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Is ruthenium dioxide altermagnet