arXiv · cond-mat/9911154
An electron correlation originated negative magnetoresistance in a system having a partly flat band
Abstract
Inspired from an experimentally examined organic conductor, a novel mechanism for negative magnetoresistance is proposed for repulsively interacting electrons on a lattice whose band dispersion contains a flat portion (a flat bottom below a dispersive part here). When the Fermi level lies in the flat part, the electron correlation should cause ferromagnetic spin fluctuations to develop with an enhanced susceptibility. A relatively small magnetic field will then shift the majority-spin Fermi level to the dispersive part, resulting in a negative magnetoresistance. We have actually confirmed the idea by calculating the conductivity in magnetic fields, with the fluctuation exchange approximation, for the repulsive Hubbard model on a square lattice having a large second nearest-neighbor hopping.
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Ryotaro Arita, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Hideo Aoki. 1999-11-11. An electron correlation originated negative magnetoresistance in a system having a partly flat band. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.61.3207
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