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We demonstrate that thermoelectric signal as well as dc Josephson current may be severely enhanced in multi-terminal superconducting hybrid nanostructures exposed to a temperature gradient. At temperatures $T$ strongly exceeding the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Pavel E. Dolgirev , Andrei D. Zaikin

We examine the thermopower Q of a mesoscopic normal-metal (N) wire in contact to superconducting (S) segments and show that even with electron-hole symmetry, Q may become finite due to the presence of supercurrents. Moreover, we show how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkila

Efficient heat management at cryogenic temperatures is crucial for superconducting quantum technologies. This study demonstrates the controlled manipulation of the heat flow and heat rectification through an asymmetric superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 F. Antola , A. Braggio , G. De Simoni , F. Giazotto

We study density-balanced, mass-asymmetric electron-hole bilayers as a tunable platform for correlated quantum phases. With independent control of carrier density and interlayer separation, the system exhibits a rich phase diagram,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-27 Luca Nashabeh , Liang Fu

We investigate the thermoelectric properties of electrons at the interface of oxide heterostructure and in the presence of a multiferroic oxide with spiral spin order. We find there is no (spin) Hall current generated by the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chenglong Jia , Jamal Berakdar

Is it possible to increase Tc by constructing cuprate heterostructures, which combine the high pairing energy of underdoped layers with the large carrier density of proximate overdoped layers? We investigate this question within a model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-05-10 Lilach Goren , Ehud Altman

The thermoelectric coefficient $\eta(T)$ in unconventional superconductors is enhanced below $T_c$ by intermediate strength impurity scattering that is intrinsically particle-hole asymmetric. We compute $\eta(T)$ for a strong-coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikael Fogelstrom , Tomas Lofwander

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MtBLG) has proven to be an extremely promising new platform to realize and study a host of emergent quantum phases arising from the strong correlations in its narrow bandwidth flat band. In this regard,…

Currently, one of the major nanotechnological challenges is to design thermoelectric devices that have a high figure of merit. To that end, we propose to use bilayer excitons. Bilayer exciton systems are shown to have an improved…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-10 Kai Wu , Louk Rademaker , Jan Zaanen

Experimental results on the metal-insulator transition and related phenomena in strongly interacting two-dimensional electron systems are discussed. Special attention is given to recent results for the strongly enhanced spin susceptibility,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-18 A. A. Shashkin , S. V. Kravchenko

Recently, a new quantum phase, the topological insulator, has been vividly investigated in a variety of materials. Its unique bandstructure allows for optical generation and control of spin-polarized currents based on the circular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 Nina Meyer , Kevin Geishendorf , Jakob Walowski , Andy Thomas , Markus Münzenberg

In this letter, we have studied the effects of proximity of a superconductor to a normal metal. The system, represented by a bilayer attractive Hubbard model, is investigated using layer-dynamical mean field theory and iterated perturbation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-04-03 Naushad Ahmad Kamar , N. S. Vidhyadhiraja

In the linear regime, thermo-electric effects between two conductors are possible only in the presence of an explicit breaking of the electron-hole symmetry. We consider a tunnel junction between two electrodes and show that this condition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

Ferromagnetic insulators can induce a strong exchange field in an adjacent superconductor via the magnetic proximity effect. This manifests as spin-splitting of the BCS density of states of the superconductor, an important ingredient for…

Considering a system composed of two different thermoelectric modules electrically and thermally connected in parallel, we demonstrate that the inhomogeneities of the thermoelectric properties of the materials may cause the appearance of an…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-06 Y. Apertet , H. Ouerdane , C. Goupil , Ph. Lecoeur

We report on the experimental observation of thermoelectric currents in superconductor-ferromagnet tunnel junctions in high magnetic fields. The thermoelectric signals are due to a spin-dependent lifting of particle-hole symmetry, and are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-03 S. Kolenda , M. J. Wolf , D. Beckmann

The phenomenology and theory of spin gap effects in high temperature superconductors is summarized. It is argued that the spin gap behavior can only be explained by a model of charge 0 spin 1/2 fermions which become paired into singlets and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. J. Millis , L. B. Ioffe , H. Monien

We propose to increase the superconducting transition temperature Tc of strongly correlated materials by designing heterostructures which exhibit a high pairing energy as a result of magnetic fluctuations. More precisely, applying an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 Karyn Le Hur , Chung-Hou Chung , I. Paul

The performance of hybrid superconducting electronic coolers is usually limited by the accumulation of hot quasi-particles in the superconducting leads. This issue is all the more stringent in large-scale and high-power devices, as required…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 H. Q. Nguyen , T. Aref , V. J. Kauppila , M. Meschke , C. B. Winkelmann , H. Courtois , J. P. Pekola

We report on the experimental observation of nonlocal spin-dependent thermoelectric effects in superconductor-ferromagnet multiterminal structures. Our samples consist of a thin superconducting aluminum wire with several ferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-08 J. Heidrich , D. Beckmann