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In ferromagnets, magnons have only one chirality; while in common antiferromagnets, bands with opposite chiralities are degenerate across the Brillouin zone. Recent studies have shown that it is possible to observe non-degenerate bands of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Absur Khan Siam , Se Kwon Kim

Altermagnets host spin-split electronic bands despite zero net magnetization, opening new routes for spintronics beyond conventional ferromagnets. Going beyond symmetry-based classifications, which specify allowed terms but not their…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Luigi Camerano , Federico Bisti , Gianni Profeta

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 with pronounced spin-splitting band structure, unconventional magnetic and crystal symmetries, and exotic magneto-transport properties have received immense interest in cutting-edge spintronics, materials science, and condensed…

Altermagnets are a newly discovered class of magnetic phases that combine the spin polarization behavior of ferromagnetic band structures with the vanishing net magnetization characteristic of antiferromagnets. Initially proposed for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-11 Mengli Hu , Oleg Janson , Claudia Felser , Paul McClarty , Jeroen van den Brink , Maia G. Vergniory

Altermagnets are a novel class of magnetic systems characterized by their momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization. In this work, we extend established Euclidean tight-binding models of altermagnets to regular hyperbolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Eric Petermann , Kristian Mæland , Haye Hinrichsen , Björn Trauzettel

Altermagnetism, an emergent magnetic phase featuring compensated collinear magnetic moments and momentum-dependent spin splittings, has recently garnered widespread interest. A critical issue concerns whether the unconventional spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Wen-Ti Guo , Junqi Xu , Yurong Yang , Haijun Zhang , Huaiqiang Wang

Altermagnetism is a collinear compensated magnetically-ordered phase with a d, g or i-wave anisotropy and alternating spin polarization of the electronic structure in the position and momentum space. Its recent discovery was in part…

Altermagnets host momentum-selective spin splitting and chiral-split magnonic excitations despite vanishing net magnetization, enabling spin transport without ferromagnetism. In rutile structures, establishing altermagnetism…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-23 Dai Q. Ho , D. Quang To , Byungkyun Kang , Matthew F. Doty , Garnett W. Bryant , Anderson Janotti

Altermagnetism is characterized by even-parity spin-momentum locking in spin-split bands despite zero net magnetization and negligible spin-orbit coupling. Here, we formulate a microscopic framework that links altermagnetic splitting in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Yixuan Che , Peibo Xu , Haifeng Lv , Xiaojun Wu , Jinlong Yang

Altermagnets, characterized by spin-split bands without net magnetization, have recently emerged as a promising platform for spintronics. However, their microscopic mechanisms remain elusive, often relying on abstract group theory. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-02 Suyoung Lee , Minjae Kim , Changyoung Kim

Altermagnets are an emerging third elementary class of magnets. Unlike ferromagnets, their distinct crystal symmetries inhibit magnetization while, unlike antiferromagnets, they promote strong spin polarization in the band structure. The…

Recently, altermagnets have emerged as promising candidates in spintronics, uniquely combining large spin-polarized electronic states with zero net magnetization. A prominent example is $\alpha$-MnTe, whose altermagnetic spin splitting,…

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This enables a spin-splitter effect in which an external electric field generates transverse spin currents by separating oppositely polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Sanjay Sarkar , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

Altermagnets are a new class of magnetic materials characterized by fully compensated spins arranged in alternating local structures, allowing for spin-split bands similar to those found in ferromagnets without net magnetism. Recently, MnTe…

Altermagnets recently came into the spotlight as a new class of magnetic materials, arising as a consequence of specific crystal symmetries. They are characterized by a spin-polarized electronic band structure similar to ferromagnets, but…

MnTe has recently emerged as a canonical altermagnet, a newly identified class of magnetism characterized by compensated antiferromagnetic order coexisting with spin-split electronic bands, traditionally considered exclusive to…

Altermagnetism, a novel magnetic phase characterized by symmetry-protected, momentum-dependent spin splitting and collinear compensated magnetic moments, has thus far been explored primarily in periodic crystals. In this Letter, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yiming Li , Mingxiang Pan , Jun Leng , Yuxiao Chen , Huaqing Huang

Altermagnetic (AM) materials exhibit non-relativistic, momentum-dependent spin-split states, ushering in new opportunities for spin electronic devices. While the characteristics of spin-splitting have been documented within the framework of…

Altermagnetism, a recently discovered class of magnetic order characterized by vanishing net magnetization and spin-splitting band structures, has garnered significant research attention. In this work, we introduce a novel two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Shuyi Li , Yu Zhang , Adrian Bahri , Xiaoliang Zhang , Chunjing Jia