Theory of conducting electrons in textured antiferromagnets
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Abstract
The dynamics of conducting electrons in antiferromagnetic texture is shown to exhibit an SU(2) geometric phase in the iso-spin that characterizes a locked spin-sublattice degree of freedom. The iso-spin rotation is purely geometrical and can be expressed in terms of the flux of a novel Berry curvature jointing the real and momentum space, a crucial quantity that has been overlooked in conventional transport theory. We provide an example of one dimensional domain wall, where the iso-spin rotation is topologically quantized. Scattering by skyrmion centers in two dimensions are also discussed, where a Mott like scattering of the iso-spins is predicted.
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Authors
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Ran Cheng
The University of Texas at Austin
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Qian Niu
The University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 USA, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin