2018/01/09 by Shun Okumura, Yasuyuki Kato, Yukitoshi Motome
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Condensed matter physics #Electron #Lattice (music) #Magnet #Magnetic field #Magnetic properties of thin films #Nonlinear system #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum mechanics #Soliton #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.7566/jpsj.87.033708
4 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2018/01/09 · openalex publication_date 2018/02/22 · arxiv updated 2018/03/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Chiral magnets often show intriguing magnetic and transport properties associated with their peculiar spin textures. A typical example is a chiral soliton lattice, which is found in monoaxial chiral magnets, such as CrNb3S6 and Yb(Ni1-xCux)3Al9 in an external magnetic field perpendicular to the chiral axis. Here, we theoretically investigate the electronic and magnetic properties in the chiral soliton lattice by a minimal itinerant electron model. Using variational calculations, we find that the period of the chiral soliton lattice can be locked at particular values dictated by the Fermi wave number, in stark contrast to spin-only models. We discuss this behavior caused by the spin-charge coupling as a possible mechanism for the lock-in discovered in Yb(Ni1-xCux)3Al9. We also show that the same mechanism leads to the spontaneous formation of the chiral soliton lattice even in the absence of the magnetic field.