Abstract

The nonlinear Hall effect has opened the door towards deeper understanding of topological states of matter. Disorder plays indispensable roles in various linear Hall effects, such as the localization in the quantized Hall effects and the extrinsic mechanisms of the anomalous, spin, and valley Hall effects. Unlike in the linear Hall effects, disorder enters the nonlinear Hall effect even in the leading order. Here, we derive the formulas of the nonlinear Hall conductivity in the presence of disorder scattering. We apply the formulas to calculate the nonlinear Hall response of the tilted 2D Dirac model, which is the symmetry-allowed minimal model for the nonlinear Hall effect and can serve as a building block in realistic band structures. More importantly, we construct the general scaling law of the nonlinear Hall effect, which may help in experiments to distinguish disorder-induced contributions to the nonlinear Hall effect in the future.

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Title
Disorder-induced nonlinear Hall effect with time-reversal symmetry
Author
Du, Z Z 1 ; Wang, C M 2 ; Li, Shuai 3 ; Hai-Zhou, Lu 4 ; Xie, X C 5 

 Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering and Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Quantum Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China; Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China 
 Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering and Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Quantum Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China; Department of Physics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China 
 Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering and Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Quantum Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China 
 Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering and Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Quantum Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China; Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China; Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China 
 International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China; Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Topological Quantum Computation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 
Pages
1-6
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Jul 2019
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20411723
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2256096113
Copyright
© 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.