Parity Violation in Aharonov-Bohm Systems: The Spontaneous Hall Effect

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1993-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9312085v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

12 pages (4 figures available upon request), RevTex, EHU-FT-93/10

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.49.14460

We show how macroscopic manifestations of $P$ (and $T$) symmetry breaking can arise in a simple system subject to Aharonov-Bohm interactions. Specifically, we study the conductivity of a gas of charged particles moving through a dilute array of flux tubes. The interaction of the electrons with the flux tubes is taken to be of a purely Aharonov-Bohm type. We find that the system exhibits a non-zero transverse conductivity, i.e., a spontaneous Hall effect. This is in contrast with the fact that the cross sections for both scattering and bremsstrahlung (soft photon emission) of a single electron from a flux tube are invariant under reflections. We argue that the asymmetry in the conductivity coefficients arises from many-body effects. On the other hand, the transverse conductivity has the same dependence on universal constants that appears in the Quantum Hall Effect, a result that we relate to the validity of the Mean Field approximation.

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