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Owing to their relevance for spintronics, electronic band splitting and spin-polarization textures in magnets are active areas of research. In non-collinear magnets, alternating spin textures can arise both for isolated bands and for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Moritz M. Hirschmann , Akira Furusaki , Max Hirschberger

We predict the occurrence of metastable skyrmionic spin structures such as antiskyrmions and higher-order skyrmions in ultra-thin transition-metal films at surfaces using Monte Carlo simulations based on a spin Hamiltonian parametrized from…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-22 Bertrand Dupé , Christian N. Kruse , Tobias Dornheim , Stefan Heinze

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

Altermagnetism simultaneously possesses nonrelativistic spin responses and zero net magnetization, thus combining advantages of ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. This superiority originates from its unique dual feature, i.e.,…

``Unconventional magnetism" was proposed to describe the exotic states arising from Landau-Pomeranchuk instabilities in the spin channel nearly two decades ago. Its odd-partial-wave-channel (e.g. $p$-wave) states break parity giving rise to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-22 Jian-Keng Yuan , Zhiming Pan , Congjun Wu

We investigate how to engineer an antisymmetric spin-split band structure under spin density waves with finite ordering wave vectors in centrosymmetric systems without the relativistic spin-orbit coupling. On the basis of a perturbative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-04 Satoru Hayami

Altermagnets are collinear antiferromagnets with spin-split electronic states. We introduce Ruddlesden-Popper chromates Sr$_{n+1}$Cr$_n$O$_{3n+1}$ (including SrCrO$_3$) as candidate materials in which altermagnetism can emerge from…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-23 Quintin N. Meier , Alberto Carta , Claude Ederer , Andres Cano

Altermagnetism, a recently proposed and experimentally confirmed class of magnetic order, features collinear compensated magnetism with unconventional d-, g-, or i-wave spin order. Here, we show that in a metallic 2D d-wave altermagnet with…

The interplay of antiferromagnetic order, momentum-dependent Bloch spin-splitting, time-reversal (T), and parity (P) symmetries in non-relativistic systems has emerged as a central theme for spintronics. Two well-known examples are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Yue Yu , Jin Matsuda , Hikaru Watanabe , Ryotaro Arita , Daniel F. Agterberg

Spin pumping in a ferromagnet/nonferromagnet heterostructure is directly imaged with spatial resolution as well as element selectivity. The time-resolved detection in scanning transmission x-ray microscopy allows to directly probe the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 S. Pile , M. Buchner , V. Ney , T. Schaffers , K. Lenz , R. Narkowicz , J. Lindner , H. Ohldag , A. Ney

Altermagnets represent a recently discovered class of collinear magnets, characterized by antiparallel neighboring magnetic moments and alternating-sign spin polarization in momentum-space($k$-space). However, experimental methods for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Rui Chen , Zi-Ming Wang , Hai-Peng Sun , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

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 report the emergence of an uncharted phenomenon, termed $d$-wave polarization-spin locking (PSL), in two-dimensional (2D) altermagnets. This phenomenon arises from nontrivial Berry connections, resulting in perpendicular electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Zhao Liu , Nikhil V. Medhekar

It has recently been realized that magnetic systems with coplanar magnetic order that are invariant under the combined operation of time-reversal and translation with half a unit cell feature energy bands with a symmetry-protected p-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Erik Wegner Hodt , Hendrik Bentmann , Jacob Linder

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

Following recent intensive studies on altermagnetism(ALM) characterized by non-relativistic even-parity spin splitting, realizing unconventional odd-parity magnetism has also attracted increasing interest. Here, using symmetry arguments…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-02 Minghuan Zeng , Zheng Qin , Ling Qin , Shiping Feng , Lin Wu , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

The spin polarization (P) of high-density InSb two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) has been measured using both parallel and tilted magnetic fields. P is found to exhibit a superlinear increase with the total field B. This P-B…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-18 K. F. Yang , H. W. Liu , T. D. Mishima , M. B. Santos , K. Nagase , Y. Hirayama

We introduce the concept of \emph{orbital altermagnetism}, a symmetry-protected magnetic order of pure orbital degrees of freedom. It is characterized with ordered anti-parallel orbital magnetic moments in real space but momentum-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Mingxiang Pan , Feng Liu , Huaqing Huang

Momentum-dependent spin splitting and its relation to inversion ($P$) and time-reversal ($T$) symmetries are central to nonrelativistic spintronics. Representative examples include collinear altermagnets with $(P,T)=(+,-)$ and non-collinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Yue Yu

New unconventional compensated magnets with a $p$-wave spin polarization protected by a composite time-reversal translation symmetry have been proposed in the wake of altermagnets. To facilitate the experimental discovery and applications…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Bjørnulf Brekke , Pavlo Sukhachov , Hans Gløckner Giil , Arne Brataas , Jacob Linder