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In the recent years, the thermal Hall transport has risen as an important diagnosis of the physical properties of the elementary excitations in various quantum materials, especially among the Mott insulating systems where the electronic…

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The quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE), a hallmark of topological insulators, enables dissipationless, spin-polarized edge transport and has been predicted in various two-dimensional materials. However, challenges such as limited scalability,…

In this perspective, we discuss thermal imbalance and the associated electron-mediated thermal transport in quantum electronic devices at very low temperatures. We first present the theoretical approaches describing heat transport in…

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We present a study on inelastic thermoelectric devices, wherein charge currents and electronic and phononic heat currents are intricately interconnected. The employment of double quantum dots in conjunction with a phonon bath positions them…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Bei Cao , Chongze Han , Xiang Hao , Chen Wang , Jincheng Lu

Separating heat from charge in a material is an extremely challenging task since they are transported by the very same carriers, i.e. electrons or holes. In this Letter we show that such separation can reach 100% efficiency in a hybrid…

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We discuss the nonlinear current of an interacting quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting reservoirs with applied voltage and temperature differences. Due to the particle-hole symmetry introduced by the superconducting lead, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez

We study transport properties and topological phase transition in two-dimensional interacting disordered systems. Within dynamical mean-field theory, we derive the Hall conductance, which is quantized and serves as a topological invariant…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-27 Jun-Hui Zheng , Tao Qin , Walter Hofstetter

Interfaces play an essential role in phonon-mediated heat conduction in solids, impacting applications ranging from thermoelectric waste heat recovery to heat dissipation in electronics. From the microscopic perspective, interfacial phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Chengyun Hua , Xiangwen Chen , Navaneetha K. Ravichandran , Austin J. Minnich

We study the quantum Hall effect in a monolayer graphene by using an approach based on thermodynamical properties. This can be done by considering a system of Dirac particles in an electromagnetic field and taking into account of the edges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Ahmed Jellal

Quantum dots are useful model systems for studying quantum thermoelectric behavior because of their highly energy-dependent electron transport properties, which are tunable by electrostatic gating. As a result of this strong energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-17 Artis Svilans , Adam M. Burke , Sofia Fahlvik Svensson , Martin Leijnse , Heiner Linke

The quantum Hall effect is studied in the topological insulator BiSbTeSe$_2$. By employing top- and back-gate electric fields at high magnetic field, the Landau levels of the Dirac cones in the top and bottom topological surface states can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Chuan Li , Bob de Ronde , Artem Nikitin , Yingkai Huang , Mark S. Golden , Anne de Visser , Alexander Brinkman

Quantum thermodynamics is emerging both as a topic of fundamental research and as means to understand and potentially improve the performance of quantum devices. A prominent platform for achieving the necessary manipulation of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Alberto Ronzani , Bayan Karimi , Jorden Senior , Yu-Cheng Chang , Joonas T. Peltonen , ChiiDong Chen , Jukka P. Pekola

In this paper, we present the theoretical predication of a thermospin Hall effect, in which a transverse spin current can be generated in semiconductors in the presence of spin-orbit coupling by a frequency-dependent longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-05 Zhongshui Ma

We consider a quantum Hall system with an antidot acting as an energy dependent scatterer. In the purely charge case, we find deviations from the Wiedemann-Franz law that take place in the nonlinear regime of transport. We also discuss…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rosa Lopez , Sun-Yong Hwang , David Sanchez

We report a numerical renormalization-group study of the thermoelectric effect in the single-electron transistor (SET) and side-coupled geometries. As expected, the computed thermal conductance and thermopower curves show signatures of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Yoshida , L. N. Oliveira

The quantum Hall effect is studied numerically in modulated two-dimensional electron systems in the presence of disorder. Based on the scaling property of the Hall conductivity as well as the localization length, the critical energies where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

The presence of interfaces in semiconductor devices substantially hinders thermal transport, contributing disproportionately to the overall thermal resistance. However, approaches to enhance interfacial thermal transport remain scarce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yizhe Liu , Bo Sun

A three-terminal conductor presents peculiar thermoelectric and thermal properties in the quantum Hall regime: it can behave as a symmetric rectifier and as an ideal thermal diode. These properties rely on the coherent propagation along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-18 Rafael Sánchez , Björn Sothmann , Andrew N. Jordan

The spin and integer quantum Hall effects are two cousins of topological phase transitions in two-dimensional electronic systems. Their close relationship makes it possible to transform spin to integer quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Maksim Parfenov , Igor Burmistrov

Transmission through a quantum point contact (QPC) in the quantum Hall regime usually exhibits multiple resonances as a function of gate voltage and high nonlinearity in bias. Such behavior is unpredictable and changes sample by sample.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Changki Hong , Jinhong Park , Yunchul Chung , Hyungkook Choi , Vladimir Umansky