Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Electrical magnetochiral effect induced by chiral spin fluctuations

  • T. Yokouchi,
  • N. Kanazawa,
  • A. Kikkawa,
  • D. Morikawa,
  • K. Shibata,
  • T. Arima,
  • Y. Taguchi,
  • F. Kagawa,
  • Y. Tokura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01094-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The magnetism-induced chirality in electron transportation is of fundamental importantance in condensed matter physics but the origin is still unclear. Here the authors demonstrate that the asymmetric electron scattering by chiral spin fluctuations can be the key to the electrical magnetochiral effect in MnSi.