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Half-semimetals, characterized by their spin-polarized electronic states, hold significant promise for spintronic applications but remain scarce due to stringent electronic and magnetic criteria. Through a combination of transport…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-20 Shanshan Han , Rongsheng Li , Xingxing Jiang , Ming Lu , Shuxiang Xu , Jiang Zeng , Dong Wu , Nanlin Wang

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

Half-metallicity (HM) offers great potential for engineering spintronic applications, yet only few magnetic materials present metallicity in just one spin channel. In addition, most HM systems become magnetically disordered at temperatures…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-13 Muhammad Atif Sattar , S. Aftab Ahmad , Fayyaz Hussain , Claudio Cazorla

The interplay between half-metallic ferromagnetism and spin-orbit coupling within the inversion symmetry-broken structure of half Heuslers provides an ideal platform for various spintronics functionalities. Taking advantage of good lattice…

Magnetization plateaus, visible as anomalies in magnetic susceptibility at low temperatures, are one of the hallmarks of frustrated magnetism. We show how an extremely robust half-magnetization plateau can arise from coupling between spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Penc , N. Shannon , H. Shiba

Bringing magnetic metals into superconducting states represents an important approach for realizing unconventional superconductors and potentially even topological superconductors. Altermagnetism, classified as a third basic collinear…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-07 Di Zhu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

Altermagnetism is introduced as a category of magnetic states with vanishing net magnetic moment, and consists of collinear alternating (i.e., antiferromagnetic-like) spins and alternating variations of local structures around spins in such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-26 Sang-Wook Cheong , Fei-Ting Huang

We investigate the growth of half metallic phase in a ferromagnetic material using state-of-the-art full potential linearized augmented plane wave method. To address the issue, we have substituted Ti at the Ru-sites in SrRuO3, where SrRuO3…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Kalobaran Maiti

Vision of ferromagnet/semiconductor hybrid as a strongly coupled but flexible spin system is presented. We analyze the experiments and argue that contrary to the common sense the nonmagnetic semiconductor plays a crucial role in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Korenev , B. P. Zakharchenya

We propose a strategy to obtain conducting organic materials with fully spin-polarized Fermi surface, lying at a singular flat band, with antiferromagnetically coupled magnetic moments that reside in pi-orbitals of nanographenes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 J. Phillips , J. C. G. Henriques , J. Fernández-Rossier , A. T. Costa

Parameters of the energy gap and, consequently, electronic, magnetic and galvanomagnetic properties in different X$_2$YZ Heusler alloys can vary quite strongly. In particular, half-metallic ferromagnets (HMFs) and spin gapless…

Spin semimetals are a recently discovered new class of spintronic materials, which exhibit a band gap in one spin channel while a semimetallic feature in the other and thus allows for tunable spin transport. Here, we present experimental…

Two-dimensional (2D) half-metals with intrinsic ferromagnetism hold great potential for applications in spintronics. In this study, we aim to expand the known space of such 2D ferromagnetic (FM) half-metals by investigating bilayer of Janus…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-29 Khushboo Dange , Shivprasad S. Shastri , Alok Shukla

We use a previously proposed theory for the temperature dependence of tunneling magnetoresistance to shed light on ongoing efforts to optimize spin valves. First we show that a mechanism in which spin valve performance at finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 Karin Everschor-Sitte , Matthias Sitte , Allan H. MacDonald

Altermagnetic superconductors offer the possibility of exploring unconventional superconductivity, including topological states and finite-momentum superconductivity, with promising applications in spintronics and quantum information.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-22 Andrea Maiani , Rubén Seoane Souto

Intermetallic Heusler alloys are amongst the most attractive half-metallic systems due to the high Curie temperatures and the structural similarity to the binary semiconductors. In this review we present an overview of the basic electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Galanakis , Ph. Mavropoulos , P. H. Dederichs

The concepts of Weyl fermions and topological semimetals emerging in three-dimensional momentum space are extensively explored owing to the vast variety of exotic properties that they give rise to. On the other hand, very little is known…

We investigate the magnetotransport properties of a diluted half-filled one-band Hubbard model with second-nearest-neighbor hopping on a simple cubic lattice, aiming to explore the possibility of metallicity in diluted antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-11 Sudip Mandal , Sourav Chakraborty , Kalpataru Pradhan

All-electric-controlled nonvolatile spin field-effect transistors (SFETs) based on two-dimensional (2D) multiferroic van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures hold great promise for advanced spintronics applications. However, their performance…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-02 B. Liu , X. Zhang , W. Hou , H. Feng , Zhengei Dai , Zhi-Xin Guo

Altermagnetic materials, with real-space antiferromagnetic arrangement and reciprocal-space anisotropic spin splitting, have attracted much attention. However, the spin splitting is small in most altermagnetic materials, which is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-26 Peng-Jie Guo , Xiao-Yao Hou , Ze-Feng Gao , Huan-Cheng Yang , Wei Ji , Zhong-Yi Lu