Topological Hall effect due to electron-skyrmion scattering

Arijit Mandal; B. R. K. Nanda; Hareram Swain; S. Satpathy

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Topological Hall effect due to electron-skyrmion scattering

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Pith's one-line read Electron scattering from skyrmions produces resonances and minima that set the topological and spin Hall conductivities at every coupling strength.

desk verdict The paper pushes Lippmann-Schwinger scattering into strong coupling for skyrmions and flags new resonances that shift the Hall conductivities, but the continuum approximation is the part that needs checking. read the letter →

arxiv 2607.01149 v1 pith:6KK37OYL submitted 2026-07-01 cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.mes-hall

Arijit Mandal , Hareram Swain , B. R. K. Nanda , S. Satpathy This is my paper · ORCID

classification cond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.mes-hall

keywords electron-skyrmionscatteringtopologicalHalleffectspinconductivityLippmann-SchwingerequationGreen'sfunctionstrongcouplingregimeRamsauer-Townsendminimaskyrmioncrystal

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The reading

The paper shows that previous work on electron-skyrmion scattering was limited to weak coupling, but real materials sit in the strong-coupling regime where the exchange interaction is large compared with electron energy. It applies the Lippmann-Schwinger equation together with Green's functions to compute the scattering cross section for arbitrary coupling, revealing Ramsauer-Townsend minima, intermediate-coupling resonances, and Landau-level resonances that appear only for higher winding numbers. These scattering features make both the topological Hall conductivity and the spin Hall conductivity depend sensitively on the energy of the incoming electrons. A reader would care because skyrmion crystals and other collective chiral textures appear in real devices, so transport predictions must cover the strong-coupling case that dominates materials.

What carries the argument

The Lippmann-Schwinger equation combined with Green's function formalism, which solves the scattering problem exactly for any ratio of exchange coupling to electron energy.

What would settle it

Measure the energy dependence of the topological Hall conductivity in a skyrmion crystal and check whether it shows the predicted minima and resonances at the specific energies where the scattering calculation places them.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

Using the Lippmann-Schwinger equation and Green's function formalism that holds for all coupling strengths, the scattering cross section of electrons from skyrmions exhibits Ramsauer-Townsend minima, pronounced intermediate-coupling resonances, and Landau-level resonances for skyrmions with larger winding numbers; these features cause the topological and spin Hall conductivities to vary strongly with incident electron energy.

Load-bearing premise

The single-particle scattering formalism gives quantitatively accurate results for real-material skyrmions even when the coupling is strong and many-body or lattice effects are present.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

The topological Hall conductivity becomes a non-monotonic function of electron energy because of the new scattering minima and resonances.
Spin Hall conductivity is likewise modulated by the same energy-dependent scattering features.
Skyrmions with winding numbers greater than one produce additional Landau-level resonances that further structure the conductivities.
Collective transport in a skyrmion crystal inherits these single-skyrmion scattering signatures.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same scattering calculation could be repeated for other chiral textures such as merons or hopfions to see which resonances survive.
If lattice discreteness cuts off the resonances, the Hall conductivities would lose their sharp energy dependence.
Tuning gate voltage to move the Fermi energy across a resonance would switch the sign or magnitude of the topological Hall signal in a device.

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read the letter

The core advance is extending the scattering calculation beyond the weak-coupling limit that earlier papers stayed in. They use the Lippmann-Schwinger equation plus Green's functions to handle any exchange strength, then show how Ramsauer-Townsend minima, intermediate-coupling peaks, and Landau-level resonances for higher-winding skyrmions change the energy dependence of the topological and spin Hall conductivities.

That part is straightforward and useful. The method is standard, and mapping the scattering features directly into the transport integrals gives a concrete way to see why conductivity varies with electron energy. For device modeling that cares about those curves, the plots they produce would be the takeaway.

The soft spot is exactly the one the stress-test note flags. When exchange gets large compared with the Fermi energy, the single-particle continuum treatment can miss lattice discreteness, skyrmion breathing modes, or electron-electron interactions that renormalize the effective cross section. The abstract does not mention any lattice cutoff, finite-size checks, or comparison to discrete-lattice numerics, so the strong-coupling resonances remain untested against those effects. If those corrections turn out to be order-one, the reported conductivity features would move.

