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Nanomechanical resonances of two-dimensional (2D) materials are sensitive probes for condensed-matter physics, offering new insights into magnetic and electronic phase transitions. Despite extensive research, the influence of the spin…

Altermagnets are collinear compensated magnets in which the magnetic sublattices are related by rotation rather than translation or inversion. One of the quintessential properties of altermagnets is the presence of split chiral magnon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-05 Vincent C. Morano , Zeno Maesen , Stanislav E. Nikitin , Jakob Lass , Daniel G. Mazzone , Oksana Zaharko

Recently, altermagnets have emerged as promising candidates in spintronics, uniquely combining large spin-polarized electronic states with zero net magnetization. A prominent example is $\alpha$-MnTe, whose altermagnetic spin splitting,…

We experimentally investigate magnetocaloric effect for single crystals of MnTe altermagnet at the transition to the state with spontaneous spin polarization, i.e. well below the N\'eel temperature of MnTe. The isothermal magnetic entropy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 N. N. Orlova , V. D. Esin , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

The altermagnetism with antiparallel spin alignment exhibits anisotropic spin splitting and may possess an insulating state with a high Neel temperature, while the charge-order-induced ferroelectricity has ultrafast electric polarization…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Yuhao Gu , Yu-Hui Song , Yihao Wang , Ze-Feng Gao , Huan-Cheng Yang , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu

Crystalline symmetries determine the linear and nonlinear response of materials to external stimuli such as mechanical pressure and electromagnetic fields, governing phenomena such as piezoelectricity, optical activity, and multiple wave…

Altermagnetism stands as a third type of collinear magnetic order, whose band structure combines a net zero magnetization with a non-relativistic spin-splitting caused by a broken time reversal symmetry. So far, the strategy to design…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Ricardo Ortiz , Karol Strutyński , Manuel Melle-Franco

Altermagnets -- newly identified collinear antiferromagnets -- carry zero net moment with non-relativistic, spin-polarized bands, distilling the best of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets into a single spintronic platform. Shrunking to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 Sike Zeng , Dong Liu , Hongjie Peng , Chang-Chun He , Xiao-Bao Yang , Yu-Jun Zhao

Altermagnetism has recently emerged as a third fundamental branch of magnetism, combining the vanishing net magnetization of antiferromagnets with the high-momentum-dependent spin splitting of ferromagnets. This study provides a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Manuel Calixto

While altermagnetic materials are characterized by a vanishing net magnetic moment, their symmetry in principle allows for the existence of an anomalous Hall effect (AHE). Here we introduce a model with altermagnetism in which the emergence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-05 Toshihiro Sato , Sonia Haddad , Ion Cosma Fulga , Fakher F. Assaad , Jeroen van den Brink

We develop a four-sublattice spin-wave theory for the $g$-wave altermagnet candidate hematite ($\alpha$-Fe$_2$O$_3$), considering both its easy-axis phase below and its weak ferromagnetic phase above the Morin temperature. A key question is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-18 Rhea Hoyer , P. Peter Stavropoulos , Aleksandar Razpopov , Roser Valentí , Libor Šmejkal , Alexander Mook

We investigate anomalous planar transport phenomena in a recently identified class of collinear magnetic materials known as $d$-wave altermagnets. The anomalous planar effects manifest in a configuration when the applied electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Srimayi Korrapati , Snehasish Nandy , Sumanta Tewari

With many candidate altermagnetic materials, MnTe has emerged as one of the most promising systems, with growing experimental evidence for altermagnetic phenomena. So far, the majority of measurements have been performed on thin-films, or…

The multicaloric effect, which represents the reversible entropy change that occurs when both external magnetic and electric fields are applied, is an interesting phenomenon characteristic to multiferroics. Targeting the multicaloric effect…

We describe a `disordered local moment' (DLM) first-principles electronic structure theory which demonstrates that tricritical metamagnetism can arise in an antiferromagnetic metal due to the dependence of local moment interactions on the…

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Recent developments in the multipole reformulation of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) have provided a unified framework to describe magnetic and orbital responses in terms of ferroic multipole order parameters. X-ray magnetic circular…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-11 N. Sasabe , H. Koizumi , Y. Ishii , Y. Yamasaki

We formulate a Landau theory for altermagnets, a class of colinear compensated magnets with spin-split bands. Starting from the non-relativistic limit, this Landau theory goes beyond a conventional analysis by including spin-space…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-29 Paul A. McClarty , Jeffrey G. Rau

Altermagnets constitute a new class of magnetic materials that combine properties previously thought to be exclusive to either antiferromagnets or ferromagnets, and have unique properties of their own. In particular, a combination of…

We experimentally study magnetization reversal curves for MnTe single crystals, which is the altermagnetic candidate. Above 85~K temperature, we confirm the antiferromagnetic behavior of magnetization $M$, which is known for $\alpha$--MnTe.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 N. N. Orlova , A. A. Avakyants , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

The search for novel magnetic quantum phases, phenomena and functional materials has been guided by relativistic magnetic-symmetry groups in coupled spin and real space from the dawn of the field in 1950s to the modern era of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth