Thermal Hall effect
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The Thermal hall effect is the thermal analog of the Hall effect for conductors. In particular, the Righi-Leduc Effect describes the heat flow resulting from a perpendicular temperature gradient and vice versa, and the Maggi-Righi-Leduc effect describes changes in thermal conductivity when placing a conductor in a magnetic field.
Measurements of the thermal hall conducitivity are used to determine the electronic, as opposed to lattice, contributions to changes in thermal conductivity. These measurements are especially useful when studying superconductors.
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