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The non-relativistic spin-momentum locking in altermagnets gives rise to a time-reversal-odd spin Hall effect, known as the altermagnetic spin-splitting effect (ASSE). Although ASSE was first reported in RuO$_2$, subsequent experiments have…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-13 Seungjun Lee , Seung Gyo Jeong , Jian-Ping Wang , Bharat Jalan , Tony Low

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

We present analytical results concerning the magneto-roton instability in higher Landau levels evaluated in the single mode approximation. The roton gap appears at a finite wave vector, which is approximately independent of the LL index n,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. O. Goerbig , C. Morais Smith

The interplay between magnetism and doping is at the origin of exotic strongly correlated electronic phases and can lead to novel forms of magnetic ordering. One example is the emergence of incommensurate spin-density waves with a wave…

The evolution of magnetic correlation in strongly correlated electron systems with altermagentic spin splitting remains largely unexplored. Here we investigate how spin splitting generated by spin-dependent next-nearest-neighbor hopping t'…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Yinlong Li , Rana Imran Mushtaq , Ji Liu , Wing Chi Yu , Xiaosen Yang , Cho-Tung Yip , Ho-Kin Tang

The magnetic groundstate of RuO$_2$ remains controversial, with experimental evidence for a nonmagnetic groundstate of ideal bulk material and indications of a magnetic state in strained thin films. Here, I investigate the N\'eel…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-18 Markus Meinert

RuO$_2$ is one of the most highlighted candidates for altermagnetism. However, the most recent muon spin spectroscopy and neutron studies demonstrated the absence of magnetic order in this system. The electronic structure of RuO$_2$ hints…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-04 Andriy Smolyanyuk , Libor Šmejkal , Igor I. Mazin

We develop an unrestricted Hartree-Fock mean-field method including Coulomb repulsion $U$, $V$ and spin-orbital coupling $\lambda$ self-consistently to investigate the mechanism of structural instability and magnetic ordering in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-23 Xuanye Zhang , Jinyu Zou , Gang Xu

Rutile RuO$_2$ has been posited as a potential $d$-wave altermagnetism candidate, with a predicted significant spin splitting up to 1.4 eV. Despite accumulating theoretical predictions and transport measurements, direct spectroscopic…

Initially identified as a promising altermagnetic (AM) candidate, rutile RuO$_2$ has since become embroiled in controversy due to contradictory findings of modeling and measurements of the magnetic properties of bulk crystals and thin…

We develop a dynamical mean-field theory approach for the spiral magnetic order, changing to a local coordinate frame with preferable spin alignment along the $z$-axis, which can be considered with the impurity solvers treating the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-06 I. A. Goremykin , A. A. Katanin

RuO$_2$ has been regarded as a prototypical candidate for metallic altermagnet, offering a potential platform for high-speed and high-efficiency spintronics. However, the magnetic ground state of RuO$_2$ remains a topic of active debate due…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-14 Ina Park , Dongwook Kim , Jisook Hong , Beomjoon Goh , Bo Gyu Jang

We study a two-dimensional single band Hubbard Hamiltonian with antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling. We argue that this is the minimal model to understand the electronic properties of locally non-centrosymmetric transition-metal (TM) oxides…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-30 Mehdi Biderang , Alireza Akbari , Jesko Sirker

RuO2, widely proposed as a prototypical altermagnet, remains intensely debated with regard to its magnetic nature. Here, we demonstrate that RuO2 is non-magnetic in the bulk, but possesses a spontaneous surface ferrimagnetic order. Using…

Inelastic neutron scattering provides a powerful probe of the magnetic excitations of quantum magnets. Altermagnets have recently emerged as a new class of magnets with vanishing net magnetization characteristic of antiferromagnets and with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-29 Thomas A. Maier , Satoshi Okamoto

The two-orbital Hubbard model for the pnictides is studied numerically using the real-space Hartree-Fock approximation on finite clusters. Upon electron doping, states with a nonuniform distribution of charge are stabilized. The observed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-09 Qinlong Luo , Dao-Xin Yao , Adriana Moreo , Elbio Dagotto

We study the emergence of altermagnetism from repulsive interactions for electrons on the Lieb lattice as a model of quasi-2D oxychalcogenides with the so-called "anti-CuO$_{2}$" lattice structure. A comprehensive study of the Lieb lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-25 Nitin Kaushal , Marcel Franz

The terminology "altermagnetism" has recently been adopted to describe collinear magnetic order with no net magnetization and non-relativisitic, momentum-dependent spin-splitting. The archetypal material used to theoretically explore…

Ruthenium oxide with the rutile structure is one of example of altermagnets. These systems are characterized by compensated magnetic moments (typical for antiferromagnets) and strong time reversal symmetry breaking (typical for…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-06 Andrzej Ptok

A general constructive procedure is presented for analyzing magnetic instabilities in two-dimensional materials, in terms of [predominantly] double nesting, and applied to Hartree-Fock HF+RPA and Gutzwiller approximation GA+RPA calculations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-07-25 R. S. Markiewicz , J. Lorenzana , G. Seibold , A. Bansil