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$\alpha$-MnTe, an $A$-type collinear antiferromagnet, has recently attracted significant attention due to its pronounced spin splitting despite having net zero magnetization, a phenomenon unique for a new class of magnetism dubbed…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-12 Koichiro Takahashi , Hong-Fei Huang , Jie-Xiang Yu , Jiadong Zang

We consider a model of strongly correlated $e_g$ electrons interacting by superexchange orbital interactions in the ferromagnetic phase of LaMnO$_3$. It is found that the classical orbital order with alternating occupied $e_g$ orbitals has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Jeroen van den Brink , Peter Horsch , Frank Mack , Andrzej M. Oles

Spin textures are ubiquitous in antiferromagnets, yet their consequences for altermagnets remain largely unexplored. We show that smooth spatial variations of the N\'eel order act on itinerant electrons as emergent gauge fields, producing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Andrea Maiani

Altermagnetism (AM), the recently discovered third class of collinear magnetic order, is characterized by non-relativistic momentum-dependent spin-split electronic structure with compensated zero net magnetization. It can arise from the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-02 Jin-Wei Dong , Yu-Han Lin , Ruiqing Fu , Xianxin Wu , Gang Su , Ziqiang Wang , Sen Zhou

We explore the possibilities for spin-singlet superconductivity in newly discovered altermagnets. Investigating $d$-wave altermagnets, we show that finite-momentum superconductivity can easily emerge in altermagnets even though they have no…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-29 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Efficient transport of spin and orbital moments, and their electrical detection, are among the main challenges in spintronics and orbitronics. In magnetic insulators, these currents are mediated by magnons. In addition to carrying spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Sankar Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

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

Antiferromagnets offer an attractive platform for spintronics due to their absence of net magnetization and ultrafast spin dynamics, yet their intrinsically spin-compensated electronic structure has traditionally limited their active role…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-23 Joel Bobadilla , Alberto Camjayi

Spatially extended localized spins can interact via indirect exchange interaction through Friedel oscillations in the Fermi sea. In arrays of localized spins such interaction can lead to a magnetically ordered phase. Without external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-08 C. Siegert , A. Ghosh , M. Pepper , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , D. Anderson , G. A. C. Jones

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

Altermagnets (AMs) - magnetic materials that have spin-split bandstructure with zero net spin polarization can be classified as weak or strong depending upon the strength of altermagnetic term in the Hamiltonian. We theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Shubham Ghadigaonkar , Sachchidanand Das , Abhiram Soori

In experiments and applications usually the spin magnetic moment of magnons is considered. In this Paper we identify an additional degree of freedom of magnons: an \emph{orbital} magnetic moment brought about by spin-orbit coupling.Our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-16 Robin R. Neumann , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

We consider a 1 1/2degrees of freedom Hamiltonian dynamical system, which models the chaotic dynamics of charged test-particles in a turbulent electric field, across the confining magnetic field in controlled thermonuclear fusion devices.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Natalia Tronko , Michel Vittot , Cristel Chandre , Philippe Ghendrih , Guido Ciraolo

Altermagnets constitute a new class of magnetic materials that combine properties previously thought to be exclusive to either antiferromagnets or ferromagnets, and have unique properties of their own. In particular, a combination of…

We present a theory of magnetotransport through an electronic orbital, where the electron spin interacts with a (sufficiently) large external spin via an exchange interaction. Using a semiclassical approximation, we derive a set of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Klemens Mosshammer , Tobias Brandes

When electrons are driven through unconventional magnetic structures, such as skyrmions, they experience emergent electromagnetic fields that originate several Hall effects. Independently, ground state emergent magnetic fields can also lead…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-23 Manuel dos Santos Dias , Juba Bouaziz , Mohammed Bouhassoune , Stefan Blügel , Samir Lounis

Magnons, as the most elementary excitations of magnetic materials, have recently emerged as a prominent tool in electrical and thermal manipulation and transport of spin, and magnonics as a field is considered as one of the pillars of…

Rich properties of systems with strongly correlated electrons, such as transition metal oxides, is largely connected with an interplay of different degrees of freedom in them: charge, spin, orbital ones, as well as crystal lattice. Specific…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 D. I. Khomskii

Controlling the magnetic properties of nanosystems by an electric field offers a number of advantages for spintronics applications. Using the noncollinear Alexander-Anderson model, we have shown that the interaction of localized magnetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Yaxin Sun , I. S. Lobanov , Jiahao Su , Ho-Kin Tang , V. M. Uzdin

Altermagnets are an emergent class of materials combining features of ferro- and antiferro-magnetic materials. They have spin-separated bands normally associated with ferromagnets, but a vanishing net magnetization. Moreover the symmetries…