Observation of nuclear-spin Seebeck effect

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26727
E-ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24623-6

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2021

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Thermoelectric effects have been applied to power generators and temperature sensors that convert waste heat into electricity. The effects, however, have been limited to electrons to occur, and inevitably disappear at low temperatures due to electronic entropy quenching. Here, we report thermoelectric generation caused by nuclear spins in a solid: nuclear-spin Seebeck effect. The sample is a magnetically ordered material MnCO3 having a large nuclear spin (I = 5/2) of 55Mn nuclei and strong hyperfine coupling, with a Pt contact. In the system, we observe low-temperature thermoelectric signals down to 100 mK due to nuclear-spin excitation. Our theoretical calculation in which interfacial Korringa process is taken into consideration quantitatively reproduces the results. The nuclear thermoelectric effect demonstrated here offers a way for exploring thermoelectric science and technologies at ultralow temperatures

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Electronic properties and materials| Magnetic properties and materials| Spintronics

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Nat Commun 2021, 12: 4356. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24623-6

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This work was supported by JST ERATO “Spin Quantum Rectification Project” (JPMJER1402), JST CREST (JPMJCR20C1 and JPMJCR20T2), JSPS KAKENHI (JP19H05600, JP19K21031, JP20H02599, JP20K22476, and JP20K15160), MEXT [Innovative Area “Nano Spin Conversion Science” (JP26103005)], and Daikin Industries, Ltd. The work at UCLA was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award number DE-SC0012190. K.O. acknowledges support from GP-Spin at Tohoku University. R.R. acknowledges support from the European Commission through the project 734187-SPICOLOST (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016), the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program through the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions grant agreement SPEC number 894006 and the Spanish Ministry of Science (RYC 2019-026915-I)

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