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Relationship among the magnetic structure, electronic structure, and electron flow in the material. As a magnetic field is applied along the spiral axis, the magnetic structure deforms into a conical shape, inducing asymmetry in the electronic landscape and resulting in electron-flow rectification. Once the system becomes achiral (i.e., ferromagnetic, as shown in this figure), the rectification effect vanishes. 

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