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Most iron-based superconductors undergo a transition to a magnetically ordered state characterized by staggered stripes of parallel spins. With ordering vectors $(\pi,0)$ or $(0,\pi)$, this magnetic state breaks the high-temperature…

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Time- and spatially-resolved Faraday rotation spectroscopy is used to measure the magnitude and direction of the momentum-dependent spin splitting in strained InGaAs epilayers. The epilayers are lattice-matched to the GaAs substrate and…

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The spatial separation of electron spins followed by the control of their individual spin dynamics has recently emerged as an essential ingredient in many proposals for spin-based technologies because it would enable both of the two spin…

A $p$-wave magnet has a momentum-dependent spin splitting and zero-net magnetization just as in the case of an altermagnet. It will be useful for high-density and ultra-fast memory, where the direction of the spin-splitting vector may be…

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While the thermoelectric materials progress based on the engineering of electronic and phononic characteristics is reaching a plateau, adding the spin degree of freedom has the potential to open a new landscape for alternative…

We report on a study of the temperature-dependence of current-induced effective magnetic fields due to spin-orbit interactions in the diluted ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As. Contributions from the effective fields as well as from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 B. Howells , K. W. Edmonds , R. P. Campion , B. L. Gallagher

Altermagnetism is a recently identified class of magnetic order characterized by unconventional momentum-dependent spin splitting in the absence of net magnetization, and understanding its electronic and magnetic properties is essential for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Shuyi Li , Adrian Bahri , Chunjing Jia

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…

Spin-momentum locking in altermagnets has been deeply explored in the non-relativistic limit. Including spin-orbit coupling, altermagnets exhibit antisymmetric exchange interactions, leading to spin cantings. Therefore, the spin-momentum…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-30 Carmine Autieri , Amar Fakhredine

Altermagnets offer a promising platform for dissipationless spin transport by combining zero net magnetization with spontaneous non-relativistic spin splitting. However, their magnonic transport properties remain largely unexplored. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Sankar Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

Magnetoresistivity features connected with the spin level coincidences under tilted fields in a $\Gamma_8$ conduction band of the HgTe quantum well were found to align along straight trajectories in a $(B_\bot,B_{||})$ plane between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. V. Yakunin , A. V. Suslov , S. M. Podgornykh , S. A. Dvoretsky , N. N. Mikhailov

In planar altermagnets, optical excitation by linearly polarized ultrashort pulses can induce spin polarizations in the electronic excited states in a controlled fashion, even though the material is magnetically compensated. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-20 Luca Haag , Marius Weber , Kai Leckron , Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Hans Christian Schneider

Altermagnets, a class of unconventional antiferromagnets where antiparallel spins are connected by combined rotational and translational symmetries, have recently emerged as promising candidates for spintronic applications, as they can…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 Ryosuke Hirakida , Karma Tenzin , Chao Chen Ye , Berkay Kilic , Carmine Autieri , Jagoda Sławińska

We report two non-degenerate magnon modes with opposite spins or chiralities in collinearly antiferromagnetic insulators driven by symmetry-governed anisotropic exchange couplings. The consequent giant spin splitting contributes to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Qirui Cui , Bowen Zeng , Tao Yu , Hongxin Yang , Ping Cui

We suggest the method for direct ab initio calculation of magnons in complex collinear magnets. The method is based on the density-functional-theory calculation under two different constraints: one constraint governs the change of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-23 L. M. Sandratskii , K. Carva , V. M. Silkin

We have investigated beating patterns in Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations for HgTe/Hg_{0.3}Cd_{0.7}Te(001) quantum wells with electron densities of 2 to 3 X 10^{12} cm^{-2}. Up to 12 beating nodes have been observed at magnetic fields between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. S. Gui , C. R. Becker , N. Dai , J. Liu , Z. J. Qiu , E. G. Novik , M. Schaefer , X. Z. Shu , J. H. Chu , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp

Electron fully spin-polarized edge states in graphene emerged at the interfaces of a nonuniform magnetic field are studied numerically in a tight-binding model, with both the orbital and Zeeman-splitting effects of magnetic field…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-19 Lei Xu , Jin An , Chang-De Gong

The tunneling of a giant spin at excited levels is studied theoretically in mesoscopic magnets with a magnetic field at an arbitrary angle in the easy plane. Different structures of the tunneling barriers can be generated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rong Lu , Hui Pan , Jia-Lin Zhu , Bing-Lin Gu

Altermagnetism, a kind of collinear magnetism that is characterized by a momentum-dependent band and spin splitting without net magnetization, has recently attracted considerable interest. Finding altermagnetic materials with large…

Spin splitting in p-type semiconductor nanowires is strongly affected by the interplay between quantum confinement and spin-orbit coupling in the valence band. The latter's particular importance is revealed in our systematic theoretical…

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