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As an emerging magnetic phase, altermagnets (AMs) with collinear compensated magnetism in real space and alternating spin splitting in the band structure have attracted widespread attention. Here, based on first-principles calculations, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-23 Jianke Tian , Xiaowen Zhou , Gui-Bin Liu

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) substrate can exhibit an anomalous Hall effect at 3/4 filling due to the spontaneous valley polarization in valley resolved moir\'e bands with opposite Chern number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Xuzhe Ying , Mengxing Ye , Leon Balents

Strong spin-orbit coupling and inversion symmetry breaking in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers yield the intriguing effects of valley-dependent optical selection rules. As such, it is possible to substantially polarize valley…

Altermagnetism, as an unconventional antiferromagnetism, exhibits collinear-compensated magnetic order in real space and spin-splitting band structure in reciprocal space. In this work, we propose a general approach to generating…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-15 Hongjie Peng , Sike Zeng , Ji-Hai Liao , Chang-Chun He , Xiao-Bao Yang , Yu-Jun Zhao

At the 2D limit, hexagonal systems such as monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and graphene exhibit unique coupled spin and momentum-valley physics (valley pseudospin) owing to broken spatial inversion symmetry and strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-21 Tristan L Britt , Bradley J. Siwick

Electrons in two-dimensional materials possess an additional quantum attribute, the valley pseudospin, labelled as $\mathbf{K}$ and $\mathbf{K}^{\prime}$ -- analogous to the spin up and spin down. The majority of research to achieve…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-06 Navdeep Rana , Gopal Dixit

We investigate charge conductance and spin and valley polarization along with the tunnelling magneto-resistance (TMR) in silicene junctions composed of normal silicene and ferromagnetic silicene. We show distinct features of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Ruchi Saxena , Arijit Saha , Sumathi Rao

We propose a valley- and spin-filter based on a normal/ferromagnetic/normal molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) junction where the polarizations of the valley and the spin can be inverted by reversing the direction of the exchange field in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Leyla Majidi , Moslem Zare , Reza Asgari

Altermagnetic materials combine compensated magnetic order with momentum-dependent spin splitting, offering a fundamentally new route for spintronic functionality beyond conventional ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. While most studies…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 J. W. González , T. Brumme , E. Suárez Morell , A. M. León

Altermagnets constitute an emerging class of collinear magnets that exhibit zero net magnetization yet host spin-split electronic bands arising from non-relativistic spin-space-group symmetries. Realization of altermagnetism in the…

Spin waves in ferromagnetic materials are predominantly characterized by right-handed circular polarization due to symmetry breaking induced by net magnetization. However, magnetic interactions, including the external magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Yutian Wang , Ruoban Ma , Jiang Xiao

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides lack inversion symmetry and have broken time-reversal symmetry due to the honeycomb structure and intrinsic ferromagnetism, which leads to their valley polarization. Here, we explored the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 Samiul Islam , Sharif Mohammad Mominuzzaman , Ahmed Zubair

Quantum electronic fluids with spin and valley degrees of freedom have a correlation driven tendency to flavor polarization (generalized ferromagnetism). To first order in the long-range Coulomb interactions -- i.e. in the Hartree-Fock…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-09 Vladimir Calvera , Erez Berg , Steven A. Kivelson

Breaking space-time symmetries in two-dimensional crystals (2D) can dramatically influence their macroscopic electronic properties. Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are prime examples where the intrinsically broken crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Edbert J. Sie , James W. McIver , Yi-Hsien Lee , Liang Fu , Jing Kong , Nuh Gedik

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

We investigate the emergence of quantum anomalous Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional $d$-wave altermagnet on a Lieb lattice under an external magnetic field. Altermagnetic order induces momentum-dependent spin splitting without net…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Meysam Bagheri Tagani , Amar Fakhredine , Carmine Autieri

We propose a mechanism for the recently reported destabilization by an in-plane magnetic field of the conducting phase of low density electrons in 2D. We apply our self-consistent approach based on the memory function formalism to the fully…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Thakur , D. Neilson

Altermagnetism has emerged as a third fundamental category of collinear magnetism, characterized by spin-splitting in symmetry-compensated collinear antiferromagnets, opening new frontiers in spintronics and condensed matter physics. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-20 Qiuyue Ma , Busheng Wang , Guochun Yang , Yong Liu

The electronic properties of the novel two dimensional (2D) material silicene are strongly influenced by the application of a perpendicular electric field $E_z$ and of an exchange field $M$ due to adatoms positioned on the surface or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 B. Van Duppen , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

The recently discovered altermagnets exhibit collinear magnetic order with zero net magnetization but with unconventional spin-polarized d/g/i-wave band structures, expanding the known paradigms of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. In…