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Magnetism is one of the largest, most fundamental, and technologically most relevant fields of condensed-matter physics. Traditionally, two basic magnetic phases have been considered -- ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. The breaking of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

In the quest to develop spintronic logic, it was discovered that magnetoelectric switching results in lower energy and shorter switching time than other mechanisms. Magnetoelectric (ME) field due to exchange bias at the interface with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Dmitri E. Nikonov , Sasikanth Manipatruni , Ian A. Young

Altermagnets are defined as magnetic states with fully compensated spin angular momenta (spins) and broken PT (P: parity, T: time reversal, PT: parity times time reversal) symmetry. We classify three kinds of altermagnets: M-type: broken T…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-19 Sang-Wook Cheong , Fei-Ting Huang

The Pauli exclusion principle combined with interactions between fermions is a basic mechanism across condensed-matter systems giving rise to a spontaneous breaking of the spin-space rotation symmetry of spin-ordered phases. Ferromagnetism…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-13 T. Jungwirth , R. M. Fernandes , E. Fradkin , A. H. MacDonald , J. Sinova , L. Smejkal

We propose alterelectricity, an electrical analogue of altermagnetism, in which two switchable states possess alternating band structures. Such alterelectric states arise when a switchable sublattice-selective structural change connects two…

Kinetomagnetism refers to magnetization induced by (electric) current, encompassing longitudinal or transverse effects and even- or odd-order phenomena. The essential prerequisite for kinetomagnetism is the breaking of PT (=Parity times…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-21 Sang-Wook Cheong , Fei-Ting Huang

Chiral magnons, the quanta of handed spin waves, transport spin angular momentum without energy loss due to Joule heating. The recently discovered altermagnets were proposed to host chiral magnons arising from a non-relativistic exchange…

Altermagnetism has recently emerged as a new class of spin compensated magnetic materials that exhibit momentum dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. The origin of these electronic signatures lies in symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Diego López-Alcalá , Andrei Shumilin , José J. Baldoví

Magnetoelectric coupling is crucial for uncovering fundamental phenomena and advancing technologies in high-density data storage and energy-efficient devices. The emergence of altermagnets, which unify the advantages of ferromagnets and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Beyond conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, altermagnetism is a recently discovered unconventional magnetic phase characterized by time-reversal symmetry breaking and spin-split band structures in materials with zero net…

The research landscape of magnetism has been recently enriched by the discovery of altermagnetism. It is an unconventional phase of matter characterized by a d-wave (or higher even-parity-wave) collinear compensated spin ordering, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , P. Wadley , D. Kriegner , H. Reichlova , F. Krizek , H. Ohno , L. Smejkal

Altermagnets represent a novel magnetic phase with transformative potential for ultrafast spintronics, yet efficient control of their magnetic states remains challenging. We demonstrate an ultra-low-power electric-field control of…

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetism, particularly 2D altermagnetism (AM), has attracted considerable interest due to its exceptional physical properties and broad application potential. However, the classification of AM undergoes a fundamental…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 Mu Tian , Chaoxi Cui , Zeying Zhang , Jingyi Duan , Wanxiang Feng , Run-Wu Zhang

A modified effective field model was developed to quantitatively interpret the angular dependent magnetization reversal processes in exchange biased Fe/IrMn bilayers. Several kinds of multi-step loops with distinct magnetization reversal…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-01 Wei Zhang , Qing-feng Zhan , Kannan M. Krishnan

Altermagnetism has so far mainly been understood in its even- and odd-parity forms. We show that collinear antiferromagnets with zero net magnetization can also host mixed-parity spin splitting, namely neither purely even nor purely odd in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Jin-Xin Hu , Song-Bo Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu , Zhongbo Yan

I present a tensorial approach to the description of $\vec{k}/-\vec{k}$-symmetric, time-reversal-odd splitting of electronic bands in magnetic materials, which can be of non-relativistic origin and was recently given the name of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-22 Paolo G. Radaelli

Altermagnetism is a new magnetic phase with k-dependent spin polarization and may exist in an insulating state with a high N\'eel temperature. This provides a new opportunity to obtain both spin and electric polarization in one material.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-22 Peng-Jie Guo , Yuhao Gu , Ze-Feng Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu

Symmetry plays a fundamental role in condensed matter. The unique entanglement between magnetic sublattices and alternating crystal environment in altermagnets provides a unique opportunity for designing magnetic space symmetry. There have…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-13 Zhiyuan Zhou , Xingkai Cheng , Mengli Hu , Junwei Liu , Feng Pan , Cheng Song

Altermagnets exhibit spin-split electronic bands like ferromagnets, yet they are magnetically compensated like collinear antiferromagnets. Altermagnets thus combine the benefits of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, opening routes to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 Zeyu Ma , Yidi Wang , Gal Tuvia , Kevin Hauser , Jiaqiang Yan , Jennifer E. Hoffman

Controlling magnetism with electric fields is a key challenge to develop future energy-efficient devices, however, the switching between inversion symmetric states, e.g. magnetization up and down as used in current technology, is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Pin-Jui Hsu , André Kubetzka , Aurore Finco , Niklas Romming , Kirsten von Bergmann , Roland Wiesendanger