Model for a Macroscopically Disordered Conductor with an Exactly Linear High-Field Magnetoresistance
Materials Science
2009-11-11 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
We calculate the effective resistivity of a macroscopically disordered two dimensional conductor consisting of two components in a perpendicular magnetic field. When two components have equal area fractions, we use a duality theorem to show that the magnetoresistance is non-saturating and at high fields varies exactly linearly with magnetic field. At other compositions, an effective medium calculation leads to a saturating magnetoresistance. We briefly discuss possible connections between these results and magnetoresistance measurements on heavily disordered chalconide semiconductors.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502162,
title = {Model for a Macroscopically Disordered Conductor with an Exactly Linear High-Field Magnetoresistance},
author = {Vishwesha Guttal and David Stroud},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502162},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 EPS figures, REVTEX style; Typos and Figures 1 and 2 corrected