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Altermagnets feature vanishing net magnetization, like antiferromagnets, but exhibit time-reversal symmetry breaking and momentum-dependent spin-split band structures. Motivated by the prevalence of altermagnetic materials with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-10 Mercè Roig , Andreas Kreisel , Yue Yu , Brian M. Andersen , Daniel F. Agterberg

Altermagnets host spin-split electronic bands despite zero net magnetization, opening new routes for spintronics beyond conventional ferromagnets. Going beyond symmetry-based classifications, which specify allowed terms but not their…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Luigi Camerano , Federico Bisti , Gianni Profeta

The interplay between unconventional superconductivity and altermagnetic order has attracted much attentions. In particular, whether spin-triplet superconductivity can be achieved by suppressing altermagnetism remains an open issue. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-15 Xin Ma , Siqi Wu , Zilong Li , Lunhui Hu , Jianhui Dai , Chao Cao

While the understanding of altermagnetism is still at a very early stage, it is expected to play a role in various fields of condensed matter research, for example spintronics, caloritronics and superconductivity. In the field of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 T. Adamantopoulos , M. Merte , F. Freimuth , D. Go , M. Ležaić , W. Feng , Y. Yao , J. Sinova , L. Šmejkal , S. Blügel , Y. Mokrousov

Governed by specific symmetries, altermagnetism is an emerging field in condensed matter physics, characterized by unique spin-splitting of the bands in the momentum space co-existing with the compensated magnetization as in…

Broken inversion symmetry at the surfaces of centrosymmetric collinear antiferromagnets lifts combined inversion and time-reversal symmetry ($PT$) and can, in principle, enable nonrelativistic d-wave spin splitting, termed surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-20 Ersoy Sasioglu , Ingrid Mertig , Samir Lounis

Hidden spin polarization (HSP) with zero net spin polarization in total but non-zero local spin polarization has been proposed in certain nonmagnetic centrosymmetric compounds, where the individual sectors forming the inversion partners are…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-28 San-Dong Guo

Insulating altermagnets like MnTe exhibit spin configurations where opposing spins are not only aligned antiparallel but also rotated relative to each other. This is an arrangement reminiscent of antiferromagnetism with a twist of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Partha Goswami

Altermagnetism, a newly discovered magnetic order, combines zero net magnetization with non-relativistic spin splitting of electronic bands. Its ability to utilize the advantages of both antiferromagnets and ferromagnets is highly promising…

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

Switching magnetism using only electricity is of great significance for industrial applications but remains challenging. We find that, altermagnetism, as a newly discovered unconventional magnetism, may open an avenue along this effort.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Yiyuan Chen , Xiaoxiong Liu , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity is one of the central topics of condensed matter physics, which has recently been put into new light by the discovery of altermagnets. Here, we study this interplay from a fundamental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-16 Kirill Parshukov , Andreas P. Schnyder

The recent discovery of altermagnets has opened new perspectives in the field of ordered phases in condensed matter. In strongly-correlated superfluids, the nodal p-wave and d-wave ordered phases of $^{3}$He and cuprates play a prominent…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-17 Tomas Jungwirth , Rafael M. Fernandes , Jairo Sinova , Libor Smejkal

We investigate the interplay between altermagnetic spin-splitting and nonsymmorphic symmetries using the space group no. 62 as a testbed. Studying different magnetic orders by means of first-principles calculations, we find that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-21 Amar Fakhredine , Raghottam M. Sattigeri , Giuseppe Cuono , Carmine Autieri

The combination of a centrosymmetric crystallographic structure with local structural alternations and collinear antiferromagnetism can lead to broken PT (Parity $\times$ Time-reversal) symmetry, resulting in altermagnets with…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-01 S. V. Streltsov , S. -W. Cheong

Altermagnets are a novel class of materials that combine antiferromagnetic spin ordering with non-relativistic spin splitting (NRSS) in their band structure, making them promising candidates for spintronics applications without requiring…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Niklas Sicheler , Roberto Raimondi , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Lorenzo Del Re

Altermagnetism is a recently identified magnetic symmetry class combining characteristics of conventional collinear ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, that were regarded as mutually exclusive, and enabling phenomena and functionalities…

The recently discovered altermagnets (AMs), hosting momentum-dependent spin splitting and vanishing net magnetization, have attracted intensive attention for their promising application in novel spintronics. However, limited by facility and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-02 Jiuyu Sun , Yongping Du , Erjun Kan

Altermagnets, with spin splitting and vanishing magnetization, have been attributed to many fascinating phenomena and potential applications. In particular, integrating ferroelectricity with altermagnetism to enable magnetoelectric coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Su-Huai Wei , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Emergent electrodynamics arising from spatially and temporally varying magnetic textures provides a framework for spin control in quantum materials. While this principle is established for ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic textures, its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Constantin Schrade , Mathias S. Scheurer