Phase Shift in Skyrmion Crystals

Abstract

The skyrmion crystal is a periodic array of a swirling topological spin texture. Since it is regarded as an interference pattern by multiple helical spin density waves, the texture changes with the relative phases among the constituent waves. Although the phase degree of freedom is relevant to not only magnetism but also transport properties, its effect has not been elucidated thus far. We here theoretically show that a phase shift can occur in the skyrmion crystals to stabilize tetra-axial vortex crystals with staggered scalar spin chirality. This leads to spontaneous breaking of the lattice symmetry, which results in nonreciprocal transport phenomena even without the relativistic spin-orbit coupling. We show that such a phase shift is driven by long-range chirality interactions or thermal fluctuations in spin-charge coupled systems.

5 pages, 4 figures

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