This is for condensed-matter theorists and spintronics modelers who already work with skyrmion crystals and want an analytic route to energy-dependent Hall signals. It is not a finished materials prediction, but the formalism is honest about its regime.

I would send it to a serious referee. The gap it targets is real, the method is reproducible in principle, and the main uncertainty is stated clearly enough that reviewers can focus on whether the continuum limit holds.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript applies the Lippmann-Schwinger equation and Green's function formalism to electron-skyrmion scattering for arbitrary exchange coupling strengths. It reports new features in the scattering cross section (Ramsauer-Townsend minima, intermediate-coupling resonances, and Landau-level resonances for higher winding numbers) and shows that these features produce a sensitive energy dependence in the resulting topological and spin Hall conductivities, with implications for skyrmion crystals.

Significance. If the single-particle scattering results remain quantitatively faithful, the work supplies a concrete mechanism for energy-dependent Hall responses beyond the weak-coupling limit that is common in real materials. The explicit connection between scattering resonances and transport coefficients is a useful addition to the literature on chiral spin textures.

major comments (1)

The central mapping from scattering cross section to topological/spin Hall conductivities assumes the continuum Lippmann-Schwinger solution remains quantitatively accurate when the exchange J greatly exceeds the Fermi energy. No quantitative estimate or test of lattice-discreteness or many-body corrections is supplied for this regime, which is flagged as the weakest link in the abstract and the reader's assessment.

minor comments (1)

The abstract states that the formalism is 'valid for all coupling strengths' but supplies no error estimates, convergence checks, or comparison to exact diagonalization or lattice calculations.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the positive assessment of our work's significance and for identifying the key assumption regarding the continuum approximation. We respond to the major comment below.

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Referee: The central mapping from scattering cross section to topological/spin Hall conductivities assumes the continuum Lippmann-Schwinger solution remains quantitatively accurate when the exchange J greatly exceeds the Fermi energy. No quantitative estimate or test of lattice-discreteness or many-body corrections is supplied for this regime, which is flagged as the weakest link in the abstract and the reader's assessment.

Authors: The Lippmann-Schwinger equation and Green's function formalism provide an exact solution within the continuum model for electron-skyrmion scattering at arbitrary coupling strengths, including J >> E_F. This is the standard framework for isolating the effects of scattering resonances on transport coefficients in chiral textures. We acknowledge that lattice discreteness and many-body corrections are not quantified here, as they would require a separate lattice Hamiltonian treatment outside the present continuum single-particle scope. In the revised manuscript we have added an explicit paragraph in the conclusions discussing these limitations and stating that the reported energy-dependent Hall conductivities serve as a benchmark for future lattice studies. This constitutes a partial revision. revision: partial

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No circularity: standard scattering formalism applied directly to compute conductivities

full rationale

The paper applies the Lippmann-Schwinger equation and Green's function formalism to compute scattering cross sections for all coupling strengths, identifying features like Ramsauer-Townsend minima and resonances, then determines the energy dependence of topological and spin Hall conductivities from those cross sections. No load-bearing steps reduce outputs to inputs by construction, no parameters are fitted to data and then relabeled as predictions, and no self-citation chains or uniqueness theorems imported from prior author work are invoked to force the result. The derivation chain is a direct application of established single-particle scattering methods to the skyrmion problem and remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 1 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the applicability of the Lippmann-Schwinger formalism to skyrmion scattering; no free parameters, new entities, or ad-hoc axioms are mentioned in the abstract.

assumptions (1)

domain assumption Lippmann-Schwinger equation and Green's function formalism are valid for all coupling strengths in electron-skyrmion scattering
Stated in the abstract as the basis for uncovering new features

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Electron scattering from chiral spin textures such as skyrmions is fundamental to the understanding of transport in more complex systems, including skyrmion crystals. Most of the previous studies have focused on the weak-coupling regime, where the exchange interaction is small compared with the electron energy. Real materials, however, often lie in the strong-coupling regime, which exhibits qualitatively different behavior. Using the Lippmann-Schwinger equation and Green's function formalism, valid for all coupling strengths, we uncover several new features in the scattering cross section, including Ramsauer-Townsend minima, pronounced intermediate-coupling resonances, and Landau-level resonances for skyrmions with larger winding numbers. These features strongly influence the topological and spin Hall conductivities, which depend sensitively on the incident electron energy. Our work provides important insights into the Hall transport in collective chiral spin textures such as the skyrmion crystal.

