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We formulate a Landau theory for altermagnets, a class of colinear compensated magnets with spin-split bands. Starting from the non-relativistic limit, this Landau theory goes beyond a conventional analysis by including spin-space…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-29 Paul A. McClarty , Jeffrey G. Rau

Recent studies reveal that $\mathcal{T}$-odd spin currents generated via the nonrelativistic altermagnetic spin splitting effect (ASSE) exhibit significant potential for spintronics applications, with both computational and experimental…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-17 Wancheng Zhang , Mingkun Zheng , Yong Liu , Zhenhua Zhang , Rui Xiong , Zhihong Lu

The hexagonal antiferromagnet MnTe has attracted enormous interest as a prototypical example of a spin-compensated magnet in which the combination of crystal and spin symmetries lifts the spin degeneracy of the electron bands without the…

Altermagnetism represents a type of collinear magnetism, that is in some aspects distinct from ferromagnetism and from conventional antiferromagnetism. In contrast to the latter, sublattices of opposite spin are related by spatial rotations…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-26 Purnendu Das , Valentin Leeb , Johannes Knolle , Michael Knap

Spin field-effect transistors (SFETs) are promising candidates for low-power spin-based electronics, yet existing realizations that rely on spin-orbit coupling are constrained by limited material choices and short spin-coherence lengths.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-03 Ziye Zhu , Xianzhang Chen , Xunkai Duan , Zhou Cui , Jiayong Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Altermagnets are a class of collinear magnets that exhibit non-relativistic spin splitting (NRSS) of electronic bands in the absence of net magnetization. Their potential to generate large spin polarization without spin-orbit coupling has…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 V. Sunko , J. Orenstein

The emergence of altermagnets has driven groundbreaking advances in spintronics. Notably, d-wave altermagnets support non-relativistic spin transport, efficient charge-to-spin conversion, and T-odd spin currents. In addition, their…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-24 Qing Zhang , Siyun Wang , Jianting Dong , Jia Zhang

Altermagnets are a recently-discovered class of materials with magnetic ordering that have a zero net magnetization and a momentum-dependent spin splitting in their band structure, arising from a collinear spin arrangement with alternating…

Researchers have recently identified a novel class of magnetism, termed "altermagnetism", which exhibits characteristics of both ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. Here, we report a groundbreaking discovery of efficient field-free…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Zhuoyi Li , Zhe Zhang , Xianyang Lu , Yongbing Xu

The discovery of an anomalous Hall effect (AHE) sensitive to the magnetic state of antiferromagnets can trigger a new era of spintronics, if materials that host a tunable and strong AHE are identified. Altermagnets are a new class of…

The anomalous Hall effect is mainly used to probe the magnetization orientation in ferromagnetic materials. A less explored aspect is the torque acting back on magnetization, an effect that can be important at high currents. The spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Ioan Tudosa

Altermagnets exhibit spin-split electronic bands like ferromagnets, yet they are magnetically compensated like collinear antiferromagnets. Altermagnets thus combine the benefits of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, opening routes to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 Zeyu Ma , Yidi Wang , Gal Tuvia , Kevin Hauser , Jiaqiang Yan , Jennifer E. Hoffman

A newly identified magnetic phase called altermagnet is being actively studied because of its unprecedented spin-dependent phenomena. Among the candidate materials, CrSb has a particularly high ordering temperature and a large…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-02 Takahiro Urata , Wataru Hattori , Hiroshi Ikuta

Chiral magnons, the quanta of handed spin waves, transport spin angular momentum without energy loss due to Joule heating. The recently discovered altermagnets were proposed to host chiral magnons arising from a non-relativistic exchange…

Altermagnetism is a recently identified magnetic symmetry class combining characteristics of conventional collinear ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, that were regarded as mutually exclusive, and enabling phenomena and functionalities…

{\alpha}-MnTe is a prototypical altermagnet exhibiting a strong anomalous Hall effect (AHE), despite having a nearly vanishing magnetization. Lately, sample-to-sample variations of the amplitude of the AHE have raised concerns of a possible…

We study the interplay between altermagnetism and unconventional superconductivity for the case of two-dimensional square- and triangular-lattice systems. Our approach is based on an effective single particle Hamiltonian which mimics the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-10 Kinga Jasiewicz , Paweł Wójcik , Michał Nowak , Michał Zegrodnik

We revisit the transport of spin-degrees of freedom across an electrically and thermally biased tunnel junction between two ferromagnets with non-collinear magnetizations. Besides the well-known charge and spin currents we show that a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 Michael Hell , Sourin Das , Maarten Rolf Wegewijs

Hexagonal MnTe emerges as a critical component in designing magnetic quantum heterostructures, calling for a detailed study. After finding a suitable combination of exchange-correlation functional and corrections, our study within {\em ab…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-30 Suman Rooj , Jayita Chakraborty , Nirmal Ganguli