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When a coplanar antiferromagnet (AFM) with $xy$-plane magnetic moments exhibits a spin-split band structure and unidirectional spin polarization along $z$, the spin polarization is forced to be an odd function of momentum by the fundamental…

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We investigate how to engineer an antisymmetric spin-split band structure under spin density waves with finite ordering wave vectors in centrosymmetric systems without the relativistic spin-orbit coupling. On the basis of a perturbative…

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The antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials are robust to external magnetic perturbation due to missing any net magnetic moment. In general, the spin splitting in the band structures disappears in these antiferromagnets. However, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 San-Dong Guo

Recent study (Yuan et. al., Phys. Rev. B 102, 014422 (2020)) revealed a SOC-independent spin splitting and spin polarization effect induced by antiferromagnetic ordering which do not necessarily require breaking of inversion symmetry or the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-27 Lin-Ding Yuan , Zhi Wang , Jun-Wei Luo , Alex Zunger

Characterizing the anisotropic structure in noncollinear antiferromagnets is essential for antiferromagnetic spintronics. In this work, we provide a microscopic theory linking the anisotropy effects induced by the rigid-body rotation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-15 Zheng Liu , Yang Gao , Qian Niu

Recent studies identified spin-order-driven phenomena such as spin-charge interconversion without relying on the relativistic spin-orbit interaction. Those physical properties can be prominent in systems containing light magnetic atoms due…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-01 Hikaru Watanabe , Kohei Shinohara , Takuya Nomoto , Atsushi Togo , Ryotaro Arita

Despite its potential for device application, the non-magnetic Zeeman effect has only been predicted and observed in two-dimensional compounds. We demonstrate that non-centrosymmetric three-dimensional compounds can also exhibit a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-11 Carlos Mera Acosta , Adalberto Fazzio , Gustavo M. Dalpian

We investigate spin-rectification phenomena in canted antiferromagnets, closely connected to the family of altermagnetic materials. Our results show that excitation efficiency is significantly enhanced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 A. El Kanj , S. Mantion , I. Boventer , P. Bortolotti , V. Cros , A. Anane , O. Gomonay , R. Lebrun

In this study, we employed first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations within the GGA+U framework to explore the electronic and magnetic properties of CrSb2 under varying hydrostatic pressures. CrSb2 exhibits…

Altermagnetic materials, with real-space antiferromagnetic arrangement and reciprocal-space anisotropic spin splitting, have attracted much attention. However, the spin splitting is small in most altermagnetic materials, which is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-26 Peng-Jie Guo , Xiao-Yao Hou , Ze-Feng Gao , Huan-Cheng Yang , Wei Ji , Zhong-Yi Lu

Altermagnetism arises from composite real-space and spin-space symmetries, combining zero net magnetization with pronounced momentum-dependent spin splitting. This review highlights the pivotal role of angle-resolved photoemission…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-17 Jiayu Liu , Xun Ma , Xinnuo Zhang , Wenchuan Jing , Zhengtai Liu , Dawei Shen

Altermagnets -- newly identified collinear antiferromagnets -- carry zero net moment with non-relativistic, spin-polarized bands, distilling the best of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets into a single spintronic platform. Shrunking to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 Sike Zeng , Dong Liu , Hongjie Peng , Chang-Chun He , Xiao-Bao Yang , Yu-Jun Zhao

Noncolinear magnetic texture breaks the spin-sublattice symmetry which gives rise to a spin-splitting effect. Inspired by this, we study the spin-dependent transport properties in a noncolinear antiferromagnetic fractal structure, namely,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Kallol Mondal , Sudin Ganguly , Santanu K. Maiti

We explore the relationship among the magnetic ordering in real space, the resulting spin texture on the Fermi surface, and the related superconducting gap structure in non-collinear antiferromagnetic metals without spin-orbit coupling. Via…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-01 Seung Hun Lee , Bohm-Jung Yang

Spin-orbit coupling is a key to realize many novel physical effects in condensed matter physics. Altermagnetic materials possess the duality of real-space antiferromagnetism and reciprocal-space ferromagnetism. It has not been explored that…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-07 Shuai Qu , Zhen-Feng Ouyang , Ze-Feng Gao , Hao Sun , Kai Liu , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu

The linear Edelstein effect is a cornerstone phenomenon in spintronics that describes the generation of spin magnetization in response to an applied electric field. Recent theoretical advances have reignited interest in its nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Jinxiong Jia , Longjun Xiang , Zhenhua Qiao , Jian Wang

Materials with interesting physical properties are often designed based on our understanding of the target physical effects. The physical properties can be either explicitly observed ("apparent") or concealed by the perceived symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Jia-Xin Xiong , Xiuwen Zhang , Lin-Ding Yuan , Alex Zunger

The interplay of antiferromagnetic order, momentum-dependent Bloch spin-splitting, time-reversal (T), and parity (P) symmetries in non-relativistic systems has emerged as a central theme for spintronics. Two well-known examples are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Yue Yu , Jin Matsuda , Hikaru Watanabe , Ryotaro Arita , Daniel F. Agterberg

Quasiperiodic structures possess long range positional order, but are freed of constraints imposed by translational invariance. For spins interacting via Heisenberg couplings, one may expect therefore to find novel magnetic configurations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-10-15 Anuradha Jagannathan , Attila Szallas

Recently, there has been a growing interest in altermagnetism, a novel form of magnetism, characterized by unique spin-splitting even in the absence of both net magnetic moments and spin-orbit coupling. Despite numerous theoretical…