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Electric generation of spin current via spin Hall effect is of great interest as it allows an efficient manipulation of magnetization in spintronic devices. Theoretically, spin current can be also created by a temperature gradient, which is…

The spin Hall effect allows generation of spin current when charge current is passed along materials with large spin orbit coupling. It has been recently predicted that heat current in a non-magnetic metal can be converted into spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Peng Sheng , Yuya Sakuraba , Yong-Chang Lau , Saburo Takahashi , Seiji Mitani , Masamitsu Hayashi

In ferromagnetic solids, even in absence of magnetic field, a transverse voltage can be generated by a longitudinal temperature gradient. This thermoelectric counterpart of the Anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is dubbed the Anomalous Nernst…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-02 Haiyang Yang , Wei You , Jialu Wang , Junwu Huang , Chuanying Xi , Chao Cao , Mingliang Tian , Zhu-An Xu , Jianhui Dai , Yuke Li

We phenomenologically calculate the performance of the recently-observed Seebeck-driven transverse thermoelectric generation (STTG) for various systems in terms of the thermopower, power factor, and figure of merit to demonstrate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-06 Kaoru Yamamoto , Ryo Iguchi , Asuka Miura , Weinan Zhou , Yuya Sakuraba , Yoshio Miura , Ken-ichi Uchida

Recently, topological semimetals have emerged as strong candidates for solid state thermomagnetic refrigerators due to their enhanced Nernst effect. This enhancement arises from the combined contributions of the Berry curvature induced…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-29 Antu Laha , Sarah Paone , Asish K. Kundu , Juntao Yao , Niraj Aryal , Elio Vescovo , Qiang Li

Dirac semimetals (DSM) and Weyl semimetal (WSM) fall under the generic class of three-dimensional solids, which follow relativistic energy-momentum relation $\epsilon_\mathbf{k}= \hbar v_F |\mathbf{k}|$ at low energies. Such a linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Gargee Sharma , Sumanta Tewari

The anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) is a thermomagnetic phenomenon with potential applications in thermal energy harvesting. While many recent works studied the approaches to increase the ANE coefficient of materials, relatively little effort…

Thermoelectric (TE) conversion in conducting materials is of eminent importance for providing renewable energy and solid-state cooling. Although traditionally, the Seebeck effect plays a key role for the TE figure of merit zST, it…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-16 Junsen Xiang , Sile Hu , Meng Lyu , Wenliang Zhu , Chaoyang Ma , Ziyu Chen , Frank Steglich , Genfu Chen , Peijie Sun

Applying a temperature gradient in a magnetic material generates a voltage that is perpendicular to both the heat flow and the magnetization. This is the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) which was thought to be proportional to the value of the…

The anomalous Nernst effect is the thermoelectric counterpart of the anomalous Hall effect, which can emerge in magnetic materials or topological materials without magnetic field. Such effect is critical to both fundamental topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-22 Zipu Fan , Jinying Yang , Yuchun Chen , Ning Zhao , Xiao Zhuo , Chang Xu , Dehong Yang , Jun Zhou , Jinluo Cheng , Enke Liu , Dong Sun

We theoretically study the conditions under which a spin Nernst effect - a transverse spin current induced by an applied temperature gradient - can occur in a canted antiferromagnetic insulator, such as ${\rm LaFeO_3}$ and other materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Wesley Roberts , Bowen Ma , Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Gregory A. Fiete

On the measurement of thermoelectric power and Nernst coefficient, we used two kinds of shapes for a sample. One is "Bridge shape" and the other is, we call,"Fat-Bridge shape". The latter has 5 times wider main body than the former. We used…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-03 Kazuaki Ikeda , Hiroaki Nakamura , Satarou Yamaguchi

Layered van der Waals tellurides reveal topologically non-trivial properties that give rise to unconventional magneto-transport phenomena. Additionally, their semimetallic character with high mobility makes them promising candidates for…

The thermoelectric effect is the generation of an electrical voltage from a temperature gradient in a solid material due to the diffusion of free charge carriers from hot to cold. Identifying materials with large thermoelectric response is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-31 Brian Skinner , Liang Fu

We theoretically analyze the non-linear anomalous Nernst effect as the second-order response of temperature gradient by using the semiclassical framework of electron dynamics. We find that a non-linear current can be generated transverse to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Xiao-Qin Yu , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jhih-Shih You , Tony Low , Gang Su

Thermoelectric modules are a promising approach to energy harvesting and efficient cooling. In addition to the longitudinal Seebeck effect, recently transverse devices utilizing the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) have attracted interest. For…

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

Thermoelectrics (TEs) are solid-state devices that can realize heat-electricity conversion. Transverse TEs require materials with a large Nernst effect, which typically requires a strong applied magnetic field. However, topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Jiamin Wen , Kaustuv Manna , Dung Vu , Subhadeep Bej , Yu Pan , Claudia Felser , Brian Skinner , Joseph P. Heremans

We investigate heat transport via a charged flexible chain in the presence of magnetic fields. We focus on the Nernst-like effect, where the average positions of particles deviate in the perpendicular direction to the heat flow. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-05 Shuji Tamaki , Keiji Saito

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 $n\ne 0$…

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