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Critical enhancement of thermopower in a chemically tuned polar semimetal MoTe
Ferroelectrics with spontaneous electric polarization play an essential role
in today's device engineering, such as capacitors and memories. Their physical
properties are further enriched by suppressing the long-range polar order, as
is exemplified by quantum paraelectrics with giant piezoelectric and dielectric
responses at low temperatures. Likewise in metals, a polar lattice distortion
has been theoretically predicted to give rise to various unusual physical
properties. So far, however, a "ferroelectric"-like transition in metals has
seldom been controlled and hence its possible impacts on transport phenomena
remain unexplored. Here we report the discovery of anomalous enhancement of
thermopower near the critical region between the polar and nonpolar metallic
phases in 1T'-MoNbTe with a chemically tunable polar
transition. It is unveiled from the first-principles calculations and
magnetotransport measurements that charge transport with strongly
energy-dependent scattering rate critically evolves towards the boundary to the
nonpolar phase, resulting in large cryogenic thermopower. Such a significant
influence of the structural instability on transport phenomena might arise from
the fluctuating or heterogeneous polar metallic states, which would pave a
novel route to improving thermoelectric efficiency.Comment: 26 pages, 4 figure
μ-crystallin, a NADPH-dependent T-3-binding protein in cytosol
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Advanced Design of the Three-surface-multilayered Channel by Optimizing Structure of the Metal Layer
Ferromagnetism in a Hubbard model for an atomic quantum wire: a realization of flat-band magnetism from even-membered rings
We have examined a Hubbard model on a chain of squares, which was proposed by
Yajima et al as a model of an atomic quantum wire As/Si(100), to show that the
flat-band ferromagnetism according to a kind of Mielke-Tasaki mechanism should
be realized for an appropriate band filling in such a non-frustrated lattice.
Reflecting the fact that the flat band is not a bottom one, the ferromagnetism
vanishes, rather than intensified, as the Hubbard U is increased. The exact
diagonalization method is used to show that the critical value of U is in a
realistic range. We also discussed the robustness of the magnetism against the
degradation of the flatness of the band.Comment: misleading terms and expressions are corrected, 4 pages, RevTex, 5
figures in Postscript, to be published in Phys. Rev. B (rapid communication
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