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The altermagnetism can achieve spin-split bands in collinear symmetry-compensated antiferromagnets. Here, we predict altermagnetic order in Janus monolayer $\mathrm{Cr_2SO}$ with eliminated inversion symmetry, which can realize the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-08 San-Dong Guo , Xiao-Shu Guo , Kai Cheng , Ke Wang , Yee Sin Ang

The discovery of collinear symmetric-compensated altermagnets (AM) with intrinsic spin splitting provides a route towards energy-efficient and ultrafast device applications. Here, using first-principles calculations and symmetry analysis,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Jianke Tian , Jia Li , Hengbo Liu , Yan Li , Ze Liu , Linyang Li , Jun Li , Guodong Liu , Junjie Shi

Two-dimensional (2D) multiferroic heterostructures present a promising platform for advanced spin devices by leveraging the coexisting ferromagnetic (FM) and ferroelectric (FE) orders. Through first-principles calculations and micromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-14 Zheng Chen , Hongliang Hu , Wenjun Zhang , Xiaoping Wu , Ping Li , Changsheng Song

We propose a novel ferroelectric switchable altermagnetism effect, the reversal of ferroelectric polarization is coupled to the switching of altermagnetic spin splitting. We demonstrate the design principles for the ferroelectric…

Altermagnetism is characterized by non-relativistic spin splitting and zero total magnetic moments. In this work, intrinsic antiferromagnetic half-metallic and topological phases were discovered within the ferrovalley states of sliding…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-08 Shihao Zhang

Controlling magnetism by purely electrical means is a key challenge to better information technology1. A variety of material systems, including ferromagnetic (FM) metals2,3,4, FM semiconductors5, multiferroics6,7,8 and magnetoelectric (ME)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Shengwei Jiang , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

Spin-split antiferromagnets have significance for antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics due to their momentum dependent spin polarization which can be exploited for the control and detection of the AFM order parameter. Here, we explore the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-14 Himanshu Mavani , Kai Huang , Kartik Samanta , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

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

Valley polarization and altermagnetism are two emerging fundamental phenomena in condensed matter physics, offering unprecedented opportunites for information encoding and processing in novel energy-efficient devices. By coupling valley and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 Wen-Xin Jiang , Zhen-Hao Gong , Yuantao Chen , Zhigang Gui , Li Huang

Altermagnetism (AM), a collinear magnetic phase with momentum-dependent spin splitting, is a promising candidate for strong magnetoelectric coupling. However, realizing direct and tunable coupling between ferroelectricity (FE) and AM within…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-07 Tao Yao , Quan Shen , Wenhu Liao , Jianing Tan , Jiansheng Dong

Altermagnetism represents a novel class of collinear antiferromagnetism exhibiting non-relativistic spin splitting without net magnetization, driven by lattice symmetry rather than spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we introduce a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Diego López-Alcalá , Alberto M. Ruiz , Andrei Shumilin , José J. Baldoví

Altermagnetism, the third class of collinear magnetic order, uniquely combines a zero net magnetization with spin polarized bands in reciprocal space, opening new avenues for two dimensional valleytronics and spintronics. Here, using first…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-02 Quan Shen , Jianing Tan , Tao Yao , Wenhu Liao , Jiansheng Dong

Altermagnets are a novel class of materials that combine antiferromagnetic spin ordering with non-relativistic spin splitting (NRSS) in their band structure, making them promising candidates for spintronics applications without requiring…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Niklas Sicheler , Roberto Raimondi , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Lorenzo Del Re

Spin-driven multiferroics exhibit strong magnetoelectric coupling, with notable polarization changes under a magnetic field, but these effects are usually limited to high-Z magnetic insulators with low electronic polarization. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Ranquan Cao , Ruizhi Dong , Ruixiang Fei , Yugui Yao

As an emerging magnetic phase, altermagnets (AMs) with collinear compensated magnetism in real space and alternating spin splitting in the band structure have attracted widespread attention. Here, based on first-principles calculations, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-23 Jianke Tian , Xiaowen Zhou , Gui-Bin Liu

When the atomic layers in a non-centrosymmetric van der Waals structure slide against each other, the interfacial charge transfer results in a reversal of the structures spontaneous polarization. This phenomenon is known as sliding…

Altermagnets have recently emerged as a new class of magnetic materials sharing properties of both antiferromagnets and ferromagnets. Despite very small net magnetization, they show phenomena usually associated with ferromagnetism, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-03 Maxim Mostovoy

Magnetoelectric coupling is crucial for uncovering fundamental phenomena and advancing technologies in high-density data storage and energy-efficient devices. The emergence of altermagnets, which unify the advantages of ferromagnets and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

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