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Odd-parity spin-splitting plays a central role in spintronics and unconventional superconductivity, yet its microscopic realization in collinear magnetic systems remains elusive. We propose a general symmetry-based strategy for realizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Di Zhu , Dongling Liu , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

Recently, altermagnets have emerged as promising candidates in spintronics, uniquely combining large spin-polarized electronic states with zero net magnetization. A prominent example is $\alpha$-MnTe, whose altermagnetic spin splitting,…

Altermagnets demonstrate significant potential in spintronics due to their unique non-relativistic spin-splitting properties, yet altermagnetic devices still face challenges in efficiently switching logic states. Here, we report…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-17 Yunfei Gao , Aolin Li , Zesen Fu , Bei Zhang , Haiming Duan , Fangping Ouyang

The altermagnetism with antiparallel spin alignment exhibits anisotropic spin splitting and may possess an insulating state with a high Neel temperature, while the charge-order-induced ferroelectricity has ultrafast electric polarization…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Yuhao Gu , Yu-Hui Song , Yihao Wang , Ze-Feng Gao , Huan-Cheng Yang , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu

The recent proposal of altermagnetism has drawn widespread attention to antiferromagnet (AFM) exhibiting spin splitting, extending beyond the realm of sign-alternating spin splitting in momentum space protected solely by rotational…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-01 Fangqi Liu , Yanrong Song , Zhenhua Zhang , Yong Liu , Sicong Zhu , Zhihong Lu , Rui Xiong

We predict that a lateral electrical current in antiferromagnets can induce non-equilibrium N\'eel order fields, i.e. fields whose sign alternates between the spin sublattices, which can trigger ultra-fast spin-axis reorientation. Based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-25 J. Zelezny , H. Gao , K. Vyborny , J. Zemen , J. Masek , A. Manchon , J. Wunderlich , J. Sinova , T. Jungwirth

We propose a time-reversal-even spin generation in second order of electric fields, which dominates the current induced spin polarization in a wide class of centrosymmetric nonmagnetic materials, and leads to a novel nonlinear spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Cong Xiao , Weikang Wu , Hui Wang , Yue-Xin Huang , Xiaolong Feng , Huiying Liu , Guang-Yu Guo , Qian Niu , Shengyuan A. Yang

Information can be stored magnetically in antiferromagnets ultrafast since their characteristic times are on the picosecond scale. Various spin torques have proven to be important for efficient and high-speed magnetic memories. So far, this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-10 Asliddin Khudoyberdiev , Götz S. Uhrig

Magnetic switching in antiferromagnets relies on Neel spin orbit torque (NSOT), which originates from a current-induced staggered spin polarization of itinerant electrons. In collinear antiferromagnets, such a response requires the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

Antiferromagnets offer an attractive platform for spintronics due to their absence of net magnetization and ultrafast spin dynamics, yet their intrinsically spin-compensated electronic structure has traditionally limited their active role…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-23 Joel Bobadilla , Alberto Camjayi

It was recently discovered that, depending on their symmetries, collinear antiferromagnets may break spin degeneracy in momentum space, even in absence of spin-orbit coupling. Such systems, dubbed altermagnets, have electronic bands with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-16 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Maria Daghofer , Jeroen van den Brink

In this paper we show that the spin transfer torque can be described by a pseudo magnetic field, proportional to the magnetic moment of the itinerant electrons that enters the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in the same way as other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-24 Sayeef Salahuddin , Deepanjan Datta , Supriyo Datta

Altermagnetism, a recently proposed and experimentally confirmed class of magnetic order, features collinear compensated magnetism with unconventional d-, g-, or i-wave spin order. Here, we show that in a metallic 2D d-wave altermagnet with…

An antiferromagnet is a promising material for spin-orbit torque generation. Earlier studies of the spin-orbit torque in an antiferromagnet are limited to collinear spin configurations. We calculate the spin-orbit torque in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Suik Cheon , Hyun-Woo Lee

Altermagnets combine antiferromagnetic order with ferromagnet-like spin splitting, a duality that unlocks ultrafast spin-dependent responses. This unique property creates unprecedented opportunities for spin-current generation, overcoming…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-10 Junwen Lai , Tianye Yu , Peitao Liu , Long Liu , Guozhong Xing , Xing-Qiu Chen , Yan Sun

The Pauli exclusion principle combined with interactions between fermions is a basic mechanism across condensed-matter systems giving rise to a spontaneous breaking of the spin-space rotation symmetry of spin-ordered phases. Ferromagnetism…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-13 T. Jungwirth , R. M. Fernandes , E. Fradkin , A. H. MacDonald , J. Sinova , L. Smejkal

Altermagnetism is introduced as a category of magnetic states with vanishing net magnetic moment, and consists of collinear alternating (i.e., antiferromagnetic-like) spins and alternating variations of local structures around spins in such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-26 Sang-Wook Cheong , Fei-Ting Huang

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization, combining characteristics of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, making them highly interesting for spintronics applications. CrSb is a prime candidate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-02 Brahim Marfoua , Mohammad Amirabbasi , Marcus Ekholm

Magnetic topological insulators host exotic phenomena such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect and quantized magnetoelectric responses, but dynamic electrical control of their topological phases remains elusive. Here we demonstrate from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Rajibul Islam , Shakeel Ahmad , Fei Xue

Current-induced spin-orbit torques provide a versatile tool for switching magnetic devices. In perpendicular magnets, the dampinglike component of the torque is the main driver of magnetization reversal. The degree to which the fieldlike…