression (3.12) is valid in fact in a wider range ll 2 ___ :Hill,

l> (6R)'t. (3 .13)

UtZJQ56
R/r,.H/If, -0,1
,-, --
FIG. 5. FIG. 6
(l = vo/Jiw + 1/T I is the electron mean free path and
li = k 01 is the depth of penetration of the field into the FIG. 5. Dependence of the surface impedance on the cylinder
metal). The meaning of condition (3.13) becomes clear radius and on the magnetic field in specular reflection of the electrons
if it is noted that (liR) 112 is of the order of magnitude of from the surface, when current flows along the cylinder (H 0 = mv 0 c/
the electron path in the skin layer between two succes.., eR).
FIG. 6. Dependence of the derivative of the surface impedance in
sive collisions with the surface.
the azimuthal direction on the magnetic field. The dashed curve corre-
In region (3.4) of specular reflection from the sur- sponds to specular reflection and the solid one to diffuse reflection
face, expression (3.3) for the conductivity kernel re- (H 0 =mv 0 c/eR).
duces to the form
A plot of the function (3.19) is shown in Fig. 5. With
increasing magnetic field in the region rF << R, we have
. (3.14) f(x) ~ x 115 so that the radius of the cylinder drops out
and its place is taken by the Larmor radius. In this
case we obtain the same expression for the surface im-
(3 .15) pedance as in the case of a sample with a flat sur-
face17•8J.
and
Y2(x)= I l{x
0,

f [y(1- y
1
x< 1
2) (xy- 1) J'i' dy, x > 1 (3 .16)
4. SIZE EFFECT IN CYLINDRICAL SAMPLE
The theory of anomalous skin effect in a cylindrical
conductor in a magnetic field, developed in this paper,
are proportional to the contribution made to the conduc- makes it possible to present a simple and lucid inter-
tivity by the electrons whose trajectories are repre- pretation of the behavior of the size effect, observed in
sented in Figs. 4a and 4b, respectively. Using the cylindrical samples of potassium 114 J. By measuring the
asymptotic form (3.14) of the conductivity kernel, we dependence of the derivative of the surface impedance
obtain the following expression for the Fourier compon- in the azimuthal direction (when the currents flow
ent of the field in a cylinder with specular surface: around the cylinder), Blaneyu 4J observed, in particular,
"" Jok k'J-'!. (k+k')-''• a monotonic growth of dZ/dH with the field in the region
k2.r(k)+ iAk03 J.r(k') - -, , dk' = -2E'(R),
0 (kk)'• (3.17) rF > R.
We shall calculate below the surface impedance (and
where its derivative with respect to the magnetic field) in the
approximation of a strongly anomalous skin effect. In
the case when the current flows around the cylinder, the
Reducing (3.17) to dimensionless form, we obtain the calculation is carried out in exactly the same manner
following expression for the surface impedance: as in the case when H is parallel to E. The only differ-
Z = Z,f(rF / R), (3 .18)
ence is that it is necessary to substitute v(j)Eq; for
where vzEz in the right side of the kinetic equahon (2.3) and
in the subsequent formulas. Omitting all the intermed-
4x }''•
f{x)={ 9[YI(x)+ Y2(x))2 ' iate steps, we turn directly to the asymptotic expres-
sions for the conductivity kernel in the case when the
z3 =~[Roo
ccro
(~) 4 (1 +21-2 )]''• exp ro ,;
{i (~-~arctg-
2 5
1 )}
ro't
skin layer contains a small fraction of the trajectory of
0
(3.19) the electrons making an appreciable contribution to the
is the surface impedance of a cylinder with specular conductivity. Both in the case of nonspecular (3.5) and
walls in the absence of a magnetic field, calculated in 14 J. specular scattering (3.4) of the electrons by the surface,
The numerical factor A is determined by the solution of we obtain for the asymptotic value of the conductivity
the dimensionless equation. For the case of a flat sur- kernel the same expressions (3.7) and (3.14), the only
face, this equation was solved by Kaner and Makarov 17 J. .·};fference being that now r z in (3 .8) is replaced by
In accordance with 17 J, we get 1, rF<R
1
-e-t
5
] -dt
t
~ 0 215.
' r'l' =
1~ [arcsi.n.!!....- .!!__V1- (.!!....) 2
],
1t ru rF rp
154 B. E. MEIEROVICH

and the functions Y1 and Y2 are determined by the Thus, when H = Ho (Ho = mvoc/eR), a jump takes place
formulas (at o - 0) in the derivative of the surface impedance
1
with respect to the magnetic field. This jump is connec-
Yt(x)= J[y 5 (xy+1)/(1-y 2 )]''•dy, (4.2) ted with the appearance in the region rF > R of a new

~·
type of electron trajectories, namely, "concave" trajec-
Y2(x)=1 x < 1 u tories, located in the skin layer (Fig. 4b). In the case of
a flat surface, there are no such trajectories. Therein
J[y (xy -1)/{1- y )]''•dy,
5 2 x>'1 (4.3) lies the main difference between the size effect in a
IJX
cylinder and the size effect in a plane-parallel plate usl ,
The integrals (4.2) and (4.3), just like (3.15) and (3.16), connected with the cutoff of the electron orbits by the
can be reduced to elliptic integrals. boundaries of the sample .. In the small region (4.6) (the
Figure 6 shows the dependence of the derivative of region of the jump), an appreciable contribution to the
the surface impedance in the azimuthal direction on the conductivity is made by electrons which are not accoun-
magnetic field for the cases of diffuse (solid curve) and ted for in our calculation, and have an appreciable part
specular (dashed curve) scattering of the electrons by of their trajectories situated in the skin layer. Allow-
the surface. The solid curve in Fig. 6 corresponds to ance for these electrons is essential in the calculation
the case ~ = 0, i.e., the mean free path is assumed to of the exact form of the size-effect line in the region of
be small compared with the Larmor radius. It is curi- the jump.
ous that even in this case a size effect takes place at The author is grateful to P. L. Kapitza, I. M. Lifshitz,
rF ~ R. In view of the weak dependence of the expres- L. P. Pitaevski:l, and M. A. Liberman for useful dis-
sion in the square brackets in (3.11) on z 1 and z 2, the cussions, and also to L. B. Luganski1 and z. v. Gausman
derivative of the surface impedance in diffuse scatter- for help with the numerical calculations.
ing is well approximated by the formula
1G. E. H. Reuter and E. H. Sondheimer, Proc. Roy.
H<Ho Soc. A195, 336 (1948). .
(4.4) 2M. Ya. Azbel' and E. A. Kaner, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz.
Ho=~. 29, 876 (1955) [Sov. Phys.-JETP 2, 749 (1956)).
eR 3M. I. Kaganov and M. Ya. Azbel', Dokl. Akad. Nauk
In the case of specular reflection of the electrons from SSSR 102, 49 (1955).
the surface, the surface impedance and its derivative 4 B. :E. Me1erovich, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 57, 1445
with respect to the magnetic field do not depend at all (1959) [Sov. Phys.-JETP 30, 782 (1970)].
on the ratio of the mean free path to the Larmor radius. 5M. Ya. Azbel' and E. A. Kaner, ibid. 32, 896 (1957)
It is important to note that when the current flows in [5, 7~0 (1957)).
the azimuthal direction the asymptotic expressions 6 E. A. Kaner, ibid. 33, 1472 (1957) [6, 1135 (1958)).

(3.7) and (3.14) are valid under the additional condition 7 E. A. Kaner and N. M. Makarov, ibid. 57, 1435

(1969) [30, 777 (1970)).

(4.5) 8 B. :E. Mei:'erovich, ibid. 58, 324 (1970) [31, 175

i.e., when only small segments of the Larmor circles (1970)).

of the electrons making the main contribution at the 9 B. E. Mei:'erovich, ibid. 58, 1412 (1970) [31, 756

conductivity fall in the skin layer. In the small region (1970)).

10 R. E. Prange, Phys. Rev. 171, 737 (1968).
(4.6) 11 B. :E. Me1erovich, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 56, 1006

our results do not hold, since we do not take into ac- (1969) [Sov. Phys.-JETP 29, 542 (1969)).
count the contribution made to the conductivity by the 12 K. Fuchs, Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 34, 100
electrons moving along circles that are concentric with (1938).
the surface of the cylinder and are located in the skin 13 L. E. Hartman and J. M. Luttinger, Phys. Rev. 151,
layer. In the case when the current-density vector is 430 (1966).
parallel to the cylinder axis, the limitation (4.5) is of 14 T. G. Blaney, Phil. Mag. 20, No. 163, 23 (1969).
no importance, for when rF ~ R the electrons corre- 15 E. A. Kaner, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 119, 471 (1958)
sponding to the maximum intersection of the Fermi sur- [Sov. Phys.-Dokl. 3, 314 (1958)).
face with the plane Pz = 0 stay in the skin layer for a
long time. These electrons make an appreciable contri- Translated by J. G. Adashko
bution only to the axial current. 33