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Altermagnets have recently emerged as a promising platform for spintronics due to their unique magnetic symmetry. However, most studies have focused on spin degrees of freedom, leaving the dynamic role of orbital degrees of freedom largely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Junyeong Choi , Kyoung-Whan Kim

The hexagonal MnTe is a prime material candidate for altermagnets, an emerging class of magnetic compounds characterized by the nontrivial interplay of antiparallel spin arrangements with their underlying crystal structures. Recognizing…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-25 Ao Wu , Di Cheng , Xinyun Wang , Meng Zeng , Chang Liu , Xinwei Li

It was recently discovered that, depending on their symmetries, collinear antiferromagnets may break spin degeneracy in momentum space, even in absence of spin-orbit coupling. Such systems, dubbed altermagnets, have electronic bands with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-16 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Maria Daghofer , Jeroen van den Brink

We study the interplay between altermagnetism and unconventional superconductivity for the case of two-dimensional square- and triangular-lattice systems. Our approach is based on an effective single particle Hamiltonian which mimics the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-10 Kinga Jasiewicz , Paweł Wójcik , Michał Nowak , Michał Zegrodnik

Altermagnets, a distinct class of antiferromagnets with electronic structures resembling those of d-wave superconductors, exhibit intriguing properties that have gained significant attention in recent research. In this article, we propose…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-04 Ali Asgharpour , Bert Koopmans , Rembert A. Duine

Altermagnets are magnetic materials with antiferromagnetic spin ordering but exhibit ferromagnetic properties. Understanding the microscopic origin of the latter is a central problem. Ferromagnet-like properties such as the anomalous Hall…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-20 Daegeun Jo , Dongwook Go , Yuriy Mokrousov , Peter M. Oppeneer , Sang-Wook Cheong , Hyun-Woo Lee

Unconventional magnetism represents a paradigm shift in condensed matter physics, effectively bridging the fast, high-density advantages of antiferromagnets with the facile read-write capability of ferromagnets. Recent developments in spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiaobing Chen , Weizhao Chen , Qihang Liu

We define unconventional non-collinear magnetic ground states on the maple leaf lattice (MLL) distinguished by the selective breaking or preservation of time reversal ($\mathcal{T}$) and parity ($\mathcal{P}$). Depending on the nature of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-26 Pratyay Ghosh , Ronny Thomale

Alternative magnetic materials or ``altermagnets", characterized by their non-relativistic, momentum-dependent spin-split states, represent a cutting-edge advancement in the field of magnetism, offering promising avenues for spintronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-04 Nayana Devaraj , Anumita Bose , Awadhesh Narayan

Besides hosting several intriguing physical properties, the recently discovered time-reversal-asymmetric antiferromagnets, known as altermagnets, hold immense promise for technologies based on spintronics. Understanding the symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-06 Suman Rooj , Nirmal Ganguli

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

Here we present a new perspective to the breakdown of ferromagnetic order in two-dimensional spin-lattice models employing the rotation of the underlying lattice. Using an Ising spin system on a square lattice as a prototype, we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-17 Claudio J DaSilva , L. S. Ferreira , A. A. Caparica

Altermagnetism is a new magnetic phase with k-dependent spin polarization and may exist in an insulating state with a high N\'eel temperature. This provides a new opportunity to obtain both spin and electric polarization in one material.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-22 Peng-Jie Guo , Yuhao Gu , Ze-Feng Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu

Recently discovered, altermagnetism represents a third class of collinear magnets. These materials exhibit zero net magnetization, similar to antiferromagnets, but display anomalous transport properties resembling those of ferromagnets.…

Altermagnetism, featuring alternating spin structures in reciprocal space, has sparked growing interest. Here, we predict novel real-space alternative piezomagnetic and piezoelectric responses in an emerging altermagnetic family of Lieb…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-01 Xilong Xu , Li Yang

Unconventional magnetism has typically been classified into two fundamental classes: even-parity magnets (EPMs) and odd-parity magnets (OPMs). These two classes exhibit identical and opposite spin splittings, respectively, under momentum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-10 Xun-Jiang Luo , Jin-Xin Hu , Mengli Hu , K. T. Law

Altermagnetism is a newly identified phase of magnetism distinct from ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. RuO$_2$ has been considered a prototypical metallic altermagnet with a critical temperature higher than room temperature. Previous…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-17 Dai Q. Ho , D. Quang To , Ruiqi Hu , Garnett W. Bryant , Anderson Janotti

Motivated by recent developments on altermagnetism, we investigate the Hubbard model on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice, where the onsite repulsion between electrons induces the onset of a staggered magnetic order in which opposite magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-21 Francesco Ferrari , Roser Valenti

Altermagnetism (AM), an unconventional magnetic phase characterized by zero net magnetism protected by symmetry(s) other than parity-time ($\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$) and a resulting spin-split band, has been studied exclusively in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-24 Zhi-Yan Shao , Chen Lu , Zhiming Pan , Yu-Bo Liu , Fan Yang

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Shuyi Li , Adrian Bahri , Chunjing Jia