title: Anomalous Hall effect in a two dimensional electron gas with magnetic impurities.
abstract: Magnetic impurities play an important role in many spintronics-related materials. Motivated by this fact, we study the anomalous Hall effect in the presence of magnetic impurities, focusing on two-dimensional electron systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We find a highly nonlinear dependence on the impurity polarization, including possible sign changes. At small impurity magnetizations, this is a consequence of the remarkable result that the linear term is independent of the spin-orbit coupling strength. Near saturation of the impurity spins, the anomalous Hall conductivity can be resonantly enhanced, due to interference between potential and magnetic scattering.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Tamara S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Nunner
authors.forename: Gergely
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zaránd
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: von Oppen