Breakdown of hydrodynamic transport theory in the ordered phase of helimagnets.
It is shown that strong fluctuations preclude a hydrodynamic description of transport phenomena in helimagnets, such as MnSi, at T>0. This breakdown of hydrodynamics is analogous to the one in chiral liquid crystals. Mode-mode coupling effects lead to infinite renormalizations of various transport coefficients, and the actual macroscopic description is nonlocal. At T=0 these effects are weakened due to the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, and the renormalizations remain finite. Observable consequences of these results, as manifested in the neutron scattering cross section, are discussed.
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Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
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