Intrinsic vs. extrinsic anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnets

Shigeki Onoda, Naoyuki Sugimoto, Naoto Nagaosa

Published 2006-05-23, updated 2006-08-10Version 2

A unified theory of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is presented for multi-band ferromagnetic metallic systems with dilute impurities. In the clean limit, the AHE is mostly due to the extrinsic skew-scattering. When the Fermi level is located around anti-crossing of band dispersions split by spin-orbit interaction, the intrinsic AHE to be calculated ab initio is resonantly enhanced by its non-perturbative nature, revealing the extrinsic-to-intrinsic crossover which occurs when the relaxation rate is comparable to the spin-orbit interaction energy.