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Condensed Matter > Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Title: Archimedean Screw in Driven Chiral Magnets

Abstract: In chiral magnets a magnetic helix forms where the magnetization winds around a propagation vector $\mathbf{q}$. We show theoretically that a magnetic field $\mathbf{B}_{\perp}(t) \perp \mathbf{q}$, which is spatially homogeneous but oscillating in time, induces a net rotation of the texture around $\mathbf{q}$. This rotation is reminiscent of the motion of an Archimedean screw and is equivalent to a translation with velocity $v_{\text{screw}}$ parallel to $\mathbf{q}$. Due to the coupling to a Goldstone mode, this non-linear effect arises for arbitrarily weak $\mathbf{B}_{\perp}(t) $ with $v_{\text{screw}} \propto |\mathbf{B}_{\perp}|^2$ as long as pinning by disorder is absent. The effect is resonantly enhanced when internal modes of the helix are excited and the sign of $v_{\text{screw}}$ can be controlled either by changing the frequency or the polarization of $\mathbf{B}_{\perp}(t)$. The Archimedean screw can be used to transport spin and charge and thus the screwing motion is predicted to induce a voltage parallel to $\mathbf{q}$. Using a combination of numerics and Floquet spin wave theory, we show that the helix becomes unstable upon increasing $\mathbf{B}_{\perp}$ forming a `time quasicrystal' which oscillates in space and time for moderately strong drive.
Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures. Supplementary: 7 pages, 1 figure. V2: added references, added videos showing dynamics of driven system. V3: corrected mistake in Sec. VI: transport, and eq. F7 in App.F. In the limit $v_F\tau \ll q^{-1}$ current grows as $\tau^2$, rather than being independent of $\tau$ as previously claimed. Changes in v4: minor revisions following referee recommendations; typos corrected
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
Journal reference: SciPost Phys. 11, 009 (2021)
DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.11.1.009
Cite as: arXiv:2012.11548 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
  (or arXiv:2012.11548v4 [cond-mat.mes-hall] for this version)

Submission history

From: Nina del Ser [view email]
[v1] Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:29:29 GMT (22599kb,D)
[v2] Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:18:36 GMT (40091kb,AD)
[v3] Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:38:30 GMT (40082kb,AD)
[v4] Thu, 27 May 2021 20:35:42 GMT (40086kb,AD)

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