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Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

A very fundamental and unconventional characteristic of superconductivity in iron-based materials is that it occurs in the vicinity of {\it two} other instabilities. Apart from a tendency towards magnetic order, these Fe-based systems have…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-26 S. -H. Baek , D. V. Efremov , J. M. Ok , J. S. Kim , Jeroen van den Brink , B. Büchner

We theoretically investigate the consequences of proximity-induced conventional superconductivity in metals that break time-reversal and inversion symmetries through their energy dispersion. We discover behaviors impossible in an isolated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-21 Pavan Hosur , Daniel Palacios

Stimulated by recent studies of quantum phases with broken local inversion symmetry, we study the magnetoelectric effect in locally noncentrosymmetric metals. We consider three-dimensional (3D) coupled zigzag chains and demonstrate that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Youichi Yanase

The failure of spatial inversion symmetry in noncentrosymmetric materials introduces two different types of spin-independent and spin-dependent electron hopping. The spin-dependent term can be translated into a quasi-spin-orbit coupling and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-30 Mehdi Biderang , Mohammad-Hossein Zare , Alireza Akbari

We review recent theoretical and experimental developments in magnetic Weyl semimetals, focusing on the electromagnetic responses emerging from the interplay of their electronic band topology and magnetism. We begin by introducing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Akihiro Ozawa , Yasufumi Araki , Koji Kobayashi , Kentaro Nomura

We present a quantum transport theory for generic magnetic metals, in which magnetism occurs predominantly due to exchange interactions, such as ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, altermagnets and p-wave magnets. Our theory is valid both for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-11 Tim Kokkeler , Ilya Tokatly , F. Sebastian Bergeret

Altermagnets -- newly identified collinear antiferromagnets -- carry zero net moment with non-relativistic, spin-polarized bands, distilling the best of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets into a single spintronic platform. Shrunking to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 Sike Zeng , Dong Liu , Hongjie Peng , Chang-Chun He , Xiao-Bao Yang , Yu-Jun Zhao

Frustrated rare-earth-based intermetallics provide a promising platform for emergent magnetotransport properties through exchange coupling between conduction electrons and localized rare-earth magnetic moments. Metamagnetism, the abrupt…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-29 Takashi Kurumaji , Shiang Fang , Linda Ye , Shunsuke Kitou , Joseph G. Checkelsky

Recently, MnTe was established as an altermagnetic material that hosts spin-polarized electronic bands as well as anomalous transport effects like the anomalous Hall effect. In addition to these effects arising from altermagnetism, MnTe…

We analyze the pairing instability of an altermagnetic metal on a square lattice driven by an attractive nearest-neighbor interaction. This interaction enables multiple pairing channels, including even-parity extended $s$-wave and $d$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-16 Hui Hu , Zhao Liu , Jia Wang , Xia-Ji Liu , Yoji Ohashi

The notion of topological order (TO) can be defined through the characteristic ground state degeneracy of a system placed on a manifold with non-zero genus $g$, such as a torus. This ground state degeneracy has served as a key tool for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-28 Tsz Fung Heung , Marcel Franz

Altermagnetism, a recently discovered magnetic phase characterized by spin-split bands without net magnetization, has emerged as promising platform for novel physics and potential applications. However, its stability against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Chang-An Li , Bo Fu , Huaiming Guo , Björn Trauzettel , Song-Bo Zhang

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

Symmetry of the crystal lattice can be a determining factor for the structure of Cooper pairs in unconventional superconductors. In this study we extend the discussion of superconductivity in non-centrosymmetric materials to the case when…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-01 Mark H. Fischer , Florian Loder , Manfred Sigrist

Ferroic multipole orders break some symmetry and often activate unique physical properties, such as nonreciprocal directional dichroism and linear magnetoelectric effects. Here, we demonstrate the control of magnetic toroidal orientation in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-02 Shungo Aoyagi , Shunsuke Kitou , Taka-hisa Arima , Yusuke Tokunaga

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…

Altermagnets have recently emerged as a distinct class of magnetic systems that exhibit spin splitting of electronic bands while retaining zero net magnetization. This unique combination makes them a promising platform for time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Constantin Schrade , Sujit Manna , Mathias S. Scheurer

The formalism of composite and intertwined orders has been remarkably successful in discussing the complex phase diagrams of strongly correlated materials and high-$T_c$ superconductors. Here, we propose that composite orders are also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-13 R. Matthias Geilhufe

Spintronics is expected as the next-generation technology based on the novel notch of spin degree of freedom of electrons. Half metals, a class of materials which behave as a metal in one spin direction and an insulator in the opposite spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-19 Xiao HU