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Advances in Condensed Matter Physics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 615295, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/615295
Review Article

Anomalous Hall Effect in Geometrically Frustrated Magnets

D. Boldrin and A. S. Wills

Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK

Received 15 October 2011; Revised 21 December 2011; Accepted 22 December 2011

Academic Editor: Charles Rosenblatt

Copyright © 2012 D. Boldrin and A. S. Wills. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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