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Recent discovery of 2D van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials has spurred progress in developing advanced spintronic devices. A central challenge lies in enhancing the spin-conversion efficiency for building spin-logic or spin-memory…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-30 Shuhan Liu , Shaojie Hu , Xiaomin Cui , Takashi Kimura

Chirality is probably the most mysterious among all symmetry transformations. Very readily broken in biological systems, it is practically absent in naturally occurring inorganic materials and is very challenging to create artificially.…

Chirality in the mid-infrared spectral range plays a crucial role across physical, chemical, and biological sciences, yet sources of chiral infrared light do not currently exist. Their development, using principles from the mature field of…

A large anomalous Nernst effect is essential for thermoelectric energy harvesting in the transverse geometry without external magnetic field. It is often connected with anomalous Hall effect, especially when electronic Berry curvature is…

In this work, we establish a theoretical analysis of the emergence of layer-contrasted Nernst response perpendicular to the direction of the temperature gradient in twisted moir\'{e} layers, called layer Nernst effect (LNE). This phenomenon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-10 Jin-Xin Hu , Chuanchang Zeng , Yugui Yao

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…

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is an effect that has recently attracted a great deal of attention in chiral chemistry and that remains to be understood. In the CISS effect, electrons passing through chiral molecules acquire a…

Analogous to the Hall effect, the Nernst effect is the generation of a transverse voltage due to a temperature gradient in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The Nernst effect has promise for thermoelectric applications and as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-20 T. Asaba , V. Ivanov , S. M. Thomas , S. Y. Savrasov , J. D. Thompson , E. D. Bauer , F. Ronning

Light-induced sliding ferroelectricity in two-dimensional van der Waals materials enables polarization control via relative layer motion. However, polarization switching occurs on the time scale of shear modes (tens of ps) and requires very…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Xiangzhou Zhu , Stefano Mocatti , Matteo Calandra

Recent developments in the technology of van der Waals heterostructures made from two-dimensional atomic crystals have already led to the observation of new physical phenomena, such as the metal-insulator transition and Coulomb drag, and to…

2D intercorrelated ferroelectrics, exhibiting a coupled in-plane and out-of-plane ferroelectricity, is a fundamental phenomenon in the field of condensed-mater physics. The current research is based on the paradigm of bi-directional…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-24 Yan Liang , Shiying Shen , Baibiao Haung , Ying Dai , Yandong Ma

Controlling magnetism by purely electrical means is a key challenge to better information technology1. A variety of material systems, including ferromagnetic (FM) metals2,3,4, FM semiconductors5, multiferroics6,7,8 and magnetoelectric (ME)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Shengwei Jiang , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

In this work we report Nernst effect measurements in single crystal bismuth samples, with special emphasis on the characterization of the Nernst coefficient when the magnetic field, heat current and generated voltage are aligned along…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-30 Alessandro Sola , Elena Sonia Olivetti , Adriano Di Pietro , Luca Martino , Vittorio Basso

We propose theoretically a new effect, i.e. nonlinear planar Nernst effect (NPNE), in nonmagnetic topological insulator (TI) Bi2Te3 in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. We find that the Nernst current scales quadratically with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Xiao-Qin Yu , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

Magnetic topological materials such as Weyl and Dirac magnets exhibit unconventional electronic properties arising from the interplay between magnetic order and band topology, leading to remarkable thermomagnetic and thermoelectric effects.…

Moir\'e superstructures arising at twisted 2D interfaces have recently attracted the attention of the scientific community due to exotic quantum states and unique mechanical and tribological behaviors that they exhibit. Here, we predict the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Andrea Silva , Xiang Gao , Melisa M. Gianetti , Roberto Guerra , Nicola Manini , Andrea Vanossi , Michael Urbakh , Oded Hod

Dirac and Weyl semimetals display a host of novel properties. In Cd$_3$As$_2$, the Dirac nodes lead to a protection mechanism that strongly suppresses backscattering in zero magnetic field, resulting in ultrahigh mobility ($\sim$ 10$^7$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Tian Liang , Jingjing Lin , Quinn Gibson , Tong Gao , Max Hirschberger , Minhao Liu , R. J. Cava , N. P. Ong

The large Nernst effect is advantageous for developing transverse Nernst thermoelectric generators or Ettingshausen coolers within a single component, avoiding the complexity of electron- and hole-modules in longitudinal Seebeck…

Van der Waals (vdW) layered materials have rather weaker interlayer bonding than the intra-layer bonding, therefore the exfoliation along the stacking direction enables the achievement of monolayer or few layers vdW materials with emerging…

The advent of altermagnetism, a new phase of magnetism, has garnered significant interest due to its extraordinary spin-polarized electronic bands despite zero net magnetization. Such spin-symmetry-guided robust non-relativistic alternating…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-15 Anil Kumar Singh , Pritam Deb