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Considering the similarity of the real-space configurations for the opposite spin sublattices in both antiferromagnets (AFM) and altermagnets (AM), the relationship between them should be profound. In this work, we demonstrate that AFM and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-16 P. Zhou , X. N. Peng , Y. Z. Hu , B. R. Pan , S. M. Liu , Pengbo Lyu , L. Z. Sun

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

We consider a superconducting altermagnet heterostructure and demonstrate that the interplay between altermagnetism and a selective filter of transverse momentum channels enables perfect nonreciprocal spin-polarized currents. We demonstrate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-23 Pei-Hao Fu , Jun-Feng Liu , Luca Chirolli , Jorge Cayao

Spin orbit torque (SOT) provides an efficient way of generating spin current that promises to significantly reduce the current required for switching nanomagnets. However, an in-plane current generated SOT cannot deterministically switch a…

The ability to switch magnetic elements by spin-orbit-induced torques has recently attracted much attention for a path towards high-performance, non-volatile memories with low power consumption. Realizing efficient spin-orbit-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Shiheng Liang , Shuyuan Shi , Chuang-Han Hsu , Kaiming Cai , Yi Wang , Pan He , Yang Wu , Vitor M. Pereira , Hyunsoo Yang

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 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

We study spin-dependent electron transport through a ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic-normal metal tunneling junction subject to a voltage or temperature bias, in the absence of spin-orbit coupling. We derive microscopic formulas for various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Kei Yamamoto , Olena Gomonay , Jairo Sinova , Georg Schwiete

Beyond conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, altermagnetism is a recently discovered unconventional magnetic phase characterized by time-reversal symmetry breaking and spin-split band structures in materials with zero net…

Perpendicular switching of a ferromagnet induced by spin torques is crucial for building high density spin-based memory and logic devices, where out-of-plane spin polarization ($\sigma_z$) has become a long sought-after goal for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Baiqing Jiang , Ziqian Cui , Hanying Zhang , Yuan Wang , C. Bi

Altermagnet (AM) is a novel time reversal symmetry broken magnetic phase with $d$-wave order which has been experimentally realized recently. We discuss theoretical models of altermagnet based systems on lattice and in continuum. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 Sachchidanand Das , Dhavala Suri , Abhiram Soori

We present theoretical description of the precessional switching processes induced by simultaneous application of spin-polarized current and external magnetic field to antiferromagnetic component of the "pinned" layer. We found stability…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Helen V. Gomonay , Vadim M. Loktev

Spintronics, a technology harnessing electron spin for information transmission, offers a promising avenue to surpass the limitations of conventional electronic devices. While the spin directly interacts with the magnetic field, its control…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Run-Wu Zhang , Chaoxi Cui , Runze Li , Jingyi Duan , Lei Li , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao

Despite the potential advantages of information storage in antiferromagnetically coupled materials, it remains unclear whether one can control the magnetic moment orientation efficiently because of the cancelled magnetic moment. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-31 Joseph Finley , Luqiao Liu

Altermagnets are colinear compensated magnets whose magnetic symmetries at zero spin-orbit coupling break spin degeneracy leading to spin-split electronic and magnonic bands that reflect an underlying multipolar order. When there is an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-15 P. A. McClarty , A. Gukasov , J. G. Rau

Altermagnetism is characterized by even-parity spin-momentum locking in spin-split bands despite zero net magnetization and negligible spin-orbit coupling. Here, we formulate a microscopic framework that links altermagnetic splitting in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Yixuan Che , Peibo Xu , Haifeng Lv , Xiaojun Wu , Jinlong Yang

We report that synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs) can be efficiently switched by spin-orbit torques (SOTs) and the switching scheme does not obey the usual SOT switching rule. We show that both the positive and negative spin Hall angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Chong Bi , Hamid Almasi , Kyle Price , Ty Newhouse-Illige , Meng Xu , Shane R. Allen , Xin Fan , Weigang Wang

Altermagnets host chirally split magnons that promise unique functionalities for information processing. However, their distinctive transport signatures, crucial for experimental identification and manipulation, remain elusive. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Yanmeng Lei , Rui-Chun Xiao , Weiwei Lin , Tao Yu

The control of unconventional magnetism, which displays ferromagnetism-like properties with compensated magnetization, has drawn intense attention for advancing antiferromagnetic spintronics. Here, through symmetry analysis, we propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-15 Yongqian Zhu , Mingqiang Gu , Yuntian Liu , Xiaobing Chen , Yuhui Li , Shixuan Du , Qihang Liu

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…