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Altermagnetism is characterized by even-parity spin-momentum locking in spin-split bands despite zero net magnetization and negligible spin-orbit coupling. Here, we formulate a microscopic framework that links altermagnetic splitting in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Yixuan Che , Peibo Xu , Haifeng Lv , Xiaojun Wu , Jinlong Yang

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

We demonstrate the occurrence of nodal non-Hermitian (NH) phases featuring exceptional degeneracies in chiral-symmetric disordered quantum wires, where NH physics naturally arises from the self-energy in a disorder-averaged Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Benjamin Michen , Tommaso Micallo , Jan Carl Budich

Altermagnets are compensated collinear magnets that break time-reversal symmetry without net magnetization, enabling unconventional magneto-optical responses. Here, altermagnetic X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) is experimentally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-03 Y. Ishii , N. Sasabe , Y. Yamasaki

The possibility of a zero temperature, altermagnetic instability in anisotropic two dimensional electron systems in the diffusive regime is analyzed, in the presence and absence of spin-orbit coupling. Allowing for ferromagnetism, a phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Alberto Cortijo

Recent years have seen remarkable development in open quantum systems effectively described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. A unique feature of non-Hermitian topological systems is the skin effect, anomalous localization of an extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-14 Kohei Kawabata , Tokiro Numasawa , Shinsei Ryu

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

The recent discovery of altermagnets, which exhibit spin splitting without net magnetization, opens new directions for spintronics beyond the limits of ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, and spin orbit coupled systems. We investigate spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Pei-Hao Fu , Qianqian Lv , Yong Xu , Jorge Cayao , Jun-Feng Liu , Xiang-Long Yu

Considering the similarity of the real-space configurations for the opposite spin sublattices in both antiferromagnets (AFM) and altermagnets (AM), the relationship between them should be profound. In this work, we demonstrate that AFM and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-16 P. Zhou , X. N. Peng , Y. Z. Hu , B. R. Pan , S. M. Liu , Pengbo Lyu , L. Z. Sun

We predict the existence of anisotropic spin-transfer torque effect in textured altermagnets. To this end, we generalize the Zhang-Li torque to incorporate the symmetry associated with prototypical $d$-wave altermagnets and identify the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Hamed Vakili , Edward Schwartz , Alexey A. Kovalev

Altermagnetic (AM) materials exhibit non-relativistic, momentum-dependent spin-split states, ushering in new opportunities for spin electronic devices. While the characteristics of spin-splitting have been documented within the framework of…

Non-Hermitian models describe the physics of ubiquitous open systems with gain and loss. One intriguing aspect of non-Hermitian models is their inherent topology that can produce intriguing boundary phenomena like resilient higher-order…

Altermagnetism, featuring momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization, has attracted a growing interest for spintronics. We study a Fermi Hubbard model with altermagnetic order arising from the spin-anisotropic hopping near…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-20 Jianyu Li , Ji Liu , Xiaosen Yang , Ho-Kin Tang

Governed by specific symmetries, altermagnetism is an emerging field in condensed matter physics, characterized by unique spin-splitting of the bands in the momentum space co-existing with the compensated magnetization as in…

Non-Hermitian skin effect exhibits the collapse of the extended bulk modes into the extensive number of localized boundary states in open boundary conditions. Here we demonstrate the disorder-driven phase transition of the trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Kyoung-Min Kim , Moon Jip Park

The discovery of topological phases in non-Hermitian open classical and quantum systems challenges our current understanding of topological order. Non-Hermitian systems exhibit unique features with no counterparts in topological Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Stefano Longhi

Altermagnetism is a novel magnetic phase combining characteristics of both antiferromagnetism and ferromagnetic ordering. Despite growing theoretical interest in altermagnetic materials, reports of experimentally verified high Neel…

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

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…

Non-Hermiticity enriches the contents of topological classification of matter including exceptional points, bulk-edge correspondence and skin effect. Gain and loss can be described by imaginary diagonal elements in Hamiltonians and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 X. L. Zhao , L. B. Chen , L. B. Fu , X. X. Yi