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Science 12 March 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5664, pp. 1647 - 1649
DOI: 10.1126/science.1094383

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Dissipationless Anomalous Hall Current in the Ferromagnetic Spinel CuCr2Se4-xBrx

Wei-Li Lee,1 Satoshi Watauchi,2* V. L. Miller,2 R. J. Cava,2,3 N. P. Ong1,3{dagger}

In a ferromagnet, an applied electric field E invariably produces an anomalous Hall current JH that flows perpendicular to the plane defined by E and M (the magnetization). For decades, the question of whether JH is dissipationless (independent of the scattering rate) has been debated without experimental resolution. In the ferromagnetic spinel CuCr2Se4–xBrx, the resistivity {rho} (at low temperature) may be increased by several decades by varying x (Br) without degrading M. We show that JH/E (normalized per carrier, at 5 kelvin) remains unchanged throughout. In addition to confirming the dissipationless nature of JH, our finding has implications for the generation and study of spin-Hall currents in bulk samples.

1 Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
2 Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
3 Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

* Present address: Center for Crystal Science and Technology, University of Yamanashi, 7 Miyamae, Kofu, Yamanashi 400-8511, Japan.

{dagger} To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: npo{at}princeton.edu

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