Magnetic field influenced electron-impurity scattering and magnetotransport
Abstract
We formulate a quasiclassical theory ( with as the cyclotron frequency and as the relaxation time) to study the influence of magnetic field on electron-impurity scattering process in the two-dimensional electron gas. We introduce a general recipe based on an abstraction of the detailed impurity scattering process to define the scattering parameter such as the incoming and outgoing momentum and coordinate jump. In this picture, we can conveniently describe the skew scattering and coordinate jump, which will eventually modify the Boltzmann equation. We find an anomalous Hall resistivity different from the conventional Boltzmann-Drude result and a negative magnetoresistivity parabolic in magnetic field. The origin of these results has been analyzed. The relevance between our theory and recent simulation and experimental works is also discussed. Our theory dominates in dilute impurity system where the correlation effect is negligible.
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@article{arxiv.1710.05273,
title = {Magnetic field influenced electron-impurity scattering and magnetotransport},
author = {Jingjing Feng and Cong Xiao and Yang Gao and Qian Niu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05273},
year = {2019}
}