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The realization of multiferroic altermagnets featuring giant intrinsic spin splitting, hold great promise for next-generation spintronics. In this work, based on the recently proposed concept of spin-antiferroelectric (spin-AFE), we…

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The unique features of ultrafast spin dynamics and the absence of macroscopic magnetization in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials provide a distinct route towards high-speed magnetic storage devices with low energy consumption and high…

We propose a novel ferroelectric switchable altermagnetism effect, the reversal of ferroelectric polarization is coupled to the switching of altermagnetic spin splitting. We demonstrate the design principles for the ferroelectric…

Inversion-asymmetric antiferromagnets (AFMs) with odd-parity spin-polarization pattern have been proposed as a new venue for spintronics. These AFMs require commensurate ordering to ensure an effective time-reversal symmetry, which…

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Recently, spin splitting of non-relativistic origin in compensated antiferromagnets has drawn growing attention in condensed matter research. Although many materials, now known to exhibit such spin splitting, have been studied for decades,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-24 Sayantika Bhowal , Arnab Bose

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…

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Magnetic or electrical manipulation of electronic spin is elementary for spin-based logic, computing, and memory, where the latter is a low-power manipulation scheme. Rashba-like spin splittings stemming from spin-orbit interaction (SOI)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-19 Longju Yu , Hong Jian Zhao , Laurent Bellaiche , Yanming Ma

Electrical manipulation of spin-polarized current is highly desirable yet tremendously challenging in developing ultracompact spintronic device technology. Here we propose a scheme to realize the all-electrical manipulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Rui Peng , Jin Yang , Lin Hu , Wee-Liat Ong , Pin Ho , Chit Siong Lau , Junwei Liu , Yee Sin Ang

The recent research interests in the non-relativistic spin splitting of electronic band structures have led to the exploration of altermagnets and other compensated magnets. Here, we show that various types of non-relativistic spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-03 Yunsong Liu , Yanlong Liu , Xuefei Wang , Nan Xia , Guifang Xu , Yi Wang , Haifeng Wang , Weiwei Gao , Jijun Zhao

Interfacial exchange coupling between antiferromagnets (AFMs) and ferromagnets (FMs) crucially makes it possible to shift the FM hysteresis, known as exchange bias, and to switch AFM states. Two-dimensional magnets unlock opportunities to…

Hidden spin polarization (HSP) emerges in centrosymmetric crystals where visible spin splittings in the real space can be observed because of the lack of inversion symmetry in each local sector. Starting from tight-binding models, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-18 Shan Guan , Jun-Wei Luo

Layered topologically non-trivial and trivial semimetals with AFM-type ordering of magnetic sublattice are known to exhibit a negative magnetoresistance that is well correlated with AFM magnetization changes in a magnetic field. This effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 P. D. Grigoriev , N. S. Pavlov , I. A. Nekrasov , I. R. Shein , A. V. Sadakov , O. A. Sobolevskiy , E. Maltsev , N. Perez , L. Veyrat , V. M. Pudalov

Two-dimensional(2D) multiferroic materials hold significant promise for advancing the miniaturization and integration of nanodevices. In this study, we demonstrate that 2D bilayer ScI2, which exhibits ferromagnetic(FM) ordering within each…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Yaxin Pan , Chongze Wang , Shuyuan Liu , Fengzhu Ren , Chang Liu , Bing Wang , Jun-Hyung Cho

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 search for novel magnetic quantum phases, phenomena and functional materials has been guided by relativistic magnetic-symmetry groups in coupled spin and real space from the dawn of the field in 1950s to the modern era of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

Synergizing altermagnetism and other ferroic orders, such as ferroelectric switchable altermagnetism [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106801 (2025) and ibid. 106802 (2025)], offers an effective route to achieve nonvolatile switching of altermagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-15 Rui Peng , Shibo Fang , Pin Ho , Tong Zhou , Junwei Liu , Yee Sin Ang

Altermagnets (AMs) constitute a novel class of spin-compensated materials in which the symmetry connecting opposite-spin sublattices involves a spatial rotation. Here, we uncover a set of unique non-linear, light-driven properties that set…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 Amir Eskandari-asl , Jorge I. Facio , Oleg Janson , Adolfo Avella , Jeroen van den Brink

Altermagnets are a novel class of fully spin-compensated magnetic materials that nevertheless have spin-split electronic bands, offering novel perspectives for spintronics applications. Based on a rigorous analysis of altermagnetic…

We theoretically propose a realization of a nonlinear nonreciprocal transport in antiferromagnets without relying on the relativistic spin-orbit coupling. Through the symmetry and microscopic model analyses, we show that a local spin scalar…

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