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Altermagnets, a distinct class of antiferromagnets with electronic structures resembling those of d-wave superconductors, exhibit intriguing properties that have gained significant attention in recent research. In this article, we propose…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-04 Ali Asgharpour , Bert Koopmans , Rembert A. Duine

Altermagnetism represents a recently established class of collinear magnetism that combines zero net magnetization with momentum-dependent spin polarization, enabled by symmetry constraints rather than spin-orbit coupling. This distinctive…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Ali Sufyan , Brahim Marfoua , J. Andreas Larsson , Erik van Loon , Rickard Armiento

Antiferromagnets have attracted significant attention because of their considerable potential in engineering high-density and ultrafast memory devices, a crucial and increasingly demanded component of contemporary high-performance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-11 Florian Johannesmann , Asliddin Khudoyberdiev , Götz S. Uhrig

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets have recently gained significant interest because they combine the advantages of both ferromagnets (spin polarization) and antiferromagnets (absence of net magnetization) for spintronics applications. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-29 Soho Shim , M. Mehraeen , Joseph Sklenar , Steven S. -L. Zhang , Axel Hoffmann , Nadya Mason

We investigate the S=1 antiferromagnetic quantum spin chain with the exchange and single-ion anisotropies in a magnetic field, using the numerical exact diagonalization of finite-size clusters, the level spectroscopy analysis, and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-27 Tôru Sakai , Kiyomi Okamoto , Kouichi Okunishi , Masaru Hashimoto , Tomoki Houda , Rito Furuchi , Hiroki Nakano

Magnetic point-group analysis classifies altermagnets but returns only a binary symmetry verdict, leaving spin-splitting energy (SSE) inaccessible without spin-polarized density functional theory (DFT). This binary ceiling is not…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 Kichan Chun , Gunn Kim

The emergence of altermagnets establishes a new paradigm for multiferroics. Unlike conventional multiferroics relying on direct magnetoelectric coupling, multiferroic altermagnets host a crystal-symmetry-mediated magnetoelectric interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-12 Zhou Cui , Ziye Zhu , Xunkai Duan , Bowen Hao , Xianzhang Chen , Jiayong Zhang , Tong Zhou

Electrically controllable non-volatile magnetic memories show great potential for the replacement of semiconductor-based technologies. Recently there has been strong interest in spin-orbit torque (SOT) induced magnetization reversal due to…

Recently, a new class of magnetic phenomenon, called altermagnetism, was proposed where the underlying spin configuration resembles antiferromagnetic structure, but the system violates \textbf{PT} (PT: Parity times Time reversal) symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-25 Deepak K. Singh , Sang-Wook Cheong , Jiasen Guo

The interplay of antiferromagnetic order, momentum-dependent Bloch spin-splitting, time-reversal (T), and parity (P) symmetries in non-relativistic systems has emerged as a central theme for spintronics. Two well-known examples are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Yue Yu , Jin Matsuda , Hikaru Watanabe , Ryotaro Arita , Daniel F. Agterberg

The advent of altermagnetism, a new phase of magnetism, has garnered significant interest due to its extraordinary spin-polarized electronic bands despite zero net magnetization. Such spin-symmetry-guided robust non-relativistic alternating…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-15 Anil Kumar Singh , Pritam Deb

Magnetic switch with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) is a promising method for controlling magnetization in several applications like magnetic tunnel junction and magnetic memory. However, incoherence happens during the switch…

Spin-orbit torque (SOT)-induced magnetization switching shows promise for realizing ultrafast and reliable spintronics devices. Bipolar switching of perpendicular magnetization via SOT is achieved under an in-plane magnetic field collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 Shunsuke Fukami , Chaoliang Zhang , Samik DuttaGupta , Hideo Ohno

Altermagnetism, a novel magnetic phase bridging ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, exhibits zero net magnetization due to its unique alternating spin arrangements, which cancel out macroscopic magnetization. This phase is characterized…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-20 Meysam Bagheri Tagani

Symmetry arguments are used to show that a boundary of a magnetoelectric antiferromagnet has an equilibrium magnetization. This magnetization is coupled to the bulk antiferromagnetic order parameter and can be switched along with it by a…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-04 K. D. Belashchenko

Symmetry-breaking plays a pivotal role in unlocking intriguing properties and functionalities in material systems. For example, the breaking of spatial and temporal symmetries leads to a fascinating phenomenon of superconducting diode…

Altermagnets are an emerging class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and zero net magnetization. These materials can be broadly classified into two categories based on the behavior of spin splitting at…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 Dongling Liu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Di Zhu , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

Spin-1/2 orthogonal-dimer chain composed of regularly alternating Ising and Heisenberg dimers is exactly solved in a presence of the magnetic field by the transfer-matrix method. It is shown that the ground-state phase diagram involves in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-04 L. Gálisová , J. Strečka , T. Verkholyak , S. Havadej

We propose a concept of half-semiconductor antiferromagnets in which both spin-polarized valence and conduction bands belong to the same spin channel with completely compensated spontaneous magnetization. Using density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-26 Junjie He , P. Zhou , N. Jiao , L. Z. Sun , Xiaoshuang Chen , Wei Lu

The asymmetric magnetization reversal is studied in a single exchange-biased microbar of 1.5 x 13 micrometer with anisotropic magnetoresistance and magnetic force microscopy. The particle has a moment of less than 10^-9 emu and is not…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Gredig , M. Tondra