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Altermagnets have attracted considerable attention in recent years owing to their potential technological applications in spintronics and magnonics. Recently, a new class of spontaneous altermagnets has been theoretically predicted in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-02 Nitin Kaushal , Adarsh S. Patri , Marcel Franz

The antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials are robust to external magnetic perturbation due to missing any net magnetic moment. In general, the spin splitting in the band structures disappears in these antiferromagnets. However, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 San-Dong Guo

Altermagnets - collinear, zero-net-moment magnets with momentum-odd spin splitting protected by crystalline symmetries - offer a tunable route to suppress long-range antiferromagnetism while preserving strong short-range spin fluctuations.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-01 Ji Liu , Jianyu Li , Peng Zhang , Xiaosen Yang , Ho-Kin Tang

The phenomenon of spin-dependent quantum scattering in two-dimensional (2D) pseudospin-1/2 Dirac materials leading to a relativistic quantum chimera was recently uncovered. We investigate spin-dependent Dirac electron optics in 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Li-Li Ye , Chen-Di Han , Ying-Cheng Lai

Ferrimagnets containing several partially compensated magnetic sublattices are considered the most promising materials for all-optical data storage and for ultrafast communications based on spin waves. There are two magnetic phases of the…

Multiferroic materials, characterized by the coexisting of ferroelectric polarization (breaking spatial inversion symmetry) and magnetism (breaking time-reversal symmetry), with strong magnetoelectric coupling, are highly sought after for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-14 Wei Sun , Wenxuan Wang , Changhong Yang , Ying Liu , Xiaotian Wang , Shifeng Huang , Zhenxiang Cheng

Altermagnetism is a collinear magnetic order in which opposite spin species are exchanged under a real-space rotation. Hence, the search for physical realizations has focussed on crystalline solids with specific rotational symmetry. Here,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-12 Peru d'Ornellas , Valentin Leeb , Adolfo G. Grushin , Johannes Knolle

Recently, altermagnets have emerged as promising candidates in spintronics, uniquely combining large spin-polarized electronic states with zero net magnetization. A prominent example is $\alpha$-MnTe, whose altermagnetic spin splitting,…

Correlated flat bands and altermagnetism are two important directions in quantum materials, centred respectively on interaction-dominated phases and symmetry-enforced spin-textured states, yet both derive from lattice symmetry and orbital…

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

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

Different energy shifts for majority and minority electrons occur. Thus, for example in case of (laser) excited ferromagnetic metals majority and minority electrons may respond differently in time during closing the exchange splitting. Spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-27 M. Avignon , K. H. Bennemann

We study the physics of dilute magnetic impurities in a two-dimensional altermagnetic metal. For the single impurity case, although the spin degeneracy is broken in an altermagnetic metal, we show that the antiferromagnetic Kondo coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-10 Yu-Li Lee

Effective dynamics of conduction electrons in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials with slowly varying spin texture is developed via non-Abelian gauge theory. Quite different from the ferromagnetic (FM) case, the spin of a conduction electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ran Cheng , Qian Niu

We revise existing group-theoretical approaches for a treatment of nonrelativistic collinear magnetic systems with perfect translation invariance. We show that full symmetry groups of these systems, which contain elements with independent…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-30 Ilja Turek

Antiferromagnetism couples electron spin to its orbital motion, thus allowing excitation of electron-spin transitions by an ac electric rather than magnetic field - with absorption, exceeding that of common electron spin resonance at least…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-08 Revaz Ramazashvili

Recent interest in developing fast spintronic devices and laser-controllable magnetic solids has sparked tremendous experimental and theoretical efforts to understand and manipulate ultrafast dynamics in materials. Studies of spin dynamics…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-21 Xinwei Li , Dasom Kim , Yincheng Liu , Junichiro Kono

We theoretically investigate laser-induced spin transport in metallic magnetic heterostructures using an effective spin transport description that treats itinerant electrons and thermal magnons on an equal footing. Electron-magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Maarten Beens , Rembert A. Duine , Bert Koopmans

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 represent a novel category of magnetic materials characterized by zero net magnetization yet featuring spin-split band structures, and they demonstrate distinctive orbital-spin locking phenomena. Commencing from the minimal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Shihao Zhang