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Warming in complex physical systems, in particular global warming, attracts significant contemporary interest. It is essential, therefore, to understand basic physical mechanisms leading to overheating. It is well known that application of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-04 N. Romero Kalmanovitz , A. A. Bykov , S. A. Vitkalov , A. I. Toropov

Using Green's function equation of motion within Lacroix decoupling scheme, we examine the thermoelectric transport features of a strongly interacting quantum dot coupled between metallic leads. We demonstrate that a qualitative description…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Sachin Verma , B. S. Tewari , A. Dhyani , Ajay

Diffusion of ions due to temperature gradients (known as thermal diffusion) in charged nanochannels is of interest in several engineering fields, including energy recovery and environmental protection. This paper presents a fundamental…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Wei Qiang Chen , Majid Sedighi , Andrey P Jivkov

We calculate the temperature dependent conductivity of graphene in the presence of randomly distributed Coulomb impurity charges arising from the temperature dependent screening of the Coulomb disorder without any phonons. The purely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-22 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Thermophoresis (thermodiffusion, Soret effect) moves molecules along thermal gradients. We measure its phenomenological linear drift relation by single particle tracking in convection-free settings. For moderate thermal gradients, drift…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Duhr , Dieter Braun

A new theoretical method is introduced to study coherent electron transport in an interacting multilevel quantum dot. The method yields the correct behavior both in the limit of weak and strong coupling to the leads, giving a unified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Levy Yeyati , F. Flores , A. Martin-Rodero

We consider transport of dilute two-dimensional electrons, with temperature between Fermi and Debye temperatures. In this regime, electrons form a nondegenerate plasma with mobility limited by potential disorder. Different kinds of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-11 D. S. Novikov

We develop a detailed analysis of electron transport in normal diffusive conductors in the presence of proximity induced superconducting correlation. We calculated the linear conductance of the system and the profile of the electric field.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Golubov , F. Wilhelm , A. D. Zaikin

We investigated theoretically the Coulomb drag effect in coupled 2D electron gases in a wide interval of magnetic field and temperature $ 1/\tau \ll \omega_c \ll E_F/\hbar$, $T \ll E_F$, $\tau$ being intralayer scattering time, $\omega_c$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. V. Khaetskii , Yuli V. Nazarov

We propose a novel actuation mechanism for colloids, which is based on the Seebeck effect of the electrolyte solution: Laser heating of a nonionic particle accumulates in its vicinity a net charge Q, which is proportional to the excess…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-30 Arghya Majee , Alois Würger

We study the charge and spin transport under high electric field (up to several kV/cm) on the surface of topological insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$, where the electron-surface optical phonon scattering dominates except at very low temperature. Due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-28 P. Zhang , M. W. Wu

Spin transport driven by the temperature gradient in ferromagnetic metals is studied based on a microscopic theory. It is shown that the temperature gradient works as an effective field equivalent to the electric field as for both the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Yuu Takezoe , Kazuhiro Hosono , Akihito Takeuchi , Gen Tatara

Dynamic processes in dispersions of charged spherical particles are of importance both in fundamental science, and in technical and bio-medical applications. There exists a large variety of charged-particles systems, ranging from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-25 G. Nägele , M. Heinen , A. J. Banchio , C. Contreras-Aburto

Colloids with patchy metal coating under laser irradiation could act as local sources of heat due to the absorption of light. While for asymmetric colloids this could induce self-propulsion, it also leads to the generation of a slowly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 Ramin Golestanian

We have examined the electrical transport in disordered molecular solids. It has been found that mobility is a function of electric field and temperature due to hopping conduction. Several theoretical models for charge transport in…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajit Kumar Mahapatro , Subhasis Ghosh

We theoretically study the thermoelectric response of ionic conductors to an applied temperaturegradient. As a main result we find that open and closed systems with respect to charge exchange,result in different expressions for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-25 Alois Würger

We have investigated the charge carrier transport in organic molecular semiconductors. It has been found that mobility is a function of electric field and temperature due to hopping conduction. Several theoretical models for charge…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajit Kumar Mahapatro , Subhasis Ghosh

We investigate fluctuations of electric and heat currents, along with their cross-correlations, in a two-channel charge Kondo circuit driven by either a voltage bias or a temperature gradient applied across the weak link. The ratios of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 T. K. T. Nguyen , J. Rech , T. Martin , M. N. Kiselev

The coupled transport of charge and heat provide fundamental insights into the microscopic thermodynamics and kinetics of materials. We describe a sensitive ac differential resistance bridge that enables measurements of the temperature…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-13 Zhe Cheng , Yu-Ju Huang , Beniamin Zahiri , Patrick Kwon , Paul V. Braun , David G. Cahill

We study the transient response of an electrolytic cell subject to a small, suddenly applied temperature increase at one of its two bounding electrode surfaces. An inhomogeneous temperature profile then develops, causing, via the Soret…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Mathijs Janssen , Markus Bier