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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Condensed Matter Physics Volume 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 Correspondence should be addressed to A. S. Wills, a.s.wills@ucl.ac.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. Geometrically frustrated conducting magnets display extraordinarily large anomalous Hall effects (AHEs) that could be used to realise materials required for the emerging field of spintronics. While the intrinsic Berry phase developed in collinear ferromagnets is well explained through the effects of spin-orbit interactions within the Karplus and Luttinger model, its origins in frustrated magnets are not. The direct space mechanism based on spin chirality that was originally applied to the pyrochlore Nd Mo O 2 2 7 appears unsatisfactory. Recently, an orbital description based on the Aharonov-Bohm effect has been proposed and applied to both the ferromagnetic pyrochlores Nd Mo O and Pr Ir O ; the first of which features long-ranged magnetic order while the 2 2 7 2 2 7 latter is a chiral spin liquid. Two