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We study the electronic contribution to the thermal conductivity and the thermopower of Weyl and Dirac semimetals using a semiclassical Boltzmann approach. We investigate the effect of various relaxation processes including disorder and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-16 Rex Lundgren , Pontus Laurell , Gregory A. Fiete

We present a study of the thermopower $S$ and the dimensionless figure of merit $ZT$ in molecules sandwiched between gold electrodes. We show that for molecules with side groups, the shape of the transmission coefficient can be dramatically…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 C. M. Finch , V. M. García-Suárez , C. J. Lambert

Within the framework of nonequilibrium Green's functions, we investigate the thermoelectric transport in a single molecular junction with electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions. By transforming into a displaced phonon basis, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Jie Ren , Jian-Xin Zhu , James E. Gubernatis , Chen Wang , Baowen Li

Thermoelectric effects result from the coupling of charge and heat transport, and can be used for thermometry, cooling and harvesting of thermal energy. The microscopic origin of thermoelectric effects is a broken electron-hole symmetry,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-08 S. Kolenda , P. Machon , D. Beckmann , W. Belzig

We review many-body effects, their microscopic origin, as well as their impact onto thermoelectricity in correlated narrow-gap semiconductors. Members of this class---such as FeSi and FeSb$_2$---display an unusual temperature dependence in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-11 Jan M. Tomczak

Here we present a theoretical analysis of inelastic effects on thermoelectric properties of molecular-scale junction in both linear and nonlinear response regimes. Considered device is composed of molecular quantum dot (with discrete energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Kamil Walczak

The thermoelectric response of 80-nm-thick strained HgTe films of a three-dimensional topological insulator (3D TI) has been studied experimentally. An ambipolar thermopower is observed where the Fermi energy moves from conducting to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 G. M. Gusev , Z. D. Kvon , A. D. Levin , N. N. Mikhailov

Thermopower and electrical resistivity measurements transverse to the conducting chains of the quasi-one-dimensional metal Li(0.9)Mo(6)O(17) are reported in the temperature range 5 K <= T <= 500 K. For T>= 400 K the interchain transport is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 J. L. Cohn , S. Moshfeghyeganeh , C. A. M. dos Santos , J. J. Neumeier

We consider a transmission of electrons through a two-dimensional ballistic point contact in the low-conductance regime below the 0.7-anomaly. The scattering of electrons by Friedel oscillations of charge density results in a contribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Tatiana Krishtop , Kirill Nagaev

We present thermoelectric power and resistivity measurements in the ferromagnet UGe$_2$ as a function of temperature and magnetic field. At low temperature, huge quantum oscillations are observed in the thermoelectric power as a function of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-04 A. Palacio Morales , A. Pourret , G. Knebel , G. Bastien , V. Taufour , D. Aoki , H. Yamagami , J. Flouquet

It is widely believed that temperature gradient does not induce electric field in the superconductor and consequently that thermoelectric effects do not exist, or are negligible in these materials. This statement is correct only as far as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Kolacek , Tzong-Jer Yang

We consider a mesoscopic four-terminal superconductor/normal metal (S/N) structure in the presence of a temperature gradient along the N wire. A thermoemf arises in this system even in the absence of the thermoelectric quasiparticle current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. F. Volkov , V. V. Pavlovskii

We study the dependence of the $p$-wave contact on the Fermi temperature $T_F$ and reduced temperature $T/T_F$ based on the number of closed-channel molecules. From the anisotropic pattern of dissociated molecules, we resolve the narrow…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-12 Kenta Nagase , Hikaru Takahashi , Soki Oshima , Takashi Mukaiyama

We have simultaneously measured conductance and thermoelectric power (TEP) of individual silicon and germanium/silicon core/shell nanowires in the field effect transistor device configuration. As the applied gate voltage changes, the TEP…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Yuri M. Brovman , Joshua P. Small , Yongjie Hu , Ying Fang , Charles M. Lieber , Philip Kim

A two-site nanostructure (e.g, a "molecule") bridging two conducting leads and connected to a phonon bath is considered. The two relevant levels closest to the Fermi energy are connected each to its lead. The leads have slightly different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-02 Jian-Hua Jiang , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Yoseph Imry

We experimentally investigate thermoelectric response of a 100~nm thick SnSe single crystal flake under the current-induced dc electric field. Thermoelectric response appears as a second-harmonic transverse voltage $V_{xy}^{2\omega}$, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 N. N. Orlova , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

Controlling the direction and magnitude of both heat and electronic currents using rectifiers has significant implications for the advancement of molecular circuit design. In order to facilitate the implementation of new transport phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-02 Galen T. Craven , Dahai He , Abraham Nitzan

We study theoretically the length dependence of both conductance and thermopower in metal-molecule-metal junctions made up of dithiolated oligophenylenes contacted to gold electrodes. We find that while the conductance decays exponentially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-24 F. Pauly , J. K. Viljas , J. C. Cuevas

Thermoelectric effects in $p-n$ junctions are widely used for energy generation with thermal gradients, creation of compact Peltier refrigerators and, most recently, for sensitive detection of infrared and terahertz radiation. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Aleksandr S. Petrov , Dmitry Svintsov

In two-dimensional Fermi liquids (FLs), odd-parity Fermi surface deformations have anomalously slow relaxation rates that are suppressed as $T^4$ with temperature $T$, distinct from the standard FL $T^2$ scaling. We demonstrate here that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Johannes Hofmann , Habib Rostami