Physically, this means that it will depend on how conduction electrons interact with the atoms within a given material.

One could picture the conduction electrons flowing around them like a river around an island or a big rock.

The Knight shift is due to the conduction electrons in metals.

Therefore, the conduction electrons never get close enough to the ion cores to feel their full force.

Although the phenomenological description is incorrect for conduction electrons, it can serve as a preliminary treatment.

The critical size where these and related effects take place are correlated with the mean free path of the conduction electrons of the metal.

In this case the interaction between the f-electrons, which present a local magnetic moment and the conduction electrons is neglected.

This means that at 0 kelvins, there are no free conduction electrons and the resistance is infinite.

Here, particles correspond to conduction electrons, and antiparticles to holes.

In the same manner, because they are much less massive, thermal energy is readily borne by mobile conduction electrons.