Phonon-limited electronic transport through first principles

R Claes, S Poncé, GM Rignanese, G Hautier - Nature Reviews Physics, 2025‏ - nature.com
Understanding electronic transport in materials is essential to both fundamental and applied
physics, as it directly influences critical properties such as the mobility of semiconductors …

Nontrivial quantum geometry of degenerate flat bands

B Mera, J Mitscherling - Physical Review B, 2022‏ - APS
The importance of the quantum metric in flat-band systems has been noticed recently in
many contexts such as the superfluid stiffness, the dc electrical conductivity, and ideal Chern …

Quantum metric on the Brillouin zone in correlated electron systems and its relation to topology for Chern insulators

T Kashihara, Y Michishita, R Peters - Physical Review B, 2023‏ - APS
Geometric aspects of physics play a crucial role in modern condensed matter physics. The
quantum metric is one of these geometric quantities which defines the distance on a …

Failure of Mott's formula for the thermopower in carbon nanotubes

AV Kavokin, ME Portnoi, AA Varlamov, Y Yerin - Physical Review B, 2024‏ - APS
Well-known Mott's formula links the thermoelectric power characterized by the Seebeck
coefficient to conductivity. We calculate analytically the thermoelectric current and Seebeck …

Resistance saturation in semi-conducting polyacetylene molecular wires

A Valli, JM Tomczak - Journal of computational electronics, 2023‏ - Springer
Realizing the promises of molecular electronic devices requires an understanding of
transport on the nanoscale. Here, we consider a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model for semi …

LinReTraCe: The linear response transport centre

M Pickem, E Maggio, JM Tomczak - SciPost Physics Codebases, 2023‏ - scipost.org
Abstract We describe the" Linear Response Transport Centre"(LinReTraCe), a package for
the simulation of transport properties of solids. LinReTraCe captures quantum (in) …

Hop** thermopower in FEGA3

Y Kajikawa - International Journal of Modern Physics B, 2023‏ - World Scientific
A narrow-gap semiconductor FeGa3 has attracted much interest for its unusual physical
properties, in particular, for its colossal thermopower at low temperatures for which the origin …

Hall response of locally correlated two-dimensional electrons at low density

G Morpurgo, L Rademaker, C Berthod… - Physical Review …, 2024‏ - APS
We study the Hall constant in a homogeneous two-dimensional fluid of correlated electrons
immersed in a perpendicular magnetic field, with special focus on the regime of low carrier …

Universal transport at Lifshitz metal-insulator transitions in two dimensions

H Tomlins, JM Tomczak - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.17616, 2025‏ - arxiv.org
We study the charge transport across a band-tuned metal-insulator transition in two
dimensions. For high temperatures $ T $ and chemical potentials $\mu $ far from the …

Non-adiabatic phonon self-energy due to electrons with finite linewidths

CH Park - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.12221, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
We develop the theory of the non-adiabatic phonon self-energy arising from coupling to
electrons with finite linewidths using the spectral representation of Green's functions. Our …