• 文献标题:   Thermoelectric current in a graphene Cooper pair splitter
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TAN ZB, LAITINEN A, KIRSANOV NS, GALDA A, VINOKUR VM, HAQUE M, SAVIN A, GOLUBEV DS, LESOVIK GB, HAKONEN PJ
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   2041-1723
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  • 被引频次:   22
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41467-020-20476-7
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Generation of electric voltage in a conductor by applying a temperature gradient is a fundamental phenomenon called the Seebeck effect. This effect and its inverse is widely exploited in diverse applications ranging from thermoelectric power generators to temperature sensing. Recently, a possibility of thermoelectricity arising from the interplay of the non-local Cooper pair splitting and the elastic co-tunneling in the hybrid normal metal-superconductor-normal metal structures was predicted. Here, we report the observation of the non-local Seebeck effect in a graphene-based Cooper pair splitting device comprising two quantum dots connected to an aluminum superconductor and present a theoretical description of this phenomenon. The observed non-local Seebeck effect offers an efficient tool for producing entangled electrons. Thermoelectricity due to the interplay of the nonlocal Cooper pair splitting and the elastic co-tunneling in normal metal-superconductor-normal metal structure is predicted. Here, the authors observe the non-local Seebeck effect in a graphene-based Cooper pair splitting device.