Magneto-Seebeck coefficient and Nernst coefficient of a hot and dense hadron gas

Abstract

We discuss the thermoelectric effect of hot and dense hadron gas within the framework of the hadron resonance gas model. Using the relativistic Boltzmann equation within the relaxation time approximation we estimate the Seebeck coefficient of the hot and dense hadronic medium with a gradient in temperature and baryon chemical potential. The hadronic medium in this calculation is modeled by the hadron resonance gas (HRG) model with hadrons and their resonances up to a mass cutoff Λ ∼2.6 GeV . We also extend the formalism of the thermoelectric effect for a nonvanishing magnetic field. The presence of magnetic field also leads to a Hall type thermoelectric coefficient (Nernst coefficient) for the hot and dense hadronic matter apart from a magneto-Seebeck coefficient. We find that generically in the presence of a magnetic field the Seebeck coefficient decreases while the Nernst coefficient increases with the magnetic field. At higher temperature and/or baryon chemical potential these coefficients approach to their values at vanishing magnetic field.