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Chirality characterizes the asymmetry between a structure and its mirror image and underlies a wide range of chiral functionalities. In crystallographically chiral materials, phonons with non-zero linear momentum $\textbf{k}$ can acquire a…

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We propose a magnon-driven anomalous Hall effect in altermagnets, arising from the coupling between coherently excited chiral magnons and chiral electronic motion. Using density-matrix perturbation theory and symmetry analysis, we show that…

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The advent of altermagnetism, a new phase of magnetism, has garnered significant interest due to its extraordinary spin-polarized electronic bands despite zero net magnetization. Such spin-symmetry-guided robust non-relativistic alternating…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-15 Anil Kumar Singh , Pritam Deb

Altermagnets, a novel class of collinear magnetic materials, exhibit unique spin-split band structures, yet topological insulating states in intrinsic altermagnetic systems are rare. Here, we identify monolayer Fe$_2X_2$O ($X$ = Cl, Br, I)…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-22 Yong-Kun Wang , Si Li , Shengyuan A. Yang

Altermagnetism has been recently experimentally verified by photoemission mapping of the spin order in momentum space in MnTe and CrSb, which feature two anisotropic sublattices with antiparallel magnetic dipole moments. In this work, we…

Altermagnetism features momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization, extending spintronics beyond conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. However, the photonic realization of altermagnetism has remained a…

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X-ray magnetic circular dichroism provides a means to identify ferromagnetic, chiral, and altermagnetic orders via their time-reversal-symmetry ($\mathcal{T}$) breaking. However, differentiating magnetic domains related by crystallographic…

Following recent intensive studies on altermagnetism(ALM) characterized by non-relativistic even-parity spin splitting, realizing unconventional odd-parity magnetism has also attracted increasing interest. Here, using symmetry arguments…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-02 Minghuan Zeng , Zheng Qin , Ling Qin , Shiping Feng , Lin Wu , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

Altermagnets are a recently-discovered class of materials with magnetic ordering that have a zero net magnetization and a momentum-dependent spin splitting in their band structure, arising from a collinear spin arrangement with alternating…

Antiferromagnetism, initially considered interesting but useless, recently emerged as one of the most promising magnetic phases for technology. Recently, a low symmetry antiferromagnetic phase, known as altermagnetic phase, have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-05 Suman Rooj , Sugandha Saxena , Nirmal Ganguli

Altermagnets are a new class of symmetry-compensated magnets with large spin splittings. Here, we show that the notion of altermagnetism extends beyond the realm of Landau-type order: we study exactly solvable $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Avedis Neehus , Achim Rosch , Johannes Knolle , Urban F. P. Seifert

Recently, there has been a growing interest in altermagnetism, a novel form of magnetism, characterized by unique spin-splitting even in the absence of both net magnetic moments and spin-orbit coupling. Despite numerous theoretical…

Altermagnets are metals with a momentum-dependent spin splitting of electron bands due to a specific crystal structure that is invariant under time reversal only in combination with rotations and reflections, or lacks time reversal…

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Altermagnetism, a new class of collinear compensated magnetic phase, has garnered tremendous interest because of its rich physics and promising applications. Physical models and verified material candidates for altermagnetism remain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-28 Xingchuan Zhu , Xingmin Huo , Shiping Feng , Song-Bo Zhang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Huaiming Guo

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

Altermagnets are compensated magnets with unconventional $d$, $g$, and $i$-wave spin order in reciprocal space. So far the search for new altermagnetic candidates has been focused on materials in which the magnetic unit cell is identical to…

Altermagnetism, a new phase of collinear spin-order sharing similarities with antiferromagnets and ferromagnets, has introduced a new guiding principle for spintronic/thermoelectric applications due to its direction-dependent magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Samuele Giuli , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Massimo Capone

In altermagnets, the magnon bands are anisotropically spin-split in reciprocal space without relativistic or dipolar spin-spin interactions. In this work, we theoretically study magnons and phonons coupled by spin-lattice interaction in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Hannah Bendin , Alexander Mook , Ingrid Mertig , Robin R. Neumann

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

Altermagnetism is a new magnetic phase with k-dependent spin polarization and may exist in an insulating state with a high N\'eel temperature. This provides a new opportunity to obtain both spin and electric polarization in one material.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-22 Peng-Jie Guo , Yuhao Gu , Ze-Feng Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu