Texture-induced spin-orbit coupling and Skyrmion-electron bound states in a Néel antiferromagnet

Abstract

We derive effective-mass electron Hamiltonian for a Néel antiferromagnet in the presence of a smooth texture of the staggered magnetization. For certain locations of electron band extrema, the texture produces a peculiar and anomalously strong spin-orbit coupling of the scale $\hslash v/L$, with $v$ the Fermi velocity and $L$ the characteristic length scale of the texture. For a Skyrmion texture, this coupling generates electron bound states, whose energy scale is given by the gap $\Delta$ in the electron spectrum. With dopant carriers, such bound states turn the Skyrmion into a charged particle, that can be manipulated by electric field.

arXiv commentContribution to the collection in honor of Emmanuel I. Rashba, on his 95th birthday

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