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Dirac and Weyl semimetals form an ideal platform for testing ideas developed in high energy physics to describe massless relativistic particles. One such quintessentially field-theoretic idea of chiral anomaly already resulted in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 D. I. Pikulin , Anffany Chen , M. Franz

Chiral matter has a structure that lacks inversion, mirror, and rotoreflection symmetry; thus, a given chiral material has either a right- or left-handed structure. In chiral matter, electricity and magnetism can be coupled in an exotic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-19 Tetsuya Furukawa , Yuta Watanabe , Naoki Ogasawara , Kaya Kobayashi , Tetsuaki Itou

According to the recent studies on sliding/moire ferroelectricity, most 2D van der Waals nonferroelectric monolayers can become ferroelectric via multilayer stacking. In this paper we propose that similar strategy can be used to induce…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Yuxuan Sheng , Junwei Liu , Jia Zhang , Menghao Wu

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Xue-Jin Zhang , Jin Cao , Lulu Xiong , Hui Wang , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

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

We theoretically analyze the nonlinear valley Nernst effect (NVNE) as the second-order response of temperature gradient through the semiclassical framework of electron dynamics. Our study shows that an intrinsic nonlinear pure valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ying-Li Wu , Jia-Liang Wan , Xiao-Qin Yu

The chirality-dependent magnetoelectric properties of Neel-type domain walls in iron garnet films is observed. The electrically driven magnetic domain wall motion changes the direction to the opposite with the reversal of electric polarity…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-23 A. P. Pyatakov , D. A. Sechin , A. V. Nikolaev , E. P. Nikolaeva , A. S. Logginov

Metal-based electronics is attractive for fast and radiation-hard electronic circuits and remains one of the longstanding goals for researchers. The emergence of 1T-TaS$_2$, a layered material exhibiting strong charge density wave (CDW)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Mehak Mahajan , Kausik Majumdar

Van der Waals materials enable the construction of atomically sharp interfaces between compounds with distinct crystal and electronic properties. This is dramatically exploited in moir\'e systems, where a lattice mismatch or twist between…

Spin-orbit coupling in graphene can be enhanced by chemical functionalization, adatom decoration or proximity with a van der Waals material. As it is expected that such enhancement gives rise to a sizeable spin Hall effect, a spin-to-charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 C. K. Safeer , Josep Ingla-Aynés , Nerea Ontoso , Franz Herling , Wenjing Yan , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

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

Electric polarization and metallicity are long believed not to coexist until the emergence of exceptionally rare material examples including the bulk polar metals and more recently two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Zhou Zhou , Xiyao Peng , Jianfeng Bi , Fei Xue , Jie Jiang , Huizhen Wu , Zhiwen Shi , Haoliang Qian , Toshikaze Kariyado , Sihan Zhao

Intercalation of magnetic atoms into van der Waals materials provides a versatile platform for tailoring unconventional magnetic properties. However, its impact on electronic dimensionality and exchange mechanisms remains poorly understood.…

Unlike the conventional (linear) anomalous Nernst effect, the non-linear anomalous Nernst effect (NLANE) can survive in an inversion symmetry broken system even in the presence of time-reversal symmetry. Using semiclassical Boltzmann…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Chuanchang Zeng , Snehasish Nandy , A. Taraphder , Sumanta Tewari

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we predict an effect of chirality on the conduction of benzene molecules along the surface of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) subjected to a thermal gradient. The group drift velocity of the molecules is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Zhao Wang

Anomalous Nernst effect (ANE), a widely investigated transverse thermoelectric effect that converts waste heat into electrical energy with remarkable flexibility and integration capability, has been extended to antiferromagnets with…

The ferroelectricity emerging in non-polar graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) heterostructures has drawn considerable attention because of its fascinating properties and promising high-frequency electrical polarization switching. Yet,…

We predict a large anomalous Nernst effect in the inverse Heusler compensated ferrimagnets Ti$_2$Mn$X$ ($X$=Al,Ga,In) with vanishing net magnetic moments. Though the net magnetic moment is zero, the Weyl points in these systems lead to a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-30 Jonathan Noky , Jacob Gayles , Claudia Felser , Yan Sun

The chiral magnetic effect is a phenomenon where an electromagnetic current is generated along a magnetic field. Recently, in nonequilibrium systems, negative longitudinal magnetoresistance has been observed experimentally in Dirac/Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Yohei Ibe , Hiroaki Sumiyoshi

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is at heart of chiral magnetism and causes emergence of rich non-collinear and unique topological spin textures in magnetic materials, including cycloids, helices, skyrmions and other. Here we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Denis Sabani , Cihan Bacaksiz , Milorad V. Milosevic