2004/12/13 by Hosho Katsura, Naoto Nagaosa, Alexander V. Balatsky · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.95.057205
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 057205(2005). · 5 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2004/12/13 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
A new microscopic mechanism of the magneto-electric (ME) effect based on the spin supercurrent is theoretically presented for non-collinear magnets. The close analogy between the superconductors (charge current) and magnets (spin current) is drawn to derive the distribution of the spin supercurrent and the resultant electric polarization. Application to the spiral spin structure is discussed.