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This ``Perspective'' briefly reviews recent work showing that a class of organic superconductors have important similarities to the cuprate superconductors: (i) There is competition betweeen superconductivity and antiferromagnetism. (ii)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Ross H. McKenzie

Altermagnets are an emergent class of materials combining features of ferro- and antiferro-magnetic materials. They have spin-separated bands normally associated with ferromagnets, but a vanishing net magnetization. Moreover the symmetries…

Recent works have predicted materials featuring bands with a large spin-splitting distinct from ferromagnetic and relativistically spin-orbit coupled systems. Materials displaying this property are known as altermagnets and feature a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-15 Chi Sun , Arne Brataas , Jacob Linder

Altermagnetism is a collinear compensated magnetically-ordered phase with a d, g or i-wave anisotropy and alternating spin polarization of the electronic structure in the position and momentum space. Its recent discovery was in part…

The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in the newly discovered heavy-fermion superconductor CePt$_3$Si has been investigated using the zero-field $\mu$SR technique. The $\mu$SR data indicate that the whole muon ensemble…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Amato , E. Bauer , C. Baines

Recently introduced magnetic materials called altermagnets (AM) feature zero net magnetization but a momentum dependent magnetic exchange field, which can have intriguing implications when combined with superconductivity. In our work, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-13 Simran Chourasia , Aleksandr Svetogorov , Akashdeep Kamra , Wolfgang Belzig

Recently discovered, altermagnetism represents a third class of collinear magnets. These materials exhibit zero net magnetization, similar to antiferromagnets, but display anomalous transport properties resembling those of ferromagnets.…

We investigate the impact of the presence of altermagnetism on physical observables in the presence of explicit or spontaneous symmetry-breaking fields. We focus on unconventional superconductivity as a potential source of spontaneous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-04 Aline Ramires

The ability of magnetic materials to modify superconducting systems is an active research area for possible applications in thermoelectricity, quantum sensing, and spintronics. We consider the fundamental properties of the Josephson effect…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-18 Jabir Ali Ouassou , Arne Brataas , Jacob Linder

A new microscopic mechanism of the magneto-electric (ME) effect based on the spin supercurrent is theoretically presented for non-collinear magnets. The close analogy between the superconductors (charge current) and magnets (spin current)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Hosho Katsura , Naoto Nagaosa , Alexander V. Balatsky

This work analyzes the behavior of the interface between a ferromagnetic material and an alter-magnet. We use a well-established line of arguments based on electronic mean-field calculations to show that new surface phenomena that lead to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-29 Gaspar De la Barrera , Alvaro S. Nunez

Magnetism is one of the largest, most fundamental, and technologically most relevant fields of condensed-matter physics. Traditionally, two basic magnetic phases have been considered -- ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. The breaking of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

Altermagnetism, a type of magnetic order that combines properties of ferro- and antiferromagnets, has stirred great interest lately not only as a promising source of spintronics applications, but also as a potential gateway to exotic phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-15 Pedro M. Cônsoli , Matthias Vojta

A general phenomenological theory is presented for the phase behavior of ferromagnetic superconductors with spin-triplet electron Cooper pairing. The theory describes in details the temperature-pressure phase diagrams of real inter-metallic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-07-10 Dimo I. Uzunov

Altermagnets are defined as magnetic states with fully compensated spin angular momenta (spins) and broken PT (P: parity, T: time reversal, PT: parity times time reversal) symmetry. We classify three kinds of altermagnets: M-type: broken T…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-19 Sang-Wook Cheong , Fei-Ting Huang

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets have recently gained significant interest because they combine the advantages of both ferromagnets (spin polarization) and antiferromagnets (absence of net magnetization) for spintronics applications. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-29 Soho Shim , M. Mehraeen , Joseph Sklenar , Steven S. -L. Zhang , Axel Hoffmann , Nadya Mason

The recent discovery of altermagnets has opened new perspectives in the field of ordered phases in condensed matter. In strongly-correlated superfluids, the nodal p-wave and d-wave ordered phases of $^{3}$He and cuprates play a prominent…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-17 Tomas Jungwirth , Rafael M. Fernandes , Jairo Sinova , Libor Smejkal

We consider the possibility of phonon-mediated unconventional superconductivity in a recently discovered new class of antiferromagnets, dubbed altermagnets. Within a weak-coupling approach, and using a minimal Lieb lattice model for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-24 Kristoffer Leraand , Kristian Mæland , Asle Sudbø

Altermegnets are a class of metallic magnets characterized by spin-split electron bands. Like antiferromagnets they lack spontaneous bulk magnetisation. The standard description of the momentum dependent spin splitting of electron bands in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-09 Vladimir P. Mineev