Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Thermoelectric signature of the chiral anomaly in Cd3As2

  • Zhenzhao Jia,
  • Caizhen Li,
  • Xinqi Li,
  • Junren Shi,
  • Zhimin Liao,
  • Dapeng Yu,
  • Xiaosong Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13013
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The thermoelectric effect can be used to explore electronic properties. Here, the authors show experimentally that Cd3As2exhibits a negative magnetic thermopower which reverses sign at high field, and relate it to the chiral anomaly, a signature of Weyl fermions.