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Unconventional magnetism in spin-orbit coupled systems

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-04-22 v1

Abstract

``Unconventional magnetism" was proposed to describe the exotic states arising from Landau-Pomeranchuk instabilities in the spin channel nearly two decades ago. Its odd-partial-wave-channel (e.g. pp-wave) states break parity giving rise to the dynamic generation of spin-orbit coupling, while its even-partial-wave-channel (e.g. dd-wave) states break time-reversal symmetry. Both types of states can exhibit collinear and non-collinear spin configurations over Fermi surfaces with the former and latter termed as the α\alpha and β\beta-phases, respectively. The collinear states in even partial-wave channels are in the same symmetry class of ``altermagnetism". In this work, we investigate unconventional magnetism in both pp- and dd-wave channels within spin-orbit coupled systems with parity and time-reversal symmetries maintained. Based on the Ginzburg-Landau free energy analysis, the pp-wave channel yields the gyrotropic, Rashba, Dresselhaus-type spin-orbit couplings. They compete and mix evolving from the β\beta-phase to the α\alpha-phase with various types of spin-momentum lockings. Analyses are performed in parallel for the dd-wave unconventional magnetism. We emphasize that the single-particle dispersion is not sufficient to justify the spin-group type symmetry of the full Hamiltonian. Furthermore, Goldstone manifolds and excitations are examined in each unconventional magnetic phase.

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@article{arxiv.2504.14577,
  title  = {Unconventional magnetism in spin-orbit coupled systems},
  author = {Jian-Keng Yuan and Zhiming Pan and Congjun Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.14577},
  year   = {2025}
}

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14 pages, 10 figures

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