English
Related papers

Related papers: Chiral magnons in altermagnetic RuO2

200 papers

Altermagnets (AMs) are a recently identified class of unconventional collinear compensated antiferromagnets that exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This unconventional magnetic order gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-24 Bo Zhao , Fu Li , Wei Ren , Hao Wang , Hongbin Zhang

We formulate a Landau theory for altermagnets, a class of colinear compensated magnets with spin-split bands. Starting from the non-relativistic limit, this Landau theory goes beyond a conventional analysis by including spin-space…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-29 Paul A. McClarty , Jeffrey G. Rau

We study the magnon bands of twisted bilayer honeycomb quantum magnets using linear spin wave theory. Although the interlayer coupling can be ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic, we keep the intralayer one ferromagnetic to avoid possible…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-11 Xingchuan Zhu , Huaiming Guo , Shiping Feng

Besides hosting several intriguing physical properties, the recently discovered time-reversal-asymmetric antiferromagnets, known as altermagnets, hold immense promise for technologies based on spintronics. Understanding the symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-06 Suman Rooj , Nirmal Ganguli

Altermagnets are a recently discovered class of magnetic materials that combine a collinear, zero-magnetization spin structure, characteristic of antiferromagnets, with spin-split electronic bands, a hallmark of ferromagnets. This unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Magnons in antiferromagnets can support both right-handed and left-handed chiralities, which shed a light on the chirality-based spintronics. Here we demonstrate the switching and reading of magnon chirality in an artificial…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Yahui Liu , Zhengmeng Xu , Lin Liu , Kai Zhang , Yang Meng , Yuanwei Sun , Peng Gao , Hong-Wu Zhao , Qian Niu , J. Li

We propose a model with Weyl magnons and nodal-line magnons ($\mathbb{Z}_2$) in a collinear altermagnet on the honeycomb lattice. Altermagnetic magnon bands can be realized by breaking the symmetry of the second nearest neighbor exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Meng-Han Zhang , Lu Xiao , Dao-Xin Yao

The magnon dispersion of Ca$_2$RuO$_4$ has been studied by polarized and unpolarized neutron scattering experiments on crystals containing 0, 1 and 10 % of Ti. The entire dispersion of transverse magnons can be well described by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-15 S. Kunkemöller , E. Komleva , S. V. Streltsov , S. Hoffmann , D. I. Khomskii , P. Steffens , Y. Sidis , K. Schmalzl , M. Braden

Altermagnets are a recently identified class of collinear antiferromagnets that host large spin-split electronic bands, offering a promising platform for efficient spin-current generation. Among proposed candidates, the metallic oxide RuO2…

We present a calculation of the magnon spectra and chiral lifetimes of altermagnons in bulk CrSb using the many-body perturbation theory. The spin-split band structure is evident in the magnon spectra. Altermagnons attain an energy of 275…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-07 Murat Tas

Conventional spintronic mechanisms, such as spin-transfer and spin-orbit torques based on the spin current, rely on breaking time-reversal symmetry to manipulate magnetic moments. In contrast, for spatially separated dual spin currents, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Gengchen Meng Qi Sun , Zhicheng Xie , Yumin Yang , Yu Zhang , Na Lei , Dahai Wei

The coupling between ferroelectrics and magnetism presents a promising avenue for low-dissipation spintronic devices. However, such couplings remain rare, and the direct realization of magnetic order driven by ferroelectric switching in…

We apply time-dependent density functional theory to calculate the transverse magnetic susceptibility of bcc-Cr and Cr$_2$O$_3$, which constitute prototypical examples of antiferromagnets with itinerant and localized magnetic moments…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-08 Thorbjørn Skovhus , Thomas Olsen

We predict that spin-waves in an ordered quantum antiferromagnet (AFM) in a strong magnetic field become unstable with respect to spontaneous two-magnon decays. At zero temperature, the instability occurs between the threshold field $H^*$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Zhitomirsky , A. L. Chernyshev

Recent neutron scattering measurements on the spinel CdCr2O4 revealed a rare example of helical magnetic order in geometrically frustrated pyrochlore antiferromagnet. The spin spiral characterized by an incommensurate wavevector Q = 2pi (0,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-19 Eunsong Choi , Gia-Wei Chern , Natalia Perkins

Magnons with momentum-dependent chirality are a key signature of altermagnets. We identify bicircular light as a smoking-gun optical probe for chiral altermagnetic magnons, selectively targeting their quantum geometry induced by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Rundong Yuan , Wojciech J. Jankowski , Ka Shen , Robert-Jan Slager

The newly discovered altermagnets are unconventional collinear compensated magnetic systems, exhibiting even (d, g, or i-wave) spin-polarization order in the band structure, setting them apart from conventional collinear ferromagnets and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-02 Atasi Chakraborty , Rafael González Hernández , Libor šmejkal , Jairo Sinova

Altermagnets are a new class of magnetic materials with zero net magnetization (like antiferromagnets) but spin-split electronic bands (like ferromagnets) over a fraction of reciprocal space. As in antiferromagnets, magnons in altermagnets…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 A. T. Costa , J. C. G. Henriques , J. Fernández-Rossier

In altermagnets, the magnon bands are anisotropically spin-split in reciprocal space without relativistic or dipolar spin-spin interactions. In this work, we theoretically study magnons and phonons coupled by spin-lattice interaction in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Hannah Bendin , Alexander Mook , Ingrid Mertig , Robin R. Neumann

Altermagnets recently are identified as a new class of magnets that break the time-reversal symmetry without exhibiting net magnetization. The role of the dipole-dipole interaction (DDI) on their dynamical properties however is yet to be…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-27 Zhejunyu Jin , Tianci Gong , Jie Liu , Huanhuan Yang , Zhaozhuo Zeng , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan