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Besides hosting several intriguing physical properties, the recently discovered time-reversal-asymmetric antiferromagnets, known as altermagnets, hold immense promise for technologies based on spintronics. Understanding the symmetry…

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It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

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A vital goal in spintronics is the efficient electrical generation of spin currents, a pursuit that has recently focused on using antiferromagnets (AFMs) as spin current sources. It has been demonstrated that antiferromagnets with broken PT…

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Spin spirals represent a fundamental class of noncollinear yet coplanar magnetic structures that give rise to diverse emergent phenomena reflecting spin chirality. We investigate metallic systems hosting commensurate spin spirals and…

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Spin current generated electrically is among the core phenomena of spintronics for driving high-performance spin device applications. Here, on the basis of systematic investigations for the hole doped single-layer Haldane-Hubbard(HH) model,…

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Spin splitting in electronic band structures via antiferromagnetic orders is a new route to control spin-polarized carriers that is available for spintronics applications. Here, we investigated the spin degree of freedom in the electronic…

$P$-, $f$-, or $h$-wave antialtermagnets yield large non-relativistic spin splitting with out-of-plane spin polarization in momentum space perpendicular to the coplanar non-collinear local magnetic moments. We provide a microscopic…

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The study of the magnetic order has recently been invigorated by the discovery of exotic collinear antiferromagnets with time-reversal symmetry breaking. Examples include altermagnetism and compensated ferrimagnets, which show spin…

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Surface plasmons are the collective electron excitations in metallic systems and the associated electromagnetic wave usually has the transverse magnetic (TM) polarization. On the other hand, spin waves are the spin excitations perpendicular…

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Altermagnetism features momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization, extending spintronics beyond conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. However, the photonic realization of altermagnetism has remained a…

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The recently predicted unconventional magnets offer a new ground for exploring the formation of nontrivial spin states due to their inherent nonrelativistic momentum-dependent spin splitting. In this work, we consider unconventional magnets…

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Altermagnetism is characterized by even-parity spin-momentum locking in spin-split bands despite zero net magnetization and negligible spin-orbit coupling. Here, we formulate a microscopic framework that links altermagnetic splitting in…

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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…

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Achieving controllable spin polarization and its reversal in symmetry-compensated magnets. Here we demonstrate, using symmetry analysis and a minimal tight-binding model, that uniaxial strain removes these constraints by inducing…

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Generating and characterizing uniform and staggered spin polarization in antiferromagnets is one of the key challenges for antiferromagnetic spintronic technology. Here, we perform perturbative theory, group-theoretical symmetry analysis,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-29 Q. Xue , J. Zhou

It is commonly believed that in typical collinear antiferromagnets, with no net magnetization, the energy bands are spin-(Kramers-degenerate. The opposite case is usually associated with a global time-reversal symmetry breaking (e.g., via…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-24 I. I. Mazin , K. Koepernik , M. D. Johannes , Rafael González-Hernández , Libor Šmejkal

Correlated materials with competing spin-orbit and crystal-field interactions can host composite spin-orbital magnons that are highly susceptible to structural and electronic perturbations, enabling the control of magnetic dynamics beyond…