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We analyze the thermoelectric response of Dirac and Weyl semimetals using the semiclassical approach, focusing on the extrinsic contributions due to skew-scattering and side jump. Our results apply to linear response Nernst effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Michał Papaj , Liang Fu

Weyl semimetals (WSM) are topologically protected three dimensional materials whose low energy excitations are linearly dispersing massless Dirac fermions, possessing a non-trivial Berry curvature. Using semi-classical Boltzmann dynamics in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-20 Gargee Sharma , Pallab Goswami , Sumanta Tewari

We investigate the intrinsic spin Nernst effect (SNE), a transverse spin current induced by temperature gradients, in topological Dirac semimetals (TDSMs) and magnetic Weyl semimetals (MWSMs) with Ising spin-orbit coupling. The intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-16 Taiki Matsushita , Akihiro Ozawa , Yasufumi Araki , Junji Fujimoto , Masatoshi Sato

The search for materials with large thermopower is of great practical interest. Dirac and Weyl semimetals have recently proven to exhibit superior thermoelectric properties, particularly when subjected to a quantizing magnetic field. Here…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-24 Poulomi Chakraborty , Aaron Hui , Grigory Bednik , Brian Skinner

Magnetic topological semimetals often exhibit unusual electronic and thermal transport due to nontrivial bulk band crossings, enabling simultaneous realization of large anomalous Hall and Nernst conductivities ($\sigma_{xy}$ and…

The thermal chiral anomaly is a new mechanism for thermal transport that occurs in Weyl semimetals (WSM). It is attributed to the generation and annihilation of energy at Weyl points of opposite chirality. The effect was observed in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-22 Joon Sang Kang , Dung Vu , Joseph P. Heremans

We study the anomalous Nernst and thermal Hall effects in a linearized low-energy model of a tilted Weyl semimetal, with two Weyl nodes separated in momentum space. For inversion symmetric tilt, we give analytic expressions in two opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Yago Ferreiros , A. A. Zyuzin , Jens H. Bardarson

The discovery of magnetic topological semimetals recently attracted significant attention in the field of topology and thermoelectrics. In a thermoelectric device based on the Nernst geometry, an external magnet is required as an integral…

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

The quest for nonmagnetic Weyl semimetals with high tunability of phase has remained a demanding challenge. As the symmetry breaking control parameter, the ferroelectric order can be steered to turn on/off the Weyl semimetals phase, adjust…

The discovery of two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials has propelled advancements in technological devices. The Nernst effect, which generates a transverse electric voltage in the presence of a longitudinal thermal…

Magnetic topological semimetals are increasingly fueling interests in exotic electronic-thermal physics including thermoelectrics and spintronics. To control the transports of topological carriers in such materials becomes a central issue.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Shen Zhang , Jinying Yang , Meng Lyu , Junyan Liu , Binbin Wang , Hongxiang Wei , Claudia Felser , Wenqing Zhang , Enke Liu , Baogen Shen

Anomalous Nernst effect generates a transverse voltage perpendicular to the temperature gradient. It has several advantages compared with the longitudinal thermoelectricity for energy conversion, such as decoupling of electronic and thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-02 Panshuo Wang , Zongxiang Hu , Xiaosong Wu , Qihang Liu

Thermoelectric materials can recover electrical energy from waste heat and vice versa, which are of great significance in green energy harvesting and solid state refrigerator. The thermoelectric figure of merit (zT) quantifies the energy…

We investigate the quasi-particle and transport properties of a model describing interacting Dirac and Weyl semimetals in the presence of local Hubbard repulsion $U$, where we explicitly include a deviation from the linearity of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-18 Arianna Poli , Niklas Wagner , Max Fischer , Alessandro Toschi , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Sergio Ciuchi

Power generation through the anomalous Nernst effect in topological Weyl materials has several advantages over conventional thermoelectrics due to the transverse geometry. However, the magnitude of the anomalous Nernst conductivity (ANC) in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-06 Vsevolod Ivanov , Ella Banyas , Liang Z. Tan

NbP is a recently realized Weyl semimetal (WSM), hosting Weyl points through which conduction and valence bands cross linearly in the bulk and exotic Fermi arcs appear. However, the most intriguing transport phenomenon of a WSM, the chiral…

In this review we discuss a wide range of topological properties of electron quasiparticles in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Their nontrivial topology is quantified by a monopole-like Berry curvature in the vicinity of Weyl nodes, as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Weyl semimetals are characterized by the presence of massless band dispersion in momentum space. When a Weyl semimetal meets magnetism, large anomalous transport properties emerge as a consequence of its topological nature. Here, using…

The Nernst effect is a fundamental thermoelectric conversion phenomenon that was deemed to be possible only in systems with magnetic field or magnetization. In this work, we propose a novel dynamical chiral Nernst effect that can appear in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Juncheng Li , Dawei Zhai , Cong Xiao , Wang Yao