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Magnons in ferromagnets have one chirality, and typically are in the GHz range and have a quadratic dispersion near the zero wavevector. In contrast, magnons in antiferromagnets are commonly considered to have bands with both chiralities…

Altermagnets (A$\ell$Ms) constitute a novel family of magnetic materials characterized by the absence of net magnetization and the presence of spin-polarized band structures. Whereas A$\ell$M phases were initially proposed in collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Mengli Hu , Mikel I. Iraola , Paul McClarty , Jeroen van den Brink , Maia G. Vergniory

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

Noncollinear spin textures in ferromagnetic ultrathin films are currently the subject of renewed interest since the discovery of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). This antisymmetric exchange interaction selects a…

Quasiparticles are central to condensed matter physics, but their stability can be undermined by quantum many-body interactions. Magnons, quasiparticles in quantum magnets, are particularly intriguing because their properties are governed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-25 Rintaro Eto , Matthias Gohlke , Jairo Sinova , Masahito Mochizuki , Alexander L. Chernyshev , Alexander Mook

We provide a theoretical demonstration of controllable non-relativistic spin splitting in both electronic and magnonic bands via targeted structural distortions tied to specific phonon modes. Using MnF$_2$ as a model system, we identify a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-11 Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay , Anoop Raj , Philippe Ghosez , Sumiran Pujari , Sayantika Bhowal

We report the emergence of highly nonlinear spin and charge pumping in an altermagnetic system driven by magnetic dynamics. The non-relativistic spin-momentum coupling inherent to altermagnets (AMs) generates a giant momentum dependent spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Ousmane Ly

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

Altermagnetism has emerged as a third type of collinear magnetism. In contrast to standard ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, altermagnets exhibit extra even-parity wave spin order parameters resulting in a spin-splitting of electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Valentin Leeb , Alexander Mook , Libor Šmejkal , Johannes Knolle

The ability to engineer the interactions in assemblies of nanoscale magnets is central to the development of artificial spin systems and spintronic technologies. Following the emergence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Aleš Hrabec , Zhaochu Luo , Laura J. Heyderman , Pietro Gambardella

We investigate the interplay between altermagnetic spin-splitting and nonsymmorphic symmetries using the space group no. 62 as a testbed. Studying different magnetic orders by means of first-principles calculations, we find that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-21 Amar Fakhredine , Raghottam M. Sattigeri , Giuseppe Cuono , Carmine Autieri

Recently, one can observe a renewed interest in coupling of spin waves (magnons) and collective charge oscillations (plasmons), especially in two-dimensional systems. Several mechanisms of the magnon-plasmon hybridization in ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Wojciech Rudziński , Mirali Jafari , Józef Barnaś , Anna Dyrdał

Magnetism-driven nonrelativistic spin splittings (NRSS) are promising for highly efficient spintronics applications. Although 2D centrosymmetric (in four-dimensional spacetime) antiferromagnets are abundant, they have not received extensive…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-02 Sajjan Sheoran , Saswata Bhattacharya

The development of altermagnets is fundamentally important for advancing spintronic device technology, but remains unpractical for the weak spin splitting in most cases, especially in two-dimensional materials. Based on spin group symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Xinyu Yang , Shan-Shan Wang , Shuai Dong

An important nonlinear effect in magnonics is the 3-magnon splitting where a high frequency magnon splits into two magnons of lower frequencies. Here, we study the 3-magnon splitting in spin wave conduits made from synthetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Asma Mouhoub , Nathalie Bardou , Jean-Paul Adam , Aurélie Solignac , Thibaut Devolder

Atomistic spin models are of great value for predicting and understanding the magnetic properties of real materials, and extensions of the existing models open routes to new physics and potential applications. The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Altermagnet is a newly discovered magnetic phase, characterized by non-relativistic spin-splitting that has been experimentally observed. Here, we introduce a framework dubbed {\it spin-orbital altermagnetism} to achieve spin-orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-22 Zi-Ming Wang , Yang Zhang , Song-Bo Zhang , Jin-Hua Sun , Elbio Dagotto , Dong-Hui Xu , Lun-Hui Hu

Chirality, an intrinsic preference for a specific handedness, is a fundamental characteristic observed in nature. In magnetism, magnetic chirality arises from the anti-symmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in competition with the…

Chiral photonics aims to control and engineer light handedness for many applications in optical communications, biological and chemical sensing, and quantum technologies. While traditional approaches focus on engineering strong linear…

Altermegnets are a class of metallic magnets characterized by spin-split electron bands. Like antiferromagnets they lack spontaneous bulk magnetisation. The standard description of the momentum dependent spin splitting of electron bands in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-09 Vladimir P. Mineev