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Spontaneous breaking of time-reversal and spatial-inversion symmetries in solids triggers diverse intriguing phenomena. Although these phenomena have been extensively studied in insulators, similar investigations for metals remain limited.…

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The magnetization plateau of the $S=2$ antiferromagnetic chain with interaction and single-ion anisotropies is investigated using the numerical diagonalization of finite-size clusters and some size scaling analyses. The previous level…

In this work we review the recent advances on superconducting phenomena in junctions formed by superconductors and unconventional magnets. Conventional magnets, such as ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, are characterized by broken…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-05 Yuri Fukaya , Bo Lu , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao

Stimulated by recent studies of quantum phases with broken local inversion symmetry, we study the magnetoelectric effect in locally noncentrosymmetric metals. We consider three-dimensional (3D) coupled zigzag chains and demonstrate that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Youichi Yanase

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

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

The discovery of altermagnetism offers new opportunities for exploring novel quantum states and developing spintronic devices for enabling momentum dependent spin splitting in compensated systems, while zero net magnetization limit its…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 W. Z. Zhuo , Z. H. Guan , Z. L. Peng , Y. N. Pan , J. Chen , Y. Yang , M. H. Qin

An anyon-chain-like lattice model with symmetry described by the Ising fusion category is studied. Combining numerical and analytical studies, we uncover a rich phase diagram that contains three phases: a symmetric critical phase and two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Soumil Roychowdhury , Chenjie Wang

Application of sufficient lateral current to a heavy metal (HM) can switch the perpendicular magnetization orientation of adjacent ferromagnetic layer (FM) through spin-orbit torques (SOTs). The choice of the HM and its arrangement plays a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Raghvendra Posti , Abhishek Kumar , Dhananjay Tiwari , Debangsu Roy

Altermagnetism -a magnetic state characterized by spin-polarized electronic bands at zero net magnetization- offers a promising route for next-generation spintronic devices. In two-dimensional (2D) magnets, twist engineering enables its…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Alberto M. Ruiz , Andrei Shumilin , Rafael González-Hernández , José J. Baldoví

Altermagnetism is an unconventional form of antiferromagnetism characterized by momentum-dependent spin polarization of electronic states and zero net magnetization, arising from specific crystalline symmetries. In the presence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Chao Chen Ye , Karma Tenzin , Jagoda Sławińska , Carmine Autieri

Recent developments have introduced a groundbreaking form of collinear magnetism known as "altermagnetism". This emerging magnetic phase is characterized by robust time-reversal symmetry breaking, antiparallel magnetic order, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-18 Ling Bai , Wanxiang Feng , Siyuan Liu , Libor Šmejkal , Yuriy Mokrousov , Yugui Yao

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

We demonstrate a deterministic switching mechanism in collinear altermagnets driven by asymmetric sublattice spin currents. Unlike conventional antiferromagnets, where combined parity-time-reversal symmetry enforces purely staggered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Sayan Sarkar , Sunit Das , Amit Agarwal

Altermagnetism is a collinear compensated magnetically-ordered phase with a d, g or i-wave anisotropy and alternating spin polarization of the electronic structure in the position and momentum space. Its recent discovery was in part…

It was argued many years ago that translational symmetry breaking due to the appearance of spin-Peierls ordering (or bond-charge stripe order) is a fundamental property of the quantum paramagnetic states of a large class of square lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-06 Subir Sachdev , Matthias Vojta

Altermagnetism, as a new category of collinear magnetism distinct from traditional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, exhibits the spin splitting without net magnetization. Currently, researchers are focus on searching three-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-26 Hanbo Sun , Pengqiang Dong , Chao Wu , Ping Li

Altermagnets host spin-split band structures while exhibiting vanishing equilibrium spin magnetization, making field-induced responses a direct probe of their quantum geometry. A central question, in this regard, is which quantum-geometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Neelanjan Chakraborti , Sudeep Kumar Ghosh , Snehasish Nandy

Altermagnets are a recently discovered class of magnetic materials that combine a collinear, zero-magnetization spin structure, characteristic of antiferromagnets, with spin-split electronic bands, a hallmark of ferromagnets. This unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

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