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Altermagnetism has so far mainly been understood in its even- and odd-parity forms. We show that collinear antiferromagnets with zero net magnetization can also host mixed-parity spin splitting, namely neither purely even nor purely odd in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Jin-Xin Hu , Song-Bo Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu , Zhongbo Yan

The search for novel magnetic quantum phases, phenomena and functional materials has been guided by relativistic magnetic-symmetry groups in coupled spin and real space from the dawn of the field in 1950s to the modern era of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

While the understanding of altermagnetism is still at a very early stage, it is expected to play a role in various fields of condensed matter research, for example spintronics, caloritronics and superconductivity. In the field of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 T. Adamantopoulos , M. Merte , F. Freimuth , D. Go , M. Ležaić , W. Feng , Y. Yao , J. Sinova , L. Šmejkal , S. Blügel , Y. Mokrousov

Recent developments have introduced a groundbreaking form of collinear magnetism known as "altermagnetism". This emerging magnetic phase is characterized by robust time-reversal symmetry breaking, antiparallel magnetic order, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-18 Ling Bai , Wanxiang Feng , Siyuan Liu , Libor Šmejkal , Yuriy Mokrousov , Yugui Yao

Recently, a new magnetic phase, termed altermagnetism, has caught the attention of the magnetism and spintronics community. This newly discovered magnetic phenomenon differs from traditional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetic. It…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-10 R. Tamang , Shivraj Gurung , D. P. Rai , Samy Brahimi , Samir Lounis

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

Altermagnetism features momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization, extending spintronics beyond conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. However, the photonic realization of altermagnetism has remained a…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-28 Sichang Qiu , Huichang Li , Yan Meng , Xiang Xi , Zebin Zhu , Ce Shang , Zhen Gao , Tie Jun Cui , Shuo Liu

Altermagnetism stands as a third type of collinear magnetic order, whose band structure combines a net zero magnetization with a non-relativistic spin-splitting caused by a broken time reversal symmetry. So far, the strategy to design…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Ricardo Ortiz , Karol Strutyński , Manuel Melle-Franco

Altermagnets feature vanishing net magnetization, like antiferromagnets, but exhibit time-reversal symmetry breaking and momentum-dependent spin-split band structures. Motivated by the prevalence of altermagnetic materials with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-10 Mercè Roig , Andreas Kreisel , Yue Yu , Brian M. Andersen , Daniel F. Agterberg

The recent discovery of altermagnetism has sparked growing interest in compensated magnetic systems as promising platforms for highly scalable spintronics. Altermagnetism is a distinct magnetic order where opposite spin sublattices are…

MnTe has recently attracted attention as an altermagnetic candidate. Experimentally it has an altermagnetic order of ferromagnetic $ab$ planes, stacked antiferromagnetically along $c$. We show that this magnetic order (by itself…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 I. I. Mazin

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

Altermagnetism, a recently discovered class of magnetic order characterized by vanishing net magnetization and spin-splitting band structures, has garnered significant research attention. In this work, we introduce a novel two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Shuyi Li , Yu Zhang , Adrian Bahri , Xiaoliang Zhang , Chunjing Jia

Altermagnets are a new class of symmetry-compensated magnets with large spin splittings. Here, we show that the notion of altermagnetism extends beyond the realm of Landau-type order: we study exactly solvable $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Avedis Neehus , Achim Rosch , Johannes Knolle , Urban F. P. Seifert

Altermagnetism is a subclass of antiferromagnetism that features spin-polarized electron bands of a non-relativistic origin despite the absence of a net magnetiation in the material. We here theoretically study spin pumping from an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder

The research landscape of magnetism has been recently enriched by the discovery of altermagnetism. It is an unconventional phase of matter characterized by a d-wave (or higher even-parity-wave) collinear compensated spin ordering, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , P. Wadley , D. Kriegner , H. Reichlova , F. Krizek , H. Ohno , L. Smejkal

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

Altermagnets, a class of unconventional antiferromagnets where antiparallel spins are connected by combined rotational and translational symmetries, have recently emerged as promising candidates for spintronic applications, as they can…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 Ryosuke Hirakida , Karma Tenzin , Chao Chen Ye , Berkay Kilic , Carmine Autieri , Jagoda Sławińska

Odd-parity magnetic and magnetic toroidal multipoles in the absence of both spatial-inversion and time-reversal symmetries are sources of multiferroic and nonreciprocal optical phenomena. We investigate electronic states caused by an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-14 Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose

The discovery of altermagnetism offers new opportunities for exploring novel quantum states and developing spintronic devices for enabling momentum dependent spin splitting in compensated systems, while zero net magnetization limit its…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 W. Z. Zhuo , Z. H. Guan , Z. L. Peng , Y. N. Pan , J. Chen , Y. Yang , M. H. Qin