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Nernst effect, the transverse voltage generated by a longitudinal thermal gradient in presence of magnetic field has recently emerged as a very sensitive, yet poorly understood, probe of electron organization in solids. Here we report on an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-18 Zengwei Zhu , Huan Yang , Benoit Fauque , Yakov Kopelevich , Kamran Behnia

The search for a giant Nernst effect beyond conventional mechanisms offers advantages for developing advanced thermoelectric devices and understanding charge-entropy conversion. Here, we study the Seebeck and Nernst effects of HfTe5 over a…

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

The Nernst effect is the transverse electric field produced by a longitudinal thermal gradient in presence of magnetic field. In the beginning of this century, Nernst experiments on cuprates were analyzed assuming that: i) The contribution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-28 Kamran Behnia , Hervé Aubin

The thermoelectric Nernst effect of solids converts heat flow to beneficial electronic voltages. Here, using a correlated topological semimetal with high carrier mobility $\mu$ in presence of magnetic fluctuations, we demonstrate an…

We study a model for the transverse thermoelectric response due to quantum superconducting fluctuations in a two-leg Josephson ladder, subject to a perpendicular magnetic field B and a transverse temperature gradient. The off-diagonal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 Yeshayahu Atzmon , Efrat Shimshoni

The Nernst thermopower usually is considered far too weak in most metals for waste heat recovery. However, its transverse orientation gives it an advantage over the Seebeck effect on non-flat surfaces. Here, we experimentally demonstrate…

We consider the Nernst effect in the underdoped regime of the cuprate high temperature superconductors within the d-density wave (DDW) model of the pseudogap phase. By a combination of analytical and numerical arguments, we show that there…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-03-24 Chuanwei Zhang , Sumanta Tewari , Sudip Chakravarty

It is theoretically predicted that the Nernst coefficient is strongly suppressed and the thermal conductance is quantized in the quantum Hall regime of the two-dimensional electron gas. The Nernst effect is the induction of a thermomagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroaki Nakamura , Naomichi Hatano , Ryoen Shirasaki

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

We calculate the Nernst signal in disordered conductors with the chemical potential near the mobility edge. The Nernst effect originates from interference of itinerant and localised-carrier contributions to the thermomagnetic transport. It…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. S. Alexandrov , V. N. Zavaritsky

The Nernst effect is a fundamental thermoelectric conversion phenomenon that was deemed to be possible only in systems with magnetic field or magnetization. In this work, we propose a novel dynamical chiral Nernst effect that can appear in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Juncheng Li , Dawei Zhai , Cong Xiao , Wang Yao

Superconducting thin films and layered crystals display a Nernst signal generated by short-lived Cooper pairs above their critical temperature. Several experimental studies have broadly verified the standard theory invoking Gaussian…

The discovery of topological quantum materials represents a striking innovation in modern condensed matter physics with remarkable fundamental and technological implications. Their classification has been recently extended to topological…

The Nernst effect is a versatile phenomenon relevant for energy harvesting, magnetic sensing, probing band topology and charge-neutral excitations. The planar Nernst effect (PNE) generates an in-plane voltage transverse to an applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Rahul Biswas , Harsh Varshney , Amit Agarwal

We study the Nernst effect and the spin Nernst effect, that a longitudinal thermal gradient induces a transverse voltage and a spin current. A mesoscopic four-terminal cross-bar device having the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shu-guang Cheng , Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We present a study of Nernst effect in underdoped $La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$ in magnetic fields as high as 28T. At high fields, a sizeable Nernst signal was found to persist in presence of a field-induced non-metallic resistivity. By…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Capan , K. Behnia , J. Hinderer , A. G. M. Jansen , W. Lang , Ch. Marcenat , Ch. Marin , J. Flouquet

Nernst effect is the transverse electric field due to a longitudinal thermal gradient in presence of magnetic field. Its magnitude was recently studied up to 33 T in a bismuth single crystal with a magnetic field oriented along the trigonal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 Kamran Behnia

Weyl semimetals expand research on topologically protected transport by adding bulk Berry monopoles with linearly dispersing electronic states and topologically robust, gapless surface Fermi arcs terminating on bulk node projections. Here,…

In amorphous superconducting thin films of $Nb_{0.15}Si_{0.85}$ and $InO_x$, a finite Nernst coefficient can be detected in a wide range of temperature and magnetic field. Due to the negligible contribution of normal quasi-particles,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Pourret , P. Spathis , H. Aubin , K. Behnia
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