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The antiferroaxial state is emerging as an important ferroic order in condensed matter systems. Here, we establish antiferroaxial altermagnetism as a broadly prevalent, generic, and microscopically grounded multiferroic mechanism, in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-12 Yichen Liu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

Control and detection of spin order in ferromagnets is the main principle allowing storing and reading of magnetic information in nowadays technology. The large class of antiferromagnets, on the other hand, is less utilized, despite its…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-23 P. Nemec , M. Fiebig , T. Kampfrath , A. V. Kimel

The theory behind the electrical switching of antiferromagnets is premised on the existence of a well defined broken symmetry state that can be rotated to encode information. A spin glass is in many ways the antithesis of this state,…

Spintronics in ferromagnetic metals is built on a complementary set of phenomena in which magnetic configurations influence transport coefficients and transport currents alter magnetic configurations. In this Letter we propose that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Nunez , R. A. Duine , A. H. MacDonald

Here by combining a symmetry-based analysis with numerical computations we predict a new kind of magnetic ordering - antichiral ferromagnetism. The relationship between chiral and antichiral magnetic order is conceptually similar to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-21 Filipp N. Rybakov , Anastasiia Pervishko , Olle Eriksson , Egor Babaev

Antiferromagnetic materials could represent the future of spintronic applications thanks to the numerous interesting features they combine: they are robust against perturbation due to magnetic fields, produce no stray fields, display…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-20 V. Baltz , A. Manchon , M. Tsoi , T. Moriyama , T. Ono , Y. Tserkovnyak

Antiferromagnetic materials are magnetic inside, however, the direction of their ordered microscopic moments alternates between individual atomic sites. The resulting zero net magnetic moment makes magnetism in antiferromagnets invisible on…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-23 T. Jungwirth , X. Marti , P. Wadley , J. Wunderlich

It has been shown experimentally a long time ago that the magnetic ordering causes an anomalous behavior of the electron resistivity in ferromagnetic crystals. Phenomenological explanations based on the interaction between itinerant…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Akabli , H. T. Diep

We investigate the appearance of an inversion-asymmetric antiferromagnetism due to an itinerant mechanism in nonsymmorphic systems with magnetic ions at Wyckoff position of multiplicity 2. The key symmetries which underpin the existence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-24 Changhee Lee , P. M. R. Brydon

One of the main obstacles that prevents practical applications of antiferromagnets is the difficulty of manipulating the magnetic order parameter. Recently, following the theoretical prediction [J. \v{Z}elezn\'y et al., PRL 113, 157201…

Antiferromagnetic spintronics is an emerging research field whose focus is on the electrical and optical control of the antiferromagnetic order parameter and its utility in information technology devices. An example of recently discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

Antiferromagnets naturally exhibit three obvious advantages over ferromagnets for memory device applications: insensitivity to external magnetic fields, much faster spin dynamics (~THz) and higher packing density due to the absence of any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Zhiqi Liu , Zexin Feng , Han Yan , Xiaoning Wang , Xiaorong Zhou , Peixin Qin , Huixin Guo , Ronghai Yu , Chengbao Jiang

Realization of ferromagnetic ferroelectricity, combining two ferroic orders in a single phase, is the longstanding problem of great practical importance. One of the difficulties is that ferromagnetism alone cannot break inversion symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-22 I. V. Solovyev

The unique features of ultrafast spin dynamics and the absence of macroscopic magnetization in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials provide a distinct route towards high-speed magnetic storage devices with low energy consumption and high…

Spintronics, since its inception, has mainly focused on ferromagnetic materials for manipulating the spin degree of freedom in addition to the charge degree of freedom, whereas much less attention has been paid to antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 H. Y. Yuan , Zhe Yuan , Rembert A. Duine , X. R. Wang

Antiferromagnetic materials, which have drawn considerable attention recently, have fascinating features: they are robust against perturbation, produce no stray fields, and exhibit ultrafast dynamics. Discerning how to efficiently…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-14 Cheng Song , Yunfeng You , Xianzhe Chen , Xiaofeng Zhou , Yuyan Wang , Feng Pan

Recent results in electric-field control of magnetism have paved the way for the design of alternative magnetic and spintronic devices with enhanced functionalities and low power consumption. Among the diversity of reported magnetoelectric…

Altermagnets, with spin splitting and vanishing magnetization, have been attributed to many fascinating phenomena and potential applications. In particular, integrating ferroelectricity with altermagnetism to enable magnetoelectric coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Su-Huai Wei , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

This article is dedicated to the 60-th anniversary of the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics and presents a review of normal and superconducting properties of toroidal, altermagnetic, and noncentrosymmetric metals. Metals with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-05 V. P. Mineev

We propose a novel ferroelectric switchable altermagnetism effect, the reversal of ferroelectric polarization is coupled to the switching of altermagnetic spin splitting. We demonstrate the design principles for the ferroelectric…

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