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The effect of strain on the magnetic order and band structure of single-layer CrAsS$_4$ has been investigated by first-principles calculations based on density functional theory. We found that single-layer CrAsS$_4$ was an antiferromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-01 Tengfei Hu , Wenhui Wan , Yanfeng Ge , Yong Liu

Altermagnetism, a novel magnetic phase characterized by symmetry-protected, momentum-dependent spin splitting and collinear compensated magnetic moments, has thus far been explored primarily in periodic crystals. In this Letter, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yiming Li , Mingxiang Pan , Jun Leng , Yuxiao Chen , Huaqing Huang

Altermagnets constitute a class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and vanishing net magnetization. Direct observation of the characteristic altermagnetic spin splitting, however, remains challenging. Indirect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Arsen Herasymchuk , Karl Bergson Hallberg , Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder , E. V. Gorbar , Pavlo Sukhachov

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

We investigate the superconductivity of two-dimensional spin-1/2 Fermi systems with $d$-wave altermagnetism under external magnetic field near zero temperature. At large altermagnetic coupling without magnetic field, we show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-13 Hui Hu , Zhao Liu , Xia-Ji Liu

The pivotal role of magnetic anisotropy in stabilising two-dimensional (2D) magnetism has been widely accepted, however, direct correlation between magnetic anisotropy and long-range magnetic ordering in the 2D limit is yet to be explored.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-09 Minjie Zhang , Qifeng Hu , Chenqiang Hua , Man Cheng , Zhou Liu , Shijie Song , Fanggui Wang , Pimo He , Guang-Han Cao , Zhu-An Xu , Yunhao Lu , Jinbo Yang , Yi Zheng

Materials with designed properties arises in a synergy between theoretical and experimental approaches. In this study we explore the set of Archimedean lattices forming a guidance to its electronic properties and topological phases. Within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-23 F. Crasto de Lima , Gerson J. Ferreira , R. H. Miwa

We present a comprehensive study of strain-induced topological magnon phase transitions in insulating three-dimensional (3D) topological chiral antiferromagnets on the kagome-lattice. We show that by applying (100) uniaxial strain, 3D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-16 S. A. Owerre

Altermagnets (AM) are a recently discovered third class of collinear magnets, distinctly different from conventional ferromagnets (FM) and antiferromagnets (AF). AM have been actively researched in the last few years, but two aspects so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Igor Mazin , Rafael González-Hernández , Libor Šmejkal

We present an exactly solvable spin-3/2 model defined on a pentacoordinated three-dimensional graphite lattice, which realizes a novel quantum spin liquid with second-order topology. The exact solutions are described by Majorana fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-01 Y. X. Zhao , Y. Lu , Shengyuan A. Yang

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

Topological antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics is an emerging field of research, which involves the topological electronic states coupled to the AFM order parameter known as the N$\acute{\rm e}$el vector. The control of these states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Hiroyuki Takenaka , Shane Sandhoefner , Alexey A. Kovalev , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Altermagnetism, featuring alternating spin structures in reciprocal space, has sparked growing interest. Here, we predict novel real-space alternative piezomagnetic and piezoelectric responses in an emerging altermagnetic family of Lieb…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-01 Xilong Xu , Li Yang

We describe a novel technique for creating an artificial magnetic field for ultra-cold atoms using a periodically pulsed pair of counter propagating Raman lasers that drive transitions between a pair of internal atomic spin states: a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-09-14 Tomas Andrijauskas , Ian B. Spielman , Gediminas Juzeliunas

Physical phenomena driven by topological properties, such as the quantum Hall effect, have the appealing feature to be robust with respect to external perturbations. Lately, a new class of materials has emerged manifesting their topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-17 D. Bercioux , N. Goldman , D. F. Urban

By using an extended mean-field theory, we study the phase diagram of the topological Kondo lattice model on the honeycomb lattice at half-filling in which the conduction electrons are described by the Haldane model. Besides the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-24 Yin Zhong , Yu-Feng Wang , Yong-Qiang Wang , Hong-Gang Luo

Magnetoresistance (MR), the change of a material's electrical resistance in response to an applied magnetic field, is a technologically important property that has been the topic of intense study for more than a quarter century. Here we…

In a topological insulator, it is the electrons on the surface or edge that carry the signature of topology. Recently, a novel topological state has been proposed in metals or semimetals (gapless) whose band-structure is similar to that of…

The interplay between nontrivial band topology and layered antiferromagnetism in MnBi2Te4 has opened up a new avenue for exploring topological phases of matter. Representative examples include the quantum anomalous Hall effect and axion…

Magnetically doped topological insulators (TIs) exhibit two distinct phases: the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phase when the Fermi level resides within the surface gap, and a metallic phase outside the gap. The QAH phase hosts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Le Yi , Emma Steinebronn , Asmaul Smitha Rashid , Nitin Samarth , Ramy El-Ganainy , Sahin L. Ozdemir , Morteza Kayyalha