Abstract
A generalization of Buttiker's voltage probe concept for nonzero temperatures is an open third terminal of a quantum thermoelectric circuit. An explicit analytic expression for the thermoelectric correction to an ideal quantum voltage measurement is derived, and interpreted in terms of local Peltier cooling/heating within the nonequilibrium system. The thermoelectric correction is found to be large (up to +-24% of the peak voltage) in a prototypical ballistic quantum conductor (graphene nanoribbon). The effects of measurement non-ideality are also investigated. Our findings have important implications for precision local electrical measurements.
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