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Odd-parity spin-splitting plays a central role in spintronics and unconventional superconductivity, yet its microscopic realization in collinear magnetic systems remains elusive. We propose a general symmetry-based strategy for realizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Di Zhu , Dongling Liu , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

Recent studies have drawn growing attention on non-relativistic odd-parity magnetism in the wake of altermagnets. Nevertheless, odd-parity spin splitting is often believed to appear in non-collinear magnetic configurations. Here, using…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-13 Shengpu Huang , Zheng Qin , Fangyang Zhan , Dong-Hui Xu , Da-Shuai Ma , Rui Wang

Altermagnetism has so far mainly been understood in its even- and odd-parity forms. We show that collinear antiferromagnets with zero net magnetization can also host mixed-parity spin splitting, namely neither purely even nor purely odd in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Jin-Xin Hu , Song-Bo Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu , Zhongbo Yan

Following recent intensive studies on altermagnetism(ALM) characterized by non-relativistic even-parity spin splitting, realizing unconventional odd-parity magnetism has also attracted increasing interest. Here, using symmetry arguments…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-02 Minghuan Zeng , Zheng Qin , Ling Qin , Shiping Feng , Lin Wu , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

Altermagnets (AMs), recently discovered unconventional magnets distinct from both ferro- and antiferromagnets, have rapidly emerged as a prominent research topic in condensed matter physics. AMs are characterized by alternating collinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Tongshuai Zhu , Di Zhou , Huaiqiang Wang , Su-Huai Wei , Jiawei Ruan

Altermagnetism is a recently identified phase with a d, g or i-wave spin symmetry of magnetic ordering. Its discovery opens new research fronts at intersections of magnetism and spintronics with fields ranging from superconductivity to…

When a coplanar antiferromagnet (AFM) with $xy$-plane magnetic moments exhibits a spin-split band structure and unidirectional spin polarization along $z$, the spin polarization is forced to be an odd function of momentum by the fundamental…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-08 Di Zhu , Dongling Liu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

The interplay of antiferromagnetic order, momentum-dependent Bloch spin-splitting, time-reversal (T), and parity (P) symmetries in non-relativistic systems has emerged as a central theme for spintronics. Two well-known examples are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Yue Yu , Jin Matsuda , Hikaru Watanabe , Ryotaro Arita , Daniel F. Agterberg

Altermagnets are an emerging class of collinear magnets with momentum-dependent spin splitting and zero net magnetization. These materials can be broadly classified into two categories based on the behavior of spin splitting at…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 Dongling Liu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Di Zhu , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

The search for novel magnetic quantum phases, phenomena and functional materials has been guided by relativistic magnetic-symmetry groups in coupled spin and real space from the dawn of the field in 1950s to the modern era of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

Realizing odd-parity, time-reversal-preserving, non-relativistic spin splitting is a central goal for spintronics applications. We propose a group-theory-based microscopic framework to induce odd-parity spin splitting from coplanar…

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

Magnetic states with zero magnetization but non-relativistic spin splitting are outstanding candidates for the next generation of spintronic devices. Their electron-volt (eV) scale spin splitting, ultrafast spin dynamics and nearly…

A recently identified class of collinear magnetic order, characterized by vanishing net magnetization yet unconventional spin splitting, known as altermagnets (AMs), has attracted significant research interest. Controlling the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Yichen Liu , Tongshuai Zhu , Haijun Zhang

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This enables a spin-splitter effect in which an external electric field generates transverse spin currents by separating oppositely polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Sanjay Sarkar , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

We demonstrate a deterministic switching mechanism in collinear altermagnets driven by asymmetric sublattice spin currents. Unlike conventional antiferromagnets, where combined parity-time-reversal symmetry enforces purely staggered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Sayan Sarkar , Sunit Das , Amit Agarwal

We propose the sublattice currents as a feasible route to odd-parity altermagnetism (ALM), where nonrelativistic collinear spin splitting occurs in the bands as an odd function of momentum. In contrast to previously classified ALMs, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-16 Yu-Ping Lin , Marc Vila

Recent studies have attracted increasing interest in nonrelativistic odd-parity magnetism and its associated topology in collinear altermagnets. Here, based on symmetry analysis and an effective model, we demonstrate that Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Yuping Tian , Chen-Hao Zhao , Chao-Bo Wang , Binyuan Zhang , Xiangru Kong , Wei-Jiang Gong

While the understanding of altermagnetism is still at a very early stage, it is expected to play a role in various fields of condensed matter research, for example spintronics, caloritronics and superconductivity. In the field of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 T. Adamantopoulos , M. Merte , F. Freimuth , D. Go , M. Ležaić , W. Feng , Y. Yao , J. Sinova , L. Šmejkal , S. Blügel , Y. Mokrousov

While the search for topological triplet-pairing superconductivity has remained a challenge, recent developments in optically stabilizing metastable superconducting states suggest a new route to realizing this elusive phase. Here, we devise…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-11 Steven Gassner , Clara S. Weber , Martin Claassen
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