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Anomalous Thermoelectric Effects of ZrTe5 in and beyond the Quantum Limit

Zhang, J. L.
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Wang, C. M.
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Guo, C. Y.
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November 6, 2019
Physical Review Letters

Thermoelectric effects are more sensitive and promising probes to topological properties of emergent materials, but much less addressed compared to other physical properties. We study the thermoelectric effects of ZrTe5 in a magnetic field. The presence of the nontrivial electrons leads to the anomalous Nernst effect and quasilinear field dependence of thermopower below the quantum limit. In the strong-field quantum limit, both the thermopower and Nernst signal exhibit exotic peaks. At higher magnetic fields, the Nernst signal has a sign reversal at a critical field where the thermopower approaches zero. We propose that these anomalous behaviors can be attributed to the gap closing of the zeroth Landau bands in topological materials with the band inversion. Our understanding to the anomalous thermoelectric properties in ZrTe5 opens a new avenue for exploring Dirac physics in topological materials.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.196602
Web of Science ID

WOS:000495073200012

Author(s)
Zhang, J. L.
Wang, C. M.
Guo, C. Y.
Zhu, X. D.
Zhang, Y.  
Yang, J. Y.
Wang, Y. Q.
Qu, Z.
Pi, L.
Lu, Hai-Zhou
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Date Issued

2019-11-06

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

123

Issue

19

Article Number

196602

Subjects

Physics, Multidisciplinary

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Physics

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fermi-surface

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