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Besides hosting several intriguing physical properties, the recently discovered time-reversal-asymmetric antiferromagnets, known as altermagnets, hold immense promise for technologies based on spintronics. Understanding the symmetry…
To date, a number of valley materials have been discovered with the spin-valley or valley-layer couplings. It is highly desirable to realize the interplay of more electronic degrees of freedom in a valley material. Based on the…
Altermagnets are collinear compensated magnets in which the magnetic sublattices are related by rotation rather than translation or inversion. One of the quintessential properties of altermagnets is the presence of split chiral magnon…
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,…
Altermagnetism has recently drawn considerable attention in three- and twodimensional materials. Here, we extend this concept to quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) monolayers assembled from single-atomic magnetic chains. Through systematically…
Altermagnets exhibit spontaneously spin-split electronic bands in the zero spin-orbit coupling (SOC) limit arising from the presence of collinear compensated magnetic order. The distinctive magneto-crystalline symmetries of altermagnets…
Altermagnetism, a recently identified magnetic phase that combines vanishing net magnetization with momentum-dependent spin splitting, challenges the conventional dichotomy between ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. While several candidate…
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We propose the sublattice currents as a feasible route to odd-parity altermagnetism (ALM), where nonrelativistic collinear spin splitting occurs in the bands as an odd function of momentum. In contrast to previously classified ALMs, the…
As an emerging magnetic phase, altermagnets with compensated magnetic order and non-relativistic spin-splitting have attracted widespread attention. Currently, strain engineering is considered to be an effective method for inducing valley…
Persistent spin textures with collinear spin polarization are promising platforms for spintronics applications. However, their typically relativistic spin-orbit origin leads to weak spin splittings and fragile spin coherence. Here, we…
Spin spirals form inside the magnetic layers of antiferromagnetic and noncollinearly-coupled magnetic multilayers in the presence of an external magnetic field. This spin structure can be modeled to extract the direct exchange stiffness of…
Conducting altermagnets have recently emerged as intriguing materials supporting strongly spin-polarized currents without magnetic stray fields. We demonstrate that altermagnets enable three key functionalities, merging superconductivity…
Altermagnets -- newly identified collinear antiferromagnets -- carry zero net moment with non-relativistic, spin-polarized bands, distilling the best of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets into a single spintronic platform. Shrunking to the…
We report the emergence of highly nonlinear spin and charge pumping in an altermagnetic system driven by magnetic dynamics. The non-relativistic spin-momentum coupling inherent to altermagnets (AMs) generates a giant momentum dependent spin…
Valley polarization and altermagnetism are two emerging fundamental phenomena in condensed matter physics, offering unprecedented opportunites for information encoding and processing in novel energy-efficient devices. By coupling valley and…
Interlayer coupling is of vital importance for manipulating physical properties, e.g. electronic bandgap, in two-dimensional materials. However, tuning magnetic proper-ties in these materials is yet to be addressed. Here, we found a striped…
Altermagnets offer a route to spin-polarized electronic states without macroscopic magnetization, because compensated magnetic order can generate momentum-dependent spin splitting through crystal-symmetry-controlled exchange fields.…