Thermoelectric (TE) materials are a kind of energy material which can directly convert waste heat into electricity based on TE effects. Ternary Cu2SnSe3 material with diamond-like structure has become one of the potential TE materials due to its low thermal conductivity and adjustable electrical conductivity. In this study, the Cu2SnSe3 powder was prepared by vacuum melting-quenching-annealing-...

Measurements of the thermal Hall conductivity in hole-doped cuprates have shown that phonons acquire chirality a magnetic field, both pseudogap phase and Mott insulator state. The microscopic mechanism at play is still unclear. A number theoretical proposals are being considered, including skew scattering by various defects, coupling to spins, state loop-current order with appropriate symmetrie...

A numerical study of the energy relaxation and conductivity of the Coulomb glass is presented. The role of many-electron transitions is studied by two complementary methods: a kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm and a master equation in configuration space. A calculation of the transition rate for two-electron transitions is presented, and the proper extension of this to multielectron transitions is ...

Free electron model, constructed by Drude and Lorentz near 1900 (well before quantum mechanics was developed), can qualitatively explain the DC electrical conductivity, AC electrical conductivity, Hall effect, and magnetoresistance. Later inclusion of Fermi-Dirac distribution (as opposed to Boltzmann distribution) helps to explain the thermal conductivity and specific heat of electrons. However...

Thermal conductivity of superconducting MgB 2 was studied in both the superconducting and the normal state region. The latter is almost equally determined by the electronic-and the lattice contribution to the total thermal conductivity. In the superconducting state, however, the lattice contribution is larger. The electronic thermal conductivity below T c was derived from the experimental data ...