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Electrical manipulation of spin-polarized current is highly desirable yet tremendously challenging in developing ultracompact spintronic device technology. Here we propose a scheme to realize the all-electrical manipulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Rui Peng , Jin Yang , Lin Hu , Wee-Liat Ong , Pin Ho , Chit Siong Lau , Junwei Liu , Yee Sin Ang

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

The recently discovered altermagnets (AMs), hosting momentum-dependent spin splitting and vanishing net magnetization, have attracted intensive attention for their promising application in novel spintronics. However, limited by facility and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-02 Jiuyu Sun , Yongping Du , Erjun Kan

Altermagnets are a novel class of materials that combine antiferromagnetic spin ordering with non-relativistic spin splitting (NRSS) in their band structure, making them promising candidates for spintronics applications without requiring…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Niklas Sicheler , Roberto Raimondi , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Lorenzo Del Re

The coupling between real-space inhomogeneities coordinates and spin (r-s) provides an alternative route to achieve efficient spin manipulation in spintronics beyond the conventional momentum-spin (k-s) coupling paradigm. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Shibo Fang , Zongmeng Yang , Jianhua Wang , Xingyue Yang , Jing Lu , Ching Hua Lee , Xiaotian Wang , Yee Sin Ang

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 (AMs) constitute a novel class of spin-compensated materials in which the symmetry connecting opposite-spin sublattices involves a spatial rotation. Here, we uncover a set of unique non-linear, light-driven properties that set…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 Amir Eskandari-asl , Jorge I. Facio , Oleg Janson , Adolfo Avella , Jeroen van den Brink

The interplay among quantum degrees of freedom-spin, orbital and momentum-has emerged as a fertile ground for realizing magnetic quantum states with transformative potential for electronic and spintronic technologies. Prominent examples…

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

Spin-driven multiferroics exhibit strong magnetoelectric coupling, with notable polarization changes under a magnetic field, but these effects are usually limited to high-Z magnetic insulators with low electronic polarization. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Ranquan Cao , Ruizhi Dong , Ruixiang Fei , Yugui Yao

Altermagnets (AMs) are an emergent class of magnetic materials that combine properties of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, exhibiting spin-polarized Fermi surfaces and zero net magnetic moment due to combined time-reversal and crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Zesen Fu , Mengli Hu , Aolin Li , Haiming Duan , Junwei Liu , Fangping Ouyang

Altermagnets (A$\ell$Ms) constitute a novel family of magnetic materials characterized by the absence of net magnetization and the presence of spin-polarized band structures. Whereas A$\ell$M phases were initially proposed in collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Mengli Hu , Mikel I. Iraola , Paul McClarty , Jeroen van den Brink , Maia G. Vergniory

The altermagnetism can achieve spin-split bands in collinear symmetry-compensated antiferromagnets. Here, we predict altermagnetic order in Janus monolayer $\mathrm{Cr_2SO}$ with eliminated inversion symmetry, which can realize the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-08 San-Dong Guo , Xiao-Shu Guo , Kai Cheng , Ke Wang , Yee Sin Ang

Spin-momentum locking (SML) excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors are appealing to programmable optical control of spin-polarized carriers in ultrafast spintronics. To address the current thirsty for long-lived excitons with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Jiuyu Sun , Jinzhe Han , Yongping Du , Erjun Kan

Electrical control of spin and magnetic sublattice degrees of freedom is essential for multifunctional and low-power spintronic devices. Bipolar altermagnetic semiconductors (BAMSs)-characterized by opposite spin polarizations at the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-29 Wei Ma , Dengpan Ma , Zhiheng Lv , Zhifeng Liu

Spatial, momentum and energy separation of electronic spins in condensed matter systems guides the development of novel devices where spin-polarized current is generated and manipulated. Recent attention on a set of previously overlooked…

Altermagnets represent a novel class of magnetic materials that integrate the advantages of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, providing a rich platform for exploring the physical properties of multiferroic materials.This work…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-21 Yao Yang

Altermagnetism, the third class of collinear magnetic order, uniquely combines a zero net magnetization with spin polarized bands in reciprocal space, opening new avenues for two dimensional valleytronics and spintronics. Here, using first…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-02 Quan Shen , Jianing Tan , Tao Yao , Wenhu Liao , Jiansheng Dong

Momentum-dependent spin splitting and its relation to inversion ($P$) and time-reversal ($T$) symmetries are central to nonrelativistic spintronics. Representative examples include collinear altermagnets with $(P,T)=(+,-)$ and non-collinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Yue Yu

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…