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We apply a previously developed asymptotic model (J. Fluid. Mech. 915, A133 (2021)) to study instabilities of free surface films of nanometric thickness on thermally conductive substrates in two and three spatial dimensions. While the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-26 Ryan H. Allaire , Linda J. Cummings , Lou Kondic

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

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…

Structural and superconducting properties of high quality Niobium nanofilms with different thicknesses are investigated on silicon oxide and sapphire substrates. The role played by the different substrates and the superconducting properties…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 S. J. Rezvani , A. Perali , M. Fretto , N. De Leo , L. Flammia , M. Milosevic , S. Nannarone , N. Pinto

The principles of the thermoelectric phenomenon, including Seebeck effect, Peltier effect, and Thomson effect are discussed. The dependence of the thermoelectric devices on the figure of merit, Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-29 Ibrahim M Abdel-Motaleb , Syed M. Qadri

Following the observation of an anomalous Nernst signal in cuprates, the Nernst effect was explored in a variety of metals and superconductors during the past few years. This paper reviews the results obtained during this exploration,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-10 Kamran Behnia

A theory of the fluctuation-induced Nernst effect is developed for arbitrary magnetic fields and temperatures beyond the upper critical field line in a two-dimensional superconductor. First, we derive a simple phenomenological formula for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-02-09 M. N. Serbyn , M. A. Skvortsov , A. A. Varlamov , Victor Galitski

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

Motivated by the observation of a giant Nernst effect in URu_2Si_2, the thermoelectric response of the related system UPt_2Si_2 was investigated using thermal and electric transport properties such as the Nernst and Seebeck effects, thermal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Johannsen , S. Suellow , A. V. Sologubenko , T. Lorenz , J. A. Mydosh

Various superconductors, including cuprate superconductors, exhibit peculiar features above the transition temperature T_c. In particular the observation of a large diamagnetism and Nernst signal in a wide temperature window above T_c…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-05-09 T. Schneider , S. Weyeneth

The recent discovery of ambient-pressure superconductivity in thin-film bilayer nickelates opens new possibilities for investigating electronic structures in this new class of high-transition temperature $T_C$ superconductors. Here, we…

We propose a scheme of multilayer thermoelectric engine where {\em one} electric current is coupled to {\em two} temperature gradients in three-terminal geometry. This is realized by resonant tunneling through quantum dots embedded in two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-06 Jian-Hua Jiang

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

We investigate the irreversible growth of $(2+1)-$dimensional magnetic thin films under the influence of a transverse temperature gradient, which is maintained by thermal baths across a direction perpendicular to the direction of growth.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Julián Candia , Ezequiel V. Albano

We investigated size effects on thermoelectricity in thin films of a strongly correlated layered cobaltate. At room temperature, the thermopower is independent of thickness down to 6 nm. This unusual behavior is inconsistent with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-30 J. Ravichandran , A. K. Yadav , W. Siemons , M. A. McGuire , V. Wu , A. Vailionis , A. Majumdar , R. Ramesh

Weyl semimetal (WSM) thin films exhibit distinct electronic properties compared to their bulk counterparts. In this study, we theoretically investigate the nonreciprocal ballistic transport phenomena arising in WSM thin films due to surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 M. H. Zou , R. Ma , S. J. Xu , W. Chen , H. Geng , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

Recent spin-Seebeck experiments on thin ferromagnetic films apply a temperature difference $\Delta T_{x}$ along the length $x$ and measure a (transverse) voltage difference $\Delta V_{y}$ along the width $y$. The connection between these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthew R. Sears , Wayne M. Saslow

We study the anomalous Nernst and thermal Hall effects in a linearized low-energy model of a tilted Weyl semimetal, with two Weyl nodes separated in momentum space. For inversion symmetric tilt, we give analytic expressions in two opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Yago Ferreiros , A. A. Zyuzin , Jens H. Bardarson

The superconducting proximity effect is investigated for SN double layers in a regime where the resulting transition temperature T_{c} does not depend on the mean free paths of the films and, within limits, not on the transparency of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Zhang , G. Tateishi , G. Bergmann

We report our recent predictions on the quantum Nernst effect, a novel thermomagnetic effect in the quantum Hall regime. We assume that, when the chemical potential is located between a pair of neighboring Landau levels, edge currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Hiroaki Nakamura , Naomichi Hatano , Ryoen Shirasaki