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Metallic antiferromagnets are essential for efficient spintronic applications due to their fast switching and high mobility, yet room-temperature metallic antiferromagnets are rare. Here, we investigate YbMn$_2$Ge$_2$, a room temperature…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-17 Nirmalya Jana , Atasi Chakraborty , Anamitra Mukherjee , Amit Agarwal

Altermagnetic metals break time-reversal symmetry and feature spin-split Fermi surfaces generated by compensated N\'eel-ordered collinear magnetic moments. Being metallic, such altermagnets may undergo a further instability at low…

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

Altermagnetism represents a type of collinear magnetism, that is in some aspects distinct from ferromagnetism and from conventional antiferromagnetism. In contrast to the latter, sublattices of opposite spin are related by spatial rotations…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-26 Purnendu Das , Valentin Leeb , Johannes Knolle , Michael Knap

Altermagnets, a unique class of magnetic materials that combines features of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, have garnered attention for their potential in spintronics and magnonics. While the electronic properties of altermagnets…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are considered an advantageous alternative to their celebrated two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals akin compound, graphene, for a number of applications, especially those requiring a gapped and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-18 I. Pallecchi , N. Manca , B. Patil , L. Pellegrino , D. Marre'

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

Resistance switching in multilayer structures are typically based on materials possessing ferroic orders. Here we predict an extremely large resistance switching based on the relative spin-orbit splitting in twisted transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Marc Vila

Motivated by possible spintronics applications in antiferromagnets, it was recently observed that symmetry admits magnets that combine attractive features of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. These systems, dubbed altermagnets, have…

Recent years have seen a proliferation in investigations on Altermagnetism due to its exciting prospects both from an applications perspective and theoretical standpoint. Traditionally, altermagnets are distinguished from collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-30 Chanchal K. Barman , Bishal Das , Alessio Filippetti , Aftab Alam , Fabio Bernardini

Altermagnetism -a magnetic state characterized by spin-polarized electronic bands at zero net magnetization- offers a promising route for next-generation spintronic devices. In two-dimensional (2D) magnets, twist engineering enables its…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Alberto M. Ruiz , Andrei Shumilin , Rafael González-Hernández , José J. Baldoví

MnTe has recently attracted attention as an altermagnetic candidate. Experimentally it has an altermagnetic order of ferromagnetic $ab$ planes, stacked antiferromagnetically along $c$. We show that this magnetic order (by itself…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 I. I. Mazin

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 study the interplay between altermagnetism and unconventional superconductivity for the case of two-dimensional square- and triangular-lattice systems. Our approach is based on an effective single particle Hamiltonian which mimics the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-10 Kinga Jasiewicz , Paweł Wójcik , Michał Nowak , Michał Zegrodnik

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit an extensive variety of novel electronic properties, such as charge density wave quantum spin Hall phenomena, superconductivity, and Dirac and Weyl semi-metallic properties.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-15 S. Koley

Two-dimensional (2D) metallic altermagnets present exciting opportunities for both fundamental research and practical innovations. Their ability to enhance tunneling magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions, combined with the direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Raghottam M. Sattigeri , Xujia Gong , Amar Fakhredine , Carmine Autieri , Giuseppe Cuono

Inspired by recent discovery of metallic $d$-wave altermagnetism in KV$_2$Se$_2$O, we develop a self-consistent microscopic many-body calculation of density-wave order for an itinerant altermagnetic metal. We show that the strong $d$-wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-13 Fei Yang , Guo-Dong Zhao , Binghai Yan , Long-Qing Chen

Within the family of altermagnets, CrSb is a metallic, collinearly ordered material that exhibits particularly strong symmetry-induced spin splitting in its band structure. In this study, we combine electrical magnetotransport measurements…

The localized f-electrons enrich the magnetic properties in rare-earth-based intermetallics. Among those, compounds with heavier 4d and 5d transition metals are even more fascinating because anomalous electronic properties may be induced by…