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Topological insulators are a novel class of quantum matter with a gapped insulating bulk yet gapless spin helical Dirac fermion conducting surface states. Here, we report local and non-local electrical and magneto transport measurements in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Yang Xu , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Yong P. Chen

In this paper we present a consolidated equation for all low-field transport coefficients, based on a reservoir approach developed for non-interacting quasiparticles. This formalism allows us to treat the two distinct types of charged…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-26 Rufus Boyack , Zhiqiang Wang , Qijin Chen , K. Levin

The variant of the single-impurity Kondo problem in which the conduction-band density of states has a power-law pseudogap at the Fermi energy is known to exhibit a zero-temperature phase transition at a finite exchange coupling. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Kevin Ingersent , Qimiao Si

We investigate the thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic and superconducting electrodes. The combination of spin polarized tunneling at the ferromagnetic-quantum dot interface and the application of an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez

We present a theory of the DC electron transport in insulators near Anderson-Mott transitions under the influence of coexisting electron correlation and randomness. At sufficiently low temperatures, the DC electron transport in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-26 Hiroshi Shinaoka , Masatoshi Imada

We calculate the conductance through a single quantum dot coupled to metallic leads, modeled by the spin 1/2 Anderson model. We adopt the finite-U extension of the noncrossing approximation method. Our results are in good agreement with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Gerace , E. Pavarini , L. C. Andreani

We calculate the temperature dependence of the transport properties of heavy-fermion systems such as resistivity, optical conductivity, thermoelectric power, the electronic part of the thermal conductivity, and the "figure of merit." The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Claas Grenzebach , Frithjof B. Anders , Gerd Czycholl , Thomas Pruschke

The derivation for the transport coefficients of an electron system in the presence of temperature gradient and the electric and magnetic fields are presented. The Nernst conductivity and the transverse thermoelectric power of the Dirac…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-20 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

We investigate the effect of $k$-cubic spin-orbit interaction on electrical and thermoelectric transport properties of two-dimensional fermionic systems. We obtain exact analytical expressions of the inverse relaxation time (IRT) and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-26 Alestin Mawrie , Sonu Verma , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Thermoelectric transport in strongly spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional Rashba system is studied using the exact solution of the linearized Boltzmann equation. Some unusual transport behaviors are revealed. We show that the electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Cong Xiao , Dingping Li , Zhongshui Ma

Through the measurements of magnetic field dependence of specific heat in $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$ in zero temperature limit, we determined the nodal slope $v_\Delta$ of the quasiparticle gap. It is found that $v_\Delta$ has a very similar…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Hai-Hu Wen , Lei Shan , Xiao-Gang Wen , Yue Wang , Hong Gao , Zhi-Yong Liu , Fang Zhou , Jiwu Xiong , Wenxin Ti

Thermoelectric power due to coherent electron transmission through a quantum dot is theoretically studied. In addition to the known features related to resonant peaks, we show that a novel significant structure appears between the peaks.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Takeshi Nakanishi , Takeo Kato

We have grown single-crystal BiSbTe3 3D TI sample and studied structural, TE as well as pressure dependent magneto-transport properties. Large positive Seebeck coefficient confirmed the p-type nature of BiSbTe3, which is consistent with…

We study the transport properties of the Dirac fermions with Fermi velocity $v_F$ on the surface of a topological insulator across a ferromagnetic strip providing an exchange field ${\mathcal J}$ over a region of width $d$. We show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Mondal , D. Sen , K. Sengupta , R. Shankar

Low-temperature (down to $\sim$ 50 mK) thermal conductivity measurements with the heat flow direction along the inter-plane tetragonal $c$-axis, $\kappa_c$, were used to study the superconducting state of heavy fermion CeIrIn$_5$.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-14 H. Shakeripour , M. A. Tanatar , C. Petrovic , Louis Taillefer , Louis Taillefer

We study longitudinal electric and thermoelectric transport coefficients of Dirac fermions on a simple lattice model where tuning of a single parameter enables us to change the type of Dirac cones from type-I to type-II. We pay particular…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-18 Tomonari Mizoguchi , Hiroyasu Matsuura , Masao Ogata

Using different techniques, and Fermi-liquid relationships, we calculate the variation with applied magnetic field (up to second order) of the zero-temperature equilibrium conductance through a quantum dot described by the impurity Anderson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 I. J. Hamad , C. Gazza , J. A. Andrade , A. A. Aligia , P. Roura-Bas , P. S. Cornaglia

Topological one-dimensional superconductors can sustain in their extremities zero energy modes that are protected by different kinds of symmetries. The observation of these excitations in the form of Majorana fermions is one of the most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 A. C. P. Lima , R. C. Bento Ribeiro , J. H. Correa , Fernanda Deus , M. S. Figueira , Mucio A. Continentino

By way of the non-equilibrium Green's function simulations and analytical expressions, the quantum thermal conductance of stanene is studied. We find that, due to the existence of Dirac fermion in stanene, the ratio of electron thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-19 Hangbo Zhou , Yongqing Cai , Gang Zhang , Yong-Wei Zhang

We study thermoelectric effects in Kondo correlated quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes by calculating conductance, thermopower and thermal conductance in the Kondo regime. We also study the effect of the asymmetry in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Krawiec , K. I. Wysokinski