BoltzTraP2, a program for interpolating band structures and calculating semi-classical transport coefficients
Abstract
BoltzTraP2 is a software package for calculating a smoothed Fourier expression of periodic functions and the Onsager transport coefficients for extended systems using the linearized Boltzmann transport equation. It uses only the band and k-dependent quasi-particle energies, as well as the intra-band optical matrix elements and scattering rates, as input. The code can be used via a command-line interface and/or as a Python module. It is tested and illustrated on a simple parabolic band example as well as silicon. The positive Seebeck coefficient of lithium is reproduced in an example of going beyond the constant relaxation time approximation.
- Publication:
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Computer Physics Communications
- Pub Date:
- October 2018
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1712.07946
- Bibcode:
- 2018CoPhC.231..140M
- Keywords:
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- Boltzmann transport equation;
- BoltzTraP;
- Condensed Matter - Materials Science
- E-Print:
- doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2018.05.010