Magneto-Thomson and transverse Thomson effects in an interacting hadron gas in the presence of an external magnetic field

TL;DR

This paper investigates magneto-thermoelectric effects, specifically magneto-Thomson and transverse Thomson effects, in a hot hadron gas under magnetic fields, revealing new anisotropic thermoelectric coefficients relevant to heavy-ion collision environments.

Contribution

It introduces the first estimation of magneto-Thomson and transverse Thomson coefficients in hadron gases influenced by magnetic fields, expanding understanding of thermoelectric phenomena in high-energy nuclear matter.

Findings

Magnetic fields induce anisotropy in thermoelectric transport coefficients.

New magneto-Thomson and transverse Thomson coefficients are estimated.

Results highlight the role of magnetic fields in thermoelectric behavior of hadronic matter.

Abstract

The universality of electric charge as a quantum number allows thermoelectric properties to manifest across diverse systems, starting from a hot quantum chromodynamic matter in heavy-ion collisions at a high energy scale to semiconductors in condensed matter systems at a low energy scale. In this work, we explore the emergence of magneto-transport phenomena, specifically the magneto-Thomson and transverse Thomson effects, in a hot and dense hadronic medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and Large Hadron Collider energies. These phenomena arise due to the combined influence of temperature gradients and non-zero baryon chemical potential, particularly in the presence of an external magnetic field. Using the relativistic Boltzmann transport equation within the relaxation time approximation, we analyze the behavior of the hadronic medium considering different frameworks of hadron resonance gas models. The presence of external magnetic fields breaks the isotropy of the thermoelectric transport coefficient matrix, giving rise to new components of the Thomson coefficient, namely, magneto-Thomson and transverse Thomson coefficients. For the first time, we estimate the magneto-Thomson and transverse Thomson coefficients, which originate from the temperature dependence of the magneto-Seebeck coefficient and Nernst coefficient, respectively, in hadron gas under the influence of a static and time-varying magnetic field. Our findings provide a novel perspective on the higher-order thermoelectric properties of the hot and dense hadronic medium in the context of heavy-ion collisions.