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This Chapter gives a brief introduction to some basic aspects metals and superconductors in crystal without inversion symmetry. In a first part we analyze some normal state properties which arise through antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-05-28 V. P. Mineev , M. Sigrist

Altermagnetism has emerged as a third type of collinear magnetism. In contrast to standard ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, altermagnets exhibit extra even-parity wave spin order parameters resulting in a spin-splitting of electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Valentin Leeb , Alexander Mook , Libor Šmejkal , Johannes Knolle

Nanoscale detection and control of the magnetic order underpins a broad spectrum of fundamental research and practical device applications. The key principle involved is the breaking of time-reversal ($\cal{T}$) symmetry, which in…

We investigate ferroaxial magnets, a new class of spin-order-driven multiferroic magnets in which magnetic ordering induces mirror-symmetry breaking while preserving both time-reversal and spatial-inversion symmetries. These systems exhibit…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Hikaru Watanabe , Yue Yu , Jin Matsuda , Daniel F. Agterberg , Ryotaro Arita

The antiferroaxial state is emerging as an important ferroic order in condensed matter systems. Here, we establish antiferroaxial altermagnetism as a broadly prevalent, generic, and microscopically grounded multiferroic mechanism, in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-12 Yichen Liu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

Altermagnets are a newly discovered class of magnetic phases that combine the spin polarization behavior of ferromagnetic band structures with the vanishing net magnetization characteristic of antiferromagnets. Initially proposed for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-11 Mengli Hu , Oleg Janson , Claudia Felser , Paul McClarty , Jeroen van den Brink , Maia G. Vergniory

Inversion and time reversal are essential symmetries for the structure of Cooper pairs in superconductors. The loss of one or both leads to modifications to this structure and can change the properties of the superconducting phases in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-21 Mark H Fischer , Manfred Sigrist , Daniel F Agterberg , Youichi Yanase

The electrons on the surface of a disordered multi-layer integer quantum Hall system constitute an unusual chiral metal with ballistic motion transverse to the field, and diffusive motion parallel to it. We present a non-perturbative…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Leon Balents , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Martin R. Zirnbauer

The exploration of transverse electromagnetic responses in solids with broken spatial-inversion (I) and/or time-reversal (T) symmetries has unveiled numerous captivating phenomena, including the (anomalous) Hall effect, Faraday rotations,…

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

Altermagnets are an emerging third elementary class of magnets. Unlike ferromagnets, their distinct crystal symmetries inhibit magnetization while, unlike antiferromagnets, they promote strong spin polarization in the band structure. The…

When the impurity mean free path is short, only spin-polarized Cooper pairs which are non-locally and antisymmetrically correlated in time may exist in a half-metallic ferromagnet. As a consequence, the half-metal acts as an odd-frequency…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-30 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Jacob Linder

Altermagnetic crystals resemble antiferromagnets in that they have no macroscopic magnetization, but unlike antiferromagnets they exhibit spin-split band structures. Here the transport properties of altermagnetic quantum dots and their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 George Kirczenow

Two-dimensional metallic altermagnets are rare, and no correlated 2D material has been established to host large nonrelativistic spin splitting. Here we show that spontaneous orbital order, driven by electronic correlations and Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Nirmalya Jana , Atasi Chakraborty , Anamitra Mukherjee , Amit Agarwal

Half-metals, featuring ideal 100\% spin polarization, are widely regarded as key materials for spintronic and quantum technologies; however, the half-metallic state is intrinsically fragile, as it relies on a delicate balance of exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 San-Dong Guo , Pan Zhou

The Pauli exclusion principle combined with interactions between fermions is a basic mechanism across condensed-matter systems giving rise to a spontaneous breaking of the spin-space rotation symmetry of spin-ordered phases. Ferromagnetism…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-13 T. Jungwirth , R. M. Fernandes , E. Fradkin , A. H. MacDonald , J. Sinova , L. Smejkal

Altermagnets are an emergent class of materials combining features of ferro- and antiferro-magnetic materials. They have spin-separated bands normally associated with ferromagnets, but a vanishing net magnetization. Moreover the symmetries…

Altermagnets are a class of materials with compensated magnetic moments, in which spin sublattices are related by specific symmetries other than inversion or translation. This allows time-reversal symmetry to be broken without a net…

This article explores the deep interconnections among three seemingly unrelated concepts in condensed matter physics: electronic liquid crystal phases, multipole expansions, and altermagnetism. At the heart of these phenomena lies a shared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-13 Zhao Liu , Hui Hu , Xia-Ji Liu

Antiferromagnets are robust to external electric and magnetic fields, and hence are seemingly uncontrollable. Recent studies, however, realized the electrical manipulations of antiferromagnets by virtue of the antiferromagnetic Edelstein…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-01 Hikaru Watanabe , Youichi Yanase