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A new type of magnet called $p$-wave unconventional magnet is proposed, stimulated by the discovery of altermagnet. We study the tunneling conductance of $p$-wave unconventional magnet/superconductor junctions by adopting the effective…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-24 Yuri Fukaya , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka

Altermagnetism has emerged as a third type of collinear magnetism. In contrast to standard ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, altermagnets exhibit extra even-parity wave spin order parameters resulting in a spin-splitting of electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Valentin Leeb , Alexander Mook , Libor Šmejkal , Johannes Knolle

We propose a novel type of topological superconductivity based on Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces (BFSs) in an altermagnetic topological insulator proximitized by an s-wave superconductor. The 3D altermagnetic topological insulator is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Bo Fu , Chang-An Li , Björn Trauzettel

Altermagnetism represents a recently established class of collinear magnetism that combines zero net magnetization with momentum-dependent spin polarization, enabled by symmetry constraints rather than spin-orbit coupling. This distinctive…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Ali Sufyan , Brahim Marfoua , J. Andreas Larsson , Erik van Loon , Rickard Armiento

When superconductivity couples with noncollinear spin textures, rich physics arises; for instance, singlet Cooper pairs can be converted to triplet pairs, and topological superconductors can be realized. For their applications, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-02 Rina Takashima , Yasuyuki Kato , Youichi Yanase , Yukitoshi Motome

We report the observation of superconductivity with multiple magnetic ordering and Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling in a layered polar semimetal EuAuBi. Magnetic transition is observed at 4 K, followed by a superconducting transition at 2.2…

The interplay between spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and magnetism produces interesting phenomena in superconductors. When a two-dimensional (2D) system with strong SOI is coupled to an $s$-wave superconductor, an in-plane magnetic field can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-16 Miaomiao Wei , Longjun Xiang , Fuming Xu , Lei Zhang , Gaomin Tang , Jian Wang

The mutual competition and synergy of magnetism and superconductivity provide us with a very valuable opportunity to access topological superconductivity and Majorana Fermions. Here, we devise a heterostructure consisting of an $s$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-13 Yu-Xuan Li , Cheng-Cheng Liu

Topological superconductors support Majorana modes, which are quasiparticles that are their own antiparticles and which obey non-Abelian statistics in which successive exchanges of particles do not always commute. Here we investigate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-29 Jonathan Schirmer , J. K. Jain , C. -X. Liu

The recent discovery of unconventional momentum-dependent magnetic orders has expanded the landscape of magnetism beyond conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. Among them, $p$-wave magnets ($p$WMs) represent a novel class of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-04 Amartya Pal , Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha

Altermagnetism is a recently identified phase with a d, g or i-wave spin symmetry of magnetic ordering. Its discovery opens new research fronts at intersections of magnetism and spintronics with fields ranging from superconductivity to…

The emergence of altermagnets establishes a new paradigm for multiferroics. Unlike conventional multiferroics relying on direct magnetoelectric coupling, multiferroic altermagnets host a crystal-symmetry-mediated magnetoelectric interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-12 Zhou Cui , Ziye Zhu , Xunkai Duan , Bowen Hao , Xianzhang Chen , Jiayong Zhang , Tong Zhou

Altermagnetism, a recently discovered class of magnetic order characterized by vanishing net magnetization and spin-splitting band structures, has garnered significant research attention. In this work, we introduce a novel two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Shuyi Li , Yu Zhang , Adrian Bahri , Xiaoliang Zhang , Chunjing Jia

Altermagnets are a newly discovered class of magnetic phases that combine the spin polarization behavior of ferromagnetic band structures with the vanishing net magnetization characteristic of antiferromagnets. Initially proposed for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-11 Mengli Hu , Oleg Janson , Claudia Felser , Paul McClarty , Jeroen van den Brink , Maia G. Vergniory

Unconventional magnetism represents a class of metallic states whose Fermi surfaces exhibit spin-dependent splittings under the non-trivial representations of the rotation group. The $d$-wave $\alpha$-phase unconventional magnetic state,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-12 Jian-Keng Yuan , Zhiming Pan , Congjun Wu

Dirac semimetals, with their protected Dirac points, present an ideal platform for realizing intrinsic topological superconductivity. In this work, we investigate superconductivity in a two-dimensional, square-lattice nonsymmorphic Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-03 Xiao-Jiao Wang , Yijie Mo , Zhi Wang , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

We consider unconventional magnets with proximity-induced superconductivity and investigate the emergence of superconducting correlations by carrying out a full classification of allowed Cooper pair symmetries. In particular, we focus on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-22 Kazuki Maeda , Yuri Fukaya , Keiji Yada , Bo Lu , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao

Altermagnetic metals break time-reversal symmetry and feature spin-split Fermi surfaces generated by compensated N\'eel-ordered collinear magnetic moments. Being metallic, such altermagnets may undergo a further instability at low…

The symmetry requirements for realizing unconventional compensated magnets with spin-polarized bands such as altermagnets have recently been uncovered. The most recent addition to this family of magnets is parity-odd or $p$-wave magnets. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-10 Pavlo Sukhachov , Hans Gløckner Giil , Bjørnulf Brekke , Jacob Linder

Altermagnetism provides new routes to realize Majorana zero modes with vanishing net magnetization. We consider a recently proposed heterostructure consisting of a semiconducting wire on top of an altermagnet and with proximity-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Andreas Hadjipaschalis , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano