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Magnons with momentum-dependent chirality are a key signature of altermagnets. We identify bicircular light as a smoking-gun optical probe for chiral altermagnetic magnons, selectively targeting their quantum geometry induced by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Rundong Yuan , Wojciech J. Jankowski , Ka Shen , Robert-Jan Slager

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

Topological defects embedded in or combined with domain walls have been proposed in various systems, some of which are referred to as domain wall skyrmions or domain wall bimerons. However, the experimental observation of such topological…

In antiferromagnets, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction lifts the degeneracy of left- and right-circularly polarized spin waves. This relativistic coupling increases the efficiency of spin-wave-induced domain wall motion and leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-09 Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Lars A. Kristiansen , Arne Brataas

Altermagnets host momentum-selective spin splitting and chiral-split magnonic excitations despite vanishing net magnetization, enabling spin transport without ferromagnetism. In rutile structures, establishing altermagnetism…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-23 Dai Q. Ho , D. Quang To , Byungkyun Kang , Matthew F. Doty , Garnett W. Bryant , Anderson Janotti

Chiral phonons with atomic rotations converted into electron spins result in a change of spin magnetizations in crystals. In this paper, we investigate a new conversion of chiral phonons into magnons both in ferromagnets and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Dapeng Yao , Shuichi Murakami

Domain walls (DWs) in perpendicularly magnetized nanotracks (PMNTs) with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) have become the primary objects of theoretical and experimental interest due to their technological suitability in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 Yue Zhang , Mao-Kang Shen , Zai-Dong Li , Xiao-Fei Yang , Long You

We show that nano-scale variations of the order parameter in strongly-correlated systems can induce local spatial regions such as domain walls that exhibit electronic properties representative of a different, but nearby, part of the phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 M. S. Rzchowski , Robert Joynt

The interest in understanding scaling limits of magnetic textures such as domain walls spans the entire field of magnetism from its relativistic quantum fundamentals to applications in information technologies. The traditional focus of the…

Altermagnets, magnetic materials with zero magnetization and spin-split band structure, have gained tremendous attention recently for their rich physics and potential applications. Here, we report on a microscopic tight-binding model that…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-01 Marc Vila , Veronika Sunko , Joel E. Moore

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

Noncollinear spin textures in ferromagnetic ultrathin films are currently the subject of renewed interest since the discovery of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). This antisymmetric exchange interaction selects a…

Altermagnets (AMs) are a recently identified class of unconventional collinear compensated antiferromagnets that exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This unconventional magnetic order gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-24 Bo Zhao , Fu Li , Wei Ren , Hao Wang , Hongbin Zhang

We present a phenomenological theory of altermagnets, that captures their unique magnetization dynamics and allows modelling magnetic textures in this new magnetic phase. Focusing on the prototypical d-wave altermagnets, e.g. RuO$_2$, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 O. Gomonay , V. P. Kravchuk , R. Jaeschke-Ubiergo , K. V. Yershov , T. Jungwirth , L. Šmejkal , J. van den Brink , J. Sinova

Altermagnets host chirally split magnons that promise unique functionalities for information processing. However, their distinctive transport signatures, crucial for experimental identification and manipulation, remain elusive. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Yanmeng Lei , Rui-Chun Xiao , Weiwei Lin , Tao Yu

Altermagnets recently came into the spotlight as a new class of magnetic materials, arising as a consequence of specific crystal symmetries. They are characterized by a spin-polarized electronic band structure similar to ferromagnets, but…

As a collective quasiparticle excitation of the magnetic order in magnetic materials, spin wave, or magnon when quantized, can propagate in both conducting and insulating materials. Like the manipulation of its optical counterpart, the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-28 Jin Lan , Weichao Yu , Jiang Xiao

We propose a magnon-driven anomalous Hall effect in altermagnets, arising from the coupling between coherently excited chiral magnons and chiral electronic motion. Using density-matrix perturbation theory and symmetry analysis, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Zheng Liu , Yang Gao , Qian Niu

In most ferromagnets the magnetization rotates from one domain to the next with no preferred handedness. However, broken inversion symmetry can lift the chiral degeneracy, leading to topologically-rich spin textures such as spin-spirals and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-29 Satoru Emori , Uwe Bauer , Sung-Min Ahn , Eduardo Martinez , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

In this article we use chiral domain walls to manipulate and trap magnetic skyrmion quasi-particles in chiral magnetic materials such as ultrathin Co/Pt films. The magnetic skyrmions can be orientated such that their interaction with domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Paul Leask