Hall effect in cuprates with an incommensurate collinear spin-density wave

Abstract

The presence of incommensurate spiral spin-density waves (SDW) has been proposed to explain the $p$ (hole doping) to $1+p$ jump measured in the Hall number $n_H$ at a doping $p^*$. Here we explore {\it collinear} incommensurate SDW as another possible explanation of this phenomenon, distinct from the incommensurate {\it spiral} SDW proposal. We examine the effect of different SDW strengths and wavevectors and we find that the $n_H\sim p$ behavior is hardly reproduced at low doping. The calculated $n_H$ and Fermi surfaces give characteristic features that should be observed, thus the lack of these features in experiment suggests that the incommensurate collinear SDW is unlikely to be a good candidate to explain the $n_H\sim p$ observed in the pseudogap regime.