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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…

Antiferromagnets are beneficial for future spintronic applications due to their zero magnetic moment and ultrafast dynamics. But gaining direct access to their antiferromagnetic order and identifying the properties of individual magnetic…

This research investigates dynamic response of tunable periodic structures and homogenization methods in magnetoelastic composites (MECs). The research on tunable periodic structures is focused on the design, modeling and understanding of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Alireza Bayat

Topological defects with symmetry-breaking phase transitions have captured much attention. Vortex generated by topological defects exhibits exotic properties and its flow direction can be switched by altering the spin configurations.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Jiujiu Chen , Hongbo Huang , Shaoyong Huo , Zhuhua Tan , Xiaoping Xie , Jianchun Cheng

Nonlinear phononics relies on the resonant optical excitation of infrared-active lattice vibrations to coherently induce targeted structural deformations in solids. This form of dynamical crystal-structure design has been applied to control…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Meredith Henstridge , Michael Först , Edward Rowe , Michael Fechner , Andrea Cavalleri

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

Insulating altermagnets like MnTe exhibit spin configurations where opposing spins are not only aligned antiparallel but also rotated relative to each other. This is an arrangement reminiscent of antiferromagnetism with a twist of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Partha Goswami

Recent studies have shown that the non-relativistic antiferromagnetic ordering could generate momentum-dependent spin splitting analogous to the Rashba effect, but free from the requirement of relativistic spin-orbit coupling. Whereas the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-16 Lin-Ding Yuan , Zhi Wang , Jun-Wie Luo , Alex Zunger

On the basis of the self-consistent phonon theory and the special displacement method, we develop an approach for the treatment of anharmonicity in solids. We show that this approach enables the efficient calculation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-09 Marios Zacharias , George Volonakis , Feliciano Giustino , Jacky Even

Altermagnets hold great potential for spintronic applications, yet their intrinsic spin dynamics and associated transport properties remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigate spin-resolved quantum transport in a multi-terminal setup…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Li-Shuo Liu , Kai Shao , Hai-Dong Li , Xiangang Wan , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

We numerically study the spin wave dynamics in an antidot lattice based on a Co/Pd multilayer structure with reduced perpendicular magnetic anisotropy at the edges of the antidots. This structure forms a magnonic crystal with a periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Mathieu Moalic , Mateusz Zelent , Krzysztof Szulc , Maciej Krawczyk

Aperiodicity and un-conventional rotational symmetries allow quasicrystalline structures to exhibit unprecedented physical and functional properties. In magnetism, artificial ferromagnetic quasicrystals exhibited knee anomalies suggesting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Vinayak Shantaram Bhat , Sho Watanabe , Florian Kronast , Korbinian Baumgaertl , Dirk Grundler

Using a combination of first-principles and magnetization-dynamics calculations, we study the effect of the intense optical excitation of phonons on the magnetic behavior in insulating magnetic materials. Taking the prototypical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-13 M. Fechner , A. Sukhov , L. Chotorlishvili , C. Kenel , J. Berakdar , N. A. Spaldin

We present a detailed investigation of an overlooked symmetry structure in non-collinear antiferromagnets that gives rise to an emergent quantum number for magnons. Focusing on the triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet, we show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-07 Bastián Pradenas , Grigor Adamyan , Oleg Tchernyshyov

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

Altermagnets break a combination of time-reversal and rotational symmetries without generating a net magnetization. As such, the order parameter of $d$-wave altermagnets has the same symmetry as magnetic multipoles, and couples to the…

We present a formalism based on colour symmetry to analyse the momentum-space spin textures of non-collinear antiferromagnets. We show that, out of the spin textures allowed by the magnetic point group, \textcolor{\altcolor} {one can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-23 Paolo G. Radaelli , Gautam Gurung

Atomic-scale precision control of magnetic interactions facilitates a synthetic spin order useful for spintronics, including advanced memory and quantum logic devices. Conventional modulation of synthetic spin order has been limited to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-05 Seung Gyo Jeong , Sehwan Song , Sungkyun Park , Valeria Lauter , Woo Seok Choi

Controlling the skyrmion Hall effect (SkHE) is pivotal for developing topological spintronics but typically relies on magnetic field reversal. Here, we demonstrate a general strategy for the purely electrical switching of the SkHE in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-19 Wenhui Du , Kaiying Dou , Ying Dai , Zeyan Wang , Baibiao Huang , Yandong Ma

Momentum-dependent spin splitting and its relation to inversion ($P$) and time-reversal ($T$) symmetries are central to nonrelativistic spintronics. Representative examples include collinear altermagnets with $(P,T)=(+,-)$ and non-collinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Yue Yu