Fano-Rashba effect and enhancement of figure of merit and violation of Wiedemann-Franz law

In the present article, we study the spin-dependent thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot connected to two ferromagnetic contacts. We obtain results for the conductance, thermopower, thermal conductance, Lorentz ratio and figure of merit. The transmission probability shows antiresonances as a f...

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Autor: de Paula Almeida Lima, Rodrigo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Repositorio:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
OAI Identifier:oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/47435
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2019.113618
https://hdl.handle.net/10578/47435
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fano-Rashba effect
Wiedemann-Franz law
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Sumario:In the present article, we study the spin-dependent thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot connected to two ferromagnetic contacts. We obtain results for the conductance, thermopower, thermal conductance, Lorentz ratio and figure of merit. The transmission probability shows antiresonances as a function of the energy due to the quantum interference effects. It results in a violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law which produces an improvement of the spin-dependent thermopower and the merit figure of the system. This set up can be used to design new spin-dependent thermoelectric devices with high efficiencies.