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Light-matter interaction has become one of the promising routes to manipulating various physical feature of quantum materials in an ultrafast kinetics. In this work, we focus on the nonlinear optical effects of the spintronic behavior in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-06 J. Zhou , C. Zhang

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…

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Spin-driven multiferroics exhibit strong magnetoelectric coupling, with notable polarization changes under a magnetic field, but these effects are usually limited to high-Z magnetic insulators with low electronic polarization. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Ranquan Cao , Ruizhi Dong , Ruixiang Fei , Yugui Yao

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

Antiferromagnetic materials could represent the future of spintronic applications thanks to the numerous interesting features they combine: they are robust against perturbation due to magnetic fields, produce no stray fields, display…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-20 V. Baltz , A. Manchon , M. Tsoi , T. Moriyama , T. Ono , Y. Tserkovnyak

Gaining growing attention in spintronics is a class of magnets displaying zero net magnetization and spin-split electronic bands called altermagnets. Here, by combining density functional theory and symmetry analysis, we show that RuF$_4$…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-19 Marko Milivojević , Marko Orozović , Silvia Picozzi , Martin Gmitra , Srdjan Stavrić

The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity is one of the central topics of condensed matter physics, which has recently been put into new light by the discovery of altermagnets. Here, we study this interplay from a fundamental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-16 Kirill Parshukov , Andreas P. Schnyder

Spin-triplet superconductivity is known to be a rare quantum phenomenon. Here we show that nonsymmorphic crystalline symmetries can dramatically assist spin-triplet superconductivity in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. Even with a weak…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-22 Shengshan Qin , Chen Fang , Fu-chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu

Hidden spin polarization (HSP) with zero net spin polarization in total but non-zero local spin polarization has been proposed in certain nonmagnetic centrosymmetric compounds, where the individual sectors forming the inversion partners are…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-28 San-Dong Guo

Light-spin coupling is an attractive phenomenon from the standpoints of fundamental physics and device applications, and has spurred rapid development recently. Whereas the current efforts are devoted to trivial magnetism, the interplay…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-13 Kaiying Dou , Wenhui Du , Zhonglin He , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Yandong Ma

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

The spin-orbit torque, a torque induced by a charge current flowing through the heavy-metal conducting layer with strong spin-orbit interactions, provides an efficient way to control the magnetization direction in heavy-metal/ferromagnet…

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…

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We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally beam-dependent photonic spin-orbit coupling in a two-wave mixing process described by an equivalent of the Pauli equation in quantum mechanics. The considered structured light in the…

Spin-band splitting is a hallmark of altermagnetism, intrinsically linked to magnetic ordering driven by electron correlations. However, recent inconsistencies in the detection of altermagnetism in strongly correlated altermagnet candidates…

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We study the triangular antiferromagnet Cu$_3$ in external electric fields, using symmetry group arguments and a Hubbard model approach. We identify a spin-electric coupling caused by an interplay between spin exchange, spin-orbit…

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Detecting axionic dark matter induced electron or nucleon oscillating electric dipole moment (OEDM) has become a new way for dark matter searches. We re-examine such axion-spin couplings in external electromagnetic fields. We point out that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-30 Zihang Wang , Lijing Shao

We present a new model for the study of spin-orbit coupling in interacting quasi-one-dimensional systems and solve it exactly to find the spectral properties of such systems. We show that the combination of spin-orbit coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Moroz , K. V. Samokhin , C. H. W. Barnes

Recently, a new class of magnetic phenomenon, called altermagnetism, was proposed where the underlying spin configuration resembles antiferromagnetic structure, but the system violates \textbf{PT} (PT: Parity times Time reversal) symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-25 Deepak K. Singh , Sang-Wook Cheong , Jiasen Guo

Spin-orbit coupling in crystals is known to lead to unusual direction dependent exchange interactions, however understanding of the consequeces of such effects in molecular crystals is incomplete. Here we perform four component relativistic…

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