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Effect of interference between the electron-impurity and electron-phonon interactions upon the thermoelectric properties of alloys

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We calculate the thermoelectric power of a metal by considering particularly the particle-hole transformation symmetry. If there is complete symmetry with respect to this transformation, the thermopower is absent. However, the elec- tron-phonon and the electron-impurity interactions are intrinsically such that they change sign under this transformation. Thus a finite thermopower arises due to an interference between different orders in a perturbation expansion in these interactions.

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  1. Jerome J. Krempasky

    Present address: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

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  1. Institut für Theorie der Kondensierten Materie, University of Karlsruhe, BRD

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Krempasky, J.J., Schmid, A. Effect of interference between the electron-impurity and electron-phonon interactions upon the thermoelectric properties of alloys. J Low Temp Phys 34, 197–214 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00118555

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