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Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin under applied current, and control magnetization dynamics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 A. Manchon , J. Zelezný , I. M. Miron , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , A. Thiaville , K. Garello , P. Gambardella

We demonstrate a deterministic switching mechanism in collinear altermagnets driven by asymmetric sublattice spin currents. Unlike conventional antiferromagnets, where combined parity-time-reversal symmetry enforces purely staggered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Sayan Sarkar , Sunit Das , Amit Agarwal

Recently, a novel collinear magnet, i.e. the altermagnet (AM), with spin-splitting energy band and zero net magnetization have attracted great interest due to its potential spintronic applications. Here, we demonstrate AM-like phases in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-25 Miaomiao Zhao , Wei-Wei Yang , Xueming Guo , Hong-Gang Luo , Yin Zhong

Altermagnets is a class of antiferromagnetic materials which has electron bands with lifted spin degeneracy in momentum space but vanishing net magnetization and no stray magnetic fields. Because of these properties, altermagnets have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Erik Wegner Hodt , Pavlo Sukhachov , Jacob Linder

Altermagnetism represents a novel class of collinear antiferromagnetism exhibiting non-relativistic spin splitting without net magnetization, driven by lattice symmetry rather than spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we introduce a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Diego López-Alcalá , Alberto M. Ruiz , Andrei Shumilin , José J. Baldoví

We report the emergence of an uncharted phenomenon, termed $d$-wave polarization-spin locking (PSL), in two-dimensional (2D) altermagnets. This phenomenon arises from nontrivial Berry connections, resulting in perpendicular electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Zhao Liu , Nikhil V. Medhekar

Broken inversion symmetry at the surfaces of centrosymmetric collinear antiferromagnets lifts combined inversion and time-reversal symmetry ($PT$) and can, in principle, enable nonrelativistic d-wave spin splitting, termed surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-20 Ersoy Sasioglu , Ingrid Mertig , Samir Lounis

Ferrimagnets containing several partially compensated magnetic sublattices are considered the most promising materials for all-optical data storage and for ultrafast communications based on spin waves. There are two magnetic phases of the…

Femtosecond laser control of antiferromagnetic order is a cornerstone for future memory and logic devices operating at terahertz clock rates. The advent of altermagnets -- antiferromagnets with unconventional spin-group symmetries --…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-16 Tiangao Lu , Ao Wu , Junxiang Li , Meng Zeng , Di Cheng , Chang Liu , Jiangbin Gong , Xinwei Li

Spin-based electronics has evolved into a major field of research that broadly encompasses different classes of materials, magnetic systems, and devices. This review describes recent advances in spintronics that have the potential to impact…

These informal lecture notes describe the progress in semiconductor spintronics in a historic perspective as well as in a comparison to achievements of spintronics of ferromagnetic metals. After outlining motivations behind spintronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-01-03 Tomasz Dietl

Altermagnets - collinear, zero-net-moment magnets with momentum-odd spin splitting protected by crystalline symmetries - offer a tunable route to suppress long-range antiferromagnetism while preserving strong short-range spin fluctuations.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-01 Ji Liu , Jianyu Li , Peng Zhang , Xiaosen Yang , Ho-Kin Tang

Altermagnets feature unconventional magnetism due to their momentum-dependent spin splitting purely driven by magnetic order, for which a variety of transition-metal-based d-wave altermagnets have been proposed. However, carbon-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-22 Cuiju Yu , Jose L. Lado

Altermagnets constitute a class of collinear compensated N\'eel ordered magnets that break time-reversal symmetry and feature spin-split band structures. Based on versatile microscopic models able to capture the altermagnetic sublattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-08 Jannik Gondolf , Andreas Kreisel , Mercè Roig , Yue Yu , Daniel F. Agterberg , Brian M. Andersen

Our world is composed of various materials with different structures, where spin structures have been playing a pivotal role in spintronic devices of the contemporary information technology. Apart from conventional collinear spin materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Peixin Qin , Han Yan , Xiaoning Wang , Zexin Feng , Huixin Guo , Xiaorong Zhou , Haojiang Wu , Xin Zhang , Zhaoguogang Leng , Hongyu Chen , Zhiqi Liu

Altermagnets are metals with a momentum-dependent spin splitting of electron bands due to a specific crystal structure that is invariant under time reversal only in combination with rotations and reflections, or lacks time reversal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-23 V. P. Mineev

Altermagnetism is an unconventional form of antiferromagnetism characterized by momentum-dependent spin polarization of electronic states and zero net magnetization, arising from specific crystalline symmetries. In the presence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Chao Chen Ye , Karma Tenzin , Jagoda Sławińska , Carmine Autieri

The recent demonstrations of electrical manipulation and detection of antiferromagnetic spins have opened up a chapter in the spintronics story. In this article, we review the emerging research field that is exploring synergies between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-05 Libor Šmejkal , Yuriy Mokrousov , Binghai Yan , Allan H. MacDonald

Multiferroics exhibit significant potential for low-power spintronic devices due to magnetoelectric coupling. Here, we discuss an emerging class of altermagnetic multiferroics, a system demonstrating distinct advantages including zero net…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Wei Sun , Changhong Yang , Xiaotian Wang , Shifeng Huang , Zhenxiang Cheng

Ferromagnets with high spin polarization are known to be valuable for spintronics--a research field that exploits the spin degree of freedom in information technologies. Recently, antiferromagnets have emerged as promising alternative…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-02 Gautam Gurung , Mohamed Elekhtiar , Qing-Qing Luo Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal