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We report the observation of quantum Hall effect (QHE) in a Bi$_2$Se$_3$ single crystal having carrier concentration ($n$) $\sim1.13\times10^{19}$cm$^{-3}$, three dimensional Fermi surface and bulk transport characteristics. The plateaus in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Devendra Kumar , Archana Lakhani

In elemental Bismuth, 10$^5$ atoms share a single itinerant electron. Therefore, a moderate magnetic field can confine electrons to the lowest Landau level. We report on the first study of metallic thermoelectricity in this regime. The main…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Kamran Behnia , Marie-Aude Measson , Yakov Kopelevich

We present a study of the Nernst effect in amorphous 2D superconductor InO$_x$, whose low carrier density implies low phase rigidity and strong superconducting phase fluctuations. Instead of presenting the abrupt jump expected at a BCS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Spathis , H. Aubin , A. Pourret , K. Behnia

We report the study of Nernst effect in quasi-low dimensional tungsten bronze P4W12O44 showing a sequence of Peierls instabilities. We demonstrate that both condensation of the electronic carriers in the CDW state and the existence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-30 Kamil K. Kolincio , Ramzy Daou , Olivier Perez , Laurent Guerin , Pierre Fertey , Alain Pautrat

Following the observation of an anomalous Nernst signal in cuprates, the Nernst effect was explored in a variety of metals and superconductors during the past few years. This paper reviews the results obtained during this exploration,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-10 Kamran Behnia

Nernst effect, the transverse voltage generated by a longitudinal thermal gradient in presence of magnetic field has recently emerged as a very sensitive, yet poorly understood, probe of electron organization in solids. Here we report on an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-18 Zengwei Zhu , Huan Yang , Benoit Fauque , Yakov Kopelevich , Kamran Behnia

In a single-walled carbon nanotube, we observe the spin-1/2 Kondo effect. The energy of spin-resolved Kondo peaks is proportional to magnetic field at high fields, contrary to recent reports. At lower fields, the energy falls below this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. H. L. Quay , John Cumings , Sara Gamble , R. de Picciotto , H. Kataura , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Investigating the off-diagonal components of the conductivity and thermoelectric tensor of materials hosting complex antiferromagnetic structures has become a viable method to reveal the effects of topology and chirality on the electronic…

The reentrant nature of Peak Effect is established in a single crystal of 2H-NbSe_2 via electrical transport and dc magnetisation studies. The role of disorder on the reentrant branch of PE has been examined in three single crystals with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 S. S. Banerjee et al

We calculate the Nernst signal in disordered conductors with the chemical potential near the mobility edge. The Nernst effect originates from interference of itinerant and localised-carrier contributions to the thermomagnetic transport. It…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. S. Alexandrov , V. N. Zavaritsky

Anomalous Nernst effect, a result of charge current driven by temperature gradient, provides a probe of the topological nature of materials due to its sensitivity to the Berry curvature near the Fermi level. Fe3GeTe2, one important member…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-18 Jinsong Xu , W. Adam Phelan , C. L. Chien

We conducted a comprehensive study on the compositional dependence of the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) in amorphous (amo.) Tb-Fe-Co thin films. The anomalous Nernst coefficient strongly depends not only on the Tb composition but also on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-22 Hiroto Imaeda , Tsunehiro Takeuchi , Hiroyuki Awano , Kenji Tanabe

We present a study of electric, thermal and thermoelectric transport in elemental Bismuth, which presents a Nernst coefficient much larger than what was found in correlated metals. We argue that this is due to the combination of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamran Behnia , Marie-Aude Measson , Yakov Kopelevich

The Kondo-effect is a many-body phenomenon arising due to conduction electrons scattering off a localized spin. Coherent spin-flip scattering off such a quantum impurity correlates the conduction electrons and at low temperature this leads…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Paaske , A. Rosch , P. Woelfle , N. Mason , C. M. Marcus , J. Nygard

We study the manifestation of the Nernst effect in the Corbino disk subjected to the normal external magnetic field and to the radial temperature gradient. The Corbino geometry offers a precious opportunity for the direct measurement of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 A. V. Kavokin , B. L. Altshuler , S. G. Sharapov , P. S. Grigoryev , A. A. Varlamov

We describe theoretically the spin Nernst effect for electrons tunneling to a quantum dot from a quantum wire with the heat flowing along it. Such a tunneling spin Nernst effect is shown to take place due to the spin-dependent electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 V. N. Mantsevich , D. S. Smirnov

We study the Nernst effect and the spin Nernst effect, that a longitudinal thermal gradient induces a transverse voltage and a spin current. A mesoscopic four-terminal cross-bar device having the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shu-guang Cheng , Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We have performed four-probe electrical transport measurements on solitary highly crystalline wires of semimetallic bismuth with aspect ratios up to 60 at room and at cryogenic temperatures. By proper choice of the substrate material and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-30 Shadyar Farhangfar

This study reports the observation of the large anomalous Nernst effect in polycrystalline ferromagnetic Co$_{2}$MnGa (CMG) slabs prepared by a spark plasma sintering method. By optimizing the sintering conditions, the anomalous Nernst…

Motivated by recent experimental observation of spin-orbit coupling in carbon nanotube quantum dots [F. Kuemmeth \textsl{et al.}, Nature (London) {\bf 452}, 448 (2008)], we investigate in detail its influence on the Kondo effect. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-12-26 Tie-Feng Fang , Wei Zuo , Hong-Gang Luo