Berry Curvature on the Fermi Surface: Anomalous Hall Effect as a Topological Fermi-Liquid Property
Abstract
The intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in metallic ferromagnets is shown to be controlled by Berry phases accumulated by adiabatic motion of quasiparticles on the Fermi surface, and is purely a Fermi-liquid property, not a bulk Fermi sea property like Landau diamagnetism, as has been previously supposed. Berry phases are a new topological ingredient that must be added to Landau Fermi-liquid theory in the presence of broken inversion or time-reversal symmetry.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- November 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.206602
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0408417
- Bibcode:
- 2004PhRvL..93t6602H
- Keywords:
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- 72.15.-v;
- 73.43.-f;
- Electronic conduction in metals and alloys;
- Quantum Hall effects;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect;
- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
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