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Spin-split antiferromagnets have significance for antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics due to their momentum dependent spin polarization which can be exploited for the control and detection of the AFM order parameter. Here, we explore the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-14 Himanshu Mavani , Kai Huang , Kartik Samanta , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

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

Odd-parity magnetism constitutes an intriguing phase of matter which breaks inversion symmetry while preserving time-reversal symmetry. Here we demonstrate that the Fe-based superconductors exhibiting coplanar magnetic order realize an…

The precise crystal symmetry and hence the emergence of the electric polarization still remains an open question in the multiferroic materials $R$Mn$_2$O$_5$ ($R$ = rare-earth, Bi, Y). While previous diffraction studies have indicated that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-22 N. Narayanan , P. J. Graham , P. Rovillain , J. O'Brien , J. Bertinshaw , S. Yick , J. Hester , A. Maljuk , D. Souptel , B. Büchner , D. Argyriou , C. Ulrich

Altermagnetism has so far mainly been understood in its even- and odd-parity forms. We show that collinear antiferromagnets with zero net magnetization can also host mixed-parity spin splitting, namely neither purely even nor purely odd in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Jin-Xin Hu , Song-Bo Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu , Zhongbo Yan

Pairing symmetry in the superconducting state coexisting with antiferromagnetic order is studied based on a microscopic theory. We calculate the linearized Eliashberg's equation within the random phase approximation in the Hubbard model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-13 Keisuke Shigeta , Seiichiro Onari , Yukio Tanaka

In the framework of phenomenological model we consider dynamics of a compensated collinear antiferromagnet (AFM) in the presence of spin-polarised current. The model is based on the assumption that AFM spins are localised and spin torque is…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-16 H. Gomonay , V. Loktev

Altermagnetism is a collinear compensated magnetically-ordered phase with a d, g or i-wave anisotropy and alternating spin polarization of the electronic structure in the position and momentum space. Its recent discovery was in part…

Antiferromagnetic states with spin-split electronic structure give rise to novel spintronic, magnonic, and electronic phenomena despite (near-) zero net magnetization. The simplest odd-parity spin splitting - $p$-wave - was originally…

Parity-time-reversal-symmetric odd-parity antiferromagnetic (AFM1) materials are of interest for their symmetry-enabled quantum transport and optical effects. These materials host odd-parity terms in their band dispersion, leading to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-27 Hao Wu , Daniel F. Agterberg

Starting from the irreducible representations of the group of the wave vector we construct the spin wave functions consistent with inversion symmetry, neglected in the usual representation analysis. We obtain the relation between the basis…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 A. B. Harris , M. Kenzelmann , Amnon Aharony , O. Entin-Wohlman

We show that time-reversal symmetry broken, centrosymmetric antiferromagnets with nonrelativistic spin-splitting are conveniently described in terms of the ferroic ordering of magnetic octupoles. The magnetic octupoles are the lowest-order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-10 Sayantika Bhowal , Nicola A. Spaldin

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

In a solid, the electronic subsystem can exhibit incipient order with lower point group symmetry than the crystal lattice. External fields that couple to electronic order parameters have rarely been investigated, however, despite their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-11 Xinshu Zhang , Tyler Carbin , Adrian B. Culver , Kai Du , Kefeng Wang , Sang-Wook Cheong , Rahul Roy , Anshul Kogar

The non-relativistic spin-splitting (NRSS) of electronic bands in "altermagnets" has sparked renewed interest in antiferromagnets (AFMs) that have no net magnetization. However, altermagnets with collinear and compensated magnetism are not…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Lin-Ding Yuan , Alexandru B. Georgescu , James M. Rondinelli

Magnetic states with zero magnetization but non-relativistic spin splitting are outstanding candidates for the next generation of spintronic devices. Their electron-volt (eV) scale spin splitting, ultrafast spin dynamics and nearly…

We investigate how to engineer an antisymmetric spin-split band structure under spin density waves with finite ordering wave vectors in centrosymmetric systems without the relativistic spin-orbit coupling. On the basis of a perturbative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-04 Satoru Hayami

Insulating spinel materials, with the chemical formula $AB_2X_4$, behave as diamond lattice antiferromagnets when only the A-site atom is magnetic. Many exhibit classic signatures of frustration, induced not geometrically but by competing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-15 SungBin Lee , Leon Balents

The intersection between nonsymmorphic symmetry and electronic correlations has emerged as a platform for topological Kondo semimetallic states and unconventional spin textures. Here we report the synthesis of nonsymmorphic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-17 Sanu Mishra , Caitlin S. Kengle , Joe D. Thompson , Allen O. Scheie , Sean. M. Thomas , Filip Ronning , Priscila F. S. Rosa

We investigate ferroaxial magnets, a new class of spin-order-driven multiferroic magnets in which magnetic ordering induces mirror-symmetry breaking while preserving both time-reversal and spatial-inversion symmetries. These systems exhibit…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Hikaru Watanabe , Yue Yu , Jin Matsuda , Daniel F. Agterberg , Ryotaro Arita