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Magnetic states with zero magnetization but non-relativistic spin splitting are outstanding candidates for the next generation of spintronic devices. Their electron-volt (eV) scale spin splitting, ultrafast spin dynamics and nearly…

Odd-parity-wave magnets are noncollinear compensated magnets with spin-split band structure in the absence of spin-orbit coupling and dipolar interactions. In contrast to altermagnets, their spin-polarized band structure breaks inversion…

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Parity-time-reversal-symmetric odd-parity antiferromagnetic (AFM1) materials are of interest for their symmetry-enabled quantum transport and optical effects. These materials host odd-parity terms in their band dispersion, leading to…

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Altermagnetism represents a novel class of collinear antiferromagnetism exhibiting non-relativistic spin splitting without net magnetization, driven by lattice symmetry rather than spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we introduce a…

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In the non-relativistic limit, helimagnetic order is always associated with odd-parity magnetism. That is, for single-particle states the expectation value of the electronic spin is odd in crystal momentum, which implies direct control of…

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Odd-parity magnetic and magnetic toroidal multipoles in the absence of both spatial-inversion and time-reversal symmetries are sources of multiferroic and nonreciprocal optical phenomena. We investigate electronic states caused by an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-14 Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose

Odd-parity magnets (OPMs) have recently emerged as a new magnetic class, but their general symmetry criteria remain elusive. In this Letter, we establish these criteria through a comprehensive spin group symmetry analysis. Concretely, we…

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Altermagnetism has been recently experimentally verified by photoemission mapping of the spin order in momentum space in MnTe and CrSb, which feature two anisotropic sublattices with antiparallel magnetic dipole moments. In this work, we…

We propose a novel ferroelectric switchable altermagnetism effect, the reversal of ferroelectric polarization is coupled to the switching of altermagnetic spin splitting. We demonstrate the design principles for the ferroelectric…

Spontaneous symmetry breaking underlies functional electronic phenomena in quantum materials. Breaking space-inversion ($\mathcal{P}$) or time-reversal ($\mathcal{T}$) symmetry can generate spin-split electronic bands central to modern…

The phenomena of odd-parity magnetoresistance and the planar Hall effect are deeply entwined with ferromagnetism. The intrinsic magnetization of the ordered state permits these unusual and rarely observed manifestations of Onsager's theorem…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-14 Yishu Wang , Patrick A. Lee , D. M. Silevitch , F. Gomez , S. E. Cooper , Y. Ren , J. -Q. Yan , D. Mandrus , T. F. Rosenbaum , Yejun Feng

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials have potential advantages for spintronics due to their robustness, ultrafast dynamics, and magnetotransport effects. However, the missing spontaneous polarization and magnetization hinders the efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-29 San-Dong Guo , Guang-Zhao Wang , Yee Sin Ang

Spin-split antiferromagnets have significance for antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics due to their momentum dependent spin polarization which can be exploited for the control and detection of the AFM order parameter. Here, we explore the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-14 Himanshu Mavani , Kai Huang , Kartik Samanta , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We show that time-reversal symmetry broken, centrosymmetric antiferromagnets with nonrelativistic spin-splitting are conveniently described in terms of the ferroic ordering of magnetic octupoles. The magnetic octupoles are the lowest-order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-10 Sayantika Bhowal , Nicola A. Spaldin

Violation of parity symmetry gives rise to various physical phenomena such as nonlinear transport and cross-correlated responses. In particular, the nonlinear conductivity has been attracting a lot of attentions in spin-orbit coupled…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-19 Hikaru Watanabe , Youichi Yanase

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

The search for novel magnetic quantum phases, phenomena and functional materials has been guided by relativistic magnetic-symmetry groups in coupled spin and real space from the dawn of the field in 1950s to the modern era of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

A microscopic calculation and symmetry argument reveal superconductivity in the vicinity of parity-violating magnetic order. An augmented cluster magnetic multipole order in a crystal lacking local space inversion parity may break global…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-26 Jun Ishizuka , Youichi Yanase

Recently, spin splitting of non-relativistic origin in compensated antiferromagnets has drawn growing attention in condensed matter research. Although many materials, now known to exhibit such spin splitting, have been studied for decades,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-24 Sayantika Bhowal , Arnab Bose

Unconventional magnetism has typically been classified into two fundamental classes: even-parity magnets (EPMs) and odd-parity magnets (OPMs). These two classes exhibit identical and opposite spin splittings, respectively, under momentum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-10 Xun-Jiang Luo , Jin-Xin Hu , Mengli Hu , K. T. Law