Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2015 Jul 17;115(3):036602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.036602. Epub 2015 Jul 14.
We carry out density functional theory calculations which demonstrate that the electron dynamics in the Skyrmion phase of Fe-rich Mn_{1-x}Fe_{x}Ge alloys is governed by Berry phase physics. We observe that the magnitude of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction directly related to the mixed space-momentum Berry phases, changes sign and magnitude with concentration x in direct correlation with the data of Shibata et al. [Nat. Nanotechnol. 8, 723 (2013)]. The computed anomalous and topological Hall effects in FeGe are also in good agreement with available experiments. We further develop a simple tight-binding model able to explain these findings. Finally, we show that the adiabatic Berry phase picture is violated in the Mn-rich limit of the alloys.
我们进行了密度泛函理论计算,证明了在富铁 Mn1-xFexGe 合金的斯格明子相中,电子动力学受贝里相物理的控制。我们观察到,与混合空间动量贝里相直接相关的 Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya 相互作用的大小随浓度 x 而变化,与 Shibata 等人的数据直接相关 [Nat. Nanotechnol. 8, 723 (2013)]。在 FeGe 中计算得到的反常和拓扑霍尔效应也与现有实验吻合良好。我们进一步开发了一个简单的紧束缚模型,能够解释这些发现。最后,我们表明在合金的富锰极限下,绝热贝里相图被违反了。