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Altermagnetism, a recently identified magnetic phase that combines vanishing net magnetization with momentum-dependent spin splitting, challenges the conventional dichotomy between ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. While several candidate…

The phenomenon of spin-dependent quantum scattering in two-dimensional (2D) pseudospin-1/2 Dirac materials leading to a relativistic quantum chimera was recently uncovered. We investigate spin-dependent Dirac electron optics in 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Li-Li Ye , Chen-Di Han , Ying-Cheng Lai

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…

Altermagnets host an array of magnetic multipoles, which are often visualized and studied in the reciprocal space. In the real space, the relative phase of the multipoles of the spin-density around atoms determines whether a system is an…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-01 Luca Buiarelli , Rafael M. Fernandes , Turan Birol

Altermagnets have attracted intense interest because they have the advantages of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. However, their experimental identification remains challenging, in particular for the A-type altermagnets that account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Zhoujian Sun , Yiyuan Chen , Tao Yu , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetism, particularly 2D altermagnetism (AM), has attracted considerable interest due to its exceptional physical properties and broad application potential. However, the classification of AM undergoes a fundamental…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 Mu Tian , Chaoxi Cui , Zeying Zhang , Jingyi Duan , Wanxiang Feng , Run-Wu Zhang

Near the sample edge, or a sharp magnetic field step the drift of two-dimensional electrons in a magnetic field has the form of skipping/snake orbits. We show that families of skipping/snake orbits of electrons injected at one point inside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Nathan Davies , Aavishkar A. Patel , Alberto Cortijo , Vadim Cheianov , Francisco Guinea , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Recently, altermagnetic materials have become rather attractive because such materials showcase combined advantages of ferromagnets (e.g., spin current) and antiferromagnets (e.g., low stray field and ultrafast spin dynamics). Symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-19 Yahui Zhai , Longju Yu , Jian Lv , Wei Zhang , Hong Jian Zhao

The recently discovered altermagnets exhibit collinear magnetic order with zero net magnetization but with unconventional spin-polarized d/g/i-wave band structures, expanding the known paradigms of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. In…

Collective charge-density modes (plasmons) of the clean two-dimensional unpolarized electron gas are stable, for momentum conservation prevents them from decaying into single-particle excitations. Collective spin-density modes (spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Amit Agarwal , Marco Polini , Giovanni Vignale , Michael E. Flatte

Altermagnets constitute an emerging class of collinear magnets that exhibit zero net magnetization yet host spin-split electronic bands arising from non-relativistic spin-space-group symmetries. Realization of altermagnetism in the…

Altermagnetism (AM), the recently discovered third class of collinear magnetic order, is characterized by non-relativistic momentum-dependent spin-split electronic structure with compensated zero net magnetization. It can arise from the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-02 Jin-Wei Dong , Yu-Han Lin , Ruiqing Fu , Xianxin Wu , Gang Su , Ziqiang Wang , Sen Zhou

Altermagnets, characterized by spin-split bands without net magnetization, have recently emerged as a promising platform for spintronics. However, their microscopic mechanisms remain elusive, often relying on abstract group theory. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-02 Suyoung Lee , Minjae Kim , Changyoung Kim

In the absence of spin-orbit coupling, collinear magnets are classified as even-wave magnets, i.e., either ferro-, antiferro-, or altermagnets. It is based on the belief that collinear magnets always feature an inversion-symmetric band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Valentin Leeb , Johannes Knolle

Spin waves in antiferromagnetic materials have great potential for next-generation magnonic technologies. However, their properties and their dependence on the type of ground-state antiferromagnetic structure are still open questions. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Flaviano José dos Santos , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

Altermagnetism is characterized by even-parity spin-momentum locking in spin-split bands despite zero net magnetization and negligible spin-orbit coupling. Here, we formulate a microscopic framework that links altermagnetic splitting in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Yixuan Che , Peibo Xu , Haifeng Lv , Xiaojun Wu , Jinlong Yang

Altermagnetism has been proposed as a new type of magnetism, simultaneously exhibiting compensated spin moments in real space and spin-split electronic bands in reciprocal space. Alternating chiral magnon splitting is considered a unique…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Yi-Fan Zhang , Xiao-Sheng Ni , Ke Chen , Kun Cao

Altermagnetism is a subclass of antiferromagnetism that features spin-polarized electron bands of a non-relativistic origin despite the absence of a net magnetiation in the material. We here theoretically study spin pumping from an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder

Altermagnetism represents a type of collinear magnetism, that is in some aspects distinct from ferromagnetism and from conventional antiferromagnetism. In contrast to the latter, sublattices of opposite spin are related by spatial rotations…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-26 Purnendu Das , Valentin Leeb , Johannes Knolle , Michael Knap

We propose a novel spin density wave (SDW) state as a possible mechanism of the anomalous antiferromagnetism, so-called the micromagnetism, in URu_2Si_2 below 17.5[K]. In this new SDW, the electron-hole pair amplitude changes its sign in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroaki Ikeda , Yoji Ohashi