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Electric field control of magnetism in solids, i.e. the converse magnetoelectricity, is highly desired for applications of scalable energy-efficient logic devices. However, it is not only a technical challenge but also a scientific paradox,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-16 Ying Zhou , Haoshen Ye , Junting Zhang , Shuai Dong

Material systems that exhibit tunable spin-selective conductivity are key components of spintronic technologies. Here we demonstrate a novel type of spin-selective transport, based on the unusual Landau level (LL) sequence observed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 En-Min Shih , Qianhui Shi , Daniel Rhodes , Bumho Kim , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kun Yang , James Hone , Cory R. Dean

Spin-orbit coupling in chiral materials can induce chirality-dependent spin splitting, enabling electrical manipulation of spin polarization. Here, we use first-principles calculations to investigate the electronic states of chiral…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-22 Shu Zhao , Jiaming Hu , Ziye Zhu , Xiaoping Yao , Wenbin Li

Magnetism-driven nonrelativistic spin splitting (NRSS) provides a pathway toward efficient, spin-orbit-free spintronics. In centrosymmetric two-dimensional antiferromagnets, spin-polarized transport is symmetry-forbidden due to the combined…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Shantanu Pathak , Saswata Bhattacharya

Altermagnetism represents a recently established class of collinear magnetism that combines zero net magnetization with momentum-dependent spin polarization, enabled by symmetry constraints rather than spin-orbit coupling. This distinctive…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Ali Sufyan , Brahim Marfoua , J. Andreas Larsson , Erik van Loon , Rickard Armiento

Magnetic skyrmions, vortex-like swirling spin textures characterized by a quantized topological invariant, realized in chiral-lattice magnets are currently attracting intense research interest. In particular, their dynamics under external…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-20 Masahito Mochizuki , Shinichiro Seki

Metal-insulator transitions in pyrochlore iridates (A2Ir2O7) are believed to occur due to subtle interplay of spin-orbit coupling, geometric frustration, and electron interactions. In particular, the nature of magnetic ordering of iridium…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-29 Eric Kin-Ho Lee , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Yong Baek Kim

Electrical manipulation of antiferromagnetic states, a cornerstone of antiferromagnetic spintronics, is a great challenge, requiring novel material platforms. Here we report the full control over antiferromagnetic states by voltage pulses…

Odd-parity magnetism constitutes an intriguing phase of matter which breaks inversion symmetry while preserving time-reversal symmetry. Here we demonstrate that the Fe-based superconductors exhibiting coplanar magnetic order realize an…

Using \textit{ab initio} methodology, we reveal a strain-mediated approach to precisely tune the magnetoelectric coupling and spin-driven emergent polarization of NiX$_2$ (X = I, Br) monolayers. In the absence of strain, these systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-17 Ali Ghojavand , Cem Sevik , Milorad V. Milošević

Synergizing altermagnetism and other ferroic orders, such as ferroelectric switchable altermagnetism [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106801 (2025) and ibid. 106802 (2025)], offers an effective route to achieve nonvolatile switching of altermagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-15 Rui Peng , Shibo Fang , Pin Ho , Tong Zhou , Junwei Liu , Yee Sin Ang

Altermagnets (AMs) are a recently identified class of unconventional collinear compensated antiferromagnets that exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This unconventional magnetic order gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-24 Bo Zhao , Fu Li , Wei Ren , Hao Wang , Hongbin Zhang

The issue of anomalous high magnetoresistance, beyond the Julli\`ere model, observed in nonmagnetic electrode-chiral molecular-ferromagnetic electrode devices has puzzled the community for a long time. Here, by considering the magnetic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Tian-Yi Zhang , Yue Mao , Peng-Yi Liu , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

We demonstrate a deterministic switching mechanism in collinear altermagnets driven by asymmetric sublattice spin currents. Unlike conventional antiferromagnets, where combined parity-time-reversal symmetry enforces purely staggered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Sayan Sarkar , Sunit Das , Amit Agarwal

Identifying intrinsic noncollinear magnetic order in monolayer van der Waals (vdW) crystals is highly desirable for understanding the delicate magnetic interactions at reduced spatial constraints and miniaturized spintronic applications,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Mao-Peng Miao , Nanshu Liu , Wen-Hao Zhang , Dao-Bo Wang , Wei Ji , Ying-Shuang Fu

We report coupling between magnetic and electric orders for antiferromagnetic polycrystalline FeVO4 in which magnetism-induced polarization has been recently found in noncollinear antiferromagnetic state below the second antiferromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-17 Bohdan Kundys , Christine Martin , Charles Simon

Magnetic toroidal order features a loop-like arrangement of magnetic dipole moments, thus breaking both spatial inversion (P) and time-reversal (T) symmetries while preserving their combined PT sym-metry. This PT symmetry enables a linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-18 Chuangtang Wang , Xiaoyu Guo , Zixin Zhai , Meixin Cheng , Sang-Wook Cheong , Adam W. Tsen , Bing Lv , Liuyan Zhao

Non-relativistic spin-splitting in unconventional antiferromagnets has garnered much attention for its promising spintronic applications and open fundamental questions. Here, we uncover a unique even-parity spin texture in chiral…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-24 Song-Bo Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu

CuCrO2 offers insights into the different types of spiral magnetic orderings that can form spontaneously due to frustration in triangular-lattice antiferromagnets. We explore the magnetic phase diagram up to 65 T along all the principle…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Eundeok Mun , M. Frontzek , A. Podlesnyak , G. Ehlers , S. Barilo , S. V. Shiryaev , Vivien S. Zapf

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…