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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 spin Nernst effect describes a transverse spin current induced by the longitudinal thermal gradient in a system with the spin-orbit coupling. Here we study the spin Nernst effect in a mesoscopic four-terminal cross-bar Weyl semimetal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Ning-Xuan Yang , Yan-Feng Zhou , Zhe Hou , Qing-Feng Sun

We present systematic theoretical results on thermoelectric effects in semimetals based on the variational method of the linearized Boltzmann equation. Inelastic electron-hole scattering is known to play an important role in the unusual…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-31 Keigo Takahashi , Hiroyasu Matsuura , Hideaki Maebashi , Masao Ogata

Weyl semimetals (WSM) are topologically protected three dimensional materials whose low energy excitations are linearly dispersing massless Dirac fermions, possessing a non-trivial Berry curvature. Using semi-classical Boltzmann dynamics in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-20 Gargee Sharma , Pallab Goswami , Sumanta Tewari

The band geometric properties of quantum materials play an elemental role in the linear and nonlinear transport of electrons. In this paper, we propose that the interplay of the Berry curvature, the orbital magnetic moment and the Lorentz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Shibalik Lahiri , Tanmay Bhore , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

We propose an intrinsic nonlinear spin magnetoelectric effect in magnetic materials, offering the potential of all-electric control of spin degree of freedom in centrosymmetric magnets, which reside outside of the current paradigm based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Cong Xiao , Huiying Liu , Weikang Wu , Hui Wang , Qian Niu , Shengyuan A. Yang

The Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity are two critical quantities to optimize simultaneously in designing thermoelectric materials, and they are determined by the dynamics of carrier scattering. We uncover a new regime where…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-17 Natalya S. Fedorova , Andrea Cepellotti , Boris Kozinsky

We discuss galvanomagnetic and thermomagnetic effects in disordered electronic systems focusing on intermediate temperatures, for which electron-electron scattering and electron-impurity scattering occur at similar rates, while…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Woo-Ram Lee , Alexander Finkel'stein , G. Schwiete

We estimate the thermoelectric response, namely, the Seebeck and Nernst coefficients of a hot and deconfined plasma of quarks and gluons, created post ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions in the presence of a weak, homogeneous background…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-29 Debarshi Dey , Binoy Krishna Patra

Anomalous Nernst effect (ANE), the generation of a transverse electric voltage by a longitudinal temperature gradient, has attracted increasing interests of researchers recently, due to its potential in the thermoelectric power conversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-17 Yunfeng You , Wenxuan Zhu , Hua Bai , Yongjian Zhou , Lei Han , Leilei Qiao , Tongjin Chen , Feng Pan , Cheng Song

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,…

We theoretically investigate the intrinsic (impurity-independent) spin Nernst effect (SNE), a spin current generation perpendicular to temperature gradients, in spin-triplet superconductors. We show that, in these systems, the SNE consists…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Taiki Matsushita , Youichi Yanase , Takeshi Mizushima , Satoshi Fujimoto , Ilya Vekhter

Tilting the Weyl cone breaks the Lorentz invariance and enriches the Weyl physics. Here, we report the observation of a magnetic-field-antisymmetric Seebeck effect in a tilted Weyl semimetal, Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$. Moreover, it is found that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Bingyan Jiang , Jiaji Zhao , Jiangyuan Qian , Shen Zhang , XiaoBin Qiang , Lujunyu Wang , Ran Bi , Juewen Fan , Hai-Zhou Lu , Enke Liu , Xiaosong Wu

We investigate the second-order nonlinear electronic thermal transport induced by temperature gradient. We develop the quantum kinetic theory framework to describe thermal transport in presence of a temperature gradient. Using this, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Harsh Varshney , Kamal Das , Pankaj Bhalla , Amit Agarwal

In topological materials, Berry curvature leads to intrinsic Hall responses. Focusing on time-reversal symmetric systems with broken inversion symmetry, a spontaneoous (zero magnetic field) Hall effect is expected to develop under an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Shouvik Sur , Lei Chen , Yiming Wang , Chandan Setty , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

Altermagnet is a distinctive magnet phase, which has spin-split energy band but with zero net magnetic moment. In this paper, we propose that altermagnet behaves spin splitting Nernst effect: Under a longitudinal temperature gradient, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Xing-Jian Yi , Yue Mao , Xiancong Lu , Qing-Feng Sun

We investigate the intrinsic anomalous thermal Hall effect in d-wave altermagnets, where a transverse heat current is generated by a longitudinal temperature gradient in the absence of a magnetic field, with the leading response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Rishi G. Gopalakrishnan , Srimayi Korrapati , Sumanta Tewari

We propose a new type of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) emerging from the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in asymmetric four-terminal electron systems. This system generates spin currents or spin voltages along the longitudinal direction parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Jun Zhou , Biao Wang , Mengjie Li , Tsuneyoshi Nakayama , Baowen Li

Symmetry is a cornerstone of condensed matter physics, fundamentally shaping the behavior of electronic systems and inducing the emergence of novel phenomena. The Hall effect, a key concept in this field, demonstrates how symmetry breaking,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Shuo Wang , Wei Niu , Yue-Wen Fang

We phenomenologically calculate the performance of the recently-observed Seebeck-driven transverse thermoelectric generation (STTG) for various systems in terms of the thermopower, power factor, and figure of merit to demonstrate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-06 Kaoru Yamamoto , Ryo Iguchi , Asuka Miura , Weinan Zhou , Yuya Sakuraba , Yoshio Miura , Ken-ichi Uchida