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The electronic structure of iron pnictides is topologically nontrivial, leading to the appearance of Dirac cones in the band structure for the antiferromagnetic phase. Motivated by the analogy with Dirac cones in graphene, we explore the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-08 Alexander Lau , Carsten Timm

The ever-growing demand for device miniaturization and energy efficiency in data storage and computing technology has prompted a shift towards antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological spin textures as information carriers, owing to their…

The nature of the interaction between magnetism and topology in magnetic topological semimetals remains mysterious, but may be expected to lead to a variety of novel physics. We present $ab$ $initio$ band calculations, electrical transport…

Altermagnets (AMs) exhibit vanishing net magnetization but strong momentum-dependent spin splitting enforced by crystal symmetry. Here, we explore the non-Hermitian effects in dissipative two-dimensional AMs. We show that symmetry-compliant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Xiao-Ming Zhao , Cui-Xian Guo , Xin-Ran Ma , Xiao-Ran Wang , Su-Peng Kou

Altermagnets are an emergent class of materials combining features of ferro- and antiferro-magnetic materials. They have spin-separated bands normally associated with ferromagnets, but a vanishing net magnetization. Moreover the symmetries…

Altermagnets have attracted intense interest because they have the advantages of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. However, their experimental identification remains challenging, in particular for the A-type altermagnets that account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Zhoujian Sun , Yiyuan Chen , Tao Yu , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

The unique physical properties of altermagnets, when transplanted to photonic systems, are anticipated to offer a new degree of freedom for engineering electromagnetic waves. Here, we show that a photonic analogue of altermagnetism can be…

Topological semimetals exhibit band crossings near the Fermi energy, which are protected by the nontrivial topological character of the wave functions. In many cases, these topological band degeneracies give rise to exotic surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Jonathan Zhang , Y. -H. Chan , Ching-Kai Chiu , Maia G. Vergniory , Leslie M. Schoop , Andreas P. Schnyder

Topological superconductivity hosts protected quasiparticles and is central to topological quantum computation, yet its realization in intrinsic materials remains challenging and often relies on engineered platforms. Here we uncover a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-14 Xiao Xiao , Arun Bansil

Altermagnets (AM) is a recently discovered class of collinear magnets that share some properties (anomalous transport, etc) with ferromagnets, some (zero net magnetization) with antiferromagnets, while also exhibiting unique properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-09 Andriy Smolyanyuk , Libor Šmejkal , Igor I. Mazin

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

The long fascination antiferromagnetic materials have exerted on the scientific community over about a century has been entirely renewed recently with the discovery of several unexpected phenomena including various classes of anomalous spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 V. Bonbien , Fengjun Zhuo , A. Salimath , O. Ly , A. Abbout , A. Manchon

Topologically protected magnetic states in condensed matter physics, particularly antiferromagnetic (AFM) skyrmions (Sks) and bimerons (Bms), offer promising prospects for terahertz dynamics and sustained current-induced motion, thanks to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-30 Coline Thevenard , Miina Leiviskä , Richard F. L. Evans , Daria Gusakova , Vincent Baltz

Symmetry protected topology has been studied extensively in the past twenty years, but the topology protected by spin symmetry has just begun to be studied. In this work, based on spin symmetry analysis, we propose that a class of Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-04 Shuai Qu , Xiao-Yao Hou , Zheng-Xin Liu , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu

Altermagnetic (AM) materials have recently attracted significant interest due to the non-relativistic momentum-dependent spin splitting of their electronic band structure which may be useful for antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics. So far,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-04 Kartik Samanta , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Altermagnetism represents a recently established class of collinear magnetism that combines zero net magnetization with momentum-dependent spin polarization, enabled by symmetry constraints rather than spin-orbit coupling. This distinctive…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Ali Sufyan , Brahim Marfoua , J. Andreas Larsson , Erik van Loon , Rickard Armiento

Rare-earth magnets with parent cubic symmetry exhibit unique topological properties. However, the origin of these behaviors remains presently unclear. Here, we develop minimal models for Dirac semimetals (DSMs) with accidental band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-18 Shouvik Sur , Chandan Setty

Understanding of the exotic quantum phenomena in bulk bismuth beyond its ultraquantum limit still remains controversial and gives rise to a renewed interest. The focus of the issues is whether these quantum properties have a conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Wei Ning , Fengyu Kong , Chuanying Xi , David Graf , Haifeng Du , Yuyan Han , Jiyong Yang , Kun Yang , Mingliang Tian , Yuheng Zhang

Antiferromagnets hosting real-space topological spin textures are promising platforms to model fundamental ultrafast phenomena and explore spintronics. However, to date, they have only been fabricated epitaxially on specific…

The contribution of bulk and surface to the electrical resistance along crystallographic \textit{b}- and \textit{c}-axes as a function of crystal thickness gives evidence for a temperature independent surface states in an antiferromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-21 Qianheng Du , Huixia Fu , Junzhang Ma , A. Chikina , M. Radovic , Binghai Yan , C. Petrovic