26 research outputs found
Hybrid skew scattering regime of the anomalous Hall effect in Rashba systems: unifying Keldysh, Boltzmann, and Kubo formalisms
We present the analytical description of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in a
2DEG ferromagnet within the Keldysh formalism. These results unify all three
linear response approaches to anomalous Hall transport and close a long
standing debate. We are able to identify a new extrinsic AHE regime dominated
by a hybrid skew scattering mechanism. This new contribution is inversely
proportional to the impurity concentration, resembling the normal skew
scattering, {\em but} independent of the impurity-strength, resembling the
side-jump mechanism. Within the Kubo formalism this regime is captured by
higher order diagrams which, although weak, dominate when both subbands are
occupied; this regime can be detected by variable remote doping experiments
that we describe.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Tailoring Chirp in Spin-Lasers
The usefulness of semiconductor lasers is often limited by the undesired
frequency modulation, or chirp, a direct consequence of the intensity
modulation and carrier dependence of the refractive index in the gain medium.
In spin-lasers, realized by injecting, optically or electrically,
spin-polarized carriers, we elucidate paths to tailoring chirp. We provide a
generalized expression for chirp in spin-lasers and introduce modulation
schemes that could simultaneously eliminate chirp and enhance the bandwidth, as
compared to the conventional (spin-unpolarized) lasers.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Integral and fractional Quantum Hall Ising ferromagnets
We compare quantum Hall systems at filling factor 2 to those at filling
factors 2/3 and 2/5, corresponding to the exact filling of two lowest electron
or composite fermion (CF) Landau levels. The two fractional states are examples
of CF liquids with spin dynamics. There is a close analogy between the
ferromagnetic (spin polarization P=1) and paramagnetic (P=0) incompressible
ground states that occur in all three systems in the limits of large and small
Zeeman spin splitting. However, the excitation spectra are different. At
filling factor 2, we find spin domains at half-polarization (P=1/2), while
antiferromagnetic order seems most favorable in the CF systems. The transition
between P=0 and 1, as seen when e.g. the magnetic field is tilted, is also
studied by exact diagonalization in toroidal and spherical geometries. The
essential role of an effective CF-CF interaction is discussed, and the
experimentally observed incompresible half-polarized state is found in some
models
Anisotropic magnetoresistance of spin-orbit coupled carriers scattered from polarized magnetic impurities
Anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) is a relativistic magnetotransport
phenomenon arising from combined effects of spin-orbit coupling and broken
symmetry of a ferromagnetically ordered state of the system. In this work we
focus on one realization of the AMR in which spin-orbit coupling enters via
specific spin-textures on the carrier Fermi surfaces and ferromagnetism via
elastic scattering of carriers from polarized magnetic impurities. We report
detailed heuristic examination, using model spin-orbit coupled systems, of the
emergence of positive AMR (maximum resistivity for magnetization along
current), negative AMR (minimum resistivity for magnetization along current),
and of the crystalline AMR (resistivity depends on the absolute orientation of
the magnetization and current vectors with respect to the crystal axes)
components. We emphasize potential qualitative differences between pure
magnetic and combined electro-magnetic impurity potentials, between short-range
and long-range impurities, and between spin-1/2 and higher spin-state carriers.
Conclusions based on our heuristic analysis are supported by exact solutions to
the integral form of the Boltzmann transport equation in archetypical
two-dimensional electron systems with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit
interactions and in the three-dimensional spherical Kohn-Littinger model. We
include comments on the relation of our microscopic calculations to standard
phenomenology of the full angular dependence of the AMR, and on the relevance
of our study to realistic, two-dimensional conduction-band carrier systems and
to anisotropic transport in the valence band of diluted magnetic
semiconductors.Comment: 15 pages, Kohn-Littinger model adde
Semiclassical framework for the calculation of transport anisotropies
We present a procedure for finding the exact solution to the linear-response
Boltzmann equation for two-dimensional anisotropic systems and demonstrate it
on examples of non-crystalline anisotropic magnetoresistance in a system with
spin-orbit interaction. We show that two decoupled integral equations must be
solved in order to find the non-equilibrium distribution function up to linear
order in the applied electric field. The examples are all based on the Rashba
system with charged magnetic scatterers, a system where the non-equilibrium
distribution function and anisotropic magnetoresistance can be evaluated
analytically. Exact results are compared to earlier widely-used approximative
approaches. We find circumstances under which approximative approaches may
become unreliable even on a qualitative level.Comment: submitted to PR
Transport theory for disordered multiple-band systems: Anomalous Hall effect and anisotropic magnetoresistance
We present a study of transport in multiple-band non-interacting Fermi
metallic systems based on the Keldysh formalism, taking into account the
effects of Berry curvature due to spin-orbit coupling. We apply this formalism
to a Rashba 2DEG ferromagnet and calculate the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and
anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR). The numerical calculations reproduce
analytical results in the metallic regime revealing the crossover between the
skew scattering mechanism dominating in the clean systems and intrinsic
mechanism dominating in the moderately dirty systems. As we increase the
disorder further, the AHE starts to diminish due to the spectral broadening of
the quasiparticles. Although for certain parameters this reduction of the AHE
can be approximated as with
varying around 1.6, this is found not to be true in general as
can go through a change in sign as a function of disorder
strength in some cases. The reduction region in which the quasiparticle
approximation is meaningful is relatively narrow; therefore, a theory with a
wider range of applicability is called for. By considering the higher order
skew scattering processes, we resolve some discrepancies between the AHE
results obtained by using the Keldysh, Kubo and Boltzmann approaches. We also
show that similar higher order processes are important for the AMR when the
nonvertex and vertex parts cancel each other. We calculate the AMR in
anisotropic systems properly taking into account the anisotropy of the
non-equilibrium distribution function. These calculations confirm recent
findings on the unreliability of common approximations to the Boltzmann
equation.Comment: 21 pages, 14 figure