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We formulate a Landau theory for altermagnets, a class of colinear compensated magnets with spin-split bands. Starting from the non-relativistic limit, this Landau theory goes beyond a conventional analysis by including spin-space…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-29 Paul A. McClarty , Jeffrey G. Rau

Novel interplay of spin-orbit coupling and electron correlations in complex Ir oxides recently emerged as a new paradigm for correlated electron physics. Because of a large spin-orbit coupling of ~0.5 eV, which is comparable to the transfer…

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The non-relativistic spin-splitting (NRSS) of electronic bands in "altermagnets" has sparked renewed interest in antiferromagnets (AFMs) that have no net magnetization. However, altermagnets with collinear and compensated magnetism are not…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Lin-Ding Yuan , Alexandru B. Georgescu , James M. Rondinelli

Current-induced spin generations are of significant importance for electrically controllable magnetization. Due to symmetry constraints, linear spin generation is absent in centrosymmetric magnets and nonlinear contributions become crucial.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Jie Zhang , Ruijing Fang , Zhichao Zhou , Xiao Li

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

We establish a unified, symmetry-driven framework that combines the alternating spin splitting of altermagnets with valley topology to realize and electrically interconvert helical and chiral topological phases within a single material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Xianzhang Chen , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Jiahui Qian , Ziye Zhu , Igor Zutic , Zhenyu Zhang , Tong Zhou

Altermagnetism combines momentum-dependent spin splitting of opposite-spin channels with zero net magnetization, enabling electric-field control of spin transport that is robust against external magnetic fields. Although widely explored in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-21 Hongde Yu , Thomas Brumme , Thomas Heine

Manipulation of spin-polarized electronic states of two-dimensional (2D) materials under ambient conditions is necessary for developing new quantum devices with small physical dimensions. Here, we explore spin-dependent electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Rajibul Islam , Barun Ghosh , Carmine Autieri , Sugata Chowdhury , Arun Bansil , Amit Agarwal , Bahadur Singh

Spin splitting underpins a vast range of spin-dependent phenomena. Traditionally, two primary mechanisms generate such splitting: relativistic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and nonrelativistic magnetic exchange coupling (MEC). Governed by…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-08 Xiao-Jiao Wang , Dongling Liu , Di Zhu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Zhongbo Yan

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

Recently, unconventional antiferromagnets that enable the splitting of electronic spins have been theoretically proposed and experimentally realized, where the magnetic sublattices containing moments pointing at different directions are…

Two-dimensional intrinsic ferromagnetic half-metal (HM) are important for the spintronics. Manipulating the interlayer magnetic coupling of van der Waals magnetic materials is an important method to control magnetoelectric properties, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-26 Zhaoyong Guan , Linhui Lv , Ziyuan An , Yanyan Jiang , Ya Su

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…

Altermagnetism represents an emergent collinear magnetic phase with compensated order and an unconventional alternating even-parity wave spin order in the non-relativistic band structure. We investigate directly this unconventional band…

We explore symmetry-breaking phenomena in MnPS3/TMDC (MoS2, WS2, MoSe2, WSe2) heterostructures using first-principles calculations, considering two high-symmetry stacking configurations, S1 and S2, which differ not only by their interfacial…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-01 Kamil Wrzos , Magdalena Birowska , Milosz Rybak

Nonrelativistic magnon chiral splitting in altermagnets has garnered significant recent attention. In this work, we demonstrate that nonlinear three-wave mixing -- where magnons split or coalesce -- extends this phenomenon into…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-30 Zhejunyu Jin , Zhaozhuo Zeng , Jie Liu , Tianci Gong , Ying Su , Kai Chang , Peng Yan

The hexagonal antiferromagnet MnTe has attracted enormous interest as a prototypical example of a spin-compensated magnet in which the combination of crystal and spin symmetries lifts the spin degeneracy of the electron bands without the…

Altermagnetism, a recently discovered magnetic phase characterized by spin-split bands without net magnetization, has emerged as promising platform for novel physics and potential applications. However, its stability against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Chang-An Li , Bo Fu , Huaiming Guo , Björn Trauzettel , Song-Bo Zhang

Altermagnetism (AM), the recently discovered third class of collinear magnetic order, is characterized by non-relativistic momentum-dependent spin-split electronic structure with compensated zero net magnetization. It can arise from the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-02 Jin-Wei Dong , Yu-Han Lin , Ruiqing Fu , Xianxin Wu , Gang Su , Ziqiang Wang , Sen Zhou

We investigate how to engineer an antisymmetric spin-split band structure under spin density waves with finite ordering wave vectors in centrosymmetric systems without the relativistic spin-orbit coupling. On the basis of a perturbative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-04 Satoru Hayami