Anomalous Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The anomalous Hall effect in a magnetic two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is studied within the Kubo-Streda formalism in the presence of pointlike potential impurities. We find that all contributions to the anomalous Hall conductivity vanish to leading order in disorder strength when both chiral subbands are occupied. In the situation that only the majority subband is occupied, all terms are finite in the weak scattering limit and the total anomalous Hall conductivity is dominated by skew scattering. We compare our results to previous treatments and resolve some of the discrepancies present in the literature. 2007 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW B

author list (cited authors)

  • Nunner, T. S., Sinitsyn, N. A., Borunda, M. F., Dugaev, V. K., Kovalev, A. A., Abanov, A. r., ... Sinova, J.

citation count

  • 73

complete list of authors

  • Nunner, Tamara S||Sinitsyn, NA||Borunda, Mario F||Dugaev, VK||Kovalev, AA||Abanov, Ar||Timm, Carsten||Jungwirth, T||Inoue, Jun-ichiro||MacDonald, AH||Sinova, Jairo

publication date

  • December 2007