Theory of spin current in chiral helimagnet

TL;DR

This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding spin current transport in chiral helimagnets, focusing on the dynamics of magnetic kink crystals and their associated spin and magnetic dipole phenomena.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed theoretical model describing the motion of magnetic kink crystals and their role in spin current transport in chiral helimagnets, including derivations of mass, spin current, and magnetic dipole moments.

Findings

Derived formulas for kink crystal mass and spin current.

Demonstrated the mechanism of spin current generation via kink crystal motion.

Highlighted the importance of symmetry in material synthesis for experimental realization.

Abstract

We give detailed description of the transport spin current in the chiral helimagnet. Under the static magnetic field applied perpendicular to the helical axis, the magnetic kink crystal (chiral soliton lattice) is formed. Once the kink crystal begins to move under the Galilean boost, the spin-density accumulation occurs inside each kink and there emerges periodic arrays of the induced magnetic dipoles carrying the transport spin current. The coherent motion of the kink crystal dynamically generates the spontaneous demagnetization field. This mechanism is analogous to the D\"{o}ring-Becker-Kittel mechanism of the domain wall motion in ferromagnets. To describe the kink crystal motion, we took account of not only the tangential $\phi$-fluctuations but the longitudinal $\theta$-fluctuations around the helimagnetic configuration. Based on the collective coordinate method and the Dirac's canonical formulation for the singular Lagrangian system, we derived the closed formulae for the mass, spin current and induced magnetic dipole moment accompanied with the kink crystal motion. To materialize the theoretical model presented here, symmetry-adapted material synthesis would be required, where the interplay of crystallographic and magnetic chirality plays a key role there.