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Kinetomagnetism refers to magnetization induced by (electric) current, encompassing longitudinal or transverse effects and even- or odd-order phenomena. The essential prerequisite for kinetomagnetism is the breaking of PT (=Parity times…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-21 Sang-Wook Cheong , Fei-Ting Huang

We study the physics of dilute magnetic impurities in a two-dimensional altermagnetic metal. For the single impurity case, although the spin degeneracy is broken in an altermagnetic metal, we show that the antiferromagnetic Kondo coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-10 Yu-Li Lee

Altermagnetism has recently emerged as a new class of spin compensated magnetic materials that exhibit momentum dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. The origin of these electronic signatures lies in symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Diego López-Alcalá , Andrei Shumilin , José J. Baldoví

Floating edge bands (FEB) have been identified in systems such as obstructed atomic insulators and layered nonsymmorphic semimetals, attracting considerable interest recently. Here we demonstrate that FEB can arise in a simplified model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Yang-Yang Li , Song-Bo Zhang

The interplay between unconventional superconductivity and altermagnetic order has attracted much attentions. In particular, whether spin-triplet superconductivity can be achieved by suppressing altermagnetism remains an open issue. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-15 Xin Ma , Siqi Wu , Zilong Li , Lunhui Hu , Jianhui Dai , Chao Cao

We develop the non-Hermitian counterpart of a new class of collinear magnets, dubbed altermagnets, delineated by net zero magnetization with momentum-dependent spin-splitting bands. The application of an imaginary gauge field in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Gaurab Kumar Dash , Subhasis Panda , Snehasish Nandy

Altermagnets have attracted intense interest because they have the advantages of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. However, their experimental identification remains challenging, in particular for the A-type altermagnets that account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Zhoujian Sun , Yiyuan Chen , Tao Yu , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

We study an anisotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnet with ferromagnetic transverse spin exchange using exact quantum Monte Carlo methods. Such a model is relevant to a class of rare earth tetraboride materials that display a range of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-02 Keola Wierschem , Pinaki Sengupta

Bringing magnetic metals into superconducting states represents an important approach for realizing unconventional superconductors and potentially even topological superconductors. Altermagnetism, classified as a third basic collinear…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-07 Di Zhu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

We develop a four-sublattice spin-wave theory for the $g$-wave altermagnet candidate hematite ($\alpha$-Fe$_2$O$_3$), considering both its easy-axis phase below and its weak ferromagnetic phase above the Morin temperature. A key question is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-18 Rhea Hoyer , P. Peter Stavropoulos , Aleksandar Razpopov , Roser Valentí , Libor Šmejkal , Alexander Mook

The Lieb lattice, originally proposed for cuprate superconductors, has gained new attention in the emerging field of altermagnetism as a minimal analytical model for the latter. While initially the so-called inverse Lieb lattice (ILL) was…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 Po-Hao Chang , Igor I. Mazin , Kirill D. Belashchenko

An altermagnet is a recently identified class of magnets that exhibit a zero net magnetic moment but break symmetry under the combined operations of parity and time reversal. It typically consists of two magnetic sites of opposite spins…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-04 G. Channagowdra , A. Singh , H. Y. Huang , M. Furo , Bin Gao , Pengcheng Dai , C. T. Chen , J. Kunes , A. Fujimori , S-W. Cheong , A. Hariki , D. J. Huang

Altermagnetism has so far mainly been understood in its even- and odd-parity forms. We show that collinear antiferromagnets with zero net magnetization can also host mixed-parity spin splitting, namely neither purely even nor purely odd in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Jin-Xin Hu , Song-Bo Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu , Zhongbo Yan

Altermagnets are a new class of magnetic materials with zero net magnetization (like antiferromagnets) but spin-split electronic bands (like ferromagnets) over a fraction of reciprocal space. As in antiferromagnets, magnons in altermagnets…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 A. T. Costa , J. C. G. Henriques , J. Fernández-Rossier

Altermagnets are a newly identified family of collinear antiferromagnets with momentum-dependent spin-split band structure of non-relativistic origin, derived from spin-group symmetry-protected crystal structures. Among candidate…

Altermagnets (AMs) constitute a novel class of spin-compensated materials in which opposite-spin sublattices are connected by a crystal rotation, causing their electronic iso-energy surfaces to be spin-split. While cubic and tetragonal…

$\alpha$-MnTe, an $A$-type collinear antiferromagnet, has recently attracted significant attention due to its pronounced spin splitting despite having net zero magnetization, a phenomenon unique for a new class of magnetism dubbed…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-12 Koichiro Takahashi , Hong-Fei Huang , Jie-Xiang Yu , Jiadong Zang

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

Altermagnetism (AM) has brought renewed attention to the Lieb lattice. Here, we broaden the scope of altermagnetic models on the Lieb lattice by using a general scheme based on spin clusters. We design various altermagnetic models with d-…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-22 Xingmin Huo , Xingchuan Zhu , Chang-An Li , Shiping Feng , Song-Bo Zhang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Huaiming Guo

Altermagnets exhibit spontaneously spin-split electronic bands in the zero spin-orbit coupling (SOC) limit arising from the presence of collinear compensated magnetic order. The distinctive magneto-crystalline symmetries of altermagnets…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-03 Hana Schiff , Paul McClarty , Jeffrey G. Rau , Judit Romhanyi