Thermoelectricity of interacting particles: A numerical approach

Shunda Chen, Jiao Wang, Giulio Casati, and Giuliano Benenti
Phys. Rev. E 92, 032139 – Published 29 September 2015

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>104 particles confirm the general theoretical arguments for momentum-conserving systems and show that the thermoelectric figure of merit increases linearly with the system size.

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  • Received 12 June 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.032139

©2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Shunda Chen1,2, Jiao Wang3, Giulio Casati1,4, and Giuliano Benenti1,2

  • 1Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy
  • 2Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
  • 3Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China
  • 4International Institute of Physics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

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Vol. 92, Iss. 3 — September 2015

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