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We report on a study of the Nernst effect in graphite extended up to 45 T. The Nernst response sharply peaks each time a Landau tube is squeezed inside the thermally fuzzy Fermi surface and presents a temperature-independent fixed point…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-20 Benoit Fauqué , Zengwei Zhu , Tim Murphy , Kamran Behnia

The Nernst effect is the transverse electric field produced by a longitudinal thermal gradient in presence of magnetic field. In the beginning of this century, Nernst experiments on cuprates were analyzed assuming that: i) The contribution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-28 Kamran Behnia , Hervé Aubin

Nernst effect, a transverse electric current induced by a temperature gradient, is a promising tool for revealing emergent phases of condensed matter. We find a Nernst coefficient plateau in low carrier density topological insulators, as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Peng-Lu Zhao , J. L. Zhang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Qian Niu

Nernst effect is the transverse electric field due to a longitudinal thermal gradient in presence of magnetic field. Its magnitude was recently studied up to 33 T in a bismuth single crystal with a magnetic field oriented along the trigonal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 Kamran Behnia

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

With a widely available magnetic field of 10 T, one can attain the quantum limit in bismuth and graphite. At zero magnetic field, these two elemental semi-metals host a dilute liquid of carriers of both signs. When the quantum limit is…

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

In this work, we establish a theoretical analysis of the emergence of layer-contrasted Nernst response perpendicular to the direction of the temperature gradient in twisted moir\'{e} layers, called layer Nernst effect (LNE). This phenomenon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-10 Jin-Xin Hu , Chuanchang Zeng , Yugui Yao

Elemental bismuth provides a rare opportunity to explore the fate of a three-dimensional gas of highly mobile electrons confined to their lowest Landau level. Coulomb interaction, neglected in the band picture, is expected to become…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-29 Huan Yang , Benoit Fauque , Liam Malone , Arlei B. Antunes , Zengwei Zhu , Ctirad Uher , Kamran Behnia

We consider the consequence of having nonreciprocal photon transfer between two surfaces with temperature gradient. We demonstrate that in a system consisting of graphene and a magneto-optical substrate separated by a gap, a transverse…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-26 Alireza Kalantari Dehaghi , Linxiao Zhu

The Nernst effect, a transverse thermoelectric phenomenon, has attracted significant attention for its potential in energy conversion, thermoelectrics, and spintronics. However, achieving high performance and versatility at low temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Gabriele Pasquale , Zhe Sun , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Andras Kis

We study a model for the transverse thermoelectric response due to quantum superconducting fluctuations in a two-leg Josephson ladder, subject to a perpendicular magnetic field B and a transverse temperature gradient. The off-diagonal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 Yeshayahu Atzmon , Efrat Shimshoni

We report measurements of the thermopower $S$ and Nernst signal $S_{yx}$ in graphene in a magnetic field $H$. Both quantities show strong quantum oscillations vs. the gate voltage $V_g$. Our measurements for Landau Levels of index $n\ne 0$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-11 Joseph G. Checkelsky , N. P. Ong

We report our recent predictions on the quantum Nernst effect, a novel thermomagnetic effect in the quantum Hall regime. We assume that, when the chemical potential is located between a pair of neighboring Landau levels, edge currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Hiroaki Nakamura , Naomichi Hatano , Ryoen Shirasaki

A thermal gradient generates an electric field in any solid hosting mobile electrons. In presence of a finite magnetic field (or Berry curvature) this electric field has a transverse component. These are known as Seebeck and Nernst…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-12 Kamran Behnia

Analogous to the Hall effect, the Nernst effect is the generation of a transverse voltage due to a temperature gradient in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The Nernst effect has promise for thermoelectric applications and as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-20 T. Asaba , V. Ivanov , S. M. Thomas , S. Y. Savrasov , J. D. Thompson , E. D. Bauer , F. Ronning

The thermoelectric Nernst effect of solids converts heat flow to beneficial electronic voltages. Here, using a correlated topological semimetal with high carrier mobility $\mu$ in presence of magnetic fluctuations, we demonstrate an…

Photocurrent measurements provide a powerful means of studying the spatially resolved optoelectronic and electrical properties of a material or device. Generally speaking there are two classes of mechanism for photocurrent generation: those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Helin Cao , Grant Aivazian , Zaiyao Fei , Jason Ross , David H. Cobden , Xiaodong Xu

When a magnetic field confines the carriers of a Fermi sea to their lowest Landau level, electron-electron interactions are expected to play a significant role in determining the electronic ground state. Graphite is known to host a sequence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-24 D. LeBoeuf , C. W. Rischau , G. Seyfarth , R. Küchler , M. Berben , S. Wiedmann , W. Tabis , M. Frachet , K. Behnia , B. Fauqué

Transverse thermoelectric power generation has emerged as a topic of immense interest in recent years owing to the orthogonal geometry which enables better scalability and fabrication of devices. Here, we investigate the thickness…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-31 Hiroyasu Matsuura , Alexander Riss , Fabian Garmroudi , Michael Parzer , Ernst Bauer

The Nernst effect, the generation of a transverse electric voltage in the presence of longitudinal thermal gradient, has garnered significant attention in the realm of magnetic topological materials due to its superior potential for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-23 Olajumoke Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel , Shuvankar Gupta , Xianglin Ke
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