A Fermi surface descriptor quantifying the correlations between anomalous Hall effect and Fermi surface geometry
Elena Derunova, Jacob Gayles, Yan Sun, Michael W. Gaultois, Mazhar N. Ali
SciPost Phys. Core 8, 085 (2025) · published 18 November 2025
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.8.4.085
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Abstract
In the last few decades, basic ideas of topology have completely transformed the prediction of quantum transport phenomena. Following this trend, we go deeper into the incorporation of modern mathematics into quantum material science focusing on geometry. Here we investigate the relation between the geometrical type of the Fermi surface and Anomalous and Spin Hall Effects. An index, $\mathbb{H}_F$, quantifying the hyperbolic geometry of the Fermi surface, shows a universal correlation (R$^2$ = 0.97) with the experimentally measured intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity, of 16 different compounds spanning a wide variety of crystal, chemical, and electronic structure families, including those where topological methods give R$^2$ = 0.52. This raises a question about the predictive limits of topological physics and its transformation into a wider study of bandstructures' and Fermi surfaces' geometries and relating them to the quantum geometry theory of a more general metric of eigenstates, opening horizon for the prediction of phenomena beyond topological understanding.
Authors / Affiliations: mappings to Contributors and Organizations
See all Organizations.- 1 2 Elena Derunova,
- 3 Jacob Gayles,
- 4 Yan Sun,
- 5 Michael W. Gaultois,
- 2 6 Mazhar N. Ali
- 1 Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden / Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research [IFW]
- 2 Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik / Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
- 3 University of South Florida [USF]
- 4 Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe / Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- 5 University of Liverpool
- 6 Technische Universiteit Delft / Delft University of Technology [TU Delft]
