Work

Thermoelectricity of interacting particles: A numerical approach

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: A method for computing the thermopower in interacting systems is proposed. This approach, which relies on Monte Carlo simulations, is illustrated first for a diatomic chain of hard-point elastically colliding particles and then in the case of a one-dimensional gas with (screened) Coulomb interparticle interaction. Numerical simulations up to N>10^{4} particles confirm the general theoretical arguments for momentum-conserving systems and show that the thermoelectric figure of merit increases linearly with the system size.

Source: Physical Review E

DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.032139

Authors: Shunda Chen, Jiao Wang, Giulio Casati, Giuliano Benenti

Institutions: University of Insubria, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Xiamen University, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca

Awards: 小量子系统的动力学研究, G2852046993, 低维系统中的输运和扩散行为研究