Generic non-Fermi-liquid behavior of the resistivity in magnets with ferromagnetic, helical, or skyrmionic order

TL;DR

This paper explores universal non-Fermi-liquid resistivity behavior in various magnetic metals, proposing three new mechanisms involving magnetic fluctuations and disorder, and compares these with experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces three novel theoretical mechanisms explaining non-Fermi-liquid resistivity in magnetic metals, incorporating magnetic fluctuations and disorder effects.

Findings

Identifies three mechanisms involving magnetic fluctuations and disorder.

Provides theoretical explanations consistent with experimental observations.

Suggests new experiments to test the proposed mechanisms.

Abstract

The electrical resistivity of several relatively clean metallic ferromagnets, as well as the helimagnet MnSi, is commonly observed to exhibit non-Fermi-liquid behavior at low temperatures. This behavior, which is found in both ordered and disordered phases, and both near and away from the magnetic transition, remains a major unsolved problem. We derive and discuss three novel mechanisms underlying such behavior that are based on electron scattering mediated by the exchange of (1) ferromagnons or (2) skyrmionic fluctuations, both in conjunction with weak disorder, or (3) helimagnons in clean systems. Since the magnetic transition in weakly disordered sytems is generically discontinuous, static droplets of the ordered phase can exist within the disordered phase, making the mechanisms viable there as well. We compare our theoretical results with existing experimental ones and suggest additional experiments.