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The calculations of electronic transport coefficients and optical properties require a very dense interpolation of the electronic band structure in reciprocal space that is computationally expensive and may have issues with band crossing…

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Motivated by the increasing number of systems featuring multiple bands at low energy, we address the Boltzmann approach to transport in a multiband weakly disordered noninteracting crystal subject to a small electric field. In general, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Marco Marciani , Lara Benfatto

Electronic and thermoelectric transport in zigzag monolayer WSe$_2$ nanoribbons are studied under monochromatic irradiation. The electronic structure is described within a six-orbital tight-binding framework constructed from the relevant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Cynthia Ihuoma Osuala , Tanu Choudhary , Raju K. Biswas , Sudin Ganguly , Santanu K. Maiti

In this paper we solve the Boltzmann transport equation using AI libraries. The reason why this is attractive is because it enables one to use the highly optimised software within AI libraries, enabling one to run on different computer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-26 T. R. F. Phillips , C. E. Heaney , C. Boyang , A. G. Buchan , C. C. Pain

This work presents transport coefficients of electrons (bulk drift velocity, longitudinal diffusion coefficient, and effective ionization frequency) in CO2 measured under time-of-flight conditions over a wide range of the reduced electric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 M. Vass , I. Korolov , D. Loffhagen , N. Pinhao , Z. Donko

Boltzmann transport calculations based on band structures generated with density functional theory (DFT) are often used in the discovery and analysis of thermoelectric materials. In standard implementations, such calculations require dense…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-04 Kristian Berland , Clas Persson

The Hofstadter model successfully describes the behavior of non-interacting quantum particles hopping on a lattice coupled to a gauge field, and hence is ubiquitous in many fields of research, including condensed matter, optical, and atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Bartholomew Andrews

SporTran is a Python utility designed to estimate generic transport coefficients in extended systems, based on the Green-Kubo theory of linear response and the recently introduced cepstral analysis of the current time series generated by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Loris Ercole , Riccardo Bertossa , Sebastiano Bisacchi , Stefano Baroni

While the Boltzmann transport equation can accurately model transport problems with highly forward-peaked scattering, obtaining its solution can become arbitrarily slow due to near-unity spectral radius associated with source iteration.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Japan K. Patel , Matthew C. Schmidt , Anthony Magliari , Todd A. Wareing

Over the last two decades a plethora of new thermoelectric materials, their alloys, and their nanostructures were synthesized. The ZT figure of merit, which quantifies the thermoelectric efficiency of these materials increased from values…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-27 Neophytos Neophytou , Pankaj Priyadarshi , Zhen Li , Patrizio Graziosi

The multivariate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process is used in many branches of science and engineering to describe the regression of a system to its stationary mean. Here we present an $O(N)$ Bayesian method to estimate the drift and diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Rajesh Singh , Dipanjan Ghosh , R. Adhikari

RESPACK is a first-principles calculation software for evaluating the interaction parameters of materials and is able to calculate maximally localized Wannier functions, response functions based on the random phase approximation and related…

We use semiclassical Boltzmann transport theory to analytically study the electronic contribution to the linear thermoelectric response of anisotropic two-dimensional materials subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. Conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Maryam Nezafat , Shahin Barati , Saeed H. Abedinpour

A quasi-distribution function in phase space (based on Wigner functions) is used to write down the quantum version of Boltzmann equation (Wigner-Boltzmann transport equation). The relaxation time approximation is show to be a good approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-21 Aldo R. Fernandes Nt

pde2path is a free and easy to use Matlab continuation/bifurcation package for elliptic systems of PDEs with arbitrary many components, on general two dimensional domains, and with rather general boundary conditions. The package is based on…

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Electroconvective flow between two infinitely long parallel electrodes is investigated via a multiphysics computational model. The model solves for spatiotemporal flow properties using two-relaxation-time Lattice Boltzmann Method for fluid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Yifei Guan , Igor Novosselov

Bloch wavefunctions in solids form a representation of crystalline symmetries. Recent studies revealed that symmetry representations in band structure can be used to diagnose the topological properties of weakly interacting materials. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-07 Akishi Matsugatani , Seishiro Ono , Yusuke Nomura , Haruki Watanabe

Boltzmann diffusive transport including relaxation time and mobility in graphene limited by ionized impurity scattering is investigated. The relaxation time is evaluated with two different methods, first one directly use Boltzmann transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Yi Zhan

The electronic and transport properties of CuInTe2 chalcopyrite are investigated using density functional calculations combined with Boltzmann theory. The band gap predicted from hybrid functional is 0.92 eV, which agrees well with…

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