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A Geometrical Description of the "Classical" Weak-Field Hall Effect in Metals

Materials Science 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Within the ``anisotropic relaxation time'' approach to transport processes, I obtain a new geometric formula for the weak-field Hall conductivity of metals, which generalizes previously-known formulas due to Tsuji (restricted to cubic 3D metals) and Ong (for 2D metals).

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0504227,
  title  = {A Geometrical Description of the "Classical" Weak-Field Hall Effect in Metals},
  author = {F. D. M. Haldane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0504227},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure; minor modification to emphasize that the 2nd form of the expression as an integral in l-space is inspired by Ong's 2D work