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General nonlinear Hall current in magnetic insulators beyond the quantum anomalous Hall effect

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  • Daniel Kaplan

    (Weizmann Institute of Science)

  • Tobias Holder

    (Weizmann Institute of Science)

  • Binghai Yan

    (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Abstract

Can a generic magnetic insulator exhibit a Hall current? The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is one example of an insulating bulk carrying a quantized Hall conductivity while insulators with zero Chern number present zero Hall conductance in the linear response regime. Here, we find that a general magnetic insulator possesses a nonlinear Hall conductivity quadratic to the electric field if the system breaks inversion symmetry, which can be identified as a new type of multiferroic coupling. This conductivity originates from an induced orbital magnetization due to virtual interband transitions. We identify three contributions to the wavepacket motion, a velocity shift, a positional shift, and a Berry curvature renormalization. In contrast to the crystalline solid, we find that this nonlinear Hall conductivity vanishes for Landau levels of a 2D electron gas, indicating a fundamental difference between the QAHE and the integer quantum Hall effect.

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  • Daniel Kaplan & Tobias Holder & Binghai Yan, 2023. "General nonlinear Hall current in magnetic insulators beyond the quantum anomalous Hall effect," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-7, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-38734-9
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38734-9
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