Spin Quenching and Transport by Hidden Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interactions

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Main Authors: Ye, Xiyin, Cui, Qirui, Lin, Weiwei, Yu, Tao
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author Ye, Xiyin
Cui, Qirui
Lin, Weiwei
Yu, Tao
author_facet Ye, Xiyin
Cui, Qirui
Lin, Weiwei
Yu, Tao
contents Explicit interactions, \textit{e.g.}, dipolar and exchange couplings, usually govern magnetization dynamics. Some interactions may be hidden from the global crystal symmetry. We report that in a large class of \textit{uniaxial} antiferromagnets, a \textit{hidden} Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction with retaining global inversion symmetry quenches the spin of magnon along the Néel vector ${\bf n}$, thus forbidding its angular-momentum flow. Some magnon spins, termed ``nodal" and ``corner" spins, survive when they distribute \textit{singularly} at the hot spots, i.e., high-symmetric degeneracy points in the Brillouin zone, and are protected by crystal symmetries. The biased magnetic field along ${\bf n}$ broadens such distributions, allowing bulk spin transport with unique signatures in the magnetic field and temperature dependencies. This explains recent experiments and highlights the role of hidden interaction.
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spellingShingle Spin Quenching and Transport by Hidden Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interactions
Ye, Xiyin
Cui, Qirui
Lin, Weiwei
Yu, Tao
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Explicit interactions, \textit{e.g.}, dipolar and exchange couplings, usually govern magnetization dynamics. Some interactions may be hidden from the global crystal symmetry. We report that in a large class of \textit{uniaxial} antiferromagnets, a \textit{hidden} Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction with retaining global inversion symmetry quenches the spin of magnon along the Néel vector ${\bf n}$, thus forbidding its angular-momentum flow. Some magnon spins, termed ``nodal" and ``corner" spins, survive when they distribute \textit{singularly} at the hot spots, i.e., high-symmetric degeneracy points in the Brillouin zone, and are protected by crystal symmetries. The biased magnetic field along ${\bf n}$ broadens such distributions, allowing bulk spin transport with unique signatures in the magnetic field and temperature dependencies. This explains recent experiments and highlights the role of hidden interaction.
title Spin Quenching and Transport by Hidden Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interactions
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06690