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The detection of N\'eel vector switching in a single-layer A-type antiferromagnet marks an important step toward functional two-dimensional spintronics. Here, Cr$_2$S$_3$-2D, grown on graphene on Ir(110), is established as a first…

Non-relativistic spin--momentum locking in altermagnets exhibits an even number of nodal planes. In the relativistic limit, the number of nodal planes can be lowered by symmetry reduction due to the N\'eel vector and spin--orbit coupling in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-25 Xujia Gong , Amar Fakhredine , Sahar Izadi Vishkayi , Carmine Autieri

Altermagnets (AM) is a recently discovered class of collinear magnets that share some properties (anomalous transport, etc) with ferromagnets, some (zero net magnetization) with antiferromagnets, while also exhibiting unique properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-09 Andriy Smolyanyuk , Libor Šmejkal , Igor I. Mazin

Altermagnets provide promising platforms for unconventional magnetism, whose controllability would enable a whole new generation of spintronic devices. While a variety of bulk altermagnets have been discovered, altermagnetism in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-22 Luigi Camerano , Adolfo O. Fumega , Jose L. Lado , Alessandro Stroppa , Gianni Profeta

Materials which show a strong time-reversal symmetry-breaking response leading to spin-polarization phenomena, in conjunction with antiparallel magnetic alignments producing zero net magnetization, have recently been identified, classified,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-04 Wenhan Chen , Alyn D. N. James , Stephen B. Dugdale

The recent research interests in the non-relativistic spin splitting of electronic band structures have led to the exploration of altermagnets and other compensated magnets. Here, we show that various types of non-relativistic spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-03 Yunsong Liu , Yanlong Liu , Xuefei Wang , Nan Xia , Guifang Xu , Yi Wang , Haifeng Wang , Weiwei Gao , Jijun Zhao

Altermagnets are an emerging class of unconventional antiferromagnets, characterized by a N\'eel ordering that does not break the translation symmetry of the underlying lattice. Depending on the orientation of the N\'eel vector, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Sopheak Sorn , Yuriy Mokrousov

Anomalous transports, including the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and anomalous Nernst effect (ANE), are typical manifestations of time-reversal-symmetry-breaking responses in materials. In general, the two Hall states with opposite Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Dan Li , Shuaiyu Wang , Jiabin chen , Zeling Li , Chaoxi Cui , Lei Li , Lei Wang , Zhi-Ming Yu , Xiaodong Zhou , Xiao-Ping Li

The altermagnet candidate Mn5Si3 has attracted wide attention in the context of non-relativistic spin physics, due to its composition of light elements. However, the presumed structure of the altermagnetic phase had yet to be demonstrated.…

Non-collinear spin order that breaks space inversion symmetry and allows efficient electric-field control of magnetism makes BiFeO$_3$ a promising candidate for applications in low-power spintronic devices. Epitaxial strain effects have…

Hexagonal MnTe has emerged as a prototypical g-wave altermagnet, hosting time-reversal symmetry breaking in momentum space despite a vanishing net magnetization. While this symmetry breaking theoretically allows for an intrinsic anomalous…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-07 Weiwei Chen , Ziyu Zhou , Jie Meng , Weiyi Wang , Ye Yang , Zhongjun Li

Magnetism-driven nonrelativistic spin splittings (NRSS) are promising for highly efficient spintronics applications. Although 2D centrosymmetric (in four-dimensional spacetime) antiferromagnets are abundant, they have not received extensive…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-02 Sajjan Sheoran , Saswata Bhattacharya

Utilizing the first-principles density functional theory calculations together with group theory analyses, we systematically investigate the spin order-dependent magneto-optical effect (MOE), anomalous Hall effect (AHE), and anomalous…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-25 Xiuxian Yang , Xiaodong Zhou , Wanxiang Feng , Yugui Yao

Controlling physical responses through symmetry breaking is a central paradigm in quantum materials, enabling novel functionalities. Here we determine the effects of spin-group-symmetry breaking on nonlinear optical responses of collinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Gastón Blatter , Xiao Zhang , Jeroen van den Brink , Mengli Hu , Shu Zhang

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 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

The ability to control magnetism with strain offers innovative pathways for the modulation of magnetic domain configurations and for the manipulation of magnetic states in materials on the nanoscale. Although the effect of strain on…

Elastic and inelastic neutron scattering studies reveal details of the antiferromagnetic tansition and intriguing spin-dynamics in the magneto-electric effect single crystal LiMnPO$_4$. The elastic scattering studies confirm the system is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Jiying Li , Wei Tian , Ying Chen , Jerel L. Zarestky , Jeffrey W. Lynn , David Vaknin

We demonstrate that an all-antiferromagnetic tunnel junction with current perpendicular to the plane geometry can be used as an efficient spintronics device with potential high frequency operation. By using state-of-the-art density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Maria Stamenova , Razie Mohebbi , Jamileh Seyedyazdi , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

Altermagnets, a newly discovered class of materials, exhibit zero net magnetization while hosting spin-split electronic bands. However, monolayer altermagnets maintain degenerate band gaps at the high-symmetry X and Y points in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-08 Xin Zhang , Shihao Zhang
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