Entropy and Seebeck signals meet on the edges

Abstract

We explore the electronic entropy per particle $s$ and Seebeck coefficient $\mathcal{S}$ in zigzag graphene ribbons. Pristine and edge-doped ribbons are considered using tight-binding models to inspect the role of edge states in the observed thermal transport properties. As a bandgap opens when the ribbons are doped at one or both edges, due to asymmetric edge potentials, we find that $s$ and $\mathcal{S}$ signals are closely related to each other: both develop sharp dip-peak lineshapes as the chemical potential lies in the gap, while the ratio $s/\mathcal{S}$ exhibits a near constant value equal to the elementary charge $e$ at low temperatures. This constant ratio suggests that $\mathcal{S}$ can be seen as the transport differential entropy per charge, as suggested by some authors. Our calculations also indicate that measurement of $s$ and $\mathcal{S}$ may be useful as a spectroscopic probe of different electronic energy scales involved in such quantities in gapped materials.

arXiv comment6 pages, 6 figures

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