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Nanoscale detection and control of the magnetic order underpins a broad spectrum of fundamental research and practical device applications. The key principle involved is the breaking of time-reversal ($\cal{T}$) symmetry, which in…

The recently discovered altermagnets (AMs), hosting momentum-dependent spin splitting and vanishing net magnetization, have attracted intensive attention for their promising application in novel spintronics. However, limited by facility and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-02 Jiuyu Sun , Yongping Du , Erjun Kan

Altermagnets combine vanishing net magnetization with nonrelativistic, momentum-dependent spin splitting, offering a new paradigm for spintronics. Spin-crystal symmetry coupling, namely spin-lattice locking, is the defining mechanism of…

Governed by specific symmetries, altermagnetism is an emerging field in condensed matter physics, characterized by unique spin-splitting of the bands in the momentum space co-existing with the compensated magnetization as in…

We study the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of a superfluid Bose-Fermi (BF) mixture in a double-well potential (DWP). The mixture is described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) for the bosons, coupled to an equation for the order…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 S. K. Adhikari , B. A. Malomed , L. Salasnich , F. Toigo

We present systematic quantitative description of the magnetoconductance of the split-gate quantum wires. Accounting for the exchange and correlation interactions within the spin density function theory (DFT) leads to the lifting of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-26 I. V. Zozoulenko , S. Ihnatsenko

Recently, there has been a growing interest in altermagnetism, a novel form of magnetism, characterized by unique spin-splitting even in the absence of both net magnetic moments and spin-orbit coupling. Despite numerous theoretical…

Altermagnetism combines momentum-dependent spin splitting of opposite-spin channels with zero net magnetization, enabling electric-field control of spin transport that is robust against external magnetic fields. Although widely explored in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-21 Hongde Yu , Thomas Brumme , Thomas Heine

We investigate the interplay between altermagnetic spin-splitting and nonsymmorphic symmetries using the space group no. 62 as a testbed. Studying different magnetic orders by means of first-principles calculations, we find that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-21 Amar Fakhredine , Raghottam M. Sattigeri , Giuseppe Cuono , Carmine Autieri

The results of systematic calculations of isospin-symmetry-breaking corrections to superallowed beta-decays based on the self-consistent isospin- and angular-momentum-projected nuclear density functional theory (DFT) are reviewed with an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-08 W. Satula , J. Dobaczewski , M. Konieczka , W. Nazarewicz

Some regions of parameter space of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with high scale supersymmetry breaking have extreme sensitivity of electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) to the top quark mass through renormalisation group…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 B. C. Allanach , M. A. Parker

Altermagnets (AMs) constitute a novel class of spin-compensated materials in which opposite-spin sublattices are connected by a crystal rotation, causing their electronic iso-energy surfaces to be spin-split. While cubic and tetragonal…

Recently, altermagnets have emerged as promising candidates in spintronics, uniquely combining large spin-polarized electronic states with zero net magnetization. A prominent example is $\alpha$-MnTe, whose altermagnetic spin splitting,…

Hexagonal MnTe is an altermagnetic semiconductor with $g$-wave symmetry of spin polarization in momentum space. In the nonrelativistic limit, this symmetry mandates that electric current flowing in any crystallographic direction is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-25 K. D. Belashchenko

Altermagnets are a class of materials with compensated magnetic moments, in which spin sublattices are related by specific symmetries other than inversion or translation. This allows time-reversal symmetry to be broken without a net…

We propose a fundamental setup for the realization of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) and spontaneous antisymmetry breaking (SASB) in the framework of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation with the self-attractive and repulsive cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-15 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed , T. J. Taiwo

Altermagnetism is characterized by even-parity spin-momentum locking in spin-split bands despite zero net magnetization and negligible spin-orbit coupling. Here, we formulate a microscopic framework that links altermagnetic splitting in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Yixuan Che , Peibo Xu , Haifeng Lv , Xiaojun Wu , Jinlong Yang

We study supersymmetry breaking by Scherk-Schwarz compactifications in type I string theory. While in the gravitational sector all mass splittings are proportional to a (large) compactification radius, supersymmetry remains unbroken for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Antoniadis , E. Dudas , A. Sagnotti

Energy bands in antiferromagnets are generally spin degenerate in the absence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Recent studies [Physical Review B 102, 014422 (2020)] identified formal symmetry conditions for crystals for which this degeneracy…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-16 Lin-Ding Yuan , Alex Zunger

Altermagnetism represents an emergent collinear magnetic phase with compensated order and an unconventional alternating even-parity wave spin order in the non-relativistic band structure. We investigate directly this unconventional band…