Giant resonant skew scattering of plasma waves in a two-dimensional electron gas
arXiv:2402.16263 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.110.L041406
Abstract
Electron skew scattering by impurities is one of the major mechanisms behind the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic nanostructures. It is particularly strong at the surface of topological insulators where electron dynamics is governed by the spin-1/2 Dirac equation. Motivated by recently discovered mappings between hydrodynamics and the spin-1 Dirac equation, we consider the scattering of plasma waves -- propagating charge density oscillations -- excited in graphene off a non-uniform magnetic field created by an adjacent circular micromagnet. The calculated scattering amplitude not only exhibits a giant asymmetry, or skewness, but is resonantly enhanced if the frequency of the incoming wave matches the frequency of the chiral trapped mode circulating the micromagnet in only one direction. Furthermore, if the frequency of the incoming plasma wave is a few times larger than the Larmor frequency, the angular distribution of its forward scattering is almost indistinguishable from that of a Dirac electron at the surface of a topological insulator scattering off a magnetic impurity. The micrometer scale of the proposed setup enables direct investigations of individual skew scattering events previously inaccessible in electronic systems.
arXiv comment13 pages, 10 Figures
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