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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…

Altermagnets are a novel class of magnetic systems characterized by their momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization. In this work, we extend established Euclidean tight-binding models of altermagnets to regular hyperbolic…

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The altermagnetism with antiparallel spin alignment exhibits anisotropic spin splitting and may possess an insulating state with a high Neel temperature, while the charge-order-induced ferroelectricity has ultrafast electric polarization…

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The recent discovery of altermagnetism has sparked growing interest in compensated magnetic systems as promising platforms for highly scalable spintronics. Altermagnetism is a distinct magnetic order where opposite spin sublattices are…

Altermagnetism, a recently discovered magnetic phase characterized by spin-split bands without net magnetization, has emerged as promising platform for novel physics and potential applications. However, its stability against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Chang-An Li , Bo Fu , Huaiming Guo , Björn Trauzettel , Song-Bo Zhang

Electrides are special ionic solids with excess cavity-trapped electrons serving as anions. Despite the extensive studies on electrides, the interplay between electrides and magnetism is not well understood due to the lack of stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-22 Xuelei Sui , Jianfeng Wang , Wenhui Duan

Materials in which electrons occupy interstitial sites as anions are called electrides and exhibit unusual dimensionality-dependent electronic behavior. These properties make electrides attractive for catalysis, transparent conductors, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-01 Lee A. Burton

Nanoscale detection and control of the magnetic order underpins a broad spectrum of fundamental research and practical device applications. The key principle involved is the breaking of time-reversal ($\cal{T}$) symmetry, which in…

Altermagnetism, as a new branch of magnetism independent of traditional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, has attracted extensive attention recently. At present, researchers have proved several kinds of three-dimensional altermagnets,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-13 Wencong Sun , Haoshen Ye , Li Liang , Ning Ding , Shuai Dong , Shan-shan Wang

Altermagnetism has been recently experimentally verified by photoemission mapping of the spin order in momentum space in MnTe and CrSb, which feature two anisotropic sublattices with antiparallel magnetic dipole moments. In this work, we…

The newly discovered altermagnets are unconventional collinear compensated magnetic systems, exhibiting even (d, g, or i-wave) spin-polarization order in the band structure, setting them apart from conventional collinear ferromagnets and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-02 Atasi Chakraborty , Rafael González Hernández , Libor šmejkal , Jairo Sinova

Net-zero-magnetization magnets are attracting significant research interest, driven by their potential for ultrahigh density and ultrafast performance. Among these materials, the altermagnets possess alternating spin-splitting band…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-01 San-Dong Guo

Altermagnets have attracted considerable attention in recent years owing to their potential technological applications in spintronics and magnonics. Recently, a new class of spontaneous altermagnets has been theoretically predicted in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-02 Nitin Kaushal , Adarsh S. Patri , Marcel Franz

Altermagnetism, an emergent magnetic phase featuring compensated collinear magnetic moments and momentum-dependent spin splittings, has recently garnered widespread interest. A critical issue concerns whether the unconventional spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Wen-Ti Guo , Junqi Xu , Yurong Yang , Haijun Zhang , Huaiqiang Wang

Two dimensional (2D) magnets have emerged as a compelling platform for spin based nanoelectronics, enabling atomic scale control of magnetic order, interfaces, quantum geometry, and symmetry. Here, we highlight recent advances in 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Bing Zhao , Roselle Ngaloy , Lalit Pandey , Himanshu Bangar , Divya P. Dubey , Saroj P. Dash

Synergizing altermagnetism and other ferroic orders, such as ferroelectric switchable altermagnetism [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106801 (2025) and ibid. 106802 (2025)], offers an effective route to achieve nonvolatile switching of altermagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-15 Rui Peng , Shibo Fang , Pin Ho , Tong Zhou , Junwei Liu , Yee Sin Ang

Altermagnetic materials combine compensated magnetic order with momentum-dependent spin splitting, offering a fundamentally new route for spintronic functionality beyond conventional ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. While most studies…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 J. W. González , T. Brumme , E. Suárez Morell , A. M. León

Altermagnetism represents a type of collinear magnetism, that is in some aspects distinct from ferromagnetism and from conventional antiferromagnetism. In contrast to the latter, sublattices of opposite spin are related by spatial rotations…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-26 Purnendu Das , Valentin Leeb , Johannes Knolle , Michael Knap

Two-dimensional metallic altermagnets are rare, and no correlated 2D material has been established to host large nonrelativistic spin splitting. Here we show that spontaneous orbital order, driven by electronic correlations and Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Nirmalya Jana , Atasi Chakraborty , Anamitra Mukherjee , Amit Agarwal