Transport of topological semimetals

J Hu, SY Xu, N Ni, Z Mao - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Three-dimensional (3D) topological semimetals represent a new class of topological
matters. The study of this family of materials has been at the frontiers of condensed matter …

Colossal Nernst power factor in topological semimetal NbSb2

P Li, P Qiu, Q Xu, J Luo, Y **ong, J **ao, N Aryal… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Today solid-state cooling technologies below liquid nitrogen boiling temperature (77 K),
crucial to quantum information technology and probing quantum state of matter, are greatly …

Dirac dispersion generates unusually large Nernst effect in Weyl semimetals

SJ Watzman, TM McCormick, C Shekhar, SC Wu… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Weyl semimetals contain linearly dispersing electronic states, offering interesting features in
transport yet to be thoroughly explored thermally. Here we show how the Nernst effect …

Large transverse thermoelectric figure of merit in a topological Dirac semimetal

JS **ang, SL Hu, M Lyu, WL Zhu, CY Ma… - Science China Physics …, 2020 - Springer
The Seebeck effect encounters a few fundamental constraints hindering its thermoelectric
(TE) conversion efficiency. Most notably, there are the charge compensation of electrons …

Large Nernst power factor over a broad temperature range in polycrystalline Weyl semimetal NbP

C Fu, SN Guin, SJ Watzman, G Li, E Liu… - Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The discovery of topological materials has provided new opportunities to exploit advanced
materials for heat-to-electricity energy conversion as they share many common …

Anomalous Nernst and thermal Hall effects in tilted Weyl semimetals

Y Ferreiros, AA Zyuzin, JH Bardarson - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We study the anomalous Nernst and thermal Hall effects in a linearized low-energy model of
a tilted Weyl semimetal, with two Weyl nodes separated in momentum space. For inversion …

Extremely high conductivity observed in the triple point topological metal MoP

N Kumar, Y Sun, M Nicklas, SJ Watzman… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Weyl and Dirac fermions have created much attention in condensed matter physics and
materials science. Recently, several additional distinct types of fermions have been …

Anomalous Thermoelectric Effects of in and beyond the Quantum Limit

JL Zhang, CM Wang, CY Guo, XD Zhu, Y Zhang… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Thermoelectric effects are more sensitive and promising probes to topological properties of
emergent materials, but much less addressed compared to other physical properties. We …

[HTML][HTML] Largely suppressed magneto-thermal conductivity and enhanced magneto-thermoelectric properties in PtSn4

C Fu, SN Guin, T Scaffidi, Y Sun, R Saha, SJ Watzman… - Research, 2020 - spj.science.org
Highly conductive topological semimetals with exotic electronic structures offer fertile ground
for the investigation of the electrical and thermal transport behavior of quasiparticles. Here …

Quantum materials for thermoelectricity

J Gooth, G Schierning, C Felser, K Nielsch - MRS Bulletin, 2018 - cambridge.org
Research in thermoelectric (TE) quantum structures was greatly propelled by the prediction
in the early 1990s of a significant boost in TE efficiency by quantum size effects. Recently …