A microscopic mechanism for increasing thermoelectric efficiency

被引：29

作者：

Saito, Keiji ^{[2
,3
]}

Benenti, Giuliano ^{[1
,4
]}

Casati, Giulio ^{[1
,4
,5
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Insubria, CNISM, CNR INFM, Ctr Nonlinear & Complex Syst, I-22100 Como, Italy

[2] Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Sci, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1130033, Japan

[3] JST, Grad Sch Sci, Dept Phys, Kawaguchi, Saitama 3320012, Japan

[4] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy

[5] Natl Univ Singapore, Ctr Quantum Technol, Singapore 117543, Singapore

来源：

CHEMICAL PHYSICS | 2010年 / 375卷 / 2-3期

关键词：

Thermoelectricity; Nonlinear dynamics; Onsager coefficients; TRANSPORT;

D O I：

10.1016/j.chemphys.2010.06.009

中图分类号：

O64 [物理化学（理论化学）、化学物理学];

学科分类号：

070304 ; 081704 ;

摘要：

We study the coupled particle and energy transport in a prototype model of interacting one-dimensional system: the disordered hard-point gas, for which numerical data suggest that the thermoelectric figure of merit ZT diverges with the system size. This result is explained in terms of a microscopic mechanism, namely the local equilibrium is characterized by the emergence of a broad stationary "modified Maxwell-Boltzmann velocity distribution", of width much larger than the mean velocity of the particle flow. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：508 / 513

页数：6

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