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The magnetic properties of two-dimensional altermagnets can be obtained from a square lattice Heisenberg model with antiferromagetic nearest neighbor interaction and two types of next-nearest neighbor interactions arranged in a checkerboard…

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The optical generation of nonequilibrium spin magnetization plays a crucial role in advancing spintronics, providing ultrafast control of magnetization dynamics without the need for magnetic fields. Here, we demonstrate the feasibility of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Sayan Sarkar , Sunit Das , Debottam Mandal , Amit Agarwal

We present a general semiclassical theory of the orbital magnetic response of noninteracting electrons confined in two-dimensional potentials. We calculate the magnetic susceptibility of singly-connected and the persistent currents of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 K. Richter , D. Ullmo , R. A. Jalabert

The combination of quantum geometry and magnetic geometry in magnets excites diverse phenomena, some critical for antiferromagnetic spintronics. However, very few material platforms have been predicted and experimentally verified to date,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-28 Haiyuan Zhu , Jiayu Li , Xiaobing Chen , Yutong Yu , Qihang Liu

The microscopic structure of spin-orbit fields for the technologically important Fe/GaAs interface is uncovered from first principles. A symmetry based method allows to obtain the spin-orbit fields---both their magnitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Martin Gmitra , Alex Matos-Abiague , Claudia Draxl , Jaroslav Fabian

Altermagnetism is a subclass of antiferromagnetism that features spin-polarized electron bands of a non-relativistic origin despite the absence of a net magnetiation in the material. We here theoretically study spin pumping from an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder

Recent developments have introduced a groundbreaking form of collinear magnetism known as "altermagnetism". This emerging magnetic phase is characterized by robust time-reversal symmetry breaking, antiparallel magnetic order, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-18 Ling Bai , Wanxiang Feng , Siyuan Liu , Libor Šmejkal , Yuriy Mokrousov , Yugui Yao

Half-metals, featuring ideal 100\% spin polarization, are widely regarded as key materials for spintronic and quantum technologies; however, the half-metallic state is intrinsically fragile, as it relies on a delicate balance of exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 San-Dong Guo , Pan Zhou

Giant or tunneling magnetoresistance are physical phenomena used for reading information in commercial spintronic devices. The effects rely on a conserved spin current passing between a reference and a sensing ferromagnetic electrode in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Libor Šmejkal , Anna Birk Hellenes , Rafael González-Hernández , Jairo Sinova , Tomáš Jungwirth

Recent works have predicted materials featuring bands with a large spin-splitting distinct from ferromagnetic and relativistically spin-orbit coupled systems. Materials displaying this property are known as altermagnets and feature a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-15 Chi Sun , Arne Brataas , Jacob Linder

Altermagnets are an emerging class of collinear antiferromagnets that exhibit unconventional spin-polarised electronic bands, potentially unlocking new functionalities that do not rely on spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Experimental signatures…

Lifted Kramers spin-degeneracy has been among the central topics of condensed-matter physics since the dawn of the band theory of solids. It underpins established practical applications as well as current frontier research, ranging from…

Magnetization reversal in ferro- and ferrimagnets is a well-known archetype of non-equilibrium processes, where the volume fractions of the oppositely magnetized domains vary and perfectly compensate each other at the coercive magnetic…

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

Electric control of N\'eel vector is a central task of antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics. The major scheme so far relies on the linear N\'eel torque, which however is restricted to AFMs with broken inversion symmetry. Here, we propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Jin Cao , Weikang Wu , Huiying Liu , Shen Lai , Cong Xiao , X. C. Xie , Shengyuan A. Yang

The time-reversal symmetry ($\mathcal{T}$) breaking is a signature of ferromagnetism, giving rise to such phenomena as the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and orbital magnetism. Nevertheless, $\mathcal{T}$ can be also broken in certain classes…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-10 I. V. Solovyev

Magnetic damping is a key metric for emerging technologies based on magnetic nanoparticles, such as spin torque memory and high-resolution biomagnetic imaging. Despite its importance, understanding of magnetic dissipation in nanoscale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 I. Barsukov , H. K. Lee , A. A. Jara , Y. -J. Chen , A. M. Gonçalves , C. Sha , J. A. Katine , R. E. Arias , B. A. Ivanov , I. N. Krivorotov

The antiferroaxial state is emerging as an important ferroic order in condensed matter systems. Here, we establish antiferroaxial altermagnetism as a broadly prevalent, generic, and microscopically grounded multiferroic mechanism, in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-12 Yichen Liu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

Altermagnets with pronounced spin-splitting band structure, unconventional magnetic and crystal symmetries, and exotic magneto-transport properties have received immense interest in cutting-edge spintronics, materials science, and condensed…

Altermagnets are a class of collinear magnets that exhibit non-relativistic spin splitting (NRSS) of electronic bands in the absence of net magnetization. Their potential to generate large spin polarization without spin-orbit coupling has…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 V. Sunko , J. Orenstein