Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2010-01-19
Physical Review B 82, 195105 (2010), v2 is published version
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
6 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
Thermoelectrics are important in physics, engineering, and material science due to their useful applications and inherent theoretical difficulty, especially in strongly correlated materials. Here we reexamine the framework for calculating the thermopower, inspired by ideas of Lord Kelvin from 1854. We find an approximate but concise expression, which we term as the Kelvin formula for the the Seebeck coefficient. According to this formula, the Seebeck coefficient is given as the particle number $N$ derivative of the entropy $\Sigma$, at constant volume $V$ and temperature $T$, $S_{\text{Kelvin}}=\frac{1}{q_e}\{\frac{\partial {\Sigma}}{\partial N} \}_{V,T}$. This formula is shown to be competitive compared to other approximations in various contexts including strongly correlated systems. We finally connect to a recent thermopower calculation for non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall states, where we point out that the Kelvin formula is exact.
Peterson Michael R.
Shastry Sriram B.
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