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Low dimensional structures have demonstrated improved thermoelectric (TE) performance because of a drastic reduction in their thermal conductivity, {\kappa}l. This has been observed for a variety of materials, even for traditionally poor…
Identifying materials and devices which offer efficient thermoelectric effects at low temperature is a major obstacle for the development of thermal management strategies for low-temperature electronic systems. Superconductors cannot offer…
In a previous paper (Paper I) we developed a technique for exactly solving the linearized Boltzmann equation for the electrical and thermal transport coefficients in metals in the low-temperature limit. Here we adapt this technique to…
The parallel magnetic field tuned two-dimensional superconductor-insulator transition has been investigated in ultrathin films of amorphous Bi. The resistance is found to be independent of temperature on both sides of the transition below…
Intrinsic charge trap capacitive non-volatile flash memories take a significant share of the semiconductor electronics market today. It is a challenge to create intrinsic traps in the dielectric layer without high temperature processing…
The rapid growth of deep neural networks (DNNs) has brought increasing attention to their energy use during training and inference. Here, we establish the thermodynamic bounds on energy consumption in quasi-static analog DNNs by mapping…
Thermoelectric transport in nanoscale conductors is analyzed in terms of the response of the system to a thermo-mechanical field, first introduced by Luttinger, which couples to the electronic energy density. While in this approach the…
A Boltzmann machine whose effective "temperature" can be dynamically "cooled" provides a stochastic neural network realization of simulated annealing, which is an important metaheuristic for solving combinatorial or global optimization…
Thermal boundary conductance (TBC) is critical in many thermal and energy applications. A decades-old puzzle has been that many of the measured TBCs, such as those well characterized across Al/Si and ZnO/GaN interfaces, significantly exceed…
We present the metal - insulator transition study of a quantum site percolation model on simple cubic lattice. Transfer matrix method is used to calculate transport properties - Landauer conductance - for the binary distribution of…
We consider the electronic transport in bounded semiconductors in the presence of an external magnetic field. Taking into account appropriate boundary conditions for the current density at the contacts, a change in the magnetoresistance of…
Landauer's principle makes a strong connection between information theory and thermodynamics by stating that erasing a one-bit memory at temperature $T_0$ requires an average energy larger than $W_{LB}=k_BT_0 \ln2$, with $k_B$ Boltzmann's…
The role of electron-phonon scattering in finite-temperature anomalous Hall effect is still poorly understood. In this work, we present a Boltzmann theory for the side-jump contribution from electron-phonon scattering, which is derived from…
Superconducting electronics represents a promising technology, offering not only efficient integration with quantum computing systems, but also the potential for significant power reduction in high-performance computing. Nonetheless, the…