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**Figure 2.** FIG. 2. Scattering dynamics of a spin-up Gaussian [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** FIG. 4. Scattering potential [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗

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**Figure 3.** Figure 3: FIG. 3. Total scattering cross section [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png]

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: FIG. 5. Typical features of the scattering cross section. (a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png]

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: FIG. 6. (a) Scattering cross section [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_6.png]

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: FIG. 8. Spin resolved transverse current [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_8.png]

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: FIG. 9. Differential scattering cross section [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_9.png]

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: FIG. 10. Electron scattering in different energy regimes. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_10.png]

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: FIG. 12 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_12.png]

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will contain a spin piece with the original spin-momentum (kσ,σ ) and a spin-ﬂip piece with spin- momentum (k− σ, −σ ) as illustrated in Fig. 1. We are interested in the long-distance behavior of |ψ kσ ⟩, far away from the scattering center, which follows from the long distance behavior of G0. For free particles, G0 is spin diagonal, and for the 2D case, ...

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becomes V (r,θ ) = − J 2 ( cos ¯θ − 1 sin ¯θe − i ¯φ sin ¯θe i ¯φ − cos ¯θ + 1 ) . (15) Since the helicity γ appears as a constant phase factor in the oﬀ-diagonal elements of V (r,θ ), it is easy to show that it also appears as only a multiplicative overall phase factor in the T matrix, Eq. ( 11), so that γ does not aﬀect the scattering cross section dσ/d...

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5(a), we see that the total scattering cross section diverges at k → 0, where ℏ2k2/ (2me) = E for the spin up channel

Divergence of scattering cross section at k → 0 From Fig. 5(a), we see that the total scattering cross section diverges at k → 0, where ℏ2k2/ (2me) = E for the spin up channel. This may be understood from a partial wave analysis of scattering of a spinless particle from a two-dimensional hard disk. In terms of the partial wave phase shifts δl, the total s...

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Peaked structure at E =J The peaked structure at E = J, seen from Fig. 5(a) for σ↑↑ , arises due to the divergence in the spin down channelσ↓↓ , which is coupled to the scattering of the spin up electrons due to the spin-ﬂip term in the scattering potential. To illustrate this, we take the following model potential, where we can turn the spin-ﬂip potentia...

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When the spin- ﬂip term J ′ = 0, we see the usual divergence at E = 0 in σ↑↑ , while with the inclusion of the spin-ﬂip term J ′ ̸= 0, we get the additional peak at E =J corresponding to the k = 0 divergence in the spin-down channel, which now mixes up with the spin up states. Furthermore, the diver- gence is broadened due to the existence of the evanesce...

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When the spin-ﬂip potential is included, the dip merges with the divergent peak at E =J, as indicated in Fig

Ramsauer-Townsend dips near E =J In addition to the divergent peaks at E = 0 and J, there exists a dip in the total scattering cross section for the incident energy slightly greater than J, when there is no spin-ﬂip potential. When the spin-ﬂip potential is included, the dip merges with the divergent peak at E =J, as indicated in Fig

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The eﬀect is illustrated by considering the transmis- sion coeﬃcient of a plane wave propagating through a 1D potential barrier with energy higher than the barrier height

This may be interpreted in terms of the Ramsauer-Townsend eﬀect[ 24, 31–33], ﬁrst observed in the low-energy electron scattering from noble gases, which shows an unexpected high transmission or a sharp minimum in the scattering cross section. The eﬀect is illustrated by considering the transmis- sion coeﬃcient of a plane wave propagating through a 1D pote...

work page

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(a)E1 <J : Here, only spin up electrons can exist outside the skyrmion as propagating states, leading to the result σ H = σ SH , Eq

is omitted for clarity. (a)E1 <J : Here, only spin up electrons can exist outside the skyrmion as propagating states, leading to the result σ H = σ SH , Eq. ( 20). (b) E2 ≳ J: There is a prominent spin up current, but somewhat weaker spin down current (indicated by the dashed line). (c) Intermediate energy, E3 ∼ 2J: Both spin up and down currents are prom...

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