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A Nonlocal Pseudopotential Calculation of the Thermopower of Liquid Metals
Author(s) -
Akinlade O.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.2221980224
Subject(s) - pseudopotential , seebeck coefficient , condensed matter physics , quantum nonlocality , simple (philosophy) , physics , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics , thermoelectric effect , philosophy , epistemology , quantum entanglement , quantum
An accurate pseudopotential has been used to calculate the thermopower of some simple liquid metals using a formula that incorporates the nonlocality of the potential. Firstly, we investigate the role of the structure factor in thermopower calculations and find it very significant and secondly we infer that refinements in the pseudopotential theory and thus the expression for thermopower incorporated into our calculations does not have a remarkable effect on computed thermopower values when compared with experiment.