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American Institute of Physics, APL Materials, 9(10), p. 091111, 2022

DOI: 10.1063/5.0097460

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Large magneto-thermoelectric effect on the verge of metal–insulator and topological transitionsin pyrochlore iridates

Journal article published in 2022 by Kentaro Ueda ORCID, Jun Fujioka ORCID, Naoya Kanazawa ORCID, Yoshinori Tokura ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We investigate the Seebeck and Nernst effects of pyrochlore iridium oxides (Nd1− xPr x)2Ir2O7 across the thermally induced and magnetic field-induced metal–insulator and topological transitions. Nd2Ir2O7 exhibits the salient temperature dependence of the Seebeck coefficient accompanied by the enhancement of the Nernst effect in the vicinity of the thermal magnetic transitions. Moreover, the Seebeck coefficient shows a remarkable magnetic field hysteresis with the differential magnitude reaching as large as 110 μV/K, as the conductive magnetic domain walls are generated/annihilated by the external field. For x = 0.5, the Nernst signal increases rapidly across the field-induced metal–insulator transitions, exceeding the values reported in existing ferromagnetic oxides. These findings indicate that the thermoelectric effects increase significantly near the topological electronic phase transitions in strongly correlated systems, providing a new guideline for thermoelectric material design.