Multicomponent Magnetic Domain Walls in Rhombohedral Graphene

arXiv:2608.26104 · cond-mat.mes-hall, cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.supr-con · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

cond-mat.mes-hall, cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.supr-con

Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-10-12

Comments: 4+16 pages. 9 Figures. Related experiments: arXiv:2608.25257, arXiv:2608.25263

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: Spatial textures of magnetic order, such as domain walls and skyrmions, are fundamental objects in magnetism.

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Spatial textures of magnetic order, such as domain walls and skyrmions, are fundamental objects in magnetism. In rhombohedral multilayer graphene, magnetic order involves spin and valley degrees of freedom, opening the possibility of qualitatively new spatial textures. Here, we explore this possibility through a microscopic study of a one-dimensional domain wall in the valley-imbalanced quarter-metal phase of rhombohedral graphene. We uncover two different classes of domain walls. One resembles a conventional magnetic domain wall, locally rotating between the two bulk states, whereas the other is intrinsically multicomponent and explores states that are not occupied in either bulk domain. Which texture is realized is controlled by the competition between intervalley Hund's coupling and spin-orbit coupling, and we identify experimental signatures to distinguish them. For a superconducting junction formed across the wall, we further show that the superconducting phase difference couples directly to the intervalley-coherent phase of the texture, allowing precession of this internal phase to generate a voltage. This mechanism provides an explanation for the resistive domain walls recently observed in chiral superconductors [arXiv2605.13303] and predicts accompanying magnetization oscillations that could be detected using GHz-frequency AC probes. Our theory establish a microscopic connection between multicomponent magnetic textures, their internal dynamics, and superconducting transport.

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