Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 106601 (2011) [5 pages]Ab Initio Theory of the Scattering-Independent Anomalous Hall EffectReceived 25 April 2011; published 2 September 2011 We report on first-principles calculations of the side-jump contribution to the anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) directly from the electronic structure of a perfect crystal. We implemented our approach for a short-range scattering disorder model within the density functional theory and computed the full scattering-independent AHC in elemental bcc Fe, hcp Co, fcc Ni, and L10 FePd and FePt alloys. The full AHC thus calculated agrees systematically with experiment to a degree unattainable so far, correctly capturing the previously missing elements of side-jump contributions, hence paving the way to a truly predictive theory of the anomalous Hall effect and turning it from a characterization tool to a probing tool of multiband complex electronic band structures. © 2011 American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.106601
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.106601
PACS:
72.25.Ba, 71.70.Ej, 72.15.Eb
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