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介观导体与电压和热探针耦合的热电输运

Thermoelectric transport of mesoscopic conductors coupled to voltage and thermal probes

David Sanchez, Llorens Serra

摘要:

我们调查的相位相干导体的热电势(塞贝克系数)的退相和非弹性过程的影响下的基本属性。通过系统的传输是由施加在两个端子之间的偏压或热梯度引起的。非弹性散射建模与援助的一个额外的探头作为一个理想的电位计和温度计。我们发现,非弹性散射降低了导体的热电势,更出乎意料的是,产生磁场的不对称性的塞贝克系数。后一种效应被证明是索末菲展开中的高阶效应。我们讨论我们的结果使用两个说明性的例子。首先,我们考虑一个通用的介观系统内描述的随机矩阵理论和证明,热功率波动消失迅速探测模式的数量增加。第二,在弹道微结的量子极限中明确地计算了不对称性。我们发现,非对称散射强烈增强的效果,并讨论了其依赖于温度和费米能量。

英文摘要:

We investigate basic properties of the thermopower (Seebeck coefficient) of phase-coherent conductors under the influence of dephasing and inelastic processes. Transport across the system is caused by a voltage bias or a thermal gradient applied between two terminals. Inelastic scattering is modeled with the aid of an additional probe acting as an ideal potentiometer and thermometer. We find that inelastic scattering reduces the conductor's thermopower and, more unexpectedly, generates a magnetic-field asymmetry in the Seebeck coefficient. The latter effect is shown to be a higher-order effect in the Sommerfeld expansion. We discuss our result using two illustrative examples. First, we consider a generic mesoscopic system described within random matrix theory and demonstrate that thermopower fluctuations disappear quickly as the number of probe modes increases. Second, the asymmetry is explicitly calculated in the quantum limit of a ballistic microjunction. We find that asymmetric scattering strongly enhances the effect and discuss its dependence on temperature and Fermi energy.

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