Hidden Galilean symmetry, conservation laws and emergence of spin current in the soliton sector of chiral helimagnet

Abstract

An appearance of the transport spin current in chiral helimagnet is mathematically justified based on the symmetry arguments. Although the starting Lagrangian of the chiral magnet with the Berry phase term and the parity-violating Dzyaloshinskii-Morya coupling is not manifestly Galilean invariant, the Lie point group symmetry analysis and the variational symmetry analysis elucidate the hidden Galilean symmetry and the existence of the linear momentum as a conserved Noether current, respectively. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.