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In a previous work, we predicted that a thermally biased tunnel junction between two different superconductors can display a thermoelectric effect of nonlinear nature in the temperature gradient, under proper conditions. In this work we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

Several models of thermionic energy nanoconverters have been proposed to study the transport phenomena that take place in electronic devices. For example, in resonant tunneling junctions those phenomena are manifested through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 G. Valencia-Ortega , L. A. Arias-Hernandez

The interfaces of quantum Hall insulators with superconductors have emerged as a promising platform to realise interesting physics that may be relevant for topologically protected quantum computing. However, these interfaces can host other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Jordan T. McCourt , John Chiles , Chun-Chia Chen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Tanaguchi , Francois Amet , Gleb Finkelstein

The hot and dense hadronic medium formed during the heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and Large Hadron Collider energies can show thermoelectric effects in the presence of temperature gradients and nonzero baryon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-30 Kamaljeet Singh , Kshitish Kumar Pradhan , Dushmanta Sahu , Raghunath Sahoo

We study charge and energy transfer in two-site molecular electronic junctions in which electron transport is assisted by a vibrational mode. To understand the role of mode harmonicity/anharmonicity on transport behavior, we consider two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Jian-Hua Jiang , Dvira Segal

We propose theoretically a thermal switch operating by the magnetic-flux controlled diffraction of phase-coherent heat currents in a thermally biased Josephson junction based on a two-dimensional topological insulator. For short junctions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-02 Björn Sothmann , Francesco Giazotto , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We investigate the thermoelectric response of a coherent conductor in contact with a scanning probe. Coupling to the probe has the dual effect of allowing for the controlled local injection of heat currents into the system and of inducing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-06 Rafael Sánchez , Cosimo Gorini , Geneviève Fleury

Transport properties in the presence of magnetic fields are numerically studied for the spin-1/2 Heisenberg XXZ chain. The breakdown of the spin-reversal symmetry due to the magnetic field induces the magnetothermal effect. In analogy with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shunsuke Furukawa , Dai Ikeda , Kazumitsu Sakai

We model and evaluate the Peltier and Seebeck effects in magnetic multilayer nanostructures by a finite-element theory of thermoelectric properties. We present analytical expressions for the thermopower and the current-induced temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-21 Moosa Hatami , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Qinfang Zhang , Paul J. Kelly

Thermoelectric effects in metals are typically small due to the nearly-perfect particle-hole (PH) symmetry around their Fermi surface [1, 2]. Despite being initially considered paradoxical [3], thermophase effects [4-8] and linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Gaia Germanese , Federico Paolucci , Giampiero Marchegiani , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

The concept of "thermal inductance" expands the options of thermal circuit design. However, the inductive component is the only missing components in thermal circuits, unlike their electromagnetic counterparts. Herein, we report an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Kenjiro Okawa , Yasutaka Amagai , Hiroyuki Fujiki , Nobu-Hisa Kaneko

Experimental conditions for simultaneous measurements of transport coefficients of high temperature superconductors in zero and non-zero magnetic fields are analysed. Test measurements of the thermal conductivity, the thermoelectric power…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Mucha , S. Dorbolo , H. Bougrine , K. Durczewski , M. Ausloos

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

We investigate the noise current in a thermally biased tunnel junction between two superconductors with different zero-temperature gaps. When the Josephson effect is suppressed, this structure can support a nonlinear thermoelectric effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

We analyze the effect of the tilt on the transverse thermoelectric coefficient of Weyl semimetals in the \emph{conformal} limit, i.e., zero temperature and zero chemical potential. Using the Kubo formalism, we find a nonmonotonic behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Thorvald M. Ballestad , Alberto Cortijo , María A. H. Vozmediano , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Nonreciprocal transport phenomena indicate that the forward and backward flows differ, and are attributed to broken inversion symmetry. In this paper, we study the nonreciprocity of a thermal and thermoelectric transport of electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Ryota Nakai , Naoto Nagaosa

Attaining viable thermoelectric cooling at cryogenic temperatures is of major fundamental and technological interest for novel electronics and quantum materials applications. In-device temperature control can provide a more efficient and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 T. Völkl , A. Aharon-Steinberg , T. Holder , E. Alpern , N. Banu , A. K. Pariari , Y. Myasoedov , M. E. Huber , M. Hücker , E. Zeldov

Superconducting interfaces have recently been demonstrated to contain a rich variety of effects that give rise to sizable thermoelectric responses and unexpected thermal properties, despite traditionally being considered poor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 L. Arrachea , A. Braggio , P. Burset , E. J. H. Lee , A. Levy Yeyati , R. Sánchez

Effects of collective modes on thermoelectric properties of a charge density system is studied. We derive the temperature dependence of thermoelectric power and thermal conductivity by applying the linear response theory to Fr\"ohlich…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroyuki Yoshimoto , Susumu Kurihara

Materials with axis-dependent conduction polarity are known as $p\times n$-type or goniopolar conductors that can be used for transverse thermoelectric devices, allowing the longitudinal thermal current to be converted into the transverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-18 Shoya Ohsumi , Yoshiki J. Sato , Ryuji Okazaki