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A hybrid superconducting quantum dot acting as an efficient charge and spin Seebeck diode

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A hybrid superconducting quantum dot acting as an efficient charge and spin Seebeck diode
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We propose a highly efficient thermoelectric diode device built from the coupling of a quantum dot with a normal or ferromagnetic electrode and a superconducting reservoir. The current shows a strongly nonlinear behavior in the forward direction (positive thermal gradients) while it almost vanishes in the backward direction (negative thermal gradients). Our discussion is supported by a gauge-invariant current-conserving transport theory accounting for electron–electron interactions inside the dot. We find that the diode behavior is greatly tuned with external gate potentials, Zeeman splittings or lead magnetizations. Our results are thus relevant for the search of novel thermoelectric devices with enhanced functionalities.
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Diodes are essential building blocks in modern electronics where the electric current as a function of the voltage bias shows a strong asymmetry called rectification. When you apply the positive voltage, the current shows strongly nonlinear curves
whereas it almost vanishes with negative voltage. In this paper we propose a pure thermoelectric diode which acts as a function of the temperature gradient only. Our system is normal matter quantum dot superconductor hybrid where the quantum dot has a single level epsilon d
tuned over by a gate potential and we consider the Coulomb interaction in the mean field approximation in which case u is a function of the temperature gradient. The superconductor can be described by the energy of delta and we apply thermal gradient only to the normal matter.
Here are working principles of our device. When there is no voltage bias, which is our case, the sub gap transport is completely suppressed due to the particle hole symmetry and the quasiparticles can be activated only with the positive thermal bias
because in this case the Fermi function broadens and hence there are thermally excited quasiparticles which can tunnel through the system. But this is not the case when it cools the system down where the Fermi function sharpens so that the tunnel ring is blocked because of the superconducting gap.
So when you plot the charge current as a function of the temperature gradient, it actually shows a strong rectification and diode effects with the corresponding efficiencies eta very close to 1 irrespective of the tunnel broadening conditions. The details can be found in the paper.
The spin symmetry of the system can be broken by applying the magnetic field generating the Zeeman splittings of the quantum number level and also by using the ferromagnetic lead having the spin density balance.
In this case, the spin current can also be rectified with high efficiencies. Finally, we summarize the significance of this work. Thank you for watching this video and we hope you enjoy reading our paper.