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Compensated magnetic orders that can split the spin-degeneracy of electronic bands have become a very active field of research. As opposed to spin-orbit coupling, the splitting resulting from these "altermagnets" is not a small relativistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Saurav Sachin , Mathias S. Scheurer , Constantin Schrade , Sujit Manna

Altermagnets, with spin splitting and vanishing magnetization, have been attributed to many fascinating phenomena and potential applications. In particular, integrating ferroelectricity with altermagnetism to enable magnetoelectric coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Su-Huai Wei , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Altermagnetism has recently emerged as a new class of spin compensated magnetic materials that exhibit momentum dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. The origin of these electronic signatures lies in symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Diego López-Alcalá , Andrei Shumilin , José J. Baldoví

Nanoscale detection and control of the magnetic order underpins a broad spectrum of fundamental research and practical device applications. The key principle involved is the breaking of time-reversal ($\cal{T}$) symmetry, which in…

Antiferromagnetic materials could represent the future of spintronic applications thanks to the numerous interesting features they combine: they are robust against perturbation due to magnetic fields, produce no stray fields, display…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-20 V. Baltz , A. Manchon , M. Tsoi , T. Moriyama , T. Ono , Y. Tserkovnyak

The spontaneous magnetic orders arising in ferro-, ferri- and antiferromagnets stem from various magnetic interactions. Depending on the interplay and competition among the Heisenberg exchange interaction, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Haiming Yu , Jiang Xiao , Helmut Schultheiss

Altermagnets is a class of antiferromagnetic materials which has electron bands with lifted spin degeneracy in momentum space but vanishing net magnetization and no stray magnetic fields. Because of these properties, altermagnets have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Erik Wegner Hodt , Pavlo Sukhachov , Jacob Linder

Controlling the magnetic order of antiferromagnets is challenging due to their vanishing net magnetization. For this reason, the study of local spin textures in antiferromagnets is restricted by the difficulty in nucleating such states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Miina Leiviskä , Sarah Jenkins , Richard F. L. Evans , Daria Gusakova , Vincent Baltz

Altermagnetism is a collinear magnetic order in which opposite spin species are exchanged under a real-space rotation. Hence, the search for physical realizations has focussed on crystalline solids with specific rotational symmetry. Here,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-12 Peru d'Ornellas , Valentin Leeb , Adolfo G. Grushin , Johannes Knolle

Building on recent advancements in altermagnetism, we develop a highly-frustrated magnetic model with Kitaev-like interactions that integrates key aspects of both quantum spin liquids and altermagnets. While the ground state is a gapless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-14 Aayush Vijayvargia , Ezra Day-Roberts , Antia S. Botana , Onur Erten

Spin textures, i.e., the distribution of spin polarization vectors in reciprocal space, exhibit diverse patterns determined by symmetry constraints, resulting in a variety of spintronic phenomena. Here, we propose a universal theory to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-24 Yuntian Liu , Jiayu Li , Pengfei Liu , Qihang Liu

Proximity effects not only complement the conventional methods of designing materials, but also enable realizing properties that are not present in any constituent region of the considered heterostructure. Here we reveal an unexplored…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Ziye Zhu , Richang Huang , Xianzhang Chen , Zhou Cui , Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

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…

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

Altermagnets are a novel class of fully spin-compensated magnetic materials that nevertheless have spin-split electronic bands, offering novel perspectives for spintronics applications. Based on a rigorous analysis of altermagnetic…

Altermagnets constitute a class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and vanishing net magnetization. Direct observation of the characteristic altermagnetic spin splitting, however, remains challenging. Indirect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Arsen Herasymchuk , Karl Bergson Hallberg , Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder , E. V. Gorbar , Pavlo Sukhachov

Recently, a new magnetic phase, termed altermagnetism, has caught the attention of the magnetism and spintronics community. This newly discovered magnetic phenomenon differs from traditional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetic. It…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-10 R. Tamang , Shivraj Gurung , D. P. Rai , Samy Brahimi , Samir Lounis

Altermagnets exhibit spin-split electronic bandstructures despite having zero net magnetization, making them attractive for field-free spintronic applications. In this work, we show that a finite rectangular altermagnetic sample can acquire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Abhiram Soori

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

Altermagnetic materials combine compensated magnetic order with momentum-dependent spin splitting, offering a fundamentally new route for spintronic functionality beyond conventional ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. While most studies…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 J. W. González , T. Brumme , E. Suárez Morell , A. M. León