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Spin-orbit coupling is a key to realize many novel physical effects in condensed matter physics. Altermagnetic materials possess the duality of real-space antiferromagnetism and reciprocal-space ferromagnetism. It has not been explored that…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-07 Shuai Qu , Zhen-Feng Ouyang , Ze-Feng Gao , Hao Sun , Kai Liu , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu

We study the interplay between superconductivity and altermagnetism in disordered systems using recently derived quantum kinetic transport equations. Starting from this framework, we derive the Ginzburg-Landau free energy and identify, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-05 Rodrigo de las Heras , Tim Kokkeler , Stefan Ilić , Ilya V. Tokatly , F. Sebastian Bergeret

Momentum-dependent spin splitting and its relation to inversion ($P$) and time-reversal ($T$) symmetries are central to nonrelativistic spintronics. Representative examples include collinear altermagnets with $(P,T)=(+,-)$ and non-collinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Yue Yu

The notion of a simple ordered state implies homogeneity. If the order is established by a broken symmetry, elementary Landau theory of phase transitions shows that only one symmetry mode describes this state. Precisely at points of phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-13 D. A. Sokolov , N. Kikugawa , T. Helm , H. Borrmann , U. Burkhardt , R. Cubitt , E. Ressouche , M. Bleuel , K. Kummer , A. P. Mackenzie , U. K. Rößler

Altermagnets are characterized by anisotropic band/spin splittings in momentum space, dictated by their spin-space group symmetries. However, the real-space modulations of altermagnetism are often neglected and have not been explored…

Altermagnetism -a magnetic state characterized by spin-polarized electronic bands at zero net magnetization- offers a promising route for next-generation spintronic devices. In two-dimensional (2D) magnets, twist engineering enables its…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Alberto M. Ruiz , Andrei Shumilin , Rafael González-Hernández , José J. Baldoví

The spin-orbital polarization of superconducting excitations in momentum space is shown to provide distinctive marks of unconventional pairing in the presence of inversion symmetry breaking.Taking the prototypical example of an electronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-02 Yuri Fukaya , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

Altermagnets represent a recently discovered class of collinear magnets, characterized by antiparallel neighboring magnetic moments and alternating-sign spin polarization in momentum-space($k$-space). However, experimental methods for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Rui Chen , Zi-Ming Wang , Hai-Peng Sun , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Altermagnets offer a unique pathway to functional spintronics by combining vanishing magnetization with large spin splitting. Here, we demonstrate that the canonical d-wave altermagnet KV2Se2O can deliver giant tunneling magnetoresistance…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-26 Bin Liu , Pei-Hao Fu , Yu-Xuan Sun , Xiao-Lin Zhang , Si-Cong Zhu , Xiang-Long Yu , Hua Wu , Yuan-Zhi Shao

We propose a minimal toy model for a two-dimensional altermagnet. The model unravels altermagnetic properties at a microscopic level. We find spin-split electron- and non-degenerate magnon bands with a $d$-wave symmetry. We use the model to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-22 Bjørnulf Brekke , Arne Brataas , Asle Sudbø

Bringing magnetic metals into superconducting states represents an important approach for realizing unconventional superconductors and potentially even topological superconductors. Altermagnetism, classified as a third basic collinear…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-07 Di Zhu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

Altermagnetism has recently emerged as a third fundamental branch of magnetism, combining the vanishing net magnetization of antiferromagnets with the high-momentum-dependent spin splitting of ferromagnets. This study provides a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Manuel Calixto

Kinetomagnetism refers to magnetization induced by (electric) current, encompassing longitudinal or transverse effects and even- or odd-order phenomena. The essential prerequisite for kinetomagnetism is the breaking of PT (=Parity times…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-21 Sang-Wook Cheong , Fei-Ting Huang

The coupling between real-space inhomogeneities coordinates and spin (r-s) provides an alternative route to achieve efficient spin manipulation in spintronics beyond the conventional momentum-spin (k-s) coupling paradigm. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Shibo Fang , Zongmeng Yang , Jianhua Wang , Xingyue Yang , Jing Lu , Ching Hua Lee , Xiaotian Wang , Yee Sin Ang

Altermagnets offer a route to spin-polarized electronic states without macroscopic magnetization, because compensated magnetic order can generate momentum-dependent spin splitting through crystal-symmetry-controlled exchange fields.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Yi-Fei Jiang , Jia-Xuan Guo , Zhen Zhang , Xin-Wei Yi , Jing-Yang You

The recently discovered altermagnets exhibit collinear magnetic order with zero net magnetization but with unconventional spin-polarized d/g/i-wave band structures, expanding the known paradigms of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. In…

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…

Altermagnets are crystallographic rotational symmetry breaking spin-ordered states, possessing a net zero magnetization despite manifesting Kramer's non-degenerate bands. Here, we show that momentum-independent local spin nematic orders in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Sanjib Kumar Das , Bitan Roy

Altermagnets have recently emerged as a distinct class of magnetic systems that exhibit spin splitting of electronic bands while retaining zero net magnetization. This unique combination makes them a promising platform for time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Constantin Schrade , Sujit Manna , Mathias S. Scheurer

Altermagnets (AMs) are a new class of magnetic materials that combine the beneficial spintronics properties of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, garnering significant attention recently. Here, we have identified altermagnetism in a layered…