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The altermagnet candidate Mn5Si3 has attracted wide attention in the context of non-relativistic spin physics, due to its composition of light elements. However, the presumed structure of the altermagnetic phase had yet to be demonstrated.…

The fundamental role of magnetic materials in modern science and technology has driven a rapid surge in research on unconventional magnetism in recent years. In particular, altermagnets, which simultaneously exhibit zero net magnetization…

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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…

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Magnetite is an important mineral with many interesting applications related to its magnetic, electrical and thermal properties. Typically studied by electronic structure calculations, these methods are unable to capture the complex ion…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-22 Emre Gürsoy , Gregor B. Vonbun-Feldbauer , Robert H. Meißner

Antiferromagnetic hexagonal MnTe is a promising material for spintronic devices relying on the control of antiferromagnetic domain orientations. Here we report on neutron diffraction, magnetotransport, and magnetometry experiments on…

The ability to control and manipulate time-reversal ($T$) symmetry-breaking phases with near-zero net magnetization is a sought-after goal in spintronic devices. The recently discovered hexagonal altermagnet manganese telluride…

Most previous investigations have shown that the surface of a ferromagnetic material may have antiferromagnetic tendencies. However, experimentally the opposite effect has been recently observed: ferromagnetism appears in some nano-sized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-08-17 Shuai Dong , Rong Yu , Seiji Yunoki , J. -M. Liu , Elbio Dagotto

Magnetization of soft-ferromagnetic nano- and microtubes of nanometer-thin walls (a single-widening rolled-up nanomembranes) is theoretically studied using analytical and numerical approaches including different stress-induced anisotropies.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-12 Andrzej Janutka

Altermagnets are a newly identified class of magnets with nodal spin-split band structures, providing a fertile platform for studying unconventional superconductivity and intertwined orders. Here we investigate multicomponent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-06 Xuan Zou , Rafael M. Fernandes , Eduardo Fradkin

The self-organization of strongly interacting electrons into superlattice structures underlies the properties of many quantum materials. How these electrons arrange within the superlattice dictates what symmetries are broken and what ground…

We demonstrate the emergence of altermagnetism at the surfaces of antiferromagnets, vastly expanding the number of material candidates with altermagnetic characteristics and establishing a route to two-dimensional altermagnetism through…

We experimentally investigate the magnetization angle dependence $M(\alpha)$ for single crystals of MnTe altermagnetic candidate. In high magnetic fields, experimental $M(\alpha)$ curves mostly reflect standard antiferromagnetic spin-flop…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 N. N. Orlova , V. D. Esin , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

Altermagnetism has so far been associated with compensated magnetic moments carried by atoms. Here we introduce Stoner instability induced interstitial-electron altermagnetism, a distinct mechanism in which altermagnetic order is carried…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-30 Xia Cheng , Yang Wu , Zhenzhou Guo , Tie Yang , Weizhen Meng , Zhenxiang Cheng , Zhi-Ming Yu , Xiaotian Wang

Correlated flat bands and altermagnetism are two important directions in quantum materials, centred respectively on interaction-dominated phases and symmetry-enforced spin-textured states, yet both derive from lattice symmetry and orbital…

The emerging altermagnetic RuO2 with both compensated magnetic moments and broken time-reversal symmetry possesses nontrivial magneto-electronic responses and nonrelativistic spin currents, which are closely related to magnetic easy axis.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-24 Yi-Chi Zhang , Hua Bai , Chong Chen , Lei Han , Shi-Xuan Liang , Rui-Yue Chu , Jian-Kun Dai , Feng Pan , Cheng Song

Altermagnets, a newly discovered class of magnets, integrate the advantages of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, such as enabling anomalous transport without stray fields and supporting ultrafast spin dynamics, offering exciting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Xian-Peng Zhang , Run-Wu Zhang , Xiaolong Fan , Wanxiang Feng , Xiangrong Wang , Yugui Yao

Altermagnetism, a new phase of collinear spin-order sharing similarities with antiferromagnets and ferromagnets, has introduced a new guiding principle for spintronic/thermoelectric applications due to its direction-dependent magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Samuele Giuli , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Massimo Capone

The Fe intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD), Fe$_{1/3}$NbS$_2$, exhibits remarkable resistance switching properties and highly tunable spin ordering phases due to magnetic defects. We conduct synchrotron X-ray scattering…

As an unconventional magnet, altermagnetism attracts great interest in condensed matter physics and applies a new research platform for the spintronics. Since the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) effect is an important research aspect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Yu-Fei Sun , Yue Mao , Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun

Skyrmions in ultrathin ferromagnetic metal (FM)/heavy metal (HM) multilayer systems produced by conventional sputtering methods have recently generated huge interest due to their applications in the field of spintronics. The sandwich…