Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-quantum-condensed-matter-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2018/section-a/1/c/solution

For a single carrier species with positive charge carrier mobility , the Hall coefficient and longitudinal electrical conductivity are
Take the electric current density along , magnetic field along , and no transverse current. Then and , giving the Hall angle relation
The sign specifies the electron Hall polarity; the ratio of field magnitudes is . Converting the stated electron mobility to SI gives . Therefore
This uses the homogeneous single-carrier Drude model; the carrier density cancels.

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