Odd-parity magnetism has attracted significant interest for its unconventional spin splitting. However, a concrete microscopic route for its realization remains elusive. In this work, we propose van der Waals heterostructures of stripe antiferromagnets (sAFMs) as an ideal platform for electrically controllable p-wave magnetism. In the sAFM/metal/sAFM structure, the leading RKKY-type exchange interaction is canceled due to the symmetry of the stacking pattern. This exposes a higher-order biquadratic interaction as a dominant contribution that drives a filling-controlled transition from a collinear phase to an orthogonal p-wave configuration. The resulting p-wave phase exhibits a gate-tunable Edelstein response, which originates from magnetic symmetry breaking rather than conventional relativistic spin-momentum locking and remains robust even under substantial spin-orbit coupling. Finally, we propose material candidates for the realization of our theory. Our results establish van der Waals heterostructures as a practical platform for non-relativistic spintronics with electric control of odd-parity spin textures.
@article{arxiv.2602.11251,
title = {Odd-Parity Magnetism and Gate-Tunable Edelstein Response in van der Waals Heterostructures},
author = {Hanbyul Kim and Chan Bin Bark and Seik Pak and Gibaik Sim and Moon Jip Park},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.11251},
year = {2026}
}