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View article: Design Principles for Topological Thermoelectrics
Design Principles for Topological Thermoelectrics Open
Conventional metals, insulators, and semimetals are constrained by fundamental limitations in terms of their thermoelectric performance. Topological materials offer certain features that allow them to circumvent these constraints, and pote…
View article: Hydrodynamics of the electronic Fermi liquid: a pedagogical overview
Hydrodynamics of the electronic Fermi liquid: a pedagogical overview Open
For over a hundred years, electron transport in conductive materials has been primarily described by the Drude model, which assumes that current flow is impeded primarily by momentum-relaxing collisions between electrons and extrinsic obje…
View article: Work and work exposures in sugarcane farming in Eswatini, Southern Africa
Work and work exposures in sugarcane farming in Eswatini, Southern Africa Open
View article: Refining the Two-Band Model for Highly Compensated Semimetals Using Thermoelectric Coefficients
Refining the Two-Band Model for Highly Compensated Semimetals Using Thermoelectric Coefficients Open
In studying compensated semimetals, the two-band model has proven extremely useful in capturing electrical conductivity under magnetic field, as a function of density and mobility of electron-like and hole-like carriers. However, it rarely…
View article: Magnetothermopower of Nodal-Line Semimetals
Magnetothermopower of Nodal-Line Semimetals Open
The search for materials with large thermopower is of great practical interest. Dirac and Weyl semimetals have recently proven to exhibit superior thermoelectric properties, particularly when subjected to a quantizing magnetic field. Here,…
View article: Apparatus, systems, and methods for generating thermopower
Apparatus, systems, and methods for generating thermopower Open
A thermoelectric device includes a thermoelectrode characterized by a band gap less than kBT, where kB is the Boltzmann constant and T is a temperature of the thermoelectrode. The device also includes a magnetic field source, operably coup…
View article: Current Noise of Hydrodynamic Electrons
Current Noise of Hydrodynamic Electrons Open
A resistor at finite temperature produces white noise fluctuations of the current called Johnson-Nyquist noise. Measuring the amplitude of this noise provides a powerful primary thermometry technique to access the electron temperature. In …
View article: Doping as a tuning mechanism for magneto-thermoelectric effects to improve zT in polycrystalline NbP
Doping as a tuning mechanism for magneto-thermoelectric effects to improve zT in polycrystalline NbP Open
Weyl semimetals combine topological and semimetallic effects, making them candidates for interesting and effective thermoelectric transport properties. Here, we present experimental results on polycrystalline NbP, demonstrating the simulta…
View article: Conductivity of two-dimensional narrow gap semiconductors subjected to strong Coulomb disorder
Conductivity of two-dimensional narrow gap semiconductors subjected to strong Coulomb disorder Open
In the ideal disorder-free situation, a two-dimensional band gap insulator\nhas an activation energy for conductivity equal to half the band gap $\\Delta$.\nBut transport experiments usually exhibit a much smaller activation energy at\nlow…
View article: Report on 2110.14643v1
Report on 2110.14643v1 Open
In recent years it has become understood that quantum oscillations of the magnetization as a function of magnetic field, long recognized as phenomena intrinsic to metals, can also manifest in insulating systems.Theory has shown that in cer…
View article: Conductivity of two-dimensional small gap semiconductors and topological insulators in strong Coulomb disorder
Conductivity of two-dimensional small gap semiconductors and topological insulators in strong Coulomb disorder Open
We are honored to dedicate this article to Emmanuel Rashba on the occasion of his 95 birthday. In the ideal disorder-free situation, a two-dimensional band gap insulator has an activation energy for conductivity equal to half the band gap,…
View article: A Method for Using Player Tracking Data in Basketball to Learn Player Skills and Predict Team Performance
A Method for Using Player Tracking Data in Basketball to Learn Player Skills and Predict Team Performance Open
Player tracking data represents a revolutionary new data source for basketball analysis, in which essentially every aspect of a player’s performance is tracked and can be analyzed numerically. We suggest a way by which this data set, when …
View article: Repeated noise pattern in the data of arXiv:1807.08572, "Evidence for\n Superconductivity at Ambient Temperature and Pressure in Nanostructures"
Repeated noise pattern in the data of arXiv:1807.08572, "Evidence for\n Superconductivity at Ambient Temperature and Pressure in Nanostructures" Open
A recent preprint [arxiv:1807.08572] has reported the observation of room\ntemperature supercondutivity in a nanostructured solid composed of gold and\nsilver nanocrystals. Given the extraordinary and exciting nature of this claim,\nit is …
View article: Four Billion Years and Counting: Canada’s Geological Heritage
Four Billion Years and Counting: Canada’s Geological Heritage Open