Skew scattering on rare impurity configurations is shown to dominate the anomalous Hall effect in a 2D Rashba ferromagnet. The mechanism originates in scattering on rare impurity pairs separated by distances of the order of the Fermi wavelength. The corresponding theoretical description goes beyond the conventional noncrossing approximation. The mechanism provides the only contribution to the a...

In this paper we study an impurity in Bose-Einstein-Condensate system at T = 0K and suppose the contact forms for boson-boson and boson-impurity interactions. Using Bogoliubov theory and a further approximation corresponding to only think over the forward scattering of impurity by bosons, we derive a reduced Hamiltonian whose form is the same as the Fröhlich Hamiltonian for large polaron. By us...

The pointlike impurity scattering is studied for a superconductor with different pairing symmetries based on a minimal two band model proposed by S. Raghu et al. [Phys. Rev. B 77, R220503 (2008)], and the self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. Two intragap resonance peaks are found at or near the nonmagnetic impurity site for a typical sx2y2 symmetry and strong scattering potentials. S...

In this paper, we review two different determinations of the minority impurity scattering in silicon. We show that an improper determination of minority impurity scattering can lead to potential errors in the modeling of carrier mobilities in compensated silicon. Early experimental results show that the effect of minority impurities may be underestimated in Klaassen’s commonly used model.

Physical properties of anisotropic superconductors like the critical temperature and others depend sensitively on the electron mean free path. The sensitivity to impurity scattering and the resulting anomalies are considered a characteristic feature of strongly anisotropic pairing. These anomalies are usually analyzed in terms of s-wave impurity scattering which leads to universal pair breaking...

We study electronic transport in a Luttinger liquid with an embedded impurity, which is either a weak scatterer (WS) or a weak link (WL), when interacting electrons are coupled to one-dimensional massless bosons (e.g., acoustic phonons). We find that the duality relation, ΔWSΔWL=1, between scaling dimensions of the electron backscattering in the WS and WL limits, established for the standard Lu...

The hole mobilities in the GaAs1-xSbx system is been investigated for 0.0 ≤ x ≤ 1.0. Undoped room temperature mobilities are used to examine the scattering as a function of the Sb content. Two scattering mechanisms are considered: ionised impurity and alloy scattering. The alloy scattering potential is found to be 1.868 eV, which is about twice the theoretical value. Samples of various doping l...

In this paper we study the effect of impurity scattering on the performance of a Si gate-all-around nanowire transistors. The non-equilibrium Green function formalism is used in order to describe the carrier transport. Impurity scattering is introduced using two different formalisms, one that considers the impurity potential as a small perturbation by introducing self energies and the other in ...

Systematic impurity doping in the Cu-O plane of the hole-doped cuprate superconductors may allow one to decide between unconventional (”d-wave”) and anisotropic conventional (”s-wave”) states as possible candidates for the order parameter in these materials. We show that potential scattering of any strength always increases the gap minima of such s-wave states, leading to activated behavior in ...

Using an ensemble Monte Carlo simulation, including both electron–electron and electron–phonon scattering as well as electron-impurity scattering, the current density, population inversion, electron temperature, and gain in two THz quantum-cascade structures are investigated and compared to measurements. We find that the inclusion of electron-impurity scattering in the calculations is crucial w...