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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

Antiferromagnetic materials, which have drawn considerable attention recently, have fascinating features: they are robust against perturbation, produce no stray fields, and exhibit ultrafast dynamics. Discerning how to efficiently…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-14 Cheng Song , Yunfeng You , Xianzhe Chen , Xiaofeng Zhou , Yuyan Wang , Feng Pan

The synergy of ferroicity with altermagnetism offers a novel platform for designing multifunctional altermagnetic-spintronic device technology. In this work, we propose a mechanism to achieve nonvolatile electrical manipulation of spin and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-12 Rui Peng , Guangxu Su , Yangyang Fan , Jiaan Li , Fanxin Liu , Yee Sin Ang

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

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

Magnetic ferroelectrics or multiferroics, which are currently extensively explored, may provide a good arena to realize a novel magnetoelectric function. Here we demonstrate the genuine electric control of the spiral magnetic structure in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Yamasaki , H. Sagayama , T. Goto , M. Matsuura , K. Hirota , T. Arima , Y. Tokura

We uncover a new pathway towards multiferroicity, showing how magnetism can drive ferroelectricity without relying on inversion symmetry breaking of the magnetic ordering. Our free-energy analysis demonstrates that any commensurate…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Joseph J. Betouras , Gianluca Giovannetti , Jeroen van den Brink

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…

Logical devices based on spin waves offer the potential to avoid dissipation mechanisms that limit devices based on either the charge or spin of mobile electrons. Multiferroic magnetoelectrics, which are materials that combine ferroelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-10 Rogerio de Sousa , Joel E. Moore

Two-dimensional multiferroics promise low-power, multifunctional devices, yet the intrinsic coexistence and mutual control of three coupled ferroic orders in a single layer remains elusive. Here, we identify pentagonal monolayer FeO$_2$ as…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-26 Deping Guo , Jiaqi Dai , Renhong Wang , Cong Wang , Wei Ji

Altermagnets are an emergent class of materials combining features of ferro- and antiferro-magnetic materials. They have spin-separated bands normally associated with ferromagnets, but a vanishing net magnetization. Moreover the symmetries…

Altermagnetism, a new class of collinear compensated magnetic phase, has garnered tremendous interest because of its rich physics and promising applications. Physical models and verified material candidates for altermagnetism remain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-28 Xingchuan Zhu , Xingmin Huo , Shiping Feng , Song-Bo Zhang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Huaiming Guo

Controlling magnetic moments using electric fields remains a central challenge in spintronics. Multiferroics, where magnetic and electric orders coexist, may be a natural platform for such control, but progress has been limited because…

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials offer a promising platform for exploring novel couplings between altermagnetic (AM) spin-splitting and magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE), with potential applications in next-generation quantum…

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

Antiferromagnetic spintronics is an emerging research field whose focus is on the electrical and optical control of the antiferromagnetic order parameter and its utility in information technology devices. An example of recently discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

Altermagnets have garnered great interest due to their non-relativistic spin splitting and novel physical properties. However, the control of altermagnetic states remains underexplored. Here, we propose a unique multiferroic state, i.e.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-25 Ning Ding , Haoshen Ye , Shan-Shan Wang , Shuai Dong

Control and detection of spin order in ferromagnets is the main principle allowing storing and reading of magnetic information in nowadays technology. The large class of antiferromagnets, on the other hand, is less utilized, despite its…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-23 P. Nemec , M. Fiebig , T. Kampfrath , A. V. Kimel

Antiferromagnetic spintronics focuses on investigating and using antiferromagnets as active elements in spintronics structures. Last decade advances in relativistic spintronics led to the discovery of the staggered, current-induced field in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-17 Libor Šmejkal , Tomáš Jungwirth

A material that reveals two or more ferroelectric properties at the same time is called multiferroic materials. The most commonly multiferroic materials shows ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism property within a single phase. Accordingly…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-03 Manjeet Seth