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Recent advances in the synthesis of inorganic and organic nanowires and nanotubes have provided both components for various functional devices and platforms for the study of low- dimensional transport phenomena. However, tremendous…

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We construct a scattering theory of weakly nonlinear thermoelectric transport through sub-micron scale conductors. The theory incorporates the leading nonlinear contributions in temperature and voltage biases to the charge and heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jonathan Meair , Philippe Jacquod

We investigate heat transport in a spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain, coupled locally to independent thermal baths of different temperature. The analysis is carried out within the framework of the theory of open systems by means of appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hannu Wichterich , Markus J. Henrich , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Jochen Gemmer , Mathias Michel

Thermoelectric power (TEP) is measured in bilayer graphene for various temperatures and charge-carrier densities. At low temperatures, measured TEP well follows the semiclassical Mott formula with a hyperbolic dispersion relation. TEP for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Seung-Geol Nam , Dong-Keun Ki , Hu-Jong Lee

The ac Harman method has been used for the direct estimation of dimensionless thermoelectric figure of merit (zT) through ac/dc resistance measurements. However, accurate zT estimation with a four-probe configuration is difficult owing to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-16 Kenjiro Okawa , Yasutaka. Amagai , Norihiko Sakamoto , Nobu-Hisa Kaneko

We clarify some aspects of the calculation of the thermal transport coefficients. For a tight-binding Hamiltonian we discuss the approximate nature of the charge current and the thermal current obtained by Peierls substitution which is also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Indranil Paul , Gabriel Kotliar

We study the electric and thermal transport of the Dirac carriers in monolayer graphene using the Boltzmann-equation approach. Motivated by recent thermopower measurements [F. Ghahari, H.-Y.~Xie, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, M.~S.~Foster, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-03 Hong-Yi Xie , Matthew S. Foster

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

We express the link between conductivity and coefficients of Seebeck, Nernst-Ettingshausen, Peltier, and Thompson and Reghi-Leduc via the temperature derivative of the chemical potential of a system. These general expressions are applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Andrey Varlamov , Alexey Kavokin

This paper analyzes a transient method for the characterization of low-resistance thermal interfaces of microelectronic packages. The transient method can yield additional information about the package not available with traditional static…

General Physics · Physics 2008-01-08 B. Smith , T. Brunschwiler , B. Michel

We propose an efficient approach for simultaneous prediction of thermal and electronic transport properties in complex materials. Firstly, a highly efficient machine-learned neuroevolution potential is trained using reference data from…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-08 Zheyong Fan , Yang Xiao , Yanzhou Wang , Penghua Ying , Shunda Chen , Haikuan Dong

We study the thermoelectric effect of two-dimensional metals on a square lattice within semiclassical Boltzmann transport theory with particular focus on electron-electron scattering. We compute the electrical conductivity and the Seebeck…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-17 Jonathan M. Buhmann , Manfred Sigrist

We develop a unified theory of weakly probed differential observables for currents and noise in transport experiments. Our findings uncover a set of universal transport relations between thermoelectric and noise properties of a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Andrei I. Pavlov , Mikhail N. Kiselev

We study the thermoelectric transport properties of a three-dimensional massive relativistic fermion gas with screened Coulomb impurities in high magnetic fields where only the lowest Landau levels contribute to the transport. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Viktor Könye , Masao Ogata

We analyze closed one-dimensional chains of weakly coupled many level systems, by means of the so-called Hilbert space average method (HAM). Subject to some concrete conditions on the Hamiltonian of the system, our theory predicts energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mathias Michel , Jochen Gemmer , Guenter Mahler

This paper discusses how classical transport theories such as the thermionic emission, can be used as a powerful tool for the study and the understanding of the most complex mechanisms of transport in Fin Field Effect Transistors (FinFETs).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 G. C. Tettamanzi , A. Paul , S. Lee , G. Klimeck , S. Rogge

Low band gap thermoelectric materials suffer from bipolar effects at high temperatures, with increased electronic thermal conductivity and reduced Seebeck coefficient, leading to reduced power factor and low ZT figure of merit. In this work…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-14 Patrizio Graziosi , Zhen Li , Neophytos Neophytou

We apply the semi-classical quantum Boltzmann formalism for the computation of transport properties to multilayer graphene. We compute the electrical conductivity as well as the thermal conductivity and thermopower for Bernal-stacked…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Glenn Wagner , Dung X. Nguyen , Steven H. Simon

From a non-equilibrium thermodynamical framework for transport analysis based on Onsager's Regression Hypothesis, we derive the value function first described by Dirac for isotope separation. This application of the framework is interpreted…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-11 Rico A. R. Picone , John A. Sidles , Joseph L. Garbini

We do parametric calculations to elucidate multi-terminal electron transport properties through a molecular system where a single phenalenyl molecule is attached to semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic leads. A formalism based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-25 Paramita Dutta , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar