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We investigate quantum effects on magnon excitations in a minimal spin-1/2 Heisenberg model for 2D altermagnets on the square lattice. A continuous similarity transformation is applied in momentum space to derive an effective Hamiltonian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-06 Raymond Wiedmann , Dag-Björn Hering , Vanessa Sulaiman , Matthias R. Walther , Kai P. Schmidt , Götz S. Uhrig

We study the many-body effects in a two-subband quasi-two-dimensional electron system in a quantizing magnetic field at filling factor three. A manifestation of these effects in the phonon absorption spectroscopy is discussed. The electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. M. Apalkov , M. E. Portnoi

We report energy renormalizations from electron-phonon and electron-magnon interactions in spin minority surface resonances on Ni(111). The different interactions are identified, disentangled, and quantified from the characteristic…

Modifications of spin-splitting dispersion relations and density of states for electrons in non-symmetric heterostructures under in-plane magnetic field are studied within the envelope function formalism. Spin-orbit interactions, caused by…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Hernandez-Cabrera , P. Aceituno , F. T. Vasko

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

The propagation of magnons along a symmetry path may depend on the direction of propagation, similar to many other quasiparticles in nature. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as nonreciprocity. In addition to the fact that it is of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-10 Albrecht von Faber , Christopher Hins , Khalil Zakeri

Spin-band splitting is a hallmark of altermagnetism, intrinsically linked to magnetic ordering driven by electron correlations. However, recent inconsistencies in the detection of altermagnetism in strongly correlated altermagnet candidates…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Byungkyun Kang , Anderson Janotti , Dai Q. Ho , Myoung-Hwan Kim , Chul Hong Park , Sangkook Choi , Mark R. Pederson , Eunja Kim

Altermagnets are a novel class of magnetic materials that bridge the gap between ferromagnets (FMs) and antiferromagnets (AFMs). A key feature is the non-degeneracy of magnon modes where spin splitting occurs, leading to chirality and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-19 Wejdan Beida , Ersoy Sasioglu , Christoph Friedrich , Gustav Bihlmayer , Yuriy Mokrousov , Stefan Blügel

We study the nonequilibrium spin-splitter effect in superconducting altermagnets and superconductor altermagnet hybrids by computing the alternating spin current and edge the spin density in the presence of an alternating electric field. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-14 Tim Kokkeler , Tero T. Heikkilä , F. Sebastian Bergeret

While a spin-dependent band splitting is one of the characteristic features of altermagnets, the conventional band picture itself breaks down in the many altermagnets that are correlated Mott materials. We employ two numerical many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-28 Maria Daghofer , Krzysztof Wohlfeld , Jeroen van den Brink

Spin dynamics in low dimensional magnetic systems has been of fundamental importance for a long time and has currently received an impetus owing to the emerging field of nanoelectronics. Knowledge of the spin wave lifetimes, in particular,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-19 Akash Chakraborty , Paul Wenk , John Schliemann

We report a first principles computational analysis of two phonon-mediated superconductors, In$_{5}$Bi$_{3}$ and In$_{5}$Sb$_{3}$. We show that spin-orbit coupling leads to splitting of electron bands around the Fermi energy, resulting in a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-29 Yao Wei , Siyu Chen , Bartomeu Monserrat

We present a calculation of the magnon spectra and chiral lifetimes of altermagnons in bulk CrSb using the many-body perturbation theory. The spin-split band structure is evident in the magnon spectra. Altermagnons attain an energy of 275…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-07 Murat Tas

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

We develop a four-sublattice spin-wave theory for the $g$-wave altermagnet candidate hematite ($\alpha$-Fe$_2$O$_3$), considering both its easy-axis phase below and its weak ferromagnetic phase above the Morin temperature. A key question is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-18 Rhea Hoyer , P. Peter Stavropoulos , Aleksandar Razpopov , Roser Valentí , Libor Šmejkal , Alexander Mook

We present a comprehensive analysis of the magnetic excitations and electronic properties of fully quantum double-exchange ferromagnets, i.e., systems where ferromagnetic ordering emerges from the competition between spin, charge, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-20 A. Moreo , E. Dagotto , G. Alvarez , T. Tohyama , M. Mierzejewski , J. Herbrych

We review recent theoretical developments about the role of spins, electron-electron interactions, and spin-orbit coupling in metal nanoparticles and semiconductor quantum dots. For a closed system, in the absence of spin-orbit coupling or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuval Oreg , P. W. Brouwer , X. Waintal , Bertrand I. Halperin

In altermagnets, the magnon bands are anisotropically spin-split in reciprocal space without relativistic or dipolar spin-spin interactions. In this work, we theoretically study magnons and phonons coupled by spin-lattice interaction in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Hannah Bendin , Alexander Mook , Ingrid Mertig , Robin R. Neumann

Dynamical mean-field theory computations of the electron self energy of the Hubbard-Holstein model as a function of electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions are analyzed to gain insight into the dependence of electron-phonon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-14 Jennifer Coulter , Andrew J. Millis

The wave nature of electrons in semiconductor nanostructures results in spatial interference effects similar to those exhibited by coherent light. The presence of spin-orbit coupling renders interference in spin space and in real space…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Zuelicke