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Perpendicular switching of a ferromagnet induced by spin torques is crucial for building high density spin-based memory and logic devices, where out-of-plane spin polarization ($\sigma_z$) has become a long sought-after goal for…

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As electrical control of N\'eel order opens the door to reliable antiferromagnetic spintronic devices, understanding the microscopic mechanisms of antiferromagnetic switching is crucial. Spatially-resolved studies are necessary to…

We demonstrate that an all-antiferromagnetic tunnel junction with current perpendicular to the plane geometry can be used as an efficient spintronics device with potential high frequency operation. By using state-of-the-art density…

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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

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

Current-induced spin generations are of significant importance for electrically controllable magnetization. Due to symmetry constraints, linear spin generation is absent in centrosymmetric magnets and nonlinear contributions become crucial.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Jie Zhang , Ruijing Fang , Zhichao Zhou , Xiao Li

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

The recent proposal of altermagnetism has drawn widespread attention to antiferromagnet (AFM) exhibiting spin splitting, extending beyond the realm of sign-alternating spin splitting in momentum space protected solely by rotational…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-01 Fangqi Liu , Yanrong Song , Zhenhua Zhang , Yong Liu , Sicong Zhu , Zhihong Lu , Rui Xiong

Electric currents carrying a net spin polarization are widely used in spintronics, whereas globally spin-neutral currents are expected to play no role in spin-dependent phenomena. Here we show that, in contrast to this common expectation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Ding-Fu Shao , Shu-Hui Zhang , Ming Li , Chang-Beom Eom , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Altermagnets are a novel class of materials that combine antiferromagnetic spin ordering with non-relativistic spin splitting (NRSS) in their band structure, making them promising candidates for spintronics applications without requiring…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Niklas Sicheler , Roberto Raimondi , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Lorenzo Del Re

Conventional spintronic mechanisms, such as spin-transfer and spin-orbit torques based on the spin current, rely on breaking time-reversal symmetry to manipulate magnetic moments. In contrast, for spatially separated dual spin currents, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Gengchen Meng Qi Sun , Zhicheng Xie , Yumin Yang , Yu Zhang , Na Lei , Dahai Wei

Altermagnetism is a newly identified magnetic phase, distinct from conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. It exhibits no net magnetization while breaking time-reversal symmetry. Although its momentum-space signatures are…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-22 Daran Fu , Liu Yang , Yi Shen , Kebin Xiao , Yuyang Wang , Wei Jiang , Zhiwei Wang , Yugui Yao , Qi-Kun Xue , Wei Li

Altermagnets constitute a class of collinear compensated N\'eel ordered magnets that break time-reversal symmetry and feature spin-split band structures. Based on versatile microscopic models able to capture the altermagnetic sublattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-08 Jannik Gondolf , Andreas Kreisel , Mercè Roig , Yue Yu , Daniel F. Agterberg , Brian M. Andersen

We establish a unified, symmetry-driven framework that combines the alternating spin splitting of altermagnets with valley topology to realize and electrically interconvert helical and chiral topological phases within a single material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Xianzhang Chen , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Jiahui Qian , Ziye Zhu , Igor Zutic , Zhenyu Zhang , Tong Zhou

The altermagnetism influences the electronic states allowing the presence of non-relativistic spinsplittings. Since altermagnetic spin-splitting is present along specific k-paths of the 3D Brillouin zone, we expect that the altermagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-14 Raghottam M Sattigeri , Giuseppe Cuono , Carmine Autieri

Antiferromagnets have garnered significant attention due to their negligible stray field and ultrafast magnetic dynamics, which are promising for high-density and ultrafast spintronic applications. Their dual functionality as both spin…

Altermagnets (AMs) are a recently identified class of unconventional collinear compensated antiferromagnets that exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This unconventional magnetic order gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-24 Bo Zhao , Fu Li , Wei Ren , Hao Wang , Hongbin Zhang

We theoretically predict a spin-current analog of the quantized circular photogalvanic effect in Weyl semimetals. This phenomenon is forbidden in antiferromagnets by symmetry but uniquely allowed in altermagnets, highlighting a novel and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Hiroki Yoshida , Jan Priessnitz , Libor Šmejkal , Shuichi Murakami

The hexagonal MnTe is a prime material candidate for altermagnets, an emerging class of magnetic compounds characterized by the nontrivial interplay of antiparallel spin arrangements with their underlying crystal structures. Recognizing…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-25 Ao Wu , Di Cheng , Xinyun Wang , Meng Zeng , Chang Liu , Xinwei Li

Altermagnetism, characterized by zero net magnetization and symmetry-protected spin-split band structures, has recently emerged as a promising platform for spintronics. In altermagnetic tunnel junctions (AMTJs), the suppression of tunneling…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-10 Xingyue Yang , Shibo Fang , Zongmeng Yang , Pin Ho , Jing Lu , Yee Sin Ang