Spin Superfluidity in Coplanar Multiferroics

Abstract

Multiferroics with coplanar magnetic order are discussed in terms of a superfluid condensate, with special emphasis on spin supercurrents created by phase gradients of the condensate and the effect of external electric fields. By drawing the analogy to a superconducting condensate, phenomena such as persistent currents in rings, the Little-Parks effect, fluxoid quantization, the Josephson-like effect through spin domain walls, and interference behavior in a SQUID-like geometry are analyzed for coplanar multiferroics.