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Conducting altermagnets have recently emerged as intriguing materials supporting strongly spin-polarized currents without magnetic stray fields. We demonstrate that altermagnets enable three key functionalities, merging superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-23 Hans Gløckner Giil , Bjørnulf Brekke , Jacob Linder , Arne Brataas

The altermagnetism with antiparallel spin alignment exhibits anisotropic spin splitting and may possess an insulating state with a high Neel temperature, while the charge-order-induced ferroelectricity has ultrafast electric polarization…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Yuhao Gu , Yu-Hui Song , Yihao Wang , Ze-Feng Gao , Huan-Cheng Yang , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu

We formulate a Landau theory for altermagnets, a class of colinear compensated magnets with spin-split bands. Starting from the non-relativistic limit, this Landau theory goes beyond a conventional analysis by including spin-space…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-29 Paul A. McClarty , Jeffrey G. Rau

Altermagnetism is a newly identified magnetic phase, distinct from conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. It exhibits no net magnetization while breaking time-reversal symmetry. Although its momentum-space signatures are…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-22 Daran Fu , Liu Yang , Yi Shen , Kebin Xiao , Yuyang Wang , Wei Jiang , Zhiwei Wang , Yugui Yao , Qi-Kun Xue , Wei Li

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

Altermagnets constitute a class of collinear compensated N\'eel ordered magnets that break time-reversal symmetry and feature spin-split band structures. Based on versatile microscopic models able to capture the altermagnetic sublattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-08 Jannik Gondolf , Andreas Kreisel , Mercè Roig , Yue Yu , Daniel F. Agterberg , Brian M. Andersen

Motivated by exploring doped multi-orbital antiferromagnets (AFMs) and altermagnets (ALMs) we explore minimal $t$-$J$ models on the square-octagon lattice which favor such collinear magnetic orders in the regime where spin exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-20 Anjishnu Bose , Samuel Vadnais , Arun Paramekanti

We consider the possibility of phonon-mediated unconventional superconductivity in a recently discovered new class of antiferromagnets, dubbed altermagnets. Within a weak-coupling approach, and using a minimal Lieb lattice model for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-24 Kristoffer Leraand , Kristian Mæland , Asle Sudbø

Altermegnets are a class of metallic magnets characterized by spin-split electron bands. Like antiferromagnets they lack spontaneous bulk magnetisation. The standard description of the momentum dependent spin splitting of electron bands in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-09 Vladimir P. Mineev

Altermagnets, a class of unconventional antiferromagnets where antiparallel spins are connected by combined rotational and translational symmetries, have recently emerged as promising candidates for spintronic applications, as they can…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 Ryosuke Hirakida , Karma Tenzin , Chao Chen Ye , Berkay Kilic , Carmine Autieri , Jagoda Sławińska

Spin field-effect transistors (SFETs) are promising candidates for low-power spin-based electronics, yet existing realizations that rely on spin-orbit coupling are constrained by limited material choices and short spin-coherence lengths.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-03 Ziye Zhu , Xianzhang Chen , Xunkai Duan , Zhou Cui , Jiayong Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Recent works have predicted materials featuring bands with a large spin-splitting distinct from ferromagnetic and relativistically spin-orbit coupled systems. Materials displaying this property are known as altermagnets and feature a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-15 Chi Sun , Arne Brataas , Jacob Linder

Altermagnets constitute a class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and vanishing net magnetization. Direct observation of the characteristic altermagnetic spin splitting, however, remains challenging. Indirect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Arsen Herasymchuk , Karl Bergson Hallberg , Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder , E. V. Gorbar , Pavlo Sukhachov

We present a perspective on the status of antiferromagnetism in two-dimensional (2D) materials. Various types of spin-compensated orders are discussed and include non-collinear order, spin spirals and altermagnetism. Spin-orbit effects…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-09 Thomas Olsen

It was recently discovered that, depending on their symmetries, collinear antiferromagnets can actually break the spin degeneracy in momentum space, even in the absence of spin-orbit coupling. Such systems, recently dubbed altermagnets, are…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-20 Yaqian Guo , Hui Liu , Oleg Janson , Ion Cosma Fulga , Jeroen van den Brink , Jorge I. Facio

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization, combining characteristics of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, making them highly interesting for spintronics applications. CrSb is a prime candidate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-02 Brahim Marfoua , Mohammad Amirabbasi , Marcus Ekholm

Antiferromagnets offer an attractive platform for spintronics due to their absence of net magnetization and ultrafast spin dynamics, yet their intrinsically spin-compensated electronic structure has traditionally limited their active role…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-23 Joel Bobadilla , Alberto Camjayi

This work explores the topological properties of altermagnets, a novel class of collinear magnetic materials. We employ equivariant K-theory of magnetic groups and Hamiltonian models to formulate a robust $C^z_4 \mathbb{T}$ topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-03 Rafael Gonzalez-Hernandez , Higinio Serrano , Bernardo Uribe

We study high harmonic generation in altermagnetic metals with and without spin-orbit coupling. The altermagnetism manifests itself in the magnetic field dependence of the low harmonics associated with intra-band dynamics. Spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Philipp Werner , Markus Lysne , Yuta Murakami

Altermagnets are an emerging class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and zero net magnetization. These materials can be broadly classified into two categories based on the behavior of spin splitting at…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 Dongling Liu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Di Zhu , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan