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Altermagnets are a novel class of fully spin-compensated magnetic materials that nevertheless have spin-split electronic bands, offering novel perspectives for spintronics applications. Based on a rigorous analysis of altermagnetic…

Altermagnets constitute a class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and vanishing net magnetization. Direct observation of the characteristic altermagnetic spin splitting, however, remains challenging. Indirect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Arsen Herasymchuk , Karl Bergson Hallberg , Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder , E. V. Gorbar , Pavlo Sukhachov

Spin field-effect transistors (SFETs) are promising candidates for low-power spin-based electronics, yet existing realizations that rely on spin-orbit coupling are constrained by limited material choices and short spin-coherence lengths.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-03 Ziye Zhu , Xianzhang Chen , Xunkai Duan , Zhou Cui , Jiayong Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Altermagnet is a class of antiferromagnets, which shows a staggered spin ordering with wave vector ${\bm q}=0$, while its net magnetization is canceled out in the limit of zero relativistic spin-orbit coupling. The simplest case is when the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-19 Makoto Naka , Yukitoshi Motome , Hitoshi Seo

We suggest a consistent microscopic theory of spin injection from a ferromagnet (FM) into a semiconductor (S). It describes tunneling and emission of electrons through modified FM-S Schottky barrier with an ultrathin heavily doped…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 V. V. Osipov , A. M. Bratkovsky

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

Altermagnetism, a new class of collinear compensated magnetic phase, has garnered tremendous interest because of its rich physics and promising applications. Physical models and verified material candidates for altermagnetism remain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-28 Xingchuan Zhu , Xingmin Huo , Shiping Feng , Song-Bo Zhang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Huaiming Guo

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

Altermagnets, a recently identified class of magnetic materials, possess a spin-split Fermi surface that results in the so-called spin splitter effect, enabling the generation of a spin current transverse to the injection direction and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

Altermagnets is a class of antiferromagnetic materials which has electron bands with lifted spin degeneracy in momentum space but vanishing net magnetization and no stray magnetic fields. Because of these properties, altermagnets have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Erik Wegner Hodt , Pavlo Sukhachov , Jacob Linder

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

We report electrical spin injection from a ferromagnetic metal contact into a semiconductor light emitting diode structure with an injection efficiency of 30% which persists to room temperature. The Schottky barrier formed at the Fe/AlGaAs…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Aubrey T. Hanbicki , B. T. Jonker , G. Itskos , G. Kioseoglou , A. Petrou

The research landscape of magnetism has been recently enriched by the discovery of altermagnetism. It is an unconventional phase of matter characterized by a d-wave (or higher even-parity-wave) collinear compensated spin ordering, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , P. Wadley , D. Kriegner , H. Reichlova , F. Krizek , H. Ohno , L. Smejkal

The recent discovery of altermagnets, which exhibit spin splitting without net magnetization, opens new directions for spintronics beyond the limits of ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, and spin orbit coupled systems. We investigate spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Pei-Hao Fu , Qianqian Lv , Yong Xu , Jorge Cayao , Jun-Feng Liu , Xiang-Long Yu

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 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

Altermagnetism is a subclass of antiferromagnetism that features spin-polarized electron bands of a non-relativistic origin despite the absence of a net magnetiation in the material. We here theoretically study spin pumping from an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

We investigate theoretically electrical spin injection at a Schottky contact between a spin-polarized electrode and a non-magnetic semiconductor. Current and electron density spin-polarizations are discussed as functions of barrier energy…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. D. Albrecht , D. L. Smith

Altermagnets, with spin splitting and vanishing magnetization, have been attributed to many fascinating phenomena and potential applications. In particular, integrating ferroelectricity with altermagnetism to enable magnetoelectric coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Su-Huai Wei , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou
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