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Please explain Hall effect in p type semiconductors without the use of holes [closed]

The movement of holes means the movement of electrons in opposite direction, so in Hall Effect the particles on which force is applied finally must be electrons, so there must be no positive charge ...
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What is the correct type of the Berry curvature?

I am studying Berry curvature for a specific material and faced different types of the Berry curvature formula. Some papers use only valence eigenstates (u1) like this $$i*(<(∂U1/∂kx)| (∂U1/∂ky)>...
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How to separate electron and hole mobilities in a intrinsic semiconductor?

I read in textbooks that the electric conductivity of a semiconductor is $\sigma=q(n\mu_n+p\mu_p)$, where $q$ is an electron's charge, $n$ and $p$ are the concentrations of electrons and holes, $\mu_n$...
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Quantum Hall effect diverges at $B=0$

In the integer quantum Hall effect, with the applied magnetic field reduced, more and more LLs get filled and one can observe higher and higher plateaus in the Hall conductivity $\sigma_H(B)$. ...
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Is diamagnetic part of conductivity always longitudinal/diagonal?

The Kubo formula for linear response is given as $$\sigma_{ab}(\omega)=\frac{i}{\omega}[\Pi_{ab}(\omega)-\Pi_{ab}(\omega=0)]$$ with $\Pi$ the current-current correlation. It is often claimed that the ...
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Shubnikov-de-Haas effect and Quantum Hall effect

I am wondering if these two phenomena are two names for the same thing or whether these are distinct effects and there are situation where one appears, but the other one doesn't? Both seem to produce ...
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Why does the presence of magnetoresistive effects indicate the existence of multiple types of charge carriers in a material?

I am currently enrolled in a solid state physics course, and have just completed a lecture on the Hall effect, though it did not go into too much detail. It was mentioned that with van der pauw ...
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How does the conductivities of metals and semiconductors vary when placed in the presence of magnetic field?

Suppose you have two materials one is a metal and other is a heavily doped semiconductor and they are placed in a magnetic field. What experiment will you do to distinguish between them? Does the ...
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Why doesn't the classical model of electrical conduction work with iron, cadmium and bismuth?

My textbook says this: In most metals, the charge carriers are electrons and the charge - carrier density determined from Hall - effect measurements is in good agreement with calculated values for ...
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Longitudinal conductivity from density of states (DOS)

It is well-known that using the so-called Streda formula, the transversal conductivity $\sigma_{xy}$ and thus the Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional material is given as the derivative of the ...
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How to know a semiconductor is p type or n type from hall effect calculations? [closed]

Using the hall effect calculations how can we determine a semiconductor is p type or n type
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Deriving classical Hall effect from quantum Hall effect

I'm interested in the derivation of the classical Hall effect coefficient, given in cgs by $$R_{H}=-\frac{1}{nec},$$ where $n$ is the electron number density, $-e<0$ is the electron charge,and $c$ ...
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Charge carriers type: contradiction between Hall effect and Seebeck effect, how to resolve it?

On one hand the Hall effect consists of a voltage that arises when an electric field and a perpendicular magnetic field are in a material. This makes the charge carriers (electrons or holes) under the ...
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