Blue Quantum Fog: Chiral Condensation in Quantum Helimagnets

Abstract

It is shown that a condensation transition involving a chiral order parameter can occur in itinerant helimagnets, in analogy to the transition between the isotropic phase and the phase known as blue fog or blue phase III in cholesteric liquid crystals. It is proposed that such a transition is the explanation for recent neutron scattering results in MnSi. Predictions are made that will allow to experimentally test this proposal.

arXiv comment4pp, 1 eps fig

References in corpus (3)

• Local field theory for disordered itinerant quantum ferromagnets
• Quantum critical behavior in disordered itinerant ferromagnets: Logarithmic corrections to scaling
• The quantum phase transition of itinerant helimagnets

Cited by in corpus (56)

• Spontaneous Skyrmion Ground States in Magnetic Metals
• Skyrmion Lattice in a Doped Semiconductor
• Unusual Hall Effect Anomaly in MnSi Under Pressure
• Skyrmions and Anomalous Hall Effect in a Dzyloshinskii-Moriya Spiral Magnet
• Theory of the helical spin crystal: a candidate for the partially ordered state of MnSi
• The skyrmion lattice phase in three dimensional chiral magnets from Monte Carlo simulations
• Phase separation and suppression of critical dynamics at quantum transitions of itinerant magnets: MnSi and (Sr${}_{1-x}$Ca${}_x$)RuO${}_3$
• Formation of a topological non-Fermi liquid in MnSi
• Theory of helical spin crystals: phases, textures and properties
• Giant Topological Hall Effect in van der Waals Heterostructures of CrTe2/Bi2Te3
• Proximity of Iron Pnictide Superconductors to a Quantum Tricritical Point
• Helimagnon Bands as Universal Spin Excitations of Chiral Magnets
• The chiral biquadratic pair interaction
• Magnetic Blue Phase in the Chiral Itinerant Magnet MnSi
• Crystalline phases in chiral ferromagnets: Destabilization of helical order
• Chiral criticality in doped Mn${}_{1-y}$Fe${}_y$Si compounds
• Structural disorder versus chiral magnetism in Cr${}_{1/3}$NbS${}_2$
• Ultrasonic studies of the magnetic phase transition in MnSi
• Observation of colossal topological Hall effect in noncoplanar ferromagnet Cr5Te6 thin films
• Peculiar behavior of the electrical resistivity of MnSi at the ferromagnetic phase transition
• Colloquium: Quantum skyrmionics
• Quantum order-by-disorder near criticality and the secret of partial order in MnSi
• Weak antiferromagnetic ordering and pure magnetic reflections induced by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in MnSi-type crystals
• Frustrated magnetic helices in MnSi-type crystals
• Multi-shell contribution to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya spiralling in MnSi-type crystals
• Noncommuting Momenta of Topological Solitons
• Scrutinizing Hall effect in Mn${}_{1-x}$Fe${}_x$Si: Fermi surface evolution and hidden quantum criticality
• Dynamics of active nematic defects on the surface of a sphere
• Hidden quantum phase transition in Mn${}_{1-x}$Fe${}_x$Ge: evidence brought by small-angle neutron scattering
• Topological strength of magnetic skyrmions
• Skyrmions and spirals in MnSi under hydrostatic pressure
• Origin and consequence of an unpinned helical magnet: application to partial order in MnSi under pressure
• Columnar Fluctuations as a Source of Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Weak Metallic Magnets
• Topological Excitations in Magnetic Materials
• Ordered Phases of Itinerant Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya Magnets and Their Electronic Properties
• Topical Review on Skyrmions and Hall Transport
• Point Defects, Chirality and Singularity Theory in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets
• Anomalous Fermi liquid phase in metallic Skyrmion crystals
• Chiral liquid phase of simple quantum magnets
• Fragile balance of the exchange interactions in Mn${}_{1-x}$Co${}_x$Ge compounds
• Magnetization of the Mn${}_{1-x}$Fe${}_x$Si in high magnetic field up to 50 T: possible evidence of a field-induced Griffiths phase
• Skyrmions and Hall Transport
• A microscopic model for spiral ordering along (110) on the MnSi lattice
• Gyrotropic elastic response of skyrmion crystals to current-induced tensions
• Evolution of Helimagnetic Correlations when approaching the Quantum Critical Point of Mn${}_{1-x}$Fe${}_x$Si
• Smectons: Soft modes in electronic stripe phases, and their consequences for thermodynamics and transport
• Generic non-Fermi-liquid behavior of the resistivity in magnets with ferromagnetic, helical, or skyrmionic order
• Manifestation of the spin textures in the thermopower of MnSi
• Magneto-elastic interaction in cubic helimagnets with B20 structure
• A general model of MnSi-like spiral magnets
• Partial Antiferromagnetic Helical Order in Fe${}_3$PO${}_4$O${}_3$
• Experimental determination of the spin Hamiltonian of the cubic chiral magnet MnSi
• Anomalous Transport Behavior in Quantum Magnets
• The influence of antiferromagnetic spin cantings on the magnetic helix pitch in cubic helimagnets
• Supplementary Information for: 'Spontaneous Skyrmion Ground States in Magnetic Metals'
• Bulk and surface topological indices for a skyrmion string