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Temperature Dependence of the Anomalous Hall Effect from Electron Interactions

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2020-04-20 v2

Abstract

We consider the impact of electron-electron interactions on the temperature dependence of the anomalous Hall effect in disordered conductors. The microscopic analysis is carried out within the diagrammatic approach of the linear response Kubo-Streda formula with an account of both extrinsic skew-scattering and side-jump mechanisms of the anomalous Hall effect arising in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. We demonstrate the importance of electron interactions in the Cooper channel even for nominally non-superconducting materials and find that the corresponding low-temperature dependence of the anomalous Hall conductivity is asymptotically of the form T/ln(T0/T)\sqrt{T}/\ln(T_0/T) in three dimensions and ln[ln(T0/T)]\ln[\ln(T_0/T)] in two dimensions, where the scale of T0T_0 is parametrically of the order of Fermi energy. These results, in particular, may provide an explanation for the recently observed unconventional temperature dependence of the anomalous Hall effect in HgCr2_2Se4_4.

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@article{arxiv.1910.09555,
  title  = {Temperature Dependence of the Anomalous Hall Effect from Electron Interactions},
  author = {Songci Li and Alex Levchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.09555},
  year   = {2020}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures