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Exploration of The Duality Between Generalized Geometry and Extraordinary Magnetoresistance

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Abstract

We outline the duality between the extraordinary magnetoresistance (EMR), observed in semiconductor-metal hybrids, and nonsymmetric gravity coupled to a diffusive U(1) gauge field. The corresponding gravity theory may be interpreted as the generalized complex geometry of the semidirect product of the symmetric metric and the antisymmetric Kalb-Ramond field: (gμν + βμν). We construct the four-dimensional covariant field theory and compute the resulting equations of motion. The equations encode the most general form of EMR within a well defined variational principle, for specific lower dimensional embedded geometric scenarios. Our formalism also reveals the emergence of additional diffusive pseudocurrents for a completely dynamic field theory of EMR. The proposed equations of motion now include terms that induce geometrical deformations in the device geometry in order to optimize the EMR. This bottom-up dual description between EMR and generalized geometry/gravity lends itself to a deeper insight into the EMR effect with the promise of potentially new physical phenomena and properties.

Publication: L. L. Rodriguez, S. L. Rodriguez, S. Bharadwaj, and L. R. Ram-Mohan (2020), `Exploration of the duality between generalized geometry and extraordinary magnetoresistance', Phys. Rev. B 101, 174417, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.174417

Presenters

  • Shanshan Rodriguez

    Grinnell College

Authors

  • Shanshan Rodriguez

    Grinnell College

  • Leo Rodriguez

    Grinnell College

  • Sathwik Bharadwaj

    Purdue University

  • L R Ram-Mohan

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute