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Building on recent advancements in altermagnetism, we develop a highly-frustrated magnetic model with Kitaev-like interactions that integrates key aspects of both quantum spin liquids and altermagnets. While the ground state is a gapless…

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We show that the stability (existence/absence) and interaction (repulsion/attraction) of chiral solitons in monoaxial chiral magnets can be varied by tilting the direction of magnetic field. We, thereby, elucidate that the condensation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-17 Yusuke Masaki , Ryuya Aoki , Yoshihiko Togawa , Yusuke Kato

Spin waves in chiral magnetic materials are strongly influenced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction resulting in intriguing phenomena like non-reciprocal magnon propagation and magnetochiral dichroism. Here, we study the non-reciprocal…

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

The possibility of a zero temperature, altermagnetic instability in anisotropic two dimensional electron systems in the diffusive regime is analyzed, in the presence and absence of spin-orbit coupling. Allowing for ferromagnetism, a phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Alberto Cortijo

Two-dimensional magnets have manifested themselves as promising candidates for quantum devices. We here report that the edge and strain effects during the device fabrication with two-dimensional honeycomb ferromagnets such as CrX$_3$ (X=Cl,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Tianyu Liu , Zheng Shi , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Altermagnets are compensated magnets with unconventional $d$, $g$, and $i$-wave spin order in reciprocal space. So far the search for new altermagnetic candidates has been focused on materials in which the magnetic unit cell is identical to…

Magnon excitations in antiferromagnetic materials and their physical implications enable novel device concepts not available in ferromagnets, emerging as a new area of active research. A unique characteristic of antiferromagnetic magnons is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

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

Altermagnets (AMs) are a recently identified class of unconventional collinear compensated antiferromagnets that exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This unconventional magnetic order gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-24 Bo Zhao , Fu Li , Wei Ren , Hao Wang , Hongbin Zhang

The newly discovered altermagnets are unconventional collinear compensated magnetic systems, exhibiting even (d, g, or i-wave) spin-polarization order in the band structure, setting them apart from conventional collinear ferromagnets and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-02 Atasi Chakraborty , Rafael González Hernández , Libor šmejkal , Jairo Sinova

Chirality and topology are intimately related fundamental concepts, which are heavily explored to establish spin-textures as potential magnetic bits in information technology. However, this ambition is inhibited since electrical reading of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Imara Lima Fernandes , Stefan Blügel , Samir Lounis

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

Altermagnet (AM), a recently identified class of collinear magnet, has garnered significant attention due to its unique combination of zero net magnetization and spin-split energy bands, leading to a variety of novel physical phenomena.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Miaomiao Zhao , Wei-Wei Yang , Yin Zhong

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

We suggest the method for direct ab initio calculation of magnons in complex collinear magnets. The method is based on the density-functional-theory calculation under two different constraints: one constraint governs the change of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-23 L. M. Sandratskii , K. Carva , V. M. Silkin

The ferrimagnet Mn3Si2Te6 attracts attention because of a recently discovered colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) with unique magnetic field properties. An improved magnetic structure for the material has emerged from a neutron diffraction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-21 Stephen W. Lovesey

Altermagnets are a new class of magnetic materials that are promising for spintronics technology. Here it is shown that in altermagnets, the circular dichroism (CD) in resonant photoelectron diffraction (RPED) contains a time-reversal odd…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-26 Peter Krüger

Altermagnetism stands as a third type of collinear magnetic order, whose band structure combines a net zero magnetization with a non-relativistic spin-splitting caused by a broken time reversal symmetry. So far, the strategy to design…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Ricardo Ortiz , Karol Strutyński , Manuel Melle-Franco

Altermagnets hold great potential for spintronic applications, yet their intrinsic spin dynamics and associated transport properties remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigate spin-resolved quantum transport in a multi-terminal setup…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Li-Shuo Liu , Kai Shao , Hai-Dong Li , Xiangang Wan , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing