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We theoretically study the interplay between bulk Weyl electrons and magnetic topological defects, including magnetic domains, domain walls, and $\mathbb{Z}_6$ vortex lines, in the antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetals \mnsn\ and Mn$_3$Ge with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Jianpeng Liu , Leon Balents

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

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

We present an extensive density functional theory study of the electronic, magnetic and transport properties of GaAs and AlAs digital ferromagnetic heterostructures. These can be obtained by $\delta$-doping with Mn the GaAs layers of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Sanvito

Switching magnetism using only electricity is of great significance for industrial applications but remains challenging. We find that, altermagnetism, as a newly discovered unconventional magnetism, may open an avenue along this effort.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Yiyuan Chen , Xiaoxiong Liu , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Altermagnetism, as a new category of collinear magnetism distinct from traditional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, exhibits the spin splitting without net magnetization. Currently, researchers are focus on searching three-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-26 Hanbo Sun , Pengqiang Dong , Chao Wu , Ping Li

The development of altermagnets is fundamentally important for advancing spintronic device technology, but remains unpractical for the weak spin splitting in most cases, especially in two-dimensional materials. Based on spin group symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Xinyu Yang , Shan-Shan Wang , Shuai Dong

$\alpha\textrm{-MnTe}$ is a p-type semiconducting altermagnet with a N\'eel temperature near $300\thinspace\textrm{K}$. Due to the altermagnetic nature, $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry is broken, and Kramers degeneracy is lifted in the valence band…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-08 Bao-Feng Chen , Jie-Xiang Yu , Gen Yin

The altermagnet candidate Mn5Si3 has attracted wide attention in the context of non-relativistic spin physics, due to its composition of light elements. However, the presumed structure of the altermagnetic phase had yet to be demonstrated.…

Magnetodynamical properties of nanomagnets are affected by the demagnetizing fields created by the same nanoelements. In addition, magnetocrystalline anisotropy produces an effective field that also contributes to the spin dynamics. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Vegard Flovik , Ferran Macià , Joan Manel Hernàndez , Rimantas Brucas , Maj Hanson , Erik Wahlstrôm

The ability to probe a materials electromechanical functionality on the nanoscale is critical to applications from energy storage and computing to biology and medicine. Voltage modulated atomic force microscopy (VM-AFM) has become a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Liam Collins , Yongtao Liu , Olga Ovchinnikova , Roger Proksch

Short-range magnetic correlations can significantly increase the thermopower of magnetic semiconductors, representing a noteworthy development in the decades-long effort to develop high-performance thermoelectric materials. Here, we reveal…

Gaining growing attention in spintronics is a class of magnets displaying zero net magnetization and spin-split electronic bands called altermagnets. Here, by combining density functional theory and symmetry analysis, we show that RuF$_4$…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-19 Marko Milivojević , Marko Orozović , Silvia Picozzi , Martin Gmitra , Srdjan Stavrić

Altermagnetism (AM) and its associated spin-transport phenomena are typically linked to spin-split electronic band structures in bulk materials. However, the crystal surface has a reduced symmetry with respect to the bulk, which can induce…

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

The interest in understanding scaling limits of magnetic textures such as domain walls spans the entire field of magnetism from its relativistic quantum fundamentals to applications in information technologies. The traditional focus of the…

Altermagnets offer a route to spin-polarized electronic states without macroscopic magnetization, because compensated magnetic order can generate momentum-dependent spin splitting through crystal-symmetry-controlled exchange fields.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Yi-Fei Jiang , Jia-Xuan Guo , Zhen Zhang , Xin-Wei Yi , Jing-Yang You

Nano/micro-scale mechanical properties of multiferroic materials can be controlled by the external magnetic or electric field due to the coupling interaction. For the first time, a modularized multi-field nanoindentation apparatus for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-06-25 Hao Zhou , Yongmao Pei , Hu Huang , Hongwei Zhao , Faxin Li , Daining Fang

Altermagnetism, a new phase of collinear spin-order sharing similarities with antiferromagnets and ferromagnets, has introduced a new guiding principle for spintronic/thermoelectric applications due to its direction-dependent magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Samuele Giuli , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Massimo Capone

Altermagnetism -a magnetic state characterized by spin-polarized electronic bands at zero net magnetization- offers a promising route for next-generation spintronic devices. In two-dimensional (2D) magnets, twist engineering enables its…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Alberto M. Ruiz , Andrei Shumilin , Rafael González-Hernández , José J. Baldoví

Altermagnets constitute a novel, third fundamental class of collinear magnetic ordered materials, alongside with ferro- and antiferromagnets. They share with conventional antiferromagnets the feature of a vanishing net magnetization. At the…