Hall conductivity in the presence of spin-orbit interaction and disorder

Details Hall conductivity in the presence of spin-orbit interaction and disorder Hall conductivity in the presence of spin-orbit interaction and disorder

2008-01-09

arxiv.org/abs/0801.1348v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

Accepted for publication in Physical Review B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.78.214408

Starting from the Kubo formula, we expand the Hall conductivity using a cumulant approach which converges quickly at high temperatures (k_BT > energy differences of initial and final scattering states) and can be extended to low temperatures. The theory can deal with the sign, the ordinary and the anomalous contributions to the Hall effect. When applied to include the spin-orbit interaction to first order, we recover what is essentially the Karplus-Luttinger result for the anomalous Hall effect. Contact is made to the Chazalviel and Nozieres-Lewiner formulae. A side-jump type formula is obtained by using an exact application of linear response. We show that there exists an exact rigid Hall current which is not a Fermi level property. We introduce a relationship between mass and diffusivity which allows us to generalize the theory to strong disorder and even introduce a mobility edge. The formalism provides a systematic and practical way of analyzing both ordinary and anomalous contributions to the Hall conduction including the changes of sign, and in the presence of serious disorder. As a byproduct of the method, we show that the anomalous Hall coefficient can vary with resistance to the power n, with 1 <= n <= 2 depending on the degree of coherence.

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