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We demonstrate a deterministic switching mechanism in collinear altermagnets driven by asymmetric sublattice spin currents. Unlike conventional antiferromagnets, where combined parity-time-reversal symmetry enforces purely staggered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Sayan Sarkar , Sunit Das , Amit Agarwal

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

Unconventional magnetism represents a paradigm shift in condensed matter physics, effectively bridging the fast, high-density advantages of antiferromagnets with the facile read-write capability of ferromagnets. Recent developments in spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiaobing Chen , Weizhao Chen , Qihang Liu

Altermagnet is a class of antiferromagnets, which shows a staggered spin ordering with wave vector ${\bm q}=0$, while its net magnetization is canceled out in the limit of zero relativistic spin-orbit coupling. The simplest case is when the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-19 Makoto Naka , Yukitoshi Motome , Hitoshi Seo

Contrary to prior calculations, the Ni-rich ordered structures of the Cr-Ni alloy system are found to be antiferromagnetic under semi-local density-functional theory. The optimization of local magnetic moments significantly increases the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-23 Flynn Walsh , Robert O. Ritchie , Mark Asta

Quasiparticles are central to condensed matter physics, but their stability can be undermined by quantum many-body interactions. Magnons, quasiparticles in quantum magnets, are particularly intriguing because their properties are governed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-25 Rintaro Eto , Matthias Gohlke , Jairo Sinova , Masahito Mochizuki , Alexander L. Chernyshev , Alexander Mook

Oxide thin films and interfaces with strong spin-orbit coupling have recently shown exceptionally high charge-to-spin conversion, making them potential spin-source materials for spintronics. Epitaxial strain engineering using oxide…

The recent research interests in the non-relativistic spin splitting of electronic band structures have led to the exploration of altermagnets and other compensated magnets. Here, we show that various types of non-relativistic spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-03 Yunsong Liu , Yanlong Liu , Xuefei Wang , Nan Xia , Guifang Xu , Yi Wang , Haifeng Wang , Weiwei Gao , Jijun Zhao

Antiferromagnets are magnetically ordered materials which exhibit no net moment and thus are insensitive to magnetic fields. Antiferromagnetic spintronics aims to take advantage of this insensitivity for enhanced stability, while at the…

Noncentrosymmetric materials are promising paradigm to explore unconventional superconductivity. In particular, several Re containing noncentrosymmetric materials have attracted considerable attention due to a superconducting state with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-17 Sajilesh K. P. , K. Motala , P. K. Meena , A. Kataria , C. Patra , A. D. Hillier , R. P. Singh

Ferromagnetic quantum criticality in clean metals has proven elusive due to fermionic soft modes that drive the transition first order. We show that non-centrosymmetric metals with a strong spin-orbit interaction provide a promising class…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-15 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

Strong correlations, multiple lattice degrees of freedom, and the ease of doping make complex oxides a source of great research interest. Complex oxide heterointerfaces break inversion symmetry and can host a two dimensional carrier gas,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-15 V. V. Bal , Z. Huang , K. Han , Ariando , T. Venkatesan , V. Chandrasekhar

Performing an exact diagonalization of the effective spin problem, a ferromagnetic ground state of kinetic origin is shown to emerge in a system of $N$ strongly correlated electrons on a $L$-site ring ($L > N$). This phenomenon is brought…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-13 Ilya Ivantsov , Hernan B. Xavier , Alvaro Ferraz , Evgenii Kochetov

The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T_1_ is calculated for magnetic ring clusters by fully diagonalizing their microscopic spin Hamiltonians. Whether the nearest-neighbor exchange interaction J is ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Shoji Yamamoto , Toshiya Hikihara

Altermagnets, magnetic materials with zero magnetization and spin-split band structure, have gained tremendous attention recently for their rich physics and potential applications. Here, we report on a microscopic tight-binding model that…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-01 Marc Vila , Veronika Sunko , Joel E. Moore

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

We employ the combination of the density functional and the dynamical mean-field theory (LDA+DMFT) to investigate the electronic structure and magnetic properties of SrCoO3, monocrystal of which were prepared recently. Our calculations lead…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-25 J. Kuneš , V. Křápek , N. Parragh , G. Sangiovanni , A. Toschi , A. V. Kozhevnikov

The spin-dependent transport properties of paramagnetic metals are roughly invariant under rotation. By contrast, in ferromagnetic materials the magnetization breaks the rotational symmetry, and thus the spin Hall effect is expected to…

We investigate spin-rectification phenomena in canted antiferromagnets, closely connected to the family of altermagnetic materials. Our results show that excitation efficiency is significantly enhanced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 A. El Kanj , S. Mantion , I. Boventer , P. Bortolotti , V. Cros , A. Anane , O. Gomonay , R. Lebrun

Beyond conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, altermagnetism is a recently discovered unconventional magnetic phase characterized by time-reversal symmetry breaking and spin-split band structures in materials with zero net…