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The nonlinear Nernst and Seebeck effects (NNE and NSE) offer promising routes for thermoelectric energy conversion in non-magnetic systems. While intrinsic mechanisms such as the nonlinear Drude and Berry-curvature-dipole terms are well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Harsh Varshney , Amit Agarwal

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

For a long period of time, we have been seeking how Berry curvature influnces the transport properties in materials breaking time-reversal symmetry. In time-reversal symmetric material, there will be no thermoelectric current induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Hongchao Li

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…

We theoretically analyze the non-linear anomalous Nernst effect as the second-order response of temperature gradient by using the semiclassical framework of electron dynamics. We find that a non-linear current can be generated transverse to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Xiao-Qin Yu , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jhih-Shih You , Tony Low , Gang Su

We employ the Boltzmann transport approach to derive the spontaneous Nernst coefficient for ferromagnetic metals, explicitly treating the transverse current density due to Berry curvature as a Fermi surface property. We find that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-13 Vittorio Basso , Adriano Di Pietro , Alessandro Sola

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

The thermodynamics of irreversible processes in continuous media predicts the existence of a Magnetic Nernst effect that results from a magnetic analog to the Seebeck effect in a ferromagnet and magnetophoresis occurring in a paramagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Sylvain D. Brechet , Jean-Philippe Ansermet

Thermoelectric materials can recover electrical energy from waste heat and vice versa, which are of great significance in green energy harvesting and solid state refrigerator. The thermoelectric figure of merit (zT) quantifies the energy…

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

Transverse thermoelectric power generation has emerged as a topic of immense interest in recent years owing to the orthogonal geometry which enables better scalability and fabrication of devices. Here, we investigate the thickness…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-31 Hiroyasu Matsuura , Alexander Riss , Fabian Garmroudi , Michael Parzer , Ernst Bauer

Irradiation of the strong light on the material leads to numerous non-linear effects that are essential to understand the physics of excited states of the system and for optoelectronics. Here, we study the non-linear thermoelectric effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Pankaj Bhalla

A thermal gradient generates an electric field in any solid hosting mobile electrons. In presence of a finite magnetic field (or Berry curvature) this electric field has a transverse component. These are known as Seebeck and Nernst…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-12 Kamran Behnia

Thermoelectric (TE) conversion in conducting materials is of eminent importance for providing renewable energy and solid-state cooling. Although traditionally, the Seebeck effect plays a key role for the TE figure of merit zST, it…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-16 Junsen Xiang , Sile Hu , Meng Lyu , Wenliang Zhu , Chaoyang Ma , Ziyu Chen , Frank Steglich , Genfu Chen , Peijie Sun

The second-order nonlinear current originates from three physical mechanisms: extrinsic nonlinear Drude and Berry curvature dipole and intrinsic Berry connection polarizability. Here, we predict a new intrinsic contribution to the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Kamal Das , Shibalik Lahiri , Rhonald Burgos Atencia , Dimitrie Culcer , Amit Agarwal

In recent years, the nonlinear anomalous thermal Hall effect has attracted substantial attention. In this paper, we carry out a theoretical exploration of the intrinsic anomalous thermal Hall and Nernst effect that is induced by the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Ying-Fei Zhang , Zhi-Fan Zhang , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

The anomalous Nernst effect is the thermoelectric counterpart of the anomalous Hall effect, which can emerge in magnetic materials or topological materials without magnetic field. Such effect is critical to both fundamental topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-22 Zipu Fan , Jinying Yang , Yuchun Chen , Ning Zhao , Xiao Zhuo , Chang Xu , Dehong Yang , Jun Zhou , Jinluo Cheng , Enke Liu , Dong Sun

It is known that intrinsic currents in magnetic metals often appear in the direction perpendicular to the external field for linear and nonlinear responses. Distinct from three kinds of known nonlinear currents, namely, the Drude…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 YuanDong Wang , ZhiFan Zhang , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

The appearance of a Hall conductance necessarily requires breaking of time-reversal symmetry, either by an external magnetic field or by the internal magnetization of a material. However, as a second response, Hall dissipationless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-23 Carmine Ortix

The spin Nernst effect, an antisymmetric response of a spin current to a temperature gradient, has attracted attention as spin transport phenomenon arising from the topologically nontrivial band structure of carriers. This effect can occur…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Shinnosuke Koyama , Joji Nasu
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