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The Phonon Drag Effect in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

V. W. Scarola, G. D. Mahan

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0211120

Abstract

A variational solution of the coupled electron-phonon Boltzmann equations is used to calculate the phonon drag contribution to the thermopower in a 1-D system. A simple formula is derived for the temperature dependence of the phonon drag in metallic, single-walled carbon nanotubes. Scattering between different electronic bands yields nonzero values for the phonon drag as the Fermi level varies.

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