Effects of electronic correlations and disorder on the thermopower of NaxCoO2

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2011-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/1105.3841v1

Phys. Rev. B 84, 085129 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

23 pages, 27 figures, accepted at PRB

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.085129

For the thermoelectric properties of NaxCoO2, we analyze the effect of local Coulomb interaction and (disordered) potential differences for Co-sites with adjacent Na-ion or vacancy. The disorder potential alone increases the resistivity and reduces the thermopower, while the Coulomb interaction alone leads only to minor changes compared to the one-particle picture of the local density approximation. Only combined, these two terms give rise to a substantial increase of the thermopower: the number of (quasi-)electrons around the Fermi level is much more suppressed than that of the (quasi-)holes. Hence, there is a particle-hole imbalance acting in the same direction as a similar imbalance for the group velocities. Together, this interplay results in a large positive thermopower. Introducing a thermoelectric spectral density, we located the energies and momenta regions most relevant for the thermopower and changes thereof.

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