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Chiral magnons, the quanta of handed spin waves, transport spin angular momentum without energy loss due to Joule heating. The recently discovered altermagnets were proposed to host chiral magnons arising from a non-relativistic exchange…

Exploring ultrafast magnetization control in two-dimensional (2D) magnets through optically driven coherent phonons has been well-established. Yet, the microscopic interplay between spin dynamics and lattice degrees of freedom remains less…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Zhaobo Zhou , Min Li , Thomas Frauenheim , Junjie He

Altermagnets feature antiparallel spin sublattices with $d$-, $g$-, or $i$-wave spin order, yielding nonrelativistic spin splitting without net magnetization. We show that embedding a two-dimensional $d$-wave altermagnet in a driven optical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-14 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Libor Šmejkal , James K. Freericks

Nonlinear dynamics govern a wide array of natural phenomena and are essential for understanding nonequilibrium behaviors in condensed matter systems. In magnetically ordered materials, magnons - the quanta of spin waves - exhibit intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-25 David Rohrbach , Zhuquan Zhang , Takayuki Kurihara , Keith A. Nelson

Magnon band structures in altermagnets are characterized by an energy splitting of modes with opposite chirality, even in the absence of applied external fields and relativistic effects, due to an anisotropy in the Heisenberg exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-03 Markus Weißenhofer , Alberto Marmodoro

Altermagnetism has attracted considerable interest, yet its associated spintronic phenomena have so far been largely confined to electronic systems. In this work, we uncover a universal symmetry-based strategy for realizing topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-30 Bo Yuan , Yingxi Bai , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Chengwang Niu

Altermagnets have attracted considerable attention in recent years owing to their potential technological applications in spintronics and magnonics. Recently, a new class of spontaneous altermagnets has been theoretically predicted in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-02 Nitin Kaushal , Adarsh S. Patri , Marcel Franz

Magnetophononics, the modulation of magnetic interactions by driving infrared-active lattice excitations, is emerging as a key mechanism for the ultrafast dynamical control of both semiclassical and quantum spin systems by coherent light.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-15 M. Yarmohammadi , M. Krebs , G. S. Uhrig , B. Normand

Indirect long range interactions between localized magnetic moments are in metals mediated by itinerant electrons. In insulators and semi-conductor, such interactions need to be small, if not negligible, due to the absence of mediating…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-17 J. Fransson

Nowadays, the interaction between phonon and magnon subsystems of a magnetic medium is a hot topic of research. The complexity of phonon and magnon spectra, the existence of both bulk and surface modes, the quantization effects, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 D. A. Bozhko , V. I. Vasyuchka , A. V. Chumak , A. A. Serga

Altermagnets exhibit a spin-split band structure despite having zero net magnetization, leading to special magnonic properties such as anisotropic magnon lifetimes and field-free spin transport. Here, we present a direct experimental…

Magnons are quantized collective spin-wave excitations in magnetically ordered materials. Revealing their interactions among these collective modes is crucial for the understanding of fundamental many-body effects in such systems and the…

We theoretically study the electromagnetic wave radiation of magnons driven by acoustic phonons in systems with strong magnon-phonon interaction. We evaluate the field dependence of radiation intensity spectra which exhibits the avoided…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Yahui Ji , Chenye Zhang , Tianxiang Nan

The field of hybrid magnonics has gained significant momentum in recent years, driven by its potential to enable coherent information transfer and quantum transduction. This study delves into the tunable magnon-magnon coupling within a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Swapnil Barman , Pratap Kumar Pal , Rajib Kumar Mitra

One of the most appealing features of magnonics is the easy tunability of spin-waves propagation via external magnetic fields. Usually this requires bulky and power-hungry electromagnets which are not compatible with device miniaturization.…

Magnon spintronics is an emerging field that explores the use of magnons, the quanta of spin waves in magnetic materials for information processing and communication. Achieving unidirectional information transport with fast switching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Yueqi Wang , Mengying Guo , Kristýna Davídková , Roman Verba , Xueyu Guo , Carsten Dubs , Andrii V. Chumak , Philipp Pirro , Qi Wang

Spin transport via magnon diffusion in magnetic insulators is important for a broad range of spin-based phenomena and devices. However, the absence of the magnon equivalent of an electric force is a bottleneck. In this work, we demonstrate…

Altermagnetism, a new phase of collinear spin-order sharing similarities with antiferromagnets and ferromagnets, has introduced a new guiding principle for spintronic/thermoelectric applications due to its direction-dependent magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Samuele Giuli , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Massimo Capone

Altermagnets, a unique class of magnetic materials that combines features of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, have garnered attention for their potential in spintronics and magnonics. While the electronic properties of altermagnets…

We explore the possibilities for spin-singlet superconductivity in newly discovered altermagnets. Investigating $d$-wave altermagnets, we show that finite-momentum superconductivity can easily emerge in altermagnets even though they have no…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-29 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer