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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

The charge and spin diffusion equations taking into account spin-flip and spin-transfer torque were numerically solved using a finite element method in complex non-collinear geometry with strongly inhomogeneous current flow. As an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-14 N. Strelkov , A. Vedyayev , N. Ryzhanova , D. Gusakova , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu , M. Chshiev , S. Amara , N. de Mestier , C. Baraduc , B. Dieny

Antivortices in ferromagnetic thin-film elements are in-plane magnetization configurations with a core pointing perpendicular to the plane. By using micromagnetic simulations, we find that magnetic antivortices gyrate on elliptical orbits…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Andre Drews , Benjamin Krueger , Markus Bolte , Guido Meier

Altermagnets are a newly discovered class of magnetic phases that combine the spin polarization behavior of ferromagnetic band structures with the vanishing net magnetization characteristic of antiferromagnets. Initially proposed for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-11 Mengli Hu , Oleg Janson , Claudia Felser , Paul McClarty , Jeroen van den Brink , Maia G. Vergniory

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

The search for novel magnetic quantum phases, phenomena and functional materials has been guided by relativistic magnetic-symmetry groups in coupled spin and real space from the dawn of the field in 1950s to the modern era of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

Spatially extended localized spins can interact via indirect exchange interaction through Friedel oscillations in the Fermi sea. In arrays of localized spins such interaction can lead to a magnetically ordered phase. Without external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-08 C. Siegert , A. Ghosh , M. Pepper , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , D. Anderson , G. A. C. Jones

Electron vortices are the quintessential signature of a viscous electron fluid. For decades, their detection relied on indirect transport measurements with persistently debated interpretations. Recently, scanning magnetometry enabled direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Andrey A. Shevyrin , Askhat K. Bakarov , Arthur G. Pogosov

Altermagnets, magnetic materials with zero magnetization and spin-split band structure, have gained tremendous attention recently for their rich physics and potential applications. Here, we report on a microscopic tight-binding model that…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-01 Marc Vila , Veronika Sunko , Joel E. Moore

Recently, a novel collinear magnet, i.e. the altermagnet (AM), with spin-splitting energy band and zero net magnetization have attracted great interest due to its potential spintronic applications. Here, we demonstrate AM-like phases in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-25 Miaomiao Zhao , Wei-Wei Yang , Xueming Guo , Hong-Gang Luo , Yin Zhong

The altermagnet exhibits the nonrelativistic spin splitting that enables all-electrical generation of spin-polarized currents beyond the spin-orbit coupling. Here, we report on a study on the anisotropic spin-polarized conductivity in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-25 Mingbo Dou , Xianjie Wang , L. L. Tao

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…

Resistive transport near a superconducting phase can arise from the motion of normal-state quasiparticles or that of vortices. The conductivity alone does not distinguish between these mechanisms. We propose an unambiguous method for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-20 Yifan F. Zhang , Rhine Samajdar , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Altermagnets are a novel class of materials that combine antiferromagnetic spin ordering with non-relativistic spin splitting (NRSS) in their band structure, making them promising candidates for spintronics applications without requiring…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Niklas Sicheler , Roberto Raimondi , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Lorenzo Del Re

We study the emergence of altermagnetism from repulsive interactions for electrons on the Lieb lattice as a model of quasi-2D oxychalcogenides with the so-called "anti-CuO$_{2}$" lattice structure. A comprehensive study of the Lieb lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-25 Nitin Kaushal , Marcel Franz

Spin-orbit coupling enables charge currents to give rise to spin currents and vice versa, which has applications in non-volatile magnetic memories, miniature microwave oscillators, thermoelectric converters and Terahertz devices. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Angie Davidson , Vivek P. Amin , Wafa S. Aljuaid , Paul M. Haney , Xin Fan

Altermagnet is a distinctive magnet phase, which has spin-split energy band but with zero net magnetic moment. In this paper, we propose that altermagnet behaves spin splitting Nernst effect: Under a longitudinal temperature gradient, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Xing-Jian Yi , Yue Mao , Xiancong Lu , Qing-Feng Sun

Altermagnets, with spin splitting and vanishing magnetization, have been attributed to many fascinating phenomena and potential applications. In particular, integrating ferroelectricity with altermagnetism to enable magnetoelectric coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Su-Huai Wei , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Superconductors are famously capable of supporting persistent electrical currents, that is, currents that flow without any measurable decay as long as the material is kept in the superconducting state. We introduce here a class of materials…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-31 Kyle Monkman , Joan Weng , Niclas Heinsdorf , Alberto Nocera , Marcel Franz