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We investigate the appearance of an inversion-asymmetric antiferromagnetism due to an itinerant mechanism in nonsymmorphic systems with magnetic ions at Wyckoff position of multiplicity 2. The key symmetries which underpin the existence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-24 Changhee Lee , P. M. R. Brydon

We focus on a broad class of tetragonal itinerant systems sharing a tendency towards the spontaneous formation of incommensurate magnetism with ordering wavevectors $\mathbf{Q}_{1,2}=(\pi-\delta,0)/(0,\pi-\delta)$ or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-12 Morten H. Christensen , Brian M. Andersen , Panagiotis Kotetes

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) exhibit intrinsic magnetization when the order parameter spatially varies. This intrinsic spin is present even at equilibrium and can be interpreted as a twisting of the homogeneous AFM into a state with a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 Erlend G. Tveten , Tristan Müller , Jacob Linder , Arne Brataas

Antiferromagnetic (AF) compounds possess distinct characteristics that render them promising candidates for advancing the application of spin degrees of freedom in computational devices. For instance, AF materials exhibit minimal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-17 A. R. Moura

One of the main obstacles that prevents practical applications of antiferromagnets is the difficulty of manipulating the magnetic order parameter. Recently, following the theoretical prediction [J. \v{Z}elezn\'y et al., PRL 113, 157201…

This article is dedicated to the 60-th anniversary of the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics and presents a review of normal and superconducting properties of toroidal, altermagnetic, and noncentrosymmetric metals. Metals with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-05 V. P. Mineev

Altermagnetism, a recently proposed and experimentally confirmed class of magnetic order, features collinear compensated magnetism with unconventional d-, g-, or i-wave spin order. Here, we show that in a metallic 2D d-wave altermagnet with…

Within the framework of the $s$-$d(f)$ exchange model in the mean-field approximation for square, simple cubic, body-centered and face-centered cubic lattices, the formation of a ferromagnetic, spiral, and commensurate antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-14 A. K. Pankratova , P. A. Igoshev , V. Yu. Irkhin

We propose a realization of an antisymmetric spin-split band structure through magnetic phase transitions without spin-orbit coupling. It enables us to utilize for a variety of magnetic-order-driven cross-correlated and nonreciprocal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Satoru Hayami , Yuki Yanagi , Hiroaki Kusunose

The study of improper phases in the context of multiferroic materials has a long history, but superconductivity has yet to be connected to the network of ferroic orders. In this work, we highlight an overlooked mechanism that couples…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-12 Andras Szabo , Aline Ramires

Large spin systems can exhibit unconventional types of magnetic ordering different from the ferromagnetic or N\'eel-like antiferromagnetic order commonly found in spin 1/2 systems. Spin-nematic phases, for instance, do not break…

Hybrid Improper Ferroelectricity (HIF) allows the generation of an electrical polarization in the AA'BB'O$_6$ double perovskite materials thanks to the combination of two non-polar octahedral distortions. Nevertheless, for selected…

Surface plasmons are the collective electron excitations in metallic systems and the associated electromagnetic wave usually has the transverse magnetic (TM) polarization. On the other hand, spin waves are the spin excitations perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 H. Y. Yuan , Yaroslav M. Blanter , H. Q. Lin

Magnetic multipoles have been recognized as order parameters characterizing magnetic structure in solids. Recently, magnetic octupoles have been proposed as the order parameters of time-reversal-symmetry breaking centrosymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Takumi Sato , Satoru Hayami

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets have recently gained significant interest because they combine the advantages of both ferromagnets (spin polarization) and antiferromagnets (absence of net magnetization) for spintronics applications. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-29 Soho Shim , M. Mehraeen , Joseph Sklenar , Steven S. -L. Zhang , Axel Hoffmann , Nadya Mason

Motivated by exploring doped multi-orbital antiferromagnets (AFMs) and altermagnets (ALMs) we explore minimal $t$-$J$ models on the square-octagon lattice which favor such collinear magnetic orders in the regime where spin exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-20 Anjishnu Bose , Samuel Vadnais , Arun Paramekanti

The specific properties of incommensurate multiferroic phases resulting from the coupling of order-parameter replicates are worked out using the illustrative example of iron vanadate. The dephasing between the order-parameter copies induces…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Bruno Mettout , Pierre Toledano

Tuning magnetic properties in layered magnets is an important route to realize novel phenomenon related to two-dimensional (2D) magnetism. Recently, tuning antiferromagnetic (AFM) properties through substitution and intercalation techniques…

Altermagnetism has been recently experimentally verified by photoemission mapping of the spin order in momentum space in MnTe and CrSb, which feature two anisotropic sublattices with antiparallel magnetic dipole moments. In this work, we…

We introduce the concept of \emph{orbital altermagnetism}, a symmetry-protected magnetic order of pure orbital degrees of freedom. It is characterized with ordered anti-parallel orbital magnetic moments in real space but momentum-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Mingxiang Pan , Feng Liu , Huaqing Huang