Condensed concepts

Kamran Behnia has published a book Fundamentals of Thermoelectricity Such a monograph is overdue. I think the topic is particularly import...

Jure Kokalj and I just finished a paper, Enhancement of the thermoelectric power by electronic correlations in bad metals: a study of the K...

A science fiction fantasy is that we should be able to make "materials by design" that have any physical property (density, therma...

Previously I posted about the challenge of understanding the colossal thermoelectric effect in FeSb2 and the puzzles of the classic Kondo in...

There is an interesting paper Highly dispersive electron relaxation and colossal thermoelectricity in the corr elated semiconductor FeSb2 ...

There is a nice preprint  Universal thermopower of bad metals Veljko Zlatic, G.R. Boyd, Jim Freericks It contains calculations of the tem...

On Tuesday I am giving a Condensed Matter Seminar  at Rutgers. Here is the current version of the  slides  for my talk. The main results...

Largely due to the work of Sriram Shastry I have recently become aware that particle-hole asymmetry in strongly correlated electron systems...

On tuesday I had nice discussion with Raghu Mahajan, Maissam Barkeshli, and Sean Hartnoll about their recent preprint  Non-Fermi liquids and...

There is an interesting PRL Nernst Effect: Evidence of Local Kondo Scattering in Heavy Fermions by Peijie Sun and Frank Steglich  Th...

There is a very nice preprint Hidden Fermi Liquid, Scattering Rate Saturation and Nernst Effect: a DMFT Perspective by Wenhu Xu, Kristjan ...

I have been having some stimulating interactions with my Australian cold atom colleagues, including Matt Davis, Chris Vale, Andy Martin, and...

I have just advertised for a new postdoc to work with me on the theory of strongly correlated electron materials. You can see more details v...

Many previous posts have considered how in a metallic phase close to a Mott insulator one can observe a crossover from a Fermi liquid to a b...

The thermoelectric power of a metal is rather complex. Even Ashcroft and Mermin suggested that it was difficult to interpret and relate to t...

There is a really nice preprint How bad metals turn good: spectroscopic signatures of resilient quasiparticles by Xiaoyu Deng, Jernej Mrav...

This week I talk about Kelvin formula for the thermopower. Here are the slides . Not sure that they will be much use for people not at the m...

One of the many things I find hard to understand about quantum many-body theory is the fact that the order in which you take the limits of f...

I used to regularly write posts about charge transport in organic electronic materials . Some of these generated lively discussion in the co...

In the cuprate superconductors there is a value of the doping at which the superconducting transition temperature is a maximum (optimal dopi...