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Altermagnets are a new class of magnetic materials, which exhibit large spin splitting, but due to the combined spin and real space group symmetry protection maintain zero net macroscopic magnetization. Such a characteristic may prove them…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-18 Michał Papaj

Nonreciprocal transport refers to charge transfer processes that are sensitive to the bias polarity. Until recently, nonreciprocal transport was studied only in dissipative systems, where the nonreciprocal quantity is the resistance. Recent…

A model binary hybrid system composed of a randomly distributed rare-earth ferromagnetic (Gd) part embedded in an s-wave superconducting (Nb) matrix is being manufactured to study the interplay between competing superconducting and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-06 Ambika Bawa , Anurag Gupta , Sandeep Singh , V. P. S. Awana , Sangeeta Sahoo

Spin-orbit coupling is a key to realize many novel physical effects in condensed matter physics. Altermagnetic materials possess the duality of real-space antiferromagnetism and reciprocal-space ferromagnetism. It has not been explored that…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-07 Shuai Qu , Zhen-Feng Ouyang , Ze-Feng Gao , Hao Sun , Kai Liu , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu

When both inversion and time-reversal symmetries are broken, the critical current of a superconductor can be nonreciprocal. In this work we show that in certain classes of two-dimensional superconductors with antisymmetric spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-11 Noah F. Q. Yuan , Liang Fu

Supercurrent flow can induce a nonvanishing spin magnetization in noncentrosymmetric superconductors with spin-orbit interaction. Often known as the non-dissipative magnetoelectric effect, these are most commonly found at linear order in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-20 Jin-Xin Hu , Oles Matsyshyn , Justin C. W. Song

Emergent electrodynamics arising from spatially and temporally varying magnetic textures provides a framework for spin control in quantum materials. While this principle is established for ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic textures, its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Constantin Schrade , Mathias S. Scheurer

Altermagnets are a new class of magnetic materials characterized by fully compensated spins arranged in alternating local structures, allowing for spin-split bands similar to those found in ferromagnets without net magnetism. Recently, MnTe…

The research landscape of magnetism has been recently enriched by the discovery of altermagnetism. It is an unconventional phase of matter characterized by a d-wave (or higher even-parity-wave) collinear compensated spin ordering, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , P. Wadley , D. Kriegner , H. Reichlova , F. Krizek , H. Ohno , L. Smejkal

Altermagnets offer a route to spin-polarized electronic states without macroscopic magnetization, because compensated magnetic order can generate momentum-dependent spin splitting through crystal-symmetry-controlled exchange fields.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Yi-Fei Jiang , Jia-Xuan Guo , Zhen Zhang , Xin-Wei Yi , Jing-Yang You

Magnetoelectric coupling is vital for exploring fundamental science and driving the development of high-density memory and energy-efficient spintronic devices. Altermagnets, which merge the benefits of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Pengqiang Dong , Hanbo Sun , Chao Wu , Ping Li

The interplay between spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and magnetism produces interesting phenomena in superconductors. When a two-dimensional (2D) system with strong SOI is coupled to an $s$-wave superconductor, an in-plane magnetic field can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-16 Miaomiao Wei , Longjun Xiang , Fuming Xu , Lei Zhang , Gaomin Tang , Jian Wang

Altermagnets exhibit a large electron spin splitting which can be understood as a result of strong coupling between itinerant electrons and localized spins. We consider superconductivity due to electron-magnon scattering, using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-25 Kristian Mæland , Bjørnulf Brekke , Asle Sudbø

Altermagnets exhibit spontaneously spin-split electronic bands in the zero spin-orbit coupling (SOC) limit arising from the presence of collinear compensated magnetic order. The distinctive magneto-crystalline symmetries of altermagnets…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-03 Hana Schiff , Paul McClarty , Jeffrey G. Rau , Judit Romhanyi

This article explores the deep interconnections among three seemingly unrelated concepts in condensed matter physics: electronic liquid crystal phases, multipole expansions, and altermagnetism. At the heart of these phenomena lies a shared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-13 Zhao Liu , Hui Hu , Xia-Ji Liu

Altermagnets are a recently discovered class of magnetic materials that combine a collinear, zero-magnetization spin structure, characteristic of antiferromagnets, with spin-split electronic bands, a hallmark of ferromagnets. This unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

We study the penetration of an external magnetic field into a superconductor with collinear $d$-wave altermagnetic order. We demonstrate that instead of circular Abrikosov vortices, the magnetic field generates elliptical vortices with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-17 A. A. Mazanik , F. S. Bergeret

Recently, there has been a growing interest in altermagnetism, a novel form of magnetism, characterized by unique spin-splitting even in the absence of both net magnetic moments and spin-orbit coupling. Despite numerous theoretical…

High-transition-temperature (high-Tc) superconductivity develops near antiferromagnetic phases, and it is possible that magnetic excitations contribute to the superconducting pairing mechanism. To assess the role of antiferromagnetism, it…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 E. M. Motoyama , G. Yu , I. M. Vishik , O. P. Vajk , P. K. Mang , M. Greven

Altermagnets represent a new class of magnetic phases without net magnetization that are invariant under a combination of rotation and time reversal. Unlike conventional collinear antiferromagnets (AFM), altermagnets could lead to new…