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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

The spin of the electron has been a key enabler to realize spintronics devices that harness the spin degree of freedom beyond conventional charge-based electronics. In addition to spin, electrons have another degree of freedom associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Shunsuke Fukami , Kyung-Jin Lee , Mathias Kläui

Altermagnetism has emerged as a third type of collinear magnetism. In contrast to standard ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, altermagnets exhibit extra even-parity wave spin order parameters resulting in a spin-splitting of electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Valentin Leeb , Alexander Mook , Libor Šmejkal , Johannes Knolle

Emergent electrodynamics arising from spatially and temporally varying magnetic textures provides a framework for spin control in quantum materials. While this principle is established for ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic textures, its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Constantin Schrade , Mathias S. Scheurer

Altermagnets constitute a class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and vanishing net magnetization. Direct observation of the characteristic altermagnetic spin splitting, however, remains challenging. Indirect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Arsen Herasymchuk , Karl Bergson Hallberg , Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder , E. V. Gorbar , Pavlo Sukhachov

Altermagnet is a newly discovered magnetic phase, characterized by non-relativistic spin-splitting that has been experimentally observed. Here, we introduce a framework dubbed {\it spin-orbital altermagnetism} to achieve spin-orbital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-22 Zi-Ming Wang , Yang Zhang , Song-Bo Zhang , Jin-Hua Sun , Elbio Dagotto , Dong-Hui Xu , Lun-Hui Hu

Electrical manipulation of lattice, charge, and spin has been realized respectively by the piezoelectric effect, field-effect transistor, and electric field control of ferromagnetism, bringing about dramatic promotions both in fundamental…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-27 Bin Cui , Cheng Song , Gillian A. Gehring , Fan Li , Guangyue Wang , Chao Chen , Jingjing Peng , Haijun Mao , Fei Zeng , Feng Pan

The recent interest in non-Hermitian (NH) systems has significantly broadened their application across condensed matter physics, offering a unique framework to explore out-of-equilibrium phenomena. Simultaneously, altermagnets have emerged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 J. H. Correa , M. P. Nowak , A. Pezo

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

Altermagnets is a class of antiferromagnetic materials which has electron bands with lifted spin degeneracy in momentum space but vanishing net magnetization and no stray magnetic fields. Because of these properties, altermagnets have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Erik Wegner Hodt , Pavlo Sukhachov , Jacob Linder

Altermagnets recently came into the spotlight as a new class of magnetic materials, arising as a consequence of specific crystal symmetries. They are characterized by a spin-polarized electronic band structure similar to ferromagnets, but…

Altermagnetism has recently emerged as a new class of spin compensated magnetic materials that exhibit momentum dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. The origin of these electronic signatures lies in symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Diego López-Alcalá , Andrei Shumilin , José J. Baldoví

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

Antiferromagnets (AFM) with a nonrelativistic spin splitting (NSS) of electronic bands expand the range of spin-dependent phenomena and their applications. A crucial understanding for both of them pertains to the inherent spin dynamics. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Konstantin S. Denisov , Igor Žutić

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

Antiferromagnetic spintronics is an emerging research field whose focus is on the electrical and optical control of the antiferromagnetic order parameter and its utility in information technology devices. An example of recently discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

Effective dynamics of conduction electrons in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials with slowly varying spin texture is developed via non-Abelian gauge theory. Quite different from the ferromagnetic (FM) case, the spin of a conduction electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ran Cheng , Qian Niu

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

We develop a mesoscale transport theory for the charge and spin degrees of freedom of itinerant carriers in a $d$-wave altermagnet. Our effective Lagrangian description is built upon the slave-boson formulation of the microscopic $t-J$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Ricardo Zarzuela , Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo , Olena Gomonay , Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova

The emergent electric field (EEF) is a fictitious electric field acting on conduction electrons through the Berry phase mechanism. The EEF is generated by the dynamics of noncollinear spin configurations and becomes nonzero even in one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Kotaro Shimizu , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome
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