Side jump contribution to spin-orbit mediated Hall effects and Berry curvature
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
Anomalous Hall effect and spin Hall effect originate due to spin-orbit coupling that in the Kohn-Luttinger formalism is represented by anomalous terms in the coordinate and velocity operators. Relation of these operators to the Berry curvature in the momentum space is presented for electrons in GaAs type semiconductors. For centrosymmetric semiconductors, transformational properties of Berry curvature are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0804.4181,
title = {Side jump contribution to spin-orbit mediated Hall effects and Berry curvature},
author = {Emmanuel I. Rashba},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.4181},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages. Accepted for a special issue of Fiz. Tech. Semicond. (Semiconductors, StPetersburg) dedicated to Vladimir I. Perel