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An altermagnet is a newly discovered antiferromagnet, characterized by unique anisotropic spin-split energy bands. It has attracted tremendous interest, because of its promising potential in information storage and processing. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Hao-Jie Lin , Song-Bo Zhang , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Altermagnets, with spin splitting and vanishing magnetization, have been attributed to many fascinating phenomena and potential applications. In particular, integrating ferroelectricity with altermagnetism to enable magnetoelectric coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Su-Huai Wei , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

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

Altermagnets are an emerging class of collinear antiferromagnets that exhibit unconventional spin-polarised electronic bands, potentially unlocking new functionalities that do not rely on spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Experimental signatures…

Altermagnets are a recently identified class of collinear antiferromagnets that host large spin-split electronic bands, offering a promising platform for efficient spin-current generation. Among proposed candidates, the metallic oxide RuO2…

Altermagnets have recently emerged as a promising platform for spintronics due to their unique magnetic symmetry. However, most studies have focused on spin degrees of freedom, leaving the dynamic role of orbital degrees of freedom largely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Junyeong Choi , Kyoung-Whan Kim

We present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of magnetoelectric (ME) coupling mechanisms in 19 altermagnetic and 4 ferrimagnetic Type-I multiferroics using electronic band structure calculations with spin-orbit coupling, a…

Altermagnets host momentum-selective spin splitting and chiral-split magnonic excitations despite vanishing net magnetization, enabling spin transport without ferromagnetism. In rutile structures, establishing altermagnetism…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-23 Dai Q. Ho , D. Quang To , Byungkyun Kang , Matthew F. Doty , Garnett W. Bryant , Anderson Janotti

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) with zero net magnetization are proposed as active elements in future spintronic devices. Depending on the critical thickness of the AFM thin films and the measurement temperature, bimetallic Mn-based alloys and…

Spin-electronic devices are poised to become part of mainstream microelectronic technology .Downsizing them, however, faces the intrinsic difficulty that as ferromagnets become smaller, it becomes more difficult to stabilize their magnetic…

Altermagnets have attracted considerable attention in recent years owing to their potential technological applications in spintronics and magnonics. Recently, a new class of spontaneous altermagnets has been theoretically predicted in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-02 Nitin Kaushal , Adarsh S. Patri , Marcel Franz

Angular momentum transport is one of the cornerstones of spintronics. Spin angular momentum is not only transported by mobile charge carriers, but also by the quantized excitations of the magnetic lattice in magnetically ordered systems. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Matthias Althammer

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

We investigate the evolution of Anomalous Hall Conductivity (AHC) in a coplanar and collinear antiferromagnetic system with varying spin canting angles. A tight-binding model based on three t2g-orbitals in a body-centered tetragonal lattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-24 Yuansheng Bu , Ziyin Song , Zhong Fang , Quansheng Wu , Hongming Weng

The anomalous Hall effect describes the generation of a transverse voltage by a longitudinal current even in the absence of an external magnetic field. While typically observed in ferromagnets, it has also been predicted to arise in…

Altermagnets (AMs) are a recently identified class of unconventional collinear compensated antiferromagnets that exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This unconventional magnetic order gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-24 Bo Zhao , Fu Li , Wei Ren , Hao Wang , Hongbin Zhang

Ferromagnets are key materials for sensing and memory applications. In contrast, antiferromagnets that represent the more common form of magnetically ordered materials, have so far found less practical application beyond their use for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 J. Železný , P. Wadley , K. Olejník. A. Hoffmann , H. Ohno

Altermagnets, which encompass a broad landscape of materials, are compensated collinear magnetic phases in which the antiparallel magnetic moments are related by a crystalline rotation. Here, we argue that collinear altermagnetic-like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-24 Anzumaan R. Chakraborty , Fan Yang , Turan Birol , Rafael M. Fernandes

Magnetic octupole (MO) currents have recently attracted significant attention as a driving force for the Neel vector dynamics in d-wave altermagnets, a new class of antiferromagnets that exhibit nonrelativistic spin-split band structures.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-18 Yuuga Takasu , Satoru Hayami

The flow of in-plane current through ultrathin magnetic heterostructures can cause magnetization switching or domain wall nucleation owing to bulk and interfacial effects. Within the magnetic layer, the current can create magnetic…