English
Related papers

Related papers: Two-dimensional altermagnets: Superconductivity in…

200 papers

Altermagnets have recently emerged as a distinct class of magnetic systems that exhibit spin splitting of electronic bands while retaining zero net magnetization. This unique combination makes them a promising platform for time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Constantin Schrade , Sujit Manna , Mathias S. Scheurer

Altermagnets are a novel type of magnetic system that has a spin-polarised electric band structure in the absence of a net magnetic moment, leading to exciting prospects in potential device applications. Hexagonal MnTe, a prototypical…

Superconductivity in the recently discovered altermagnetic materials hosts large prospects for both fundamental physics and technological applications. In this work we show that a characteristic spin-sublattice locking in altermagnets puts…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-09 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

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

Altermagnets are a newly identified class of magnets with nodal spin-split band structures, providing a fertile platform for studying unconventional superconductivity and intertwined orders. Here we investigate multicomponent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-06 Xuan Zou , Rafael M. Fernandes , Eduardo Fradkin

The possibility of a zero temperature, altermagnetic instability in anisotropic two dimensional electron systems in the diffusive regime is analyzed, in the presence and absence of spin-orbit coupling. Allowing for ferromagnetism, a phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Alberto Cortijo

Compensated magnetic orders that can split the spin-degeneracy of electronic bands have become a very active field of research. As opposed to spin-orbit coupling, the splitting resulting from these "altermagnets" is not a small relativistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Saurav Sachin , Mathias S. Scheurer , Constantin Schrade , Sujit Manna

Crystalline two-dimensional (2D) superconductors with low carrier density are an exciting new class of materials in which superconductivity coexists with strong interactions, the effects of complex topology are not obscured by disorder, and…

Altermagnets feature vanishing net magnetization, like antiferromagnets, but exhibit time-reversal symmetry breaking and momentum-dependent spin-split band structures. Motivated by the prevalence of altermagnetic materials with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-10 Mercè Roig , Andreas Kreisel , Yue Yu , Brian M. Andersen , Daniel F. Agterberg

Altermagnets, a distinct class of antiferromagnets with electronic structures resembling those of d-wave superconductors, exhibit intriguing properties that have gained significant attention in recent research. In this article, we propose…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-04 Ali Asgharpour , Bert Koopmans , Rembert A. Duine

Magnon band structures in altermagnets are characterized by an energy splitting of modes with opposite chirality, even in the absence of applied external fields and relativistic effects, due to an anisotropy in the Heisenberg exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-03 Markus Weißenhofer , Alberto Marmodoro

Altermagnet is a newly discovered magnetic phase, characterized by non-relativistic spin-splitting that has been experimentally observed. Here, we introduce a framework dubbed {\it spin-orbital altermagnetism} to achieve spin-orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-22 Zi-Ming Wang , Yang Zhang , Song-Bo Zhang , Jin-Hua Sun , Elbio Dagotto , Dong-Hui Xu , Lun-Hui Hu

Altermagnets constitute a class of collinear compensated N\'eel ordered magnets that break time-reversal symmetry and feature spin-split band structures. Based on versatile microscopic models able to capture the altermagnetic sublattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-08 Jannik Gondolf , Andreas Kreisel , Mercè Roig , Yue Yu , Daniel F. Agterberg , Brian M. Andersen

Altermagnetism, a recently proposed and experimentally confirmed class of magnetic order, features collinear compensated magnetism with unconventional d-, g-, or i-wave spin order. Here, we show that in a metallic 2D d-wave altermagnet with…

We report thermodynamic magnetization measurements of two-dimensional electrons in several high mobility Si metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors. We provide evidence for an easily polarizable electron state in a wide density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-29 N. Teneh , A. Yu. Kuntsevich , V. M. Pudalov , M. Reznikov

Motivated by recent experimental findings, we have developed a theory of the superconducting state for 2D metals without inversion symmetry modeling the geometry of a surface superconducting layer in a field-effect-transistor or near the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Lev P. Gor'kov , Emmanuel I. Rashba

Unconventional magnetic orders usually interplay with superconductivity in intriguing ways. Here we propose that a conventional superconductor in proximity to a compensated $p$-wave magnet exhibits behaviors analogous to those of Ising…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-23 Zi-Ting Sun , Xilin Feng , Ying-Ming Xie , Benjamin T. Zhou , Jin-Xin Hu , K. T. Law

We investigate many-body effects on the spin-split electron bands in altermagnets by computing the electron self-energy arising from interactions with magnons, phonons, and hybridized magnon-phonon modes. These interactions lead to band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-24 Kristoffer Leraand , Kristian Mæland , Asle Sudbø

The discovery of altermagnetism offers new opportunities for exploring novel quantum states and developing spintronic devices for enabling momentum dependent spin splitting in compensated systems, while zero net magnetization limit its…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 W. Z. Zhuo , Z. H. Guan , Z. L. Peng , Y. N. Pan , J. Chen , Y. Yang , M. H. Qin

Conducting altermagnets have recently emerged as intriguing materials supporting strongly spin-polarized currents without magnetic stray fields. We demonstrate that altermagnets enable three key functionalities, merging superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-23 Hans Gløckner Giil , Bjørnulf Brekke , Jacob Linder , Arne Brataas