Hall Resistivity of Granular Metals
Abstract
We calculate the Hall conductivity σxy and resistivity ρxy of a granular system at large tunneling conductance gT≫1. We show that in the absence of Coulomb interaction the Hall resistivity depends neither on the tunneling conductance nor on the intragrain disorder and is given by the classical formula ρxy=H/(n*ec), where n* differs from the carrier density n inside the grains by a numerical coefficient determined by the shape of the grains. The Coulomb interaction gives rise to logarithmic in temperature T correction to ρxy in the range Γ≲T≲min(gTEc,ETh), where Γ is the tunneling escape rate, Ec is the charging energy, and ETh is the Thouless energy of the grain.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 2007
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0609736
- Bibcode:
- 2007PhRvL..99e6803K
- Keywords:
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- 73.63.-b;
- 72.20.My;
- 73.23.Hk;
- 75.75.+a;
- Electronic transport in nanoscale materials and structures;
- Galvanomagnetic and other magnetotransport effects;
- Coulomb blockade;
- single-electron tunneling;
- Magnetic properties of nanostructures;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect;
- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 1 figure