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X-ray circular dichroism, arising from the contrast in X-ray absorption between opposite photon helicities, serves as a spectroscopic tool to measure the magnetization of ferromagnetic materials and identify the handedness of chiral…

The research landscape of magnetism has been recently enriched by the discovery of altermagnetism. It is an unconventional phase of matter characterized by a d-wave (or higher even-parity-wave) collinear compensated spin ordering, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , P. Wadley , D. Kriegner , H. Reichlova , F. Krizek , H. Ohno , L. Smejkal

Altermagnets break a combination of time-reversal and rotational symmetries without generating a net magnetization. As such, the order parameter of $d$-wave altermagnets has the same symmetry as magnetic multipoles, and couples to the…

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

Altermagnetism is an emerging series of unconventional magnetic materials characterized by time-reversal symmetry breaking and spin-split bands in the momentum space with zero net magnetization. Metallic altermagnets offer unique advantages…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-20 Weiwei Sun , Mingzhuang Wang , Baisheng Sa , Shaui Dong , Carmine Autieri

Altermagnetism has so far mainly been understood in its even- and odd-parity forms. We show that collinear antiferromagnets with zero net magnetization can also host mixed-parity spin splitting, namely neither purely even nor purely odd in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Jin-Xin Hu , Song-Bo Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu , Zhongbo Yan

The advent of altermagnetism, a new phase of magnetism, has garnered significant interest due to its extraordinary spin-polarized electronic bands despite zero net magnetization. Such spin-symmetry-guided robust non-relativistic alternating…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-15 Anil Kumar Singh , Pritam Deb

Altermagnetism is a newly identified fundamental class of magnetism with vanishing net magnetization and time-reversal symmetry broken electronic structure. Probing the unusual electronic structure with nonrelativistic spin splitting would…

We present unconventional nodal crossings in a two-dimensional (2D) collinear altermagnet, which are enforced by crystal symmetries to lock spin polarization and valley degrees of freedom. The altermagnetism generate nonrelativistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Zhang Meng-Han , Guo Xuan , Dao-Xin Yao

Altermagnetism (AM), the recently discovered third class of collinear magnetic order, is characterized by non-relativistic momentum-dependent spin-split electronic structure with compensated zero net magnetization. It can arise from the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-02 Jin-Wei Dong , Yu-Han Lin , Ruiqing Fu , Xianxin Wu , Gang Su , Ziqiang Wang , Sen Zhou

Altermagnets are a new class of magnets accompanying global time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB) without net magnetization. The TRSB results in formation of novel altermagnetic domains. Features of altermagnetic domains, in particular…

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 feature vanishing net magnetization, like antiferromagnets, but exhibit time-reversal symmetry breaking and momentum-dependent spin-split band structures. Motivated by the prevalence of altermagnetic materials with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-10 Mercè Roig , Andreas Kreisel , Yue Yu , Brian M. Andersen , Daniel F. Agterberg

Altermagnetism, a newly discovered magnetic order, combines zero net magnetization with non-relativistic spin splitting of electronic bands. Its ability to utilize the advantages of both antiferromagnets and ferromagnets is highly promising…

Altermagnets are crystallographic rotational symmetry breaking spin-ordered states, possessing a net zero magnetization despite manifesting Kramer's non-degenerate bands. Here, we show that momentum-independent local spin nematic orders in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Sanjib Kumar Das , Bitan Roy

Altermagnets, a distinct class of antiferromagnets with electronic structures resembling those of d-wave superconductors, exhibit intriguing properties that have gained significant attention in recent research. In this article, we propose…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-04 Ali Asgharpour , Bert Koopmans , Rembert A. Duine

Altermagnets are defined as magnetic states with fully compensated spin angular momenta (spins) and broken PT (P: parity, T: time reversal, PT: parity times time reversal) symmetry. We classify three kinds of altermagnets: M-type: broken T…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-19 Sang-Wook Cheong , Fei-Ting Huang

Recently, a new class of magnetic phenomenon, called altermagnetism, was proposed where the underlying spin configuration resembles antiferromagnetic structure, but the system violates \textbf{PT} (PT: Parity times Time reversal) symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-25 Deepak K. Singh , Sang-Wook Cheong , Jiasen Guo

This article is dedicated to the 60-th anniversary of the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics and presents a review of normal and superconducting properties of toroidal, altermagnetic, and noncentrosymmetric metals. Metals with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-05 V. P. Mineev

Altermagnets are an emerging class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and zero net magnetization. These materials can be broadly classified into two categories based on the behavior of spin splitting at…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 Dongling Liu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Di Zhu , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan