Electric-power efficiency of anomalous Hall current

Abstract

The electric-power dissipation of the anomalous-Hall current injected into a lateral load circuit is studied. The anomalous-Hall current is generated by a $\mathrm{C}{\mathrm{o}}_{75}\mathrm{G}{\mathrm{d}}_{25}$ ferrimagnetic Hall bar and injected into lateral contacts lithographied at the two edges. The current, the voltage and the power injected in the lateral circuit are studied as a function of the magnetization state, the load resistance $R_l$, and the temperature. The power efficiency shows a sharp maximum as a function $R_l$, which corresponds to the condition of the resistance matching of the two sub-circuits. The maximum power efficiency is of the order of the square of anomalous-Hall angle. The observations are in agreement with recent predictions based on a non-equilibrium variational approach.

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