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Altermagnetism combines momentum-dependent spin splitting of opposite-spin channels with zero net magnetization, enabling electric-field control of spin transport that is robust against external magnetic fields. Although widely explored in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-21 Hongde Yu , Thomas Brumme , Thomas Heine

Altermagnets host unconventional spin-polarized bands despite zero net magnetization, but controlling their spin structure remains challenging. We propose a multi-field approach to engineer spin polarization in $d$-wave altermagnets using…

$P$-, $f$-, or $h$-wave antialtermagnets yield large non-relativistic spin splitting with out-of-plane spin polarization in momentum space perpendicular to the coplanar non-collinear local magnetic moments. We provide a microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Johannes Mitscherling , Jan Priessnitz , Clara K. Geschner , Libor Šmejkal

The recently delimited altermagnetic phase is characterized by zero net magnetization but momentum-dependent collinear spin-splitting. To explore the intriguing physical effects and potential applications of altermagnets, it is essential to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-12 Zhi-Xia Li , Xiangang Wan , Wei Chen

Altermagnetic materials combine compensated magnetic order with momentum-dependent spin splitting, offering a fundamentally new route for spintronic functionality beyond conventional ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. While most studies…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 J. W. González , T. Brumme , E. Suárez Morell , A. M. León

A novel collinear magnetic phase, termed ``altermagnetism,'' has recently been uncovered, characterized by zero net magnetization and momentum-dependent collinear spin-splitting. To understand the intriguing physical effects of altermagnets…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-12 Hao-Ran Hu , Xiangang Wan , Wei Chen

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

Rutile RuO$_2$ has been posited as a potential $d$-wave altermagnetism candidate, with a predicted significant spin splitting up to 1.4 eV. Despite accumulating theoretical predictions and transport measurements, direct spectroscopic…

We propose a mechanism to use inelastic tunneling spectrosopy STM to detect a single spin in a d-wave superconductor and in a pseudogap state, based on a direct exchange coupling J between the surface electrons and the local spin S in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Balatsky , Ar. Abanov , Jian-Xin Zhu

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets have recently gained significant interest because they combine the advantages of both ferromagnets (spin polarization) and antiferromagnets (absence of net magnetization) for spintronics applications. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-29 Soho Shim , M. Mehraeen , Joseph Sklenar , Steven S. -L. Zhang , Axel Hoffmann , Nadya Mason

We explore the possibilities for spin-singlet superconductivity in newly discovered altermagnets. Investigating $d$-wave altermagnets, we show that finite-momentum superconductivity can easily emerge in altermagnets even though they have no…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-29 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

The discovery of collinear symmetric-compensated altermagnets (AM) with intrinsic spin splitting provides a route towards energy-efficient and ultrafast device applications. Here, using first-principles calculations and symmetry analysis,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Jianke Tian , Jia Li , Hengbo Liu , Yan Li , Ze Liu , Linyang Li , Jun Li , Guodong Liu , Junjie Shi

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

We develop a theory of angle-dependent magnetoresistance (ADMR) in metallic altermagnets coupled to ferromagnetic insulators and establish criteria that distinguish them from conventional compensated magnets with spin-orbit coupling. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Tim Kokkeler , Vitaly N. Golovach , F. Sebastian Bergeret

The combination of a centrosymmetric crystallographic structure with local structural alternations and collinear antiferromagnetism can lead to broken PT (Parity $\times$ Time-reversal) symmetry, resulting in altermagnets with…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-01 S. V. Streltsov , S. -W. Cheong

As a special type of collinear antiferromagnetism (AFM), altermagnetism has garnered significant research interest recently. Altermagnets exhibit broken parity-time symmetry and zero net magnetization in real space, leading to substantial…

Antiferromagnetism, initially considered interesting but useless, recently emerged as one of the most promising magnetic phases for technology. Recently, a low symmetry antiferromagnetic phase, known as altermagnetic phase, have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-05 Suman Rooj , Sugandha Saxena , Nirmal Ganguli

Altermagnet is an emerging antiferromagnetic material subclass that exhibits spin-splitting in momentum space without net global magnetization and spin-orbit-coupling effect. In this work, we develop a model of thermal charge injection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Yee Sin Ang

Altermagnets (AMs) constitute a novel class of spin-compensated materials in which the symmetry connecting opposite-spin sublattices involves a spatial rotation. Here, we uncover a set of unique non-linear, light-driven properties that set…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 Amir Eskandari-asl , Jorge I. Facio , Oleg Janson , Adolfo Avella , Jeroen van den Brink

In many antiferromagnetic, quasi-two-dimensional materials, doping with holes leads to "stripe" phases, in which the holes congregate along antiphase domain walls in the otherwise antiferromagnetic texture. Using a suitably parametrized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 E. W. Carlson , D. X. Yao , D. K. Campbell