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Altermagnetism is a compensated magnetic phase characterized by zero net magnetization and exchange-driven spin splitting. However, identifying altermagnets among collinear antiferromagnets usually requires full magnetic-space-group or…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-27 Ying Chen , Qiushi Huang , Yu Wu , Xiaolan Yan , Su-Huai Wei

The study of the magnetic order has recently been invigorated by the discovery of exotic collinear antiferromagnets with time-reversal symmetry breaking. Examples include altermagnetism and compensated ferrimagnets, which show spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-22 Taiki Kawamura , Kazuyoshi Yoshimi , Kenichiro Hashimoto , Akito Kobayashi , Takahiro Misawa

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets have recently gained significant interest because they combine the advantages of both ferromagnets (spin polarization) and antiferromagnets (absence of net magnetization) for spintronics applications. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-29 Soho Shim , M. Mehraeen , Joseph Sklenar , Steven S. -L. Zhang , Axel Hoffmann , Nadya Mason

Compensated magnets with vanishing net magnetization can exhibit both pronounced spin splitting and unconventional band degeneracies. In altermagnets, such degeneracies are enforced by crystal and magnetic symmetries. In compensated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Seung Hun Lee , Yuting Qian , Xi Dai , Bohm-Jung Yang

We provide a theoretical demonstration of controllable non-relativistic spin splitting in both electronic and magnonic bands via targeted structural distortions tied to specific phonon modes. Using MnF$_2$ as a model system, we identify a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-11 Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay , Anoop Raj , Philippe Ghosez , Sumiran Pujari , Sayantika Bhowal

It is commonly believed that in typical collinear antiferromagnets, with no net magnetization, the energy bands are spin-(Kramers-degenerate. The opposite case is usually associated with a global time-reversal symmetry breaking (e.g., via…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-24 I. I. Mazin , K. Koepernik , M. D. Johannes , Rafael González-Hernández , Libor Šmejkal

The discovery of hidden spin polarization (HSP) in centrosymmetric nonmagnetic crystals, i.e., spatially distributed spin polarization originated from local symmetry breaking, has promised an expanded material pool for future spintronics.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-04 Weizhao Chen , Mingqiang Gu , Jiayu Li , Panshuo Wang , Qihang Liu

Topological non-collinear magnetic phases of matter are at the heart of many proposals for future information nanotechnology, with novel device concepts based on ultra-thin films and nanowires. Their operation requires understanding and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-20 Flaviano José dos Santos , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Filipe Souza Mendes Guimarães , Juba Bouaziz , Samir Lounis

Spin waves in antiferromagnetic materials have great potential for next-generation magnonic technologies. However, their properties and their dependence on the type of ground-state antiferromagnetic structure are still open questions. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Flaviano José dos Santos , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

Altermagnetism represents a recently established class of collinear magnetism that combines zero net magnetization with momentum-dependent spin polarization, enabled by symmetry constraints rather than spin-orbit coupling. This distinctive…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Ali Sufyan , Brahim Marfoua , J. Andreas Larsson , Erik van Loon , Rickard Armiento

Our world is composed of various materials with different structures, where spin structures have been playing a pivotal role in spintronic devices of the contemporary information technology. Apart from conventional collinear spin materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Peixin Qin , Han Yan , Xiaoning Wang , Zexin Feng , Huixin Guo , Xiaorong Zhou , Haojiang Wu , Xin Zhang , Zhaoguogang Leng , Hongyu Chen , Zhiqi Liu

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

Altermagnetic (AM) materials exhibit non-relativistic, momentum-dependent spin-split states, ushering in new opportunities for spin electronic devices. While the characteristics of spin-splitting have been documented within the framework of…

Ferromagnets with high spin polarization are known to be valuable for spintronics--a research field that exploits the spin degree of freedom in information technologies. Recently, antiferromagnets have emerged as promising alternative…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-02 Gautam Gurung , Mohamed Elekhtiar , Qing-Qing Luo Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Spin rectification in a single crystal Fe/Au/Fe sandwich is electrically detected for collinear and non-collinear magnetization and external magnetic field configurations. The line shape, line width and signal polarity are analysed. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Y. Huo , L. H. Bai , P. Hyde , Y. Z. Wu , C. -M. Hu

We present a formalism based on colour symmetry to analyse the momentum-space spin textures of non-collinear antiferromagnets. We show that, out of the spin textures allowed by the magnetic point group, \textcolor{\altcolor} {one can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-23 Paolo G. Radaelli , Gautam Gurung

Spin splitting in electronic band structures via antiferromagnetic orders is a new route to control spin-polarized carriers that is available for spintronics applications. Here, we investigated the spin degree of freedom in the electronic…

Altermagnets host spin-split electronic bands despite zero net magnetization, opening new routes for spintronics beyond conventional ferromagnets. Going beyond symmetry-based classifications, which specify allowed terms but not their…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Luigi Camerano , Federico Bisti , Gianni Profeta

We theoretically propose a realization of a nonlinear nonreciprocal transport in antiferromagnets without relying on the relativistic spin-orbit coupling. Through the symmetry and microscopic model analyses, we show that a local spin scalar…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-23 Satoru Hayami , Megumi Yatsushiro