Seebeck coefficient in correlated low-dimensional organic metals

We study the influence of inelastic electron-electron scattering on the temperature variation of the Seebeck coefficient in the normal phase of quasi-one-dimensional organic superconductors. The theory is based on the numerical solution of the semiclassical Boltzmann equation for which the collision integral equation is solved with the aid of the renormalization-group method for the electronic umklapp scattering vertex. We show that the one-loop renormalization-group flow of momentum and temperature-dependent umklapp scattering, in the presence of nesting alterations of the Fermi surface, introduce electron-hole asymmetry in the energy dependence of the anisotropic scattering time. This is responsible for the enhancement of the Seebeck coefficient with respect to the band T-linear prediction and even its sign reversal around the quantum critical point of the phase diagram, namely, where the interplay between antiferromagnetism and superconductivity and also the strength of spin fluctuations are the strongest. A comparison of the results with available data on low-dimensional organic superconductors is presented and critically discussed.