Anomalous Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas
Materials Science
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
The anomalous Hall effect in a magnetic two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is studied within the Kubo-Streda formalism in the presence of pointlike potential impurities. We find that all contributions to the anomalous Hall conductivity vanish to leading order in disorder strength when both chiral subbands are occupied. In the situation that only the majority subband is occupied, all terms are finite in the weak scattering limit and the total anomalous Hall conductivity is dominated by skew scattering. We compare our results to previous treatments and resolve some of the discrepancies present in the literature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0706.0056,
title = {Anomalous Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas},
author = {Tamara S. Nunner and N. A. Sinitsyn and Mario F. Borunda and A. A. Kovalev and Ar. Abanov and Carsten Timm and T. Jungwirth and Jun-ichiro Inoue and A. H. MacDonald and Jairo Sinova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.0056},
year = {2009}
}