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Altermagnets have recently emerged as promising materials for next-generation spintronic devices. For their device applications, realizing a single-domain configuration is essential but remains challenging. We theoretically consider…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Seungyun Han , Insu Baek , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee , Suik Cheon

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

MnTe has recently attracted attention as an altermagnetic candidate. Experimentally it has an altermagnetic order of ferromagnetic $ab$ planes, stacked antiferromagnetically along $c$. We show that this magnetic order (by itself…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 I. I. Mazin

Using time-resolved X-ray magnetic linear dichroism in reflection, we provide a direct probe of the N\'eel vector dynamics in TmFeO$_3$ on a ultrafast timescale. Our measurements reveal that, following optical excitation, the N\'eel vector…

Antiferromagnets are promising candidates for ultrafast spintronic applications, leveraging current-induced spin-orbit torques. However, experimentally distinguishing between different switching mechanisms of the staggered magnetization…

N\'eel vector, the order parameter of collinear antiferromagnets, serves as a state variable in associated antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronic devices to encode information. A deterministic switching of N\'eel vector is crucial for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Shui-Sen Zhang , Zi-An Wang , Bo Li , Wen-Jian Lu , Mingliang Tian , Yu-Ping Sun , Haifeng Du , Ding-Fu Shao

Altermagnetism has surfaced as a novel magnetic phase, bridging the properties of ferro- and anti-ferromagnetism. The momentum-dependent spin-splitting observed in these materials reflects their unique symmetry characteristics, which also…

Altermagnetism is a recently identified magnetic state in which time-reversal symmetry is broken despite a collinear compensated spin structure. The response of altermagnets is determined not only by their $d$-, $g$-, or $i$-wave spin…

We present a numerical simulation of the X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) at the $L_{2,3}$ edge of Mn in altermagnetic MnF$_2$ using a combination of density functional + exact diagonlization of an atomic model. We explore how the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-09 A. Hariki , T. Okauchi , Y. Takahashi , J. Kuneš

In a collinear antiferromagnet, spins tend to cant towards the direction of an applied magnetic field, thereby decreasing the energy of the system. The canting angle becomes negligible when the magnetic field is small so that the induced…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-10 Zhuoliang Ni , Urban Seifert , Amanda V. Haglund , Nan Huang , David G. Mandrus , Leon Balents , Liang Wu

Understanding the electrical manipulation of antiferromagnetic order is a crucial aspect to enable the design of antiferromagnetic devices working at THz frequency. Focusing on collinear insulating antiferromagnetic NiO/Pt thin films as a…

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

Altermagnets, a newly discovered class of magnets, integrate the advantages of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, such as enabling anomalous transport without stray fields and supporting ultrafast spin dynamics, offering exciting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Xian-Peng Zhang , Run-Wu Zhang , Xiaolong Fan , Wanxiang Feng , Xiangrong Wang , Yugui Yao

Altermagnets host chirally split magnons that promise unique functionalities for information processing. However, their distinctive transport signatures, crucial for experimental identification and manipulation, remain elusive. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Yanmeng Lei , Rui-Chun Xiao , Weiwei Lin , Tao Yu

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

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…

Electrical detection of the 180 deg spin reversal, which is the basis of the operation of ferromagnetic memories, is among the outstanding challenges in the research of antiferromagnetic spintronics. Analogous effects to the ferromagnetic…

The hidden altermagnetism has been theoretically proposed and then experimentally confirmed in metal $\mathrm{Cs_{1-\delta}V_2Te_2O}$, which exhibits two nearly degenerate ground-state magnetic configurations (C-type and G-type)…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-27 San-Dong Guo , Yang Liu

The recent proposal of altermagnetism has drawn widespread attention to antiferromagnet (AFM) exhibiting spin splitting, extending beyond the realm of sign-alternating spin splitting in momentum space protected solely by rotational…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-01 Fangqi Liu , Yanrong Song , Zhenhua Zhang , Yong Liu , Sicong Zhu , Zhihong Lu , Rui Xiong

We experimentally investigate the magnetization angle dependence $M(\alpha)$ for single crystals of MnTe altermagnetic candidate. In high magnetic fields, experimental $M(\alpha)$ curves mostly reflect standard antiferromagnetic spin-flop…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 N. N. Orlova , V. D. Esin , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov