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Green-Kubo and Einstein expressions for the transport coefficients of a fluid in a nonequilibrium steady state can be derived using the Fluctuation Theorem and by assuming the probability distribution of the time-averaged dissipative flux…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Debra J. Searles , Denis J. Evans

We obtain the Kubo formula for the electronic thermal conductivity kappa(T) of a granular metal array at low temperatures for the Ambegaokar-Eckern-Schoen (AES) model and study the kinetic and potential contributions in the diamagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Tripathi , Y. L. Loh

Magnetohydrodynamics of strongly magnetized relativistic fluids is derived in the ideal and dissipative cases, taking into account the breaking of spatial symmetries by a quantizing magnetic field. A complete set of transport coefficients,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Xu-Guang Huang , Armen Sedrakian , Dirk H. Rischke

We investigate theoretically the thermoelectric transport through a circuit implementation of the three-channel "charge" Kondo model quantum simulator [Z. Iftikhar et al., Science 360, 1315 (2018)]. The universal temperature scaling law of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 T. K. T. Nguyen , M. N. Kiselev

In this work we theoretically study steady state thermoelectric transport through a single-molecule junction with a long chain-like bridge. Electron transmission through the system is computed using a tight-binding model for the bridge. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya , Abraham Nitzan

We present a fully ab initio based scheme to compute transport properties, i.e. the electrical conductivity {\sigma} and thermopower S, in the presence of electron-phonon interaction. Therefore, we explicitly investigate the k-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-04 Florian Rittweger , Nicki Frank Hinsche , Ingrid Mertig

According to the Green-Kubo theory of linear response, the conductivity of an electronically gapped liquid can be expressed in terms of the time correlations of the adiabatic charge flux, which is determined by the atomic velocities and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-23 Federico Grasselli , Stefano Baroni

We investigate the electronic transport coefficients in unconventional superconductors at low temperatures, where charge and heat transport are dominated by electron scattering from random lattice defects. We discuss the features of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-04-08 Matthias J. Graf

The Kubo formula for the electrical conductivity is rewritten in terms of a sum of Drude-like contributions associated to the exact eigenstates of the interacting system, each characterized by its own frequency-dependent relaxation time.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-08-01 G. De Filippis , V. Cataudella , A. de Candia , A. S. Mishchenko , N. Nagaosa

A nanowire with its two ends fixed at two different temperatures by external baths is the simplest example of a fermionic system with a temperature inhomogeneity, and could be an easy platform to study thermodynamic and transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Yuan Gao , K. A. Muttalib

We have combined the Boltzmann transport equation with an {\it ab initio} approach to compute the thermoelectric coefficients of semiconductors. Electron-phonon, ionized impurity, and electron-plasmon scattering rates have been taken into…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-26 Z. Wang , S. Wang , S. Obukhov , N. Vast , J. Sjakste , V. Tyuterev , N. Mingo

I discuss thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot coupled to one normal and one superconducting lead in the presence of Kondo effect and Andreev scattering. I will focus on conductance, thermal conductance, thermopower and related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 Mariusz Krawiec

In this work we elaborate on two recently discovered invariance principles, according to which transport coefficients are, to a large extent, independent of the microscopic definition of the densities and currents of the conserved…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-20 Federico Grasselli , Stefano Baroni

We use the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity to calculate the electronic contribution to the thermal conductivity. The theory is formulated for low temperatures when heat transport is limited by electron scattering from random…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. J. Graf , S. -K. Yip , J. A. Sauls , D. Rainer

In this review, we survey the current progress in computing transport properties in semimetals which harbour non-Fermi liquid phases. We first discuss the widely-used Kubo formalism, which can be applied to the effective theory describing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-28 Ipsita Mandal , Hermann Freire

Using first-principles pseudopotential method and Boltzmann transport theory, we give a comprehensive understanding of the electronic and phonon transport properties of thermoelectric material BiCuSeO. By choosing proper hybrid functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-28 D. D. Fan , H. J. Liu , L. Cheng , J. Zhang , P. H. Jiang , J. Wei , J. H. Liang , J. Shi

We investigate the transport through a few-level quantum system described by a Markovian master equation with temperature- and particle-density dependent chemical potentials. From the corresponding Onsager relations we extract linear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-02-03 Christian Nietner , Gernot Schaller , Tobias Brandes

Many physical properties of metals can be understood in terms of the free electron model, as proven by the Wiedemann-Franz law. According to this model, electronic thermal conductivity ($\kappa_{el}$) can be inferred from the Boltzmann…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-07 Sheng-Ying Yue , Xiaoliang Zhang , Stephen Stackhouse , Guangzhao Qin , Edoardo Di Napoli , Ming Hu

We derive a formula for the electrical conductivity of solids that includes relaxation, dissipation, and quantum coherence. The derivation is based on the Kubo formula, with a Mori memory function approach to include dissipation effects at…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-07 Brett R. Green , Maria Troppenz , Santiago Rigamonti , Claudia Draxl , Jorge O. Sofo

The time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation and the Boltzmann transport equation for one-dimensional charge-density-wave (CDW) conductors are derived from a microscopic model by applying the Keldysh Green's function approach under a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-24 Yositake Takane , Masahiko Hayashi , Hiromichi Ebisawa