IR and dc magneto-transport and ARPES compared: n-type cuprates

IR Hall angle measurements were performed on under- and overdoped $Pr_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4}$ (PCCO) samples at sufficiently low optical excitation energies (below 10meV) to directly probe the Fermi-surface (FS) properties. In the underdoped samples, a rapid reduction of the Hall mass with decreasing doping indicating formation of FS pockets will be discussed in terms of ARPES measured arcs. In the overdoped samples, the low temperature finite-frequency Hall coefficient $R_H$ is severely suppressed below the low temperature dc $R_H$ as well as the value predicted by ARPES data analyzed within the relaxation time approximation. This suppression with frequency is similar to the dc suppression observed at temperature T$\sim \omega$. The addition of electronlike contributions to the ac $\sigma_{xy}$, even at T=0, directly implicates inelastic scattering as the causal mechanism of the anomalous Hall effect in PCCO. These results will be discussed in terms of Fermi liquid theories utilizing the ARPES measured Fermi surfaces.