Conductance in the Helimagnet- and Skyrmion-Lattice-Embedded Electron Waveguide

preprint2013arXivOpen access

Abstract

The helimagnet (HM) and skyrmion lattice (SL) are topologically nontrivial magnetic states. Their spin texture gives rise to finite topological magnetic field and Lorentz force. As a demonstration of the emergent electrodynamics besides the Hall effect, the transmission of electrons within a waveguide (WG) embedded with a HM/SL layer is shaped by the topological spin texture. In this work, we investigated the conductance properties in the HM/SL-film-embedded electron WG and found that under translation of the HM/SL layer the conductance contour as a function of the layer center demonstrates nearly identical pattern to the original spin field contour. When an electron transports in the WG, the topological magnetic field generalized by the HM/SL spin texture exerts on it and distorts the wavefunction shape in the x-y plane. By interference between different quantum paths the electron experiences, the HM/SL spin texture is recorded in the conductance. The scheme also provides a possible detect of the HM/SL spin configuration by transport experiment.

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