Nernst effect in semi-metals: the meritorious heaviness of electrons

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2006-11-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611136v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076603 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, including 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.076603

We present a study of electric, thermal and thermoelectric transport in elemental Bismuth, which presents a Nernst coefficient much larger than what was found in correlated metals. We argue that this is due to the combination of an exceptionally low carrier density with a very long electronic mean-free-path. The low thermomagnetic figure of merit is traced to the lightness of electrons. Heavy-electron semi-metals, which keep a metallic behavior in presence of a magnetic field, emerge as promising candidates for thermomagnetic cooling at low temperatures.

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