Local and non-local thermopowers in three-terminal nanostructures
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2016-06-27 v2 Superconductivity
Abstract
The thermoelectric effects in three-terminal structures with a quantum dot are considered. We propose the experimentally consistent protocol for determination of the transport coefficients in terms of the local and non-local conductances and thermopowers that can be measured in two steps, applying the `four probe technique'. This proposal is compared with other approaches discussed so far in the literature. As an example we study in detail the thermopower induced by the superconducting electrode in a subgap regime which might be useful for analysis of novel hybrid devices.
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@article{arxiv.1602.04686,
title = {Local and non-local thermopowers in three-terminal nanostructures},
author = {Grzegorz Michalek and Marcin Urbaniak and Bogdan R. Bulka and Tadeusz Domanski and Karol I. Wysokinski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04686},
year = {2016}
}