Theory of Spin Current in Chiral Helimagnets

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. To describe the kink crystal motion, we took account of not only the tangential φ fluctuations but the longitudinal θ fluctuations around the helimagnetic configuration. Based on the collective coordinate method and the Dirac canonical formulation for the singular Lagrangian system, we derived the closed formulas 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. © 2008 The American Physical Society.