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Probes to entropy flow in strange metals

The discovery of an unexpectedly large thermoelectric response in a 2D material establishes its power to probe the entropy carried by its charge carriers in the hotly debated strange metal phase.

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Fig. 1: Schematic of the Nernst effect.

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Li, L., Zhang, D. Probes to entropy flow in strange metals. Nat. Phys. 19, 307–308 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-01981-0

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