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Besides hosting several intriguing physical properties, the recently discovered time-reversal-asymmetric antiferromagnets, known as altermagnets, hold immense promise for technologies based on spintronics. Understanding the symmetry…

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Asymmetric Weyl semimetals, which possess an inherently chiral structure, have different energies and dispersion relations for left- and right-handed fermions. They exhibit certain effects not found in symmetric Weyl semimetals, such as the…

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Chirality is an inherent characteristics of some objects in nature. In magnetism chiral magnetic textures can be formed in systems with broken inversion symmetry and due to an antisymmetric magnetic interaction, known as…

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Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction even if their wave functions lack direct overlap. Theory predicts that spin-orbit scattering leads to a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya type enhancement of this indirect exchange interaction, giving rise to…

Altermagnets are a novel class of magnetic systems characterized by their momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization. In this work, we extend established Euclidean tight-binding models of altermagnets to regular hyperbolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Eric Petermann , Kristian Mæland , Haye Hinrichsen , Björn Trauzettel

The advent of altermagnetism, a new phase of magnetism, has garnered significant interest due to its extraordinary spin-polarized electronic bands despite zero net magnetization. Such spin-symmetry-guided robust non-relativistic alternating…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-15 Anil Kumar Singh , Pritam Deb

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…

Atomistic spin models have found enormous success in addressing the properties of magnetic materials, grounded on the identification of the relevant underlying magnetic interactions. The huge development in the field of magnetic skyrmions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Sascha Brinker , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

The recently discovered altermagnets (AMs), hosting momentum-dependent spin splitting and vanishing net magnetization, have attracted intensive attention for their promising application in novel spintronics. However, limited by facility and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-02 Jiuyu Sun , Yongping Du , Erjun Kan

Insulating altermagnets like MnTe exhibit spin configurations where opposing spins are not only aligned antiparallel but also rotated relative to each other. This is an arrangement reminiscent of antiferromagnetism with a twist of spin…

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The chiral plasmon modes of relativistic matter in background magnetic and strain-induced pseudomagnetic fields are studied in detail using the consistent chiral kinetic theory. The results reveal a number of anomalous features of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Magnons in antiferromagnets can support both right-handed and left-handed chiralities, which shed a light on the chirality-based spintronics. Here we demonstrate the switching and reading of magnon chirality in an artificial…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Yahui Liu , Zhengmeng Xu , Lin Liu , Kai Zhang , Yang Meng , Yuanwei Sun , Peng Gao , Hong-Wu Zhao , Qian Niu , J. Li

Broken inversion symmetry in combination with the spin-orbit interaction generates a finite Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), which can induce noncollinear spin textures of chiral nature. The DMI is characterized by an interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Flaviano José dos Santos , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

The energy-momentum dispersion of magnons, as collective low-energy excitations of magnetic material, is computed from an effective quantum spin Hamiltonian but simplified via linearized Holstein-Primakoff transformations to describe…

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Magnons, the spin-wave quanta, are disturbances that embody a wave propagating through a background medium formed by ordered magnetic moments. In an isotropic Heisenberg system, these disturbances vary in a continuous manner around an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 G. Gitgeatpong , Y. Zhao , P. Piyawongwatthana , Y. Qiu , L. W. Hariger , N. P. Butch , T. J. Sato , K. Matan

The microscopic conditions for the emergence of nonreciprocal magnon excitations in noncentrosymmetric magnets are theoretically investigated. We show that asymmetric magnon excitations appear when a bond magnetic toroidal dipole becomes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-08 Takuya Matsumoto , Satoru Hayami

Altermagnets host an array of magnetic multipoles, which are often visualized and studied in the reciprocal space. In the real space, the relative phase of the multipoles of the spin-density around atoms determines whether a system is an…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-01 Luca Buiarelli , Rafael M. Fernandes , Turan Birol

Altermagnetism, a recently discovered class of magnetic order characterized by vanishing net magnetization and spin-splitting band structures, has garnered significant research attention. In this work, we introduce a novel two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Shuyi Li , Yu Zhang , Adrian Bahri , Xiaoliang Zhang , Chunjing Jia

In contrast to conventional assumptions, we show that the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction can be of non-relativistic origin, in particular in materials with a non-collinear magnetic configuration, where non-relativistic contributions can…

Altermagnetism is characterized by even-parity spin-momentum locking in spin-split bands despite zero net magnetization and negligible spin-orbit coupling. Here, we formulate a microscopic framework that links altermagnetic splitting in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Yixuan Che , Peibo Xu , Haifeng Lv , Xiaojun Wu , Jinlong Yang