Thermopower in an anisotropic two-dimensional Weyl semimetal
Original version
Mandal, I., Saha, K. (2020) Thermopower in an anisotropic two-dimensional Weyl semimetal. Physical Review B, 101(4) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.045101Abstract
We investigate the generation of an electric current from a temperature gradient in a two-dimensional Weyl semimetal with anisotropy in both the presence and absence of a quantizing magnetic field. We show that the anisotropy leads to doping dependences of thermopower and thermal conductivities which are different from those in isotropic Dirac materials. Additionally, we find that a quantizing magnetic field in such systems leads to an interesting magnetic field dependence of the longitudinal thermopower, resulting in unsaturated thermoelectric coefficients. Thus, the results presented here will serve as a guide to achieving high thermopower and a thermoelectric figure of merit in graphene-based materials, as well as organic conductors such as α-BEDT-TTF2I3.