Nonanalytic Corrections to Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Helimagnets

Abstract

The Goldstone mode in the ordered phase of itinerant helimagnets, such as MnSi or FeGe, is determined and shown to have a strongly anisotropic dispersion relation. The softness of this mode is, in a well-defined sense, in between that of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic magnons, respectively. It is shown that this soft mode leads to nonanalytic corrections to Fermi-liquid behavior, with a T-contribution to the specific heat coefficient, and a T^{5/2}-contribution to the resistivity. The quasi-particle inelastic lifetime shows anisotropic behavior in momentum space.

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