Quantitative assessment of the universal thermopower in the Hubbard model

Abstract

As primarily an electronic observable, the room-temperature thermopower $S$ in cuprates provides possibilities for a quantitative assessment of the Hubbard model. Using determinant quantum Monte Carlo, we demonstrate agreement between Hubbard model calculations and experimentally measured room-temperature $S$ across multiple cuprate families, both qualitatively in terms of the doping dependence and quantitatively in terms of magnitude. We observe an upturn in $S$ with decreasing temperatures, which possesses a slope comparable to that observed experimentally in cuprates. From our calculations, the doping at which $S$ changes sign occurs in close proximity to a vanishing temperature dependence of the chemical potential at fixed density. Our results emphasize the importance of interaction effects in the systematic assessment of the thermopower $S$ in cuprates.

7 pages, 4 figures. Supplementary Information: 9 pages, 7 figures

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