Integer quantum Hall conductivity and longitudinal conductivity in silicene under the electric field and magnetic field

TL;DR

This paper explores the electrical conductivities and dynamical polarization of silicene under combined electric and magnetic fields, considering various scattering mechanisms, and derives key expressions for these properties.

Contribution

It provides new analytical expressions for Hall and longitudinal conductivities, including valley and spin Hall effects, and analyzes the dynamical polarization with magnetic field effects in silicene.

Findings

Longitudinal conductivity differs significantly between intra- and inter-Landau level transitions.

Derived expressions for valley, spin, and Hall conductivities in silicene.

Dynamical polarization exhibits step-like features related to Landau levels.

Abstract

We investigate the integer Hall conductivity and longitudinal conductivity of silicene under the magnetic field, electric field, and exchange field in this letter. We focus not only on the low-temperature and $\delta$-function impurities (i.e., independent of the scattering momentum) case, which only exist the intra-Landau level transition, but also on the case of inter-Landau level transition which also with the non-elastic scattering. The resulting longitudinal conductivity is very different with the intra-Landau level one at low-temperature. The exprssions of the Hall conductivity, longitudinal conductivity, valley contributed Hall conductivity, and the spin or valley Hall conductivity, are deduced in this letter. We also compute the dynamical polarization under the magnetic field which is a important quantity and has many exciting and novel properties, and with the screened scattering due to the charged impurities. The polarization function here is also related to the Landau level index under the magnetic field, and shows step-like feature rather than the logarithmically divergenas which appears for the zero-magnetic field case, and it's also naturally related to the conductivity in silicene. The generalized Laguerre polynomial is used in both the longitudinal conductivity and dynamical polarization function under magnetic field.