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Power efficiency of Hall-like devices: comparison between reciprocal and anti-reciprocal Onsager relations

Jean-Eric Wegrowe·Luqian Zhou·Sariah Al Saati
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Two well-known Hall-like effects are occurring in ferromagnets: the Anomalous Hall effect and the Planar Hall effect. The former is analogous to the classical Hall effect and is defined by the Onsager reciprocity relation of the second kind (antisymmetric conductivity matrix), while the latter is defined by the Onsager reciprocity relation of the first kind (symmetric conductivity matrix). The difference is fundamental, as it is based on time-invariance symmetry breaking at the microscopic scale. We study the Hall current generated in both cases, together with the power that can be extracted from the edges of Hall device. The expressions of the distribution of the electric currents, the distribution of electric carriers, and the power efficiencies (i.e. the power that can be injected into a load circuit) are derived at stationary regime from a variational method based on the second law of thermodynamics. It is shown that the distribution of the transverse Hall-current is identical in both cases but the longitudinal current and the power dissipated differ at the second order in the Hall angle.

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Jean-Eric Wegrowe, Luqian Zhou, Sariah Al Saati. 2024-03-06. Power efficiency of Hall-like devices: comparison between reciprocal and anti-reciprocal Onsager relations. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.110.024412

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