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Two superconductors coupled by a weak link support an equilibrium Josephson electrical current which depends on the phase difference $\varphi$ between the superconducting condensates [1]. Yet, when a temperature gradient is imposed across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Antonio Fornieri , Giuliano Timossi , Pauli Virtanen , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

Novel thermal effects across the first order antiferromagnetic (AFM) - ferromagnetic (FM) transition in an intermetallic alloy are reported. They show instances of warming when heat is extracted from the sample, and cooling when heat is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-20 Pallab Bag , R. Rawat , P. Chaddah , P. D. Babu , V. Siruguri

Thermoelectric effects, measured by the Seebeck coefficients, refer to the phenomena in which a temperature difference or gradient imposed across a thermoelectric material induces an electrical potential difference or gradient, and vice…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-05 Yi Wang , Yong-Jie Hu , Shun-Li Shang , Bi-Cheng Zhou , Zi-Kui Liu , Long-Qing Chen

The temperature and electric field dependence of electronic contribution to the thermal conductivity (TC) of a granular superconductor is considered within a 3D model of inductive Josephson junction arrays. In addition to a low-temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergei Sergeenkov

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 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 concept of thermophase refers to the appearance of a phase gradient inside a superconductor originating from the presence of an applied temperature bias across it. The resulting supercurrent flow may, in suitable conditions, fully…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 F. Giazotto , T. T. Heikkilä , F. S. Bergeret

The effects of various transition metal dopants on the electrical and thermal transport properties of Fe1-xMxSi alloys (M= Co, Ir, Os) are reported. The maximum thermoelectric figure of merit ZTmax is improved from 0.007 at 60 K for pure…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 Brian C. Sales , Olivier Delaire , Michael A. McGuire , Andrew F. May

With its huge entropy change and a strong interplay between magnetic order, structural and electrical properties, the first-order antiferromagnetic/ferromagnetic phase transition is a paradigmatic example of the multicaloric effect. The…

Transverse thermoelectric effects interconvert charge and heat currents in orthogonal directions due to the breaking of either time-reversal symmetry or structural symmetry, enabling simple and versatile thermal energy harvesting and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-30 Hiroto Adachi , Fuyuki Ando , Takamasa Hirai , Rajkumar Modak , Matthew A. Grayson , Ken-ichi Uchida

The universality of electric charge as a quantum number allows thermoelectric properties to manifest across diverse systems, starting from a hot quantum chromodynamic matter in heavy-ion collisions at a high energy scale to semiconductors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Kamaljeet Singh , Kshitish Kumar Pradhan , Raghunath Sahoo

We report on the first measurement of the Seebeck coefficient in a tunnel-contacted and gate-tunable individual single-quantum dot junction in the Kondo regime, fabricated using the electromigration technique. This fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 B. Dutta , D. Majidi , A. Garcia Corral , P. Erdman , S. Florens , T. Costi , H. Courtois , C. B. Winkelmann

A first-principles approach is presented for the thermoelectricity in molecular junctions formed by a single molecule contact. The study investigates the Seebeck coefficient considering the source-drain electrodes with distinct temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-07 Yu-Shen Liu , Yu-Chang Chen

A temperature gradient ${\Delta}T$ across a Josephson junction induces a thermoelectric current. We predict the AC Josephson effect is activated when this current surpasses the junction's critical current. Our investigation of this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-03 Olli Mansikkamäki , Francesco Giazotto , Alexander Balatsky

Thermal switching provides an effective way for active heat flow control, which has recently attracted increasing attention in terms of nanoscale thermal management technologies. In magnetic and spintronic materials, the thermal…

Lightly doped III-V semiconductor InAs is a dilute metal, which can be pushed beyond its extreme quantum limit upon the application of a modest magnetic field. In this regime, a Mott-Anderson metal-insulator transition, triggered by the…

We present analytic and numerical results for the thermoelectric effect in unconventional superconductors with a dilute random distribution of impurities, each scattering isotropically but with a phase shift intermediate between the Born…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomas Lofwander , Mikael Fogelstrom

We propose a thermoelectric cooling device based on an atomic-sized junction. Using first-principles approaches, we investigate the working conditions and the coefficient of performance (COP) of an atomic-scale electronic refrigerator where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-09 Yu-Shen Liu , Bailey C. Hsu , Yu-Chang Chen

The thermoelectric figure of merit of the Heusler alloy TiFe$_{1.5}$Sb was investigated by first-principles calculations of lattice thermal conductivity. The electronic thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, and Seebeck coefficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-27 Rifky Syariati , Athorn Vora-ud , Fumiyuki Ishii , Tosawat Seetawan

Electrons in graphene exhibit hydrodynamic behavior in a certain range of temperatures. We indicate that electric current in this regime can result in cooling of electron fluid due to the Joule-Thomson effect. Cooling occurs in the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 K. Zarembo