Observation of a thermoelectric Hall plateau in the extreme quantum limit
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Skinner, Brian J
Kozii, Vladyslav
Fu, Liang
Date Issued
February 2020
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Nature Communications
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Zhang, Wenjie et al. “Observation of a thermoelectric Hall plateau in the extreme quantum limit.” Nature Communications, 11, 1 (February 2020): article 1046 © 2020 The Author(s)
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Abstract
The thermoelectric Hall effect is the generation of a transverse heat current upon applying an electric field in the presence of a magnetic field. Here, we demonstrate that the thermoelectric Hall conductivity αxy in the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal ZrTe5 acquires a robust plateau in the extreme quantum limit of magnetic field. The plateau value is independent of the field strength, disorder strength, carrier concentration, or carrier sign. We explain this plateau theoretically and show that it is a unique signature of three-dimensional Dirac or Weyl electrons in the extreme quantum limit. We further find that other thermoelectric coefficients, such as the thermopower and Nernst coefficient, are greatly enhanced over their zero-field values even at relatively low fields.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1038/S41467-020-14819-7
