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Exploring the transport properties of different materials brings new avenue for basic understanding of emergent phenomena and practical applications in many different fields. Here, we report a program named as TRACK (TRAnsport properties…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-15 Antik Sihi , Sudhir K. Pandey

Understanding the mechanisms of thermal conduction in graphene is a long-lasting research topic, due to its high thermal conductivity. Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation (PBTE) based studies have revealed many unique phonon transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-14 Xiaokun Gu , Zheyong Fan , Hua Bao , C. Y. Zhao

Dislocations can greatly enhance the figure of merit of thermoelectric materials by prominently reducing thermal conductivity. However, the evolution of phonon modes with different energies when they propagate through a single dislocation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Yandong Sun , Yanguang Zhou , Jian Han , Wei Liu , Cewen Nan , Yuanhua Lin , Ming Hu , Ben Xu

The flow of charge and entropy in solids usually depends on collisions decaying quasiparticle momentum. Hydrodynamic corrections can emerge, however, if most collisions among quasiparticles conserve momentum and the mean-free-path…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-23 Alexandre Jaoui , Adrien Gourgout , Gabriel Seyfarth , Alaska Subedi , Thomas Lorenz , Benoît Fauqué , Kamran Behnia

High bias electrical transport characteristics of freely suspended metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are investigated at 250-400K in vacuum and various gases. Self-heating is exploited to examine the temperature dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Mann , Eric Pop , Jien Cao , Qian Wang , Kenneth Goodson , Hongjie Dai

Using electrical transport experiments and shot noise thermometry, we find strong evidence that "supercollision" scattering processes by flexural modes are the dominant electron-phonon energy transfer mechanism in high-quality, suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-02 Antti Laitinen , Mika Oksanen , Aurélien Fay , Daniel Cox , Matti Tomi , Pauli Virtanen , Pertti Hakonen

In polar semiconductors and oxides, the long-range nature of the electron-phonon (\textit{e}-ph) interaction is a bottleneck to compute charge transport from first principles. Here, we develop an efficient ab initio scheme to compute and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-07 Jin-Jian Zhou , Marco Bernardi

We develop a computational framework, based on the Boltzmann transport equation, with the ability to compute the thermal transport in nanostructured materials of any geometry using as the only input the bulk thermal conductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-20 Giuseppe Romano , Jeffrey C. Grossman

Recent research on twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) uncovered that its twist-angle-dependent electronic structure leads to a host of unique properties, such as superconductivity, correlated insulating states, and magnetism. The flat bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Adithya Kommini , Zlatan Aksamija

We present a study of electrical and thermal transport in Weyl semimetal WTe$_2$ down to 0.3 K. The Wiedemann-Franz law holds below 2 K and a downward deviation starts above. The deviation is more pronounced in cleaner samples, as expected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Wei Xie , Feng Yang , Liangcai Xu , Xiaokang Li , Zengwei Zhu , Kamran Behnia

elphbolt is a modern Fortran (2018 standard) code for efficiently solving the coupled electron-phonon Boltzmann transport equations from first principles. Using results from density functional and density functional perturbation theory as…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-19 Nakib H. Protik , Chunhua Li , Miguel Pruneda , David Broido , Pablo Ordejón

We compute the thermal conductivity of monolayer beryllene using the linearized phonon Boltzmann transport equation with interatomic force constants obtained from \textit{ab-initio} calculations. Monolayer beryllene exhibits an impressive…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-10 Sapta Sindhu Paul Chowdhury , Santosh Mogurampelly

We prove that a diagrammatic evaluation of the Kubo formula for the electronic transport conductivity due the exchange of bosonic excitations, in the usual conserving ladder approximation, yields a result consistent with the Boltzmann…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

The thermal transport properties of biphenylene network (BPN), a novel sp2 -hybridized two-dimensional allotrope of carbon atoms recently realized in experiments [Fan et al., Science, 372 852-856 (2021)], are studied using the density…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-08 Harish P. Veeravenkata , Ankit Jain

The topic of this review is the effects of electron-phonon interaction (EPI) on the transport properties of molecular nano-conductors. A nano-conductor connects to two electron leads and two phonon leads, possibly at different temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 Jing-Tao Lü , Hangbo Zhou , Jin-Wu Jiang , Jian-Sheng Wang

Present calculations of electrical transport properties of materials require evaluations of electron-phonon coupling constants on dense predefined grids of electron and phonon momenta and performing the sums over these momenta. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-26 Nenad Vukmirović

Phonon heat transport in mesoscopic systems is investigated using methods analogous to the Landauer description of electrical conductance. A "universal heat conductance" expression that depends on the properties of the conducting pathway…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. E. Angelescu , M. C. Cross , M. L. Roukes

We investigate the low-energy properties of the Holstein polaron through calculation of the q-dependent phonon spectral function using an improved exact-diagonalization technique, defined over a variational Hilbert space. We perform a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-28 Lev Vidmar , Janez Bonca , Stuart A. Trugman

We report a photoluminescence study of high-quality Ge samples at temperatures 12 K $\leq$ T $\leq$ 295 K, over a spectral range that covers phonon-assisted emission from the indirect gap (between the lowest conduction band at the L point…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-28 José Menéndez , Christian D. Poweleit , Sean E. Tilton

The adiabatic cristal model is offered. It is shown that springy nuclei oscillations relatively electronic envelops and waves of such oscillations (inherent oscillations and waves) may exist in crystals. The analysis of experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Vdovenkov