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Altermagnets (AMs) are a new class of magnetic materials that combine the beneficial spintronics properties of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, garnering significant attention recently. Here, we have identified altermagnetism in a layered…

Electric currents carrying a net spin polarization are widely used in spintronics, whereas globally spin-neutral currents are expected to play no role in spin-dependent phenomena. Here we show that, in contrast to this common expectation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Ding-Fu Shao , Shu-Hui Zhang , Ming Li , Chang-Beom Eom , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

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

The hidden altermagnetism has been theoretically proposed and then experimentally confirmed in metal $\mathrm{Cs_{1-\delta}V_2Te_2O}$, which exhibits two nearly degenerate ground-state magnetic configurations (C-type and G-type)…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-27 San-Dong Guo , Yang Liu

We theoretically study the generation of net magnetization induced by static strain in $g$-wave altermagnets, which exhibit the symmetric spin-split band structure under collinear spin textures free from the relativistic spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Yuuki Ogawa , Satoru Hayami

Altermagnets (AM) are a recently discovered third class of collinear magnets, distinctly different from conventional ferromagnets (FM) and antiferromagnets (AF). AM have been actively researched in the last few years, but two aspects so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Igor Mazin , Rafael González-Hernández , Libor Šmejkal

Altermagnetism, a novel magnetic phase bridging ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, exhibits zero net magnetization due to its unique alternating spin arrangements, which cancel out macroscopic magnetization. This phase is characterized…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-20 Meysam Bagheri Tagani

Altermagnet is an emerging antiferromagnetic material subclass that exhibits spin-splitting in momentum space without net global magnetization and spin-orbit-coupling effect. In this work, we develop a model of thermal charge injection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Yee Sin Ang

We unravel the origin of current-induced magnetic switching of insulating antiferromagnet/heavy metal systems. We utilize concurrent transport and magneto-optical measurements to image the switching of antiferromagnetic domains in specially…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-15 H. Meer , F. Schreiber , C. Schmitt , R. Ramos , E. Saitoh , O. Gomonay , J. Sinova , L. Baldrati , M. Kläui

Motivated by possible spintronics applications in antiferromagnets, it was recently observed that symmetry admits magnets that combine attractive features of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. These systems, dubbed altermagnets, have…

Altermagnetic (AM) states have compensated collinear magnetic configurations that are invariant under a combination of real-space rotation and time reversal. While these symmetries forbid a direct bilinear coupling of the AM order parameter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-18 Anzumaan R. Chakraborty , Jörg Schmalian , Rafael M. Fernandes

Altermagnetism simultaneously possesses nonrelativistic spin responses and zero net magnetization, thus combining advantages of ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. This superiority originates from its unique dual feature, i.e.,…

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

An electrical current can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet. This novel physical phenomenon, called spin transfer, offers unprecedented spatial and temporal control over the magnetic state of a ferromagnet and has tremendous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Wei , A. Sharma , A. S. Nunez , P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , J. Bass , A. H. MacDonald , M. Tsoi

Antiferromagnetic materials, which have drawn considerable attention recently, have fascinating features: they are robust against perturbation, produce no stray fields, and exhibit ultrafast dynamics. Discerning how to efficiently…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-14 Cheng Song , Yunfeng You , Xianzhe Chen , Xiaofeng Zhou , Yuyan Wang , Feng Pan

Altermagnetism is a novel magnetic phase combining characteristics of both antiferromagnetism and ferromagnetic ordering. Despite growing theoretical interest in altermagnetic materials, reports of experimentally verified high Neel…

We report the discovery of a metamagnetic phase transition in a polar antiferromagnet Ni$_3$TeO$_6$ that occurs at 52 T. The new phase transition accompanies a colossal magnetoelectric effect, with a magnetic-field-induced polarization…

In this study, we employed first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations within the GGA+U framework to explore the electronic and magnetic properties of CrSb2 under varying hydrostatic pressures. CrSb2 exhibits…

Magnetoelectric coupling is crucial for uncovering fundamental phenomena and advancing technologies in high-density data storage and energy-efficient devices. The emergence of altermagnets, which unify the advantages of ferromagnets and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Altermagnetism represents an emergent collinear magnetic phase with compensated order and an unconventional alternating even-parity wave spin order in the non-relativistic band structure. We investigate directly this unconventional band…