Conserved momenta of a ferromagnetic soliton

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DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.09.004zbMATH Open1360.35040arXiv1503.02329OpenAlexW3103829761MaRDI QIDQ528241FDOQ528241

Oleg Tchernyshyov

Publication date: 12 May 2017

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Linear and angular momenta of a soliton in a ferromagnet are commonly derived through the application of Noether's theorem. We show that these quantities exhibit unphysical behavior: they depend on the choice of a gauge potential in the spin Lagrangian and can be made arbitrary. To resolve this problem, we exploit a similarity between the dynamics of a ferromagnetic soliton and that of a charged particle in a magnetic field. For the latter, canonical momentum is also gauge-dependent and thus unphysical; the physical momentum is the generator of magnetic translations, a symmetry combining physical translations with gauge transformations. We use this analogy to unambiguously define conserved momenta for ferromagnetic solitons. General considerations are illustrated on simple models of a domain wall in a ferromagnetic chain and of a vortex in a thin film.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02329




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