Anomalous electrical magnetochiral effect by chiral spin-cluster scattering.

ABSTRACT: The non-collinear spin configurations give rise to many nontrivial phenomena related to the Berry phase. They are often related to the vector and scalar spin chiralities. The scalar spin chirality leads to the topological Hall effect in metals, while the vector spin chirality to the ferroelectricity of spin origin, i.e., multiferroics in insulators. However, the role of the vector spin chirality in conducting systems has not yet been elucidated. Here we show theoretically that the spin correlation with vector spin chirality in chiral magnets scatters electrons asymmetrically, resulting in nonreciprocal transport phenomena, i.e., electrical magnetochiral effect (eMCE). This asymmetric scattering appears in the leading-order scattering term, implying a large nonreciprocity in the charge and

SUBMITTER: Ishizuka H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7293218 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature