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Recent developments have introduced a groundbreaking form of collinear magnetism known as "altermagnetism". This emerging magnetic phase is characterized by robust time-reversal symmetry breaking, antiparallel magnetic order, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-18 Ling Bai , Wanxiang Feng , Siyuan Liu , Libor Šmejkal , Yuriy Mokrousov , Yugui Yao

Altermagnets are a recently discovered class of magnetic materials that combine a collinear, zero-magnetization spin structure, characteristic of antiferromagnets, with spin-split electronic bands, a hallmark of ferromagnets. This unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

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

Altermagnetism is a compensated magnetic phase characterized by zero net magnetization and exchange-driven spin splitting. However, identifying altermagnets among collinear antiferromagnets usually requires full magnetic-space-group or…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-27 Ying Chen , Qiushi Huang , Yu Wu , Xiaolan Yan , Su-Huai Wei

Altermagnetism, a new phase of collinear spin-order sharing similarities with antiferromagnets and ferromagnets, has introduced a new guiding principle for spintronic/thermoelectric applications due to its direction-dependent magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Samuele Giuli , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Massimo Capone

Altermagnetism, as an unconventional antiferromagnetism, exhibits collinear-compensated magnetic order in real space and spin-splitting band structure in reciprocal space. In this work, we propose a general approach to generating…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-15 Hongjie Peng , Sike Zeng , Ji-Hai Liao , Chang-Chun He , Xiao-Bao Yang , Yu-Jun Zhao

The research landscape of magnetism has been recently enriched by the discovery of altermagnetism. It is an unconventional phase of matter characterized by a d-wave (or higher even-parity-wave) collinear compensated spin ordering, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , P. Wadley , D. Kriegner , H. Reichlova , F. Krizek , H. Ohno , L. Smejkal

Altermagnets have recently emerged as a new class of magnetic materials sharing properties of both antiferromagnets and ferromagnets. Despite very small net magnetization, they show phenomena usually associated with ferromagnetism, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-03 Maxim Mostovoy

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 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

Altermagnetism is a collinear compensated magnetically-ordered phase with a d, g or i-wave anisotropy and alternating spin polarization of the electronic structure in the position and momentum space. Its recent discovery was in part…

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

Altermagnetism is introduced as a category of magnetic states with vanishing net magnetic moment, and consists of collinear alternating (i.e., antiferromagnetic-like) spins and alternating variations of local structures around spins in such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-26 Sang-Wook Cheong , Fei-Ting Huang

Recently, a new class of magnetic phenomenon, called altermagnetism, was proposed where the underlying spin configuration resembles antiferromagnetic structure, but the system violates \textbf{PT} (PT: Parity times Time reversal) symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-25 Deepak K. Singh , Sang-Wook Cheong , Jiasen Guo

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 W. Z. Zhuo , Z. H. Guan , Z. L. Peng , Y. N. Pan , J. Chen , Y. Yang , M. H. Qin

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…

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

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

Altermagnetism has recently emerged as a new class of spin compensated magnetic materials that exhibit momentum dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. The origin of these electronic signatures lies in symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Diego López-Alcalá , Andrei Shumilin , José J. Baldoví

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…

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