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Spin waves in a skyrmion crystal

arXiv:1109.4990 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.84.214433

Abstract

We derive the spectrum of low-frequency spin waves in skyrmion crystals observed recently in noncentrosymmetric ferromagnets. We treat the skyrmion crystal as a superposition of three helices whose wavevectors form an equilateral triangle. The low-frequency spin waves are Goldstone modes associated with displacements of skyrmions. Their dispersion is determined by the elastic properties of the skyrmion crystal and by the kinetic terms of the effective Lagrangian, which include both kinetic energy and a Berry-phase term reflecting a nontrivial topology of magnetization. The Berry-phase term acts like an effective magnetic field, mixing longitudinal and transverse vibrations into a gapped cyclotron mode and a twist wave with a quadratic dispersion.

9 pages, 3 figures; final version to appear in Phys. Rev. B

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