title: Anomalous c-axis transport in layered metals.
abstract: Transport in metals with a strongly anisotropic single-particle spectrum is studied. Coherent band transport in all directions, described by the standard Boltzmann equation, is shown to withstand both elastic and inelastic scattering as long as EFtau >> 1. A model of phonon-assisted tunneling via resonant states located in between the layers is suggested to explain a nonmonotonic temperature dependence of the c-axis resistivity observed in experiments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Gutman
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Maslov