Planar Hall effect in ferromagnets

The planar Hall effect in a ferromagnetic conductor is considered within a simple two-liquid hydrodynamic model. It is shown that, even in the simple case of an isotropic Fermi surface in the absence of thermal spread, the magnitude of the Hall effect is comparable to that in semiconductors because of the presence of two groups of conduction electrons with their spins parallel and perpendicular to the quantization axis, respectively. In addition to the planar Hall field, a spin flux parallel to this field arises, with the consequence that the extent of spin polarization of the conduction electrons varies along the Hall field direction (planar spin Hall effect). (C) 2002 MAIK "Nauka/Interperiodica".