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Altermagnetism is a recently identified class of magnetic order characterized by unconventional momentum-dependent spin splitting in the absence of net magnetization, and understanding its electronic and magnetic properties is essential for…

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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

An altermagnet is a newly discovered antiferromagnet, characterized by unique anisotropic spin-split energy bands. It has attracted tremendous interest, because of its promising potential in information storage and processing. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Hao-Jie Lin , Song-Bo Zhang , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Magnetoelectric multiferroics are highly sought after for applications in low-power electronics and for advancing fundamental research, including axion insulators and dark matter detection. However, achieving a combination of ferroic spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-02 Libor Šmejkal

The recent discovery of altermagnetism has sparked growing interest in compensated magnetic systems as promising platforms for highly scalable spintronics. Altermagnetism is a distinct magnetic order where opposite spin sublattices are…

The interplay of strong electronic correlations, sizable octahedral distortions, and pronounced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) makes perovskite oxides promising candidates for realizing altermagnetic phases. We study altermagnetic phases in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-16 Andrea León , Carmine Autieri , Thomas Brumme , Jhon W. González

Altermagnets have recently emerged as a new class of magnetic materials sharing properties of both antiferromagnets and ferromagnets. Despite very small net magnetization, they show phenomena usually associated with ferromagnetism, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-03 Maxim Mostovoy

Altermagnetic (AM) materials exhibit non-relativistic, momentum-dependent spin-split states, ushering in new opportunities for spin electronic devices. While the characteristics of spin-splitting have been documented within the framework of…

We introduce the concept of \emph{orbital altermagnetism}, a symmetry-protected magnetic order of pure orbital degrees of freedom. It is characterized with ordered anti-parallel orbital magnetic moments in real space but momentum-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Mingxiang Pan , Feng Liu , Huaqing Huang

Here, we explore the role of inherent altermagnetic topology in transverse transport phenomena (such as crystal/anomalous Hall, Nernst, and thermal Hall effects) in several famous altermagnets, including tetragonal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-11 Xiuxian Yang , Xiaodong Zhou , Jingming Shi , Shifeng Qian , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Yinwei Li

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…

Conventional topological classification theory dictates that time-reversal symmetry confines the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect to a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ classification, permitting only a single pair of gapless helical edge states. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Zhiyu Chen , Fangyang Zhan , Zheng Qin , Da-Shuai Ma , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

Altermagnets are a new class of symmetry-compensated magnets with large spin splittings. Here, we show that the notion of altermagnetism extends beyond the realm of Landau-type order: we study exactly solvable $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Avedis Neehus , Achim Rosch , Johannes Knolle , Urban F. P. Seifert

Multiferroics exhibit significant potential for low-power spintronic devices due to magnetoelectric coupling. Here, we discuss an emerging class of altermagnetic multiferroics, a system demonstrating distinct advantages including zero net…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Wei Sun , Changhong Yang , Xiaotian Wang , Shifeng Huang , Zhenxiang Cheng

Altermagnets represent a recently discovered class of collinear magnets, characterized by antiparallel neighboring magnetic moments and alternating-sign spin polarization in momentum-space($k$-space). However, experimental methods for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Rui Chen , Zi-Ming Wang , Hai-Peng Sun , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Altermagnetism, a new magnetic phase, has been theoretically proposed and experimentally verified to be distinct from ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. Although altermagnets have been found to possess many exotic physical properties,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-14 Ze-Feng Gao , Shuai Qu , Bocheng Zeng , Yang Liu , Ji-Rong Wen , Hao Sun , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu

Altermagnets exhibit nonrelativistic spin splitting without net magnetization, establishing a new platform for next-generation spintronic devices. Although altermagnetic tunnel junctions (AMTJs) represent the most promising realizations,…

Altermagnetism (AM), a collinear magnetic phase with momentum-dependent spin splitting, is a promising candidate for strong magnetoelectric coupling. However, realizing direct and tunable coupling between ferroelectricity (FE) and AM within…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-07 Tao Yao , Quan Shen , Wenhu Liao , Jianing Tan , Jiansheng Dong

Fully-compensated ferrimagnets exhibit zero net magnetic moment yet display non-relativistic global spin splitting, making them highly advantageous for constructing high-performance spintronic devices. The general strategy is to break the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-16 San-Dong Guo , Shaobo Chen , Guangzhao Wang

Spin splitting in emerging altermagnets is non-relativistic and momentum-dependent, yet energy-independent, and localized in momentum space, posing challenges for practical applications. Here, we propose an intercalation-driven paradigm for…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Long Zhang , Yuxin Liu , Junfeng Ren , Guangqian Ding , Xiaotian Wang , Guangxin Ni , Guoying Gao , Zhenxiang Cheng