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Insights into the orbital magnetism of noncollinear magnetic systems
The orbital magnetic moment is usually associated with the relativistic
spin-orbit interaction, but recently it has been shown that noncollinear
magnetic structures can also be its driving force. This is important not only
for magnetic skyrmions, but also for other noncollinear structures, either
bulk-like or at the nanoscale, with consequences regarding their experimental
detection. In this work we present a minimal model that contains the effects of
both the relativistic spin-orbit interaction and of magnetic noncollinearity on
the orbital magnetism. A hierarchy of models is discussed in a step-by-step
fashion, highlighting the role of time-reversal symmetry breaking for
translational and spin and orbital angular motions. Couplings of spin-orbit and
orbit-orbit type are identified as arising from the magnetic noncollinearity.
We recover the atomic contribution to the orbital magnetic moment, and a
nonlocal one due to the presence of circulating bound currents, exploring
different balances between the kinetic energy, the spin exchange interaction,
and the relativistic spin-orbit interaction. The connection to the scalar spin
chirality is examined. The orbital magnetism driven by magnetic noncollinearity
is mostly unexplored, and the presented model contributes to laying its
groundwork
Chirality-driven orbital magnetic moments as a new probe for topological magnetic structures
When electrons are driven through unconventional magnetic structures, such as
skyrmions, they experience emergent electromagnetic fields that originate
several Hall effects. Independently, ground state emergent magnetic fields can
also lead to orbital magnetism, even without the spin-orbit interaction. The
close parallel between the geometric theories of the Hall effects and of the
orbital magnetization raises the question: does a skyrmion display topological
orbital magnetism? Here we first address the smallest systems with nonvanishing
emergent magnetic field, trimers, characterizing the orbital magnetic
properties from first-principles. Armed with this understanding, we study the
orbital magnetism of skyrmions, and demonstrate that the contribution driven by
the emergent magnetic field is topological. This means that the topological
contribution to the orbital moment does not change under continous deformations
of the magnetic structure. Furthermore, we use it to propose a new experimental
protocol for the identification of topological magnetic structures, by soft
x-ray spectroscopy.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Nature Communication
Effective Altruism and Religion
A new movement is on the scene: effective altruism—the combination of love and efficiency, making the world a better place not just with a bleeding heart and empathy but with a radical focus on reason and evidence and never losing sight of the goal of maximal impact. Its adherents typically stem from strongly secular environments such as elite philosophy departments or Silicon Valley. So far, a religious perspective on this movement has been lacking. What can people of faith learn from effective altruism, how can they contribute, and what must they criticise? This volume offers a first examination of these questions, providing both a Buddhist and an Orthodox Jewish perspective on them, in addition to various Christian contributions. With contributions by Calvin Baker, Lara Buchak, Mara-Daria Cojocaru, Stefan Höschele, Markus Huppenbauer, Robert MacSwain, David Manheim, Kathryn Muyskens, Stefan Riedener, Dominic Roser and Jakub Synowiec.PublishedA new movement is on the scene: effective altruism—the combination of love and efficiency, making the world a better place not just with a bleeding heart and empathy but with a radical focus on reason and evidence and never losing sight of the goal of maximal impact. Its adherents typically stem from strongly secular environments such as elite philosophy departments or Silicon Valley. So far, a religious perspective on this movement has been lacking. What can people of faith learn from effective altruism, how can they contribute, and what must they criticise? This volume offers a first examination of these questions, providing both a Buddhist and an Orthodox Jewish perspective on them, in addition to various Christian contributions. With contributions by Calvin Baker, Lara Buchak, Mara-Daria Cojocaru, Stefan Höschele, Markus Huppenbauer, Robert MacSwain, David Manheim, Kathryn Muyskens, Stefan Riedener, Dominic Roser and Jakub Synowiec
Topological spin Hall effect in antiferromagnetic skyrmions
The topological Hall effect (THE), as one of the primary manifestations of
non-trivial topology of chiral skyrmions, is traditionally used to detect the
emergence of skyrmion lattices with locally ferromagnetic order. In this work
we demonstrate that the appearance of non-trivial two-dimensional chiral
textures with locally {\it anti}-ferromagnetic order can be detected through
the spin version of the THE the topological spin Hall effect (TSHE).
Utilizing the semiclassical formalism, here used to combine chiral
antiferromagnetic textures with a density functional theory description of the
collinear, degenerate electronic structure, we follow the real-space real-time
evolution of electronic SU(2) wavepackets in an external electric field to
demonstrate the emergence of sizeable transverse pure spin current in synthetic
antiferromagnets of the Fe/Cu/Fe trilayer type. We further unravel the extreme
sensitivity of the TSHE to the details of the electronic structure, suggesting
that the magnitude and sign of the TSHE in transition-metal synthetic
antiferromagnets can be engineered by tuning such parameters as the thickness
or band filling. Besides being an important step in our understanding of the
topological properties of ever more complex skyrmionic systems, our results
bear great potential in stimulating the discovery of antiferromagnetic
skyrmions
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