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The transverse thermoelectric effect enables simpler, more flexible thermoelectric devices by generating electricity perpendicular to heat flow, offering promising solutions for waste heat recovery and solid-state cooling applications.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Yazhou Li , Jiaxing Liao , Jiajun Ma , Yuwei Zhang , Tao Li , Jialu Wang , Hangdong Wang , Hanjie Guo , Jianhui Dai , Yuke Li

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

The thermodynamics of irreversible processes in continuous media predicts the existence of a Magnetic Nernst effect that results from a magnetic analog to the Seebeck effect in a ferromagnet and magnetophoresis occurring in a paramagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Sylvain D. Brechet , Jean-Philippe Ansermet

A large, strongly temperature-dependent Nernst coefficient, $\nu$, is observed between $T$ = 2 K and 300 K for CeCu$_2$Si$_2$ and Ce$_{0.8}$La$_{0.2}$Cu$_2$Si$_2$. The enhanced $\nu(T)$ is determined by the asymmetry of the on-site Kondo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 Peijie Sun , Frank Steglich

We consider Berry phase mediated Nernst effect in silicene. The low energy band structure of silicene consists of two valleys near the Dirac points, similar to graphene. The low energy transport properties of the quasiparticles can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 I. Ahmed , M. Tahir , K. Sabeeh

Magnon spin Hall systems could hardly show experimentally observable particle and thermal transport phenomena intrinsically due to the spin cancellation. Here we demonstrated that the magnon spin Hall systems can exhibit magnon Nernst…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Yun-Mei Li

A thermal gradient generates an electric field in any solid hosting mobile electrons. In presence of a finite magnetic field (or Berry curvature) this electric field has a transverse component. These are known as Seebeck and Nernst…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-12 Kamran Behnia

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

Using the Matsubara Green function formalism we calculate the temperature dependence of spin Hall and spin Nernst conductivities of a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the linear response regime. In the case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 A. Dyrdał , J. Barnaś , V. K. Dugaev

The spin Nernst effect describes a transverse spin current induced by the longitudinal thermal gradient in a system with the spin-orbit coupling. Here we study the spin Nernst effect in a mesoscopic four-terminal cross-bar Weyl semimetal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Ning-Xuan Yang , Yan-Feng Zhou , Zhe Hou , Qing-Feng Sun

Two dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit an intrinsic Ising spin orbit coupling (SOC) along with a valley contrasting Berry curvature, which can generate a purely anomalous spin and valley Nernst signal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Gargee Sharma

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…

The Nernst effect is known to be a sensitive probe of the scattering mechanisms. Large Nernst effects, a decade ago a topic mainly in vortex dynamics in superconductors, have recently attracted interest in correlated systems like cuprate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-22 Janik Kailasvuori

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

We present the microscopic theory of the spin Nernst effect, which is a transverse spin current directly induced by a temperature gradient, employing the linear response theory with Luttinger's gravitational potential method. We consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Junji Fujimoto , Taiki Matsushita , Masao Ogata

The thermoelectric Nernst effect of solids converts heat flow to beneficial electronic voltages. Here, using a correlated topological semimetal with high carrier mobility $\mu$ in presence of magnetic fluctuations, we demonstrate an…

Controlling the momentum of carriers in semiconductors, known as valley polarization, is a new resource for optoelectronics and information technologies. Materials exhibiting high polarization are needed for valley-based devices. Few-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Rasmus H. Godiksen , Shaojun Wang , T. V. Raziman , Jaime Gómez Rivas , Alberto G. Curto

In an easy-plane antiferromagnet with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), magnons are subject to an effective spin-momentum locking. An in-plane temperature gradient can generate interfacial accumulation of magnons with a specified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

The Nernst effect, the generation of a transverse electric voltage in the presence of longitudinal thermal gradient, has garnered significant attention in the realm of magnetic topological materials due to its superior potential for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-23 Olajumoke Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel , Shuvankar Gupta , Xianglin Ke

Noncollinear antiferromagnets have recently been attracting considerable interest partly due to recent surprising discoveries of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in them and partly because they have promising applications in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-22 Guang-Yu Guo , Tzu-Cheng Wang