Electric transport in three-dimensional Skyrmion/monopole crystal
Abstract
We study theoretically the transport properties of a three-dimensional spin texture made from three orthogonal helices, which is essentially a lattice of monopole-antimonopole pairs connected by Skyrmion strings. This spin structure is proposed for MnGe based on the neutron scattering experiment as well as the Lorentz transmission electron microscopy observation. Equipped with a sophisticated spectral analysis method, we adopt finite temperature Green's function technique to calculate the longitudinal dc electric transport in such system. We consider conduction electrons interacting with spin waves of the topologically nontrivial spin texture, wherein fluctuations of monopolar emergent magnetic field enter. We study in detail the behavior of electric resistivity under the influence of temperature, external magnetic field and a characteristic monopole motion, especially a novel magnetoresistivity effect describing the latest experimental observations in MnGe, wherein a topological phase transition signifying strong correlation is identified.
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@article{arxiv.1608.05902,
title = {Electric transport in three-dimensional Skyrmion/monopole crystal},
author = {Xiao-Xiao Zhang and Andrey S. Mishchenko and Giulio De Filippis and Naoto Nagaosa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.05902},
year = {2016}
}
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