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Electrical and thermoelectrical transport in Dirac fermions through a quantum dot

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2013-07-17 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We investigate the conductance and thermopower of massless Dirac fermions through a quantum dot using a pseudogap Anderson model in the non-crossing approximation. When the Fermi level is at the Dirac point, the conductance has a cusp where the thermopower changes its sign. When the Fermi level is away from the Dirac point, the Kondo temperature illustrates a quantum impurity transition between an asymmetric strong coupling Kondo state and a localized moment state. The conductance shows a peak near this transition and reaches the unitary limit at low temperatures. The magnitude of the thermopower exceeds kB/ek_B/e, and the thermoelectric figure of merit exceeds unity.

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@article{arxiv.1208.6370,
  title  = {Electrical and thermoelectrical transport in Dirac fermions through a quantum dot},
  author = {Tomosuke Aono},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.6370},
  year   = {2013}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures