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Nanoscale conductors are interesting for thermoelectrics because of their particular spectral features connecting separated heat and particle currents. Multiterminal devices in the quantum regime benefit from phase-coherent phenomena, which…

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In this article we review the thermoelectric properties of three terminal devices with Coulomb coupled quantum dots (QDs) as observed in recent experiments [1,2]. The system we consider consists of two Coulomb-blockade QDs one of which can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Holger Thierschmann , Rafael Sánchez , Björn Sothmann , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We study thermoelectric effects in superconducting nanobridges and demonstrate that the magnitude of these effects can be comparable or even larger than that for a macroscopic superconducting circuit. The reason is related to a possibility…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 V. L. Gurevich , V. I. Kozub , A. L. Shelankov

We study the quantum anomalous thermal Hall effect in a topological superconductor which possesses an integer bulk topological number, and supports Majorana excitations on the surface. To realize the quantum thermal Hall effect, a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-01 Yosuke Shimizu , Ai Yamakage , Kentaro Nomura

Thermoelectric power due to coherent electron transmission through a quantum dot is theoretically studied. In addition to the known features related to resonant peaks, we show that a novel significant structure appears between the peaks.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Takeshi Nakanishi , Takeo Kato

Thermoelectric transport of two-dimensional quantum spin Hall systems are theoretically studied in narrow ribbon geometry. We find that at high temperature electrons in the bulk states dominate. By lowering temperature, the "perfectly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-12 Ryuji Takahashi , Shuichi Murakami

In this Letter we study thermoelectric effects in ultra small quantum dots. We study the behaviour of the thermopower, Peltier coefficient and thermal conductance both in the sequencial tunneling regime and in the regime where Kondo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel Boese , Rosario Fazio

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a fundamental quantum transport phenomenon that manifests as a quantized transverse conductance in response to a longitudinally applied electric field in the absence of an external magnetic field,…

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

We report the observation of TEMPERATURE-INDUCED transitions between insulator, metal, and quantum-Hall behaviors for transport coefficients in the very dilute high mobility two-dimensional electron system in silicon. We consider the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Kravchenko , Whitney Mason , J. E. Furneaux , J. M. Caulfield , J. Singleton , V. M. Pudalov

The creation of topologically non-trivial matter across electronic, mechanical, cold-atom, and photonic platforms is advancing rapidly, yet understanding the breakdown of topological protection remains a major challenge. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 George M. Ferguson , Run Xiao , Anthony R. Richardella , Austin Kaczmarek , Nitin Samarth , Katja C. Nowack

We propose an experimental scheme to simulate the dynamical quantum Hall effect and the related interaction-induced topological transition with a superconducting-qubit array. We show that a one-dimensional Heisenberg model with tunable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Xu-Chen Yang , Dan-Wei Zhang , Peng Xu , Yang Yu , Shi-Liang Zhu

Two-dimensional topological insulators, and in particular quantum Hall states, are characterized by an insulating bulk and a conducting edge. Fractional states may host both downstream (dictated by the magnetic field) and upstream…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Ron Aharon Melcer , Bivas Dutta , Christian Spånslätt , Jinhong Park , Alexander D. Mirlin , Vladimir Umansky

Quantum thermal transistor is a microscopic thermodynamical device that can modulate and amplify heat current through two terminals by the weak heat current at the third terminal. Here we study the common environmental effects on a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Yu-qiang Liu , Deng-hui Yu , Chang-shui Yu

We present the theoretical description for a class of experimental setups that measure quantum Hall coefficients in ferromagnet-topological insulator-ferromagnet (FM-TI-FM) junctions. We predict that varying the magnetization direction in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. L. Chudnovskiy , V. Kagalovsky

We analyze the thermoelectric cooling properties of a Corbino device in the quantum Hall regime on the basis of experimental data of electrical conductance. We focus on the cooling power and the coefficient of performance within and beyond…

The thermal Hall effect has emerged as a fundamental tool for probing exotic quasiparticles and topological order, particularly in magnetic insulators where electronic conduction is suppressed. Much like skyrmions, which are characterized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ferenc Márkus , Katalin Gambár

A system of electrons in two dimensions and strong magnetic fields can be tuned to create a gapped 2D system with one dimensional channels along the edge. Interactions among these edge modes can lead to independent transport of charge and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Vivek Venkatachalam , Sean Hart , Loren Pfeiffer , Ken West , Amir Yacoby

We investigate the thermoelectric properties of electrons at the interface of oxide heterostructure and in the presence of a multiferroic oxide with spiral spin order. We find there is no (spin) Hall current generated by the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chenglong Jia , Jamal Berakdar

It is shown that the observed Quantum Hall Effect in epitaxial layers of heavily doped n-type GaAs with thickness (50-140 nm) larger the mean free path of the conduction electrons (15-30 nm) and, therefore, with a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. S. Murzin , I. Claus , A. G. M. Jansen , N. T. Moshegov , A. I. Toropov , K. Eberl