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Altermagnetism has recently emerged as a new class of spin compensated magnetic materials that exhibit momentum dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. The origin of these electronic signatures lies in symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Diego López-Alcalá , Andrei Shumilin , José J. Baldoví

While the understanding of altermagnetism is still at a very early stage, it is expected to play a role in various fields of condensed matter research, for example spintronics, caloritronics and superconductivity. In the field of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 T. Adamantopoulos , M. Merte , F. Freimuth , D. Go , M. Ležaić , W. Feng , Y. Yao , J. Sinova , L. Šmejkal , S. Blügel , Y. Mokrousov

Altermagnets are an emergent class of materials combining features of ferro- and antiferro-magnetic materials. They have spin-separated bands normally associated with ferromagnets, but a vanishing net magnetization. Moreover the symmetries…

Governed by specific symmetries, altermagnetism is an emerging field in condensed matter physics, characterized by unique spin-splitting of the bands in the momentum space co-existing with the compensated magnetization as in…

Altermagnetism is a newly identified fundamental class of magnetism with vanishing net magnetization and time-reversal symmetry broken electronic structure. Probing the unusual electronic structure with nonrelativistic spin splitting would…

Altermagnets are an emerging third elementary class of magnets. Unlike ferromagnets, their distinct crystal symmetries inhibit magnetization while, unlike antiferromagnets, they promote strong spin polarization in the band structure. The…

Altermagnets are a recently discovered class of magnetic material with great potential for applications in the field of spintronics, owing to their non-relativistic spin-splitting and simultaneous antiferromagnetic order. One of the most…

We demonstrate the emergence of altermagnetism at the surfaces of antiferromagnets, vastly expanding the number of material candidates with altermagnetic characteristics and establishing a route to two-dimensional altermagnetism through…

Altermagnetism refers to a wide class of magnetic orders featuring magnetic sublattices with opposite spins related by rotational symmetries, resulting in non-trivial spin splitting and magnetic multipoles. However, the direct observation…

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

Altermagnets host an array of magnetic multipoles, which are often visualized and studied in the reciprocal space. In the real space, the relative phase of the multipoles of the spin-density around atoms determines whether a system is an…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-01 Luca Buiarelli , Rafael M. Fernandes , Turan Birol

Emerging altermagnetic materials with vanishing net magnetizations and unique band structures have been envisioned as an ideal electrode to design antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions. Their momentum-resolved spin splitting in band structures…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-21 Boyuan Chi , Leina Jiang , Yu Zhu , Guoqiang Yu , Caihua Wan , Jia Zhang , Xiufeng Han

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

Altermagnets hold great potential for spintronic applications, yet their intrinsic spin dynamics and associated transport properties remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigate spin-resolved quantum transport in a multi-terminal setup…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Li-Shuo Liu , Kai Shao , Hai-Dong Li , Xiangang Wan , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

Altermagnetism (AM), a newly discovered magnetic state, ingeniously integrates the properties of ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, representing a significant breakthrough in the field of magnetic materials. Despite experimental…

Hidden spin polarization (HSP) with zero net spin polarization in total but non-zero local spin polarization has been proposed in certain nonmagnetic centrosymmetric compounds, where the individual sectors forming the inversion partners are…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-28 San-Dong Guo

Altermagnetism is a novel magnetic phase combining characteristics of both antiferromagnetism and ferromagnetic ordering. Despite growing theoretical interest in altermagnetic materials, reports of experimentally verified high Neel…

The search for novel magnetic quantum phases, phenomena and functional materials has been guided by relativistic magnetic-symmetry groups in coupled spin and real space from the dawn of the field in 1950s to the modern era of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

Altermagnets have attracted intense interest because they have the advantages of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. However, their experimental identification remains challenging, in particular for the A-type altermagnets that account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Zhoujian Sun , Yiyuan Chen , Tao Yu , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Recently, a new class of magnetic phenomenon, called altermagnetism, was proposed where the underlying spin configuration resembles antiferromagnetic structure, but the system violates \textbf{PT} (PT: Parity times Time reversal) symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-25 Deepak K. Singh , Sang-Wook Cheong , Jiasen Guo