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Anomalous Hall effect in 2D Dirac materials

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-09-21 v3

Abstract

We present a unified theory of charge carrier transport in 2D Dirac systems with broken mirror inversion and time-reversal symmetries (e.g., as realized in ferromagnetic graphene). We find that the entanglement between spin and pseudospin SU(2) degrees of freedom stemming from spin-orbit effects leads to a distinctive gate voltage dependence (change of sign) of the anomalous Hall conductivity approaching the topological gap, which remains robust against impurity scattering and thus is a smoking gun for magnetized 2D Dirac fermions. Furthermore, we unveil a robust skew scattering mechanism, modulated by the spin texture of the energy bands, which causes a net spin accumulation at the sample boundaries even for spin-transparent disorder. The newly unveiled extrinsic spin Hall effect is readily tunable by a gate voltage and opens novel opportunities for the control of spin currents in 2D ferromagnetic materials.

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@article{arxiv.1801.07713,
  title  = {Anomalous Hall effect in 2D Dirac materials},
  author = {Manuel Offidani and Aires Ferreira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.07713},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures + supplemental material (16 pages, 9 figures). Title and references updated

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