Thermoelectric transport of type-I, II, and III massless Dirac fermions in two-dimensional lattice model

Abstract

We study longitudinal electric and thermoelectric transport coefficients of Dirac fermions on a simple lattice model where tuning of a single parameter enables us to change the type of Dirac cones from type-I to type-II. We pay particular attention to the behavior of the critical situation, i.e., the type-III Dirac cone. We find that the transport coefficients of the type-III Dirac fermions behave neither the limiting case of the type-I nor type-II. On one hand, the qualitative behaviors of the type-III case are similar to those of the type-I. On the other hand, the transport coefficients do not change monotonically upon increasing the tilting, namely, the largest thermoelectric response is obtained not for the type-III case but for the optically tilted type-I case. For the optimal case, the sizable transport coefficients are obtained, e.g., the dimensionless figure of merit being 0.18.