中国物理B ›› 2007, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (2): 517-523.doi: 10.1088/1009-1963/16/2/038

• CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Anomalous Hall effect of heavy holes in III-V semiconductor quantum wells

王志刚, 张平   

  1. Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, P.O. Box 8009, Beijing 100088, China
  • 收稿日期:2006-06-28 修回日期:2006-08-14 出版日期:2007-02-20 发布日期:2007-02-20
  • 基金资助:
    Project partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 10544004 and 10604010).

Anomalous Hall effect of heavy holes in III-V semiconductor quantum wells

Wang Zhi-Gang (王志刚) and Zhang Ping (张平)   

  1. Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, P.O. Box 8009, Beijing 100088, China
  • Received:2006-06-28 Revised:2006-08-14 Online:2007-02-20 Published:2007-02-20
  • Supported by:
    Project partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 10544004 and 10604010).

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摘要： The anomalous Hall effect of heavy holes in semiconductor quantum wells is studied in the intrinsic transport regime, where the Berry curvature governs the Hall current properties. Based on the first--order perturbation of wave function the expression of the Hall conductivity the same as that from the semiclassical equation of motion of the Bloch particles is derived. The dependence of Hall conductivity on the system parameters is shown. The amplitude of Hall conductivity is found to be balanced by a competition between the Zeeman splitting and the spin--orbit splitting.

Abstract: The anomalous Hall effect of heavy holes in semiconductor quantum wells is studied in the intrinsic transport regime, where the Berry curvature governs the Hall current properties. Based on the first--order perturbation of wave function the expression of the Hall conductivity the same as that from the semiclassical equation of motion of the Bloch particles is derived. The dependence of Hall conductivity on the system parameters is shown. The amplitude of Hall conductivity is found to be balanced by a competition between the Zeeman splitting and the spin--orbit splitting.

Key words: anomalous Hall effect, spin-orbit coupling, Rashba model

中图分类号:  (Galvanomagnetic and other magnetotransport effects)

  • 72.20.My
71.70.Ej (Spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman and Stark splitting, Jahn-Teller effect) 73.63.Hs (Quantum wells)