Administration of EMP-related Publications
year | 2021 |
author(s) | Z. B. Tan, A. Laitinen, N. S. Kirsanov, A. Galda, V. M. Vinokur, M. Haque, A. Savin, D. S. Golubev, G. B. Lesovik & P. J. Hakonen |
title | Thermoelectric current in a graphene Cooper pair splitter |
document type | Paper |
source | Nat Commun 12, 138 (2021) |
doi | 10.1038/s41467-020-20476-7 |
arxiv | https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13286 |
EMP/Horizon2020 | This publication includes a EMP/Horizon2020 acknowledgement. |
abstract | 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. |