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The discovery of Weyl fermions in transition metal monoarsenides/phosphides without inversion symmetry represents an exceptional breakthrough in modern condensed matter physics. However, exploring the inherent nature of these quasiparticles…

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

Recently, many unexpected fine structures in electric, magnetic, and thermoelectric responses at extremely magnetic fields in topological materials have attracted tremendous interest. We propose a new mechanism of quantum oscillation beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 C. M. Wang , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

A theory of the fluctuation-induced Nernst effect is developed for arbitrary magnetic fields and temperatures beyond the upper critical field line in a two-dimensional superconductor. First, we derive a simple phenomenological formula for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-02-09 M. N. Serbyn , M. A. Skvortsov , A. A. Varlamov , Victor Galitski

Bulk bismuth has a complex Landau spectrum. The small effective masses and the large g-factors are anisotropic. The chemical potential drifts at high magnetic fields. Moreover, twin boundaries further complexify the interpretation of the…

We present a study of angle-resolved quantum oscillations of electric and thermoelectric transport coefficients in semi-metallic WTe$_{2}$, which has the particularity of displaying a large B$^{2}$ magneto-resistance. The Fermi surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-06 Zengwei Zhu , Xiao Lin , Juan Liu , Benoit Fauque , Qian Tao , Chongli Yang , Youguo Shi , 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

We consider the Nernst effect in the normal state of the underdoped cuprate superconductors, where recent quantum oscillation experiments have indicated the existence of Fermi surface pockets and quasiparticle ambipolarity in the excitation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-14 Sumanta Tewari , Chuanwei Zhang

We probe quantum oscillations in nodal line semimetals (NLSM) by considering a NLSM continuum model under strong magnetic field and report the characteristics of the Landau level spectra and the fluctuations in the Fermi level as the field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-04 Satyaki Kar , Anupam Saha

We start with a mean field Hamiltonian in momentum space for NCCO to investigate the magnetic quantum oscillations (MQO) exhibited by this system in the normal state. We first obtain an expression for the entropy of the system which is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-06-30 Partha Goswami

We show that electronic materials with disallowed rotational symmetries that enforce quasiperiodic order can exhibit quantum oscillations and that these are generically associated with exotic "spiral Fermi surfaces." These Fermi surfaces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Stephen Spurrier , Nigel R. Cooper

We identify an unusual mechanism for quantum oscillations in nodal semimetals, driven by a single pair of Landau levels periodically closing their gap at the Fermi energy as a magnetic field is varied. These `zero Landau level' quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 T. Devakul , Yves H. Kwan , S. L. Sondhi , S. A. Parameswaran

We show that the entropy per quantum vortex per layer in superconductors in external magnetic fields is bounded by the universal value k_B ln 2, which explains puzzling results of recent experiments on the Nernst effect.

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-05 M. C. Diamantini , C. A. Trugenberger , V. Vinokur

We show that the strong Nernst effect observed recently in amorphous superconducting films far above the critical temperature is caused by the fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter. We employ the quantum kinetic approach for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 Karen Michaeli , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

Topological Weyl semimetals (WSM), a new state of quantum matter with gapless nodal bulk spectrum and open Fermi arc surface states, have recently sparked enormous interest in condensed matter physics. Based on the symmetry and fermiology,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Subhodip Saha , Sumanta Tewari

It is theoretically predicted that the Nernst coefficient is strongly suppressed and the thermal conductance is quantized in the quantum Hall regime of the two-dimensional electron gas. The Nernst effect is the induction of a thermomagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroaki Nakamura , Naomichi Hatano , Ryoen Shirasaki

Motivated by recent interest in the Nernst effect in cuprate superconductors, we calculate this magneto-thermo-electric effect for an arbitrary (anisotropic) quasiparticle dispersion relation and elastic scattering rate. The exact solution…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-08 D. I. Pikulin , Chang-Yu Hou , C. W. J. Beenakker

The Fermi surface of elemental bismuth consists of three small rotationally equivalent electron pockets, offering a valley degree of freedom to charge carriers. A relatively small magnetic field can confine electrons to their lowest Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-17 Zengwei Zhu , Jinhua Wang , Huakun Zuo , Benoît Fauqué , Ross D. McDonald , Yuki Fuseya , Kamran Behnia

The nematic electronic state and its associated nematic critical fluctuations have emerged as potential candidates for superconducting pairing in various unconventional superconductors. However, in most materials their coexistence with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-19 P. Reiss , D. Graf , A. A. Haghighirad , W. Knafo , L. Drigo , M. Bristow , A. J. Schofield , A. I. Coldea

The Weyl semimetal NbP was found to exhibit topological Fermi arcs and exotic magneto-transport properties. Here, we report on magnetic quantum-oscillation measurements on NbP and construct the 3D Fermi surface with the help of…