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Temperature Dependence of the Anomalous Hall Effect from Electron Interactions

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Abstract

We consider the impact of electron-electron interactions on the temperature dependence of the anomalous Hall effect in disordered conductors. The microscopic analysis is carried out within the diagrammatic approach of the
linear response Kubo-Streda formula with an account of both extrinsic skew-scattering and side-jump mechanisms of the anomalous Hall effect arising in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. We demonstrate the importance of
electron interactions in the Cooper channel even for nominally non-superconducting materials and find that the corresponding low-temperature dependence of the anomalous Hall conductivity is asymptotically of the form
T1/2/ln(T0/T) in three dimensions and ln[ln(T0/T)] in two dimensions, where the scale of T0 is parametrically of the order of Fermi energy. These results, in particular, may provide an explanation for the recently observed unconventional temperature dependence of the anomalous Hall effect in HgCr2Se4.

Presenters

  • Songci Li

    University of Wisconsin - Madison

Authors

  • Songci Li

    University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Alex Levchenko

    University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin - Madison