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We investigate some possible symmetries of the superconducting state that emerges in three-dimensional altermagnets in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. We demonstrate within a weak-coupling approach that these altermagnets, which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-24 Vanuildo S. de Carvalho , Hermann Freire

`Strange' metals that do not follow the predictions of Fermi liquid theory are prevalent in materials that feature superconductivity arising from electron interactions. In recent years, it has been hypothesized that spatial randomness in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-15 Aavishkar A. Patel , Peter Lunts , Michael S. Albergo

In their original formulation of superconductivity, the London brothers predicted the exponential suppression of an $electrostatic$ field inside a superconductor over the so-called London penetration depth, $\lambda_L$. Despite a few…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 G. De Simoni , F. Paolucci , P. Solinas , E. Strambini , F. Giazotto

The term altermagnetism has recently been introduced to describe the N\'eel order of a class of materials whose magnetic sublattices are neither related by translation nor inversion. While these materials arguably have large technological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-26 Sondre Duna Lundemo , Flavio S. Nogueira , Asle Sudbø

We study the critical temperature T_c of SFF trilayers (S is a singlet superconductor, F is a ferromagnetic metal), where the long-range triplet superconducting component is generated at noncollinear magnetizations of the F layers. We…

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

We investigate theoretically magnon-mediated superconductivity in a heterostructure consisting of a normal metal and a two-sublattice antiferromagnetic insulator. The attractive electron-electron pairing interaction is caused by an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-02 Eirik Erlandsen , Akashdeep Kamra , Arne Brataas , Asle Sudbø

The critical theory of the onset of antiferromagnetism in metals, with concomitant Fermi surface reconstruction, has recently been shown to be strongly coupled in two spatial dimensions. The onset of unconventional superconductivity near…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-10 Subir Sachdev , Max A. Metlitski , Matthias Punk

Nanoscale detection and control of the magnetic order underpins a broad spectrum of fundamental research and practical device applications. The key principle involved is the breaking of time-reversal ($\cal{T}$) symmetry, which in…

The gap function in unconventional superconductors may vanish at points or lines in momentum space, permitting electronic excitations, termed nodal quasiparticles, to exist at temperatures well below the superconducting transition. In the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Tuson Park , M. B. Salamon

We predict a supercurrent-driven N\'eel spin-orbit torque in a superconductor/$d$-wave altermagnet heterostructure, associated with the emergence of spin-triplet correlations. The effect can be understood as a consequence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Hamed Vakili , Moaz Ali , Igor Žutić , Alexey A. Kovalev

Altermagnets are metals with a momentum-dependent spin splitting of electron bands due to a specific crystal structure that is invariant under time reversal only in combination with rotations and reflections, or lacks time reversal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-23 V. P. Mineev

On the basis of phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau approach we investigate the problem of order parameter nucleation in hybrid superconductor/ferromagnetic systems with a domain structure in applied external magnetic field. Both the isolated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Yu. Aladyshkin , A. I. Buzdin , A. A. Fraerman , A. S. Mel'nikov , D. A. Ryzhov , A. V. Sokolov

We study the phase diagram of spin-triplet superconductors, considering the effect of the external magnetic field on the electrons' spins. For a given symmetry of the order parameter and a generic orientation of the field, we find that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-27 Thomas Bernat , Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

Altermagnets exhibit spin-split electronic bands like ferromagnets, yet they are magnetically compensated like collinear antiferromagnets. Altermagnets thus combine the benefits of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, opening routes to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 Zeyu Ma , Yidi Wang , Gal Tuvia , Kevin Hauser , Jiaqiang Yan , Jennifer E. Hoffman

The superconductivity of quasi-one-dimensional electrons in the magnetic field is studied. The system is described as the one-dimensional electrons with no frustration due to the magnetic field. The interaction is assumed to be attractive…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Yasumasa Hasegawa , Mitake Miyazaki

Altermagnet-based heterojunctions have demonstrated magnetoresistive effects in experiments, however, a predictive theoretical model for non-ferromagnetic structures has remained elusive. In this work, we develop a tunneling-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Kun Yan , Yizhi Hu , Wei-Hua Xiao , Xiaolong Zou , Xiaobin Chen , Wenhui Duan

Altermagnets offer a route to spin-polarized electronic states without macroscopic magnetization, because compensated magnetic order can generate momentum-dependent spin splitting through crystal-symmetry-controlled exchange fields.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Yi-Fei Jiang , Jia-Xuan Guo , Zhen Zhang , Xin-Wei Yi , Jing-Yang You

We compute transport and thermodynamic properties of a two-band spin-fermion model describing itinerant fermions in two dimensions interacting via $Z_2$ antiferromagnetic quantum critical fluctuations by means of a sign-problem-free quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-14 Rafael M. P. Teixeira , Catherine Pépin , Hermann Freire

Superconductivity in flatband systems has attracted tremendous attention in condensed matter physics. Alternating twisted multilayer graphene presents a compelling multiband system, with a coexistence of Dirac bands and flat bands, for…