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Thermopower, a key parameter in thermoelectric performance, is often linked to either specific heat or entropy, yet the fundamental quantity that governs it has remained elusive. In this work, we present a unified theoretical framework that…
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Recent transport measurement finds giant negative thermal Hall signal in the pseudo-gap phase of the high temperature superconductors\cite{Taillefer}. Such a signal is found to increase in magnitude with decreasing doping and to reach its…
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The thermovoltage of a chaotic quantum dot is measured using a current heating technique. The fluctuations in the thermopower as a function of magnetic field and dot shape display a non-Gaussian distribution, in agreement with simulations…
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