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We investigate the intrinsic nonlinear valley Nernst effect, which induces a transverse valley current via a second-order thermoelectric response to a longitudinal temperature gradient. The effect arises from the Berry connection…

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Thermopower and the Lorentz number for an edge-free (Corbino) graphene disk in the quantum Hall regime is calculated within the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formalism. We find, by varying the electrochemical potential, that amplitude of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Adam Rycerz , Katarzyna Rycerz , Piotr Witkowski

The thermoelectric Thomson effect, predicted in the 1850s by William Thomson, produces volumetric heating/cooling in a conductor due to the concerted action of the Seebeck and Peltier effects. Recently, transverse thermoelectrics studies on…

The Seebeck effect consists in the induction of a voltage drop due to the temperature difference in a conductor. In the middle of XIXth century, Lord Kelvin has proposed a relation between the Seebeck coefficient and the derivative of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 A. V. Kavokin , S. V. Kavokina , A. A. Varlamov , Yuriy Yerin

The utilization of ferromagnetic (FM) materials in thermoelectric devices allows one to have a simpler structure and/or independent control of electric and thermal conductivities, which may further remove obstacles for this technology to be…

We present a study of the Nernst effect in amorphous superconducting thin films of Nb$_{0.15}$Si$_{0.85}$. The field dependence of the Nernst coefficient above T$_{c}$ displays two distinct regimes separated by a field scale set by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Pourret , H. Aubin , J. Lesueur , C. A. Marrache-Kikuchi , L. Berge , L. Dumoulin , K. Behnia

Thermoelectric effect generating electricity from thermal gradient and vice versa appears in numerous generic applications. Recently, an original prospect of thermoelectricity arising from the nonlocal Cooper pair splitting (CPS) and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Z. B. Tan , A. Laitinen , N. S. Kirsanov , A. Galda , M. Haque , A. Savin , D. S. Golubev , V. M. Vinokur , G. B. Lesovik , P. J. Hakonen

In metallic ferromagnets, the Berry curvature of underlying quasiparticles can cause an electric voltage perpendicular to both magnetization and an applied temperature gradient, a phenomenon called the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE). Here,…

Identifying materials and devices which offer efficient thermoelectric effects at low temperature is a major obstacle for the development of thermal management strategies for low-temperature electronic systems. Superconductors cannot offer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 F. Giazotto , J. W. A. Robinson , J. S. Moodera , F. S. Bergeret

The Nernst effect, a transverse thermoelectric phenomenon, has attracted significant attention for its potential in energy conversion, thermoelectrics, and spintronics. However, achieving high performance and versatility at low temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Gabriele Pasquale , Zhe Sun , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Andras Kis

Nernst effect, a transverse electric current induced by a temperature gradient, is a promising tool for revealing emergent phases of condensed matter. We find a Nernst coefficient plateau in low carrier density topological insulators, as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Peng-Lu Zhao , J. L. Zhang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Qian Niu

We show that the strong Nernst signal observed recently in amorphous superconducting films far above the critical temperature is caused by the fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter. We demonstrate a striking agreement between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Karen Michaeli , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

We show that in the linear response approximation only entropy provides coupling between thermal and electric phenomena. The dissipationless quantum currents -- magnetization, superconducting, persistent and topological edge currents -- do…

General Physics · Physics 2022-03-24 Andrei Sergeev , Michael Reizer

We develop a theory for the electrical and thermal transverse linear response functions such as the Hall, Nernst and thermal Hall effects in magnetic materials that harbor topological spin textures like skyrmions. In addition to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Zachariah Addison , Lauren Keyes , Mohit Randeria

We study the thermoelectric transport properties of a three-dimensional massive relativistic fermion gas with screened Coulomb impurities in high magnetic fields where only the lowest Landau levels contribute to the transport. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Viktor Könye , Masao Ogata

Thermoelectric power (TEP) is measured in bilayer graphene for various temperatures and charge-carrier densities. At low temperatures, measured TEP well follows the semiclassical Mott formula with a hyperbolic dispersion relation. TEP for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Seung-Geol Nam , Dong-Keun Ki , Hu-Jong Lee

We develop a detailed theory describing a non-trivial interplay between non-equilibrium effects and long-range quantum coherence in superconducting hybrid nanostructures exposed to a temperature gradient. We establish a direct relation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-05 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

The angular dependence of the thermal transport in insulating or conducting ferromagnets is derived on the basis of the Onsager reciprocity relations applied to a magnetic system. It is shown that the angular dependence of the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. -E. Wegrowe , H. -J. Drouhin , D. Lacour

The Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity are two critical quantities to optimize simultaneously in designing thermoelectric materials, and they are determined by the dynamics of carrier scattering. We uncover a new regime where…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-17 Natalya S. Fedorova , Andrea Cepellotti , Boris Kozinsky

The spin Seebeck effect refers to the generation of a spin voltage caused by a temperature gradient in a ferromagnet, which enables the thermal injection of spin currents from the ferromagnet into an attached nonmagnetic metal over a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hiroto Adachi , Ken-ichi Uchida , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa
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