We study the effect of disorder on the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in two-dimensional ferromagnets. The topological nature of AHE leads to the integer quantum Hall effect from a metal, i.e., the quantization of σxy induced by the localization except for the few extended states carrying Chern number. Extensive numerical study on a model reveals that Pruisken's two-parameter scaling theory holds even when the system has no gap with the overlapping multibands and without the uniform magnetic field. Therefore the condition for the quantized AHE is given only by the Hall conductivity σxy without the quantum correction, i.e., ∣σxy∣>e2/(2h).
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0301482,
title = {Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect in Two-Dimensional Ferromagnets - Quantum Hall Effect from Metal -},
author = {Masaru Onoda and Naoto Nagaosa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0301482},
year = {2009}
}