2000/12/19 by Y. M. Galperin, V. L. Gurevich, Galperin, Y. M. +5
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices #Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn) #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) #Surface and Thin Film Phenomena #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0012347
Revised version. To be published in Phys. Rev. B65 (2002)
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The theory of thermoelectric effects in superconductors is discussed in connection to the recent publication by Marinescu and Overhauser, Phys. Rev. B 55, 11637 (1997). We argue that the charge on-conservation arguments by Marinescu and Overhauser do not require any revision of the Boltzmann transport equation in superconductors, and show that their ``electron-conserving transport theory'' contradicts thermodynamics. Possible mechanisms responsible for the discrepancy between some experimental data and the theory by Galperin, Gurevich, and Kozub, JETP Lett. 17, 476 (1973) are discussed.