Nature Communications (Dec 2020)
Quantized thermoelectric Hall effect induces giant power factor in a topological semimetal
- Fei Han,
- Nina Andrejevic,
- Thanh Nguyen,
- Vladyslav Kozii,
- Quynh T. Nguyen,
- Tom Hogan,
- Zhiwei Ding,
- Ricardo Pablo-Pedro,
- Shreya Parjan,
- Brian Skinner,
- Ahmet Alatas,
- Ercan Alp,
- Songxue Chi,
- Jaime Fernandez-Baca,
- Shengxi Huang,
- Liang Fu,
- Mingda Li
Affiliations
- Fei Han
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Nina Andrejevic
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Thanh Nguyen
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Vladyslav Kozii
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Quynh T. Nguyen
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Tom Hogan
- Quantum Design, Inc.
- Zhiwei Ding
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ricardo Pablo-Pedro
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Shreya Parjan
- Department of Physics, Wellesley College
- Brian Skinner
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ahmet Alatas
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
- Ercan Alp
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
- Songxue Chi
- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Jaime Fernandez-Baca
- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Shengxi Huang
- Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
- Liang Fu
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mingda Li
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19850-2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
Theories predict a large thermopower and a quantized thermoelectric Hall conductivity in topological semimetals. Here, the authors observe an ultrahigh longitudinal thermopower and a giant power factor attributed to the quantized thermoelectric Hall effect in a Weyl semimetal TaP.
