Probing the thermal Hall effect using miniature capacitive strontium titanate thermometry

Tinsman, Colin; Li, Gang; Su, Caroline; Asaba, Tomoya; Lawson, Benjamin; Yu, Fan; Li, Lu

doi:10.1063/1.4955069

Title: Probing the thermal Hall effect using miniature capacitive strontium titanate thermometry

Journal Article · Wed Jun 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4955069· OSTI ID:1467830

Tinsman, Colin ^[1]; Li, Gang ^[1]; Su, Caroline ^[2]; Asaba, Tomoya ^[1]; Lawson, Benjamin ^[1]; Yu, Fan ^[1]; Li, Lu ^[1]

Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics

The thermal Hall effect is the thermal analog of the electrical Hall effect. Rarely observed in normal metals, thermal Hall signals have been argued to be a key property for a number of strongly correlated materials, such as high temperature superconductors, correlated topological insulators, and quantum magnets. The observation of the thermal Hall effect requires precise measurement of temperature in intense magnetic fields. Particularly at low temperature, resistive thermometers have a strong dependence on field, which makes them unsuitable for this purpose. We have created capacitive thermometers which instead measure the dielectric constant of strontium titanate (SrTiO₃). SrTiO₃ approaches a ferroelectric transition, causing its dielectric constant to increase by a few orders of magnitude at low temperature. As a result, these thermometers are very sensitive at low temperature while having very little dependence on the applied magnetic field, making them ideal for thermal Hall measurements. Here, we demonstrate this method by making measurements of the thermal Hall effect in Bismuth in magnetic fields of up to 10 T.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); National Science Foundation (NSF); Heiwa Nakajima Foundation

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0008110; N00014-15-1-2382; ECCS-1307744; DMR-1428226; F031543

OSTI ID:: 1467830

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1259741

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 26; ISSN 0003-6951

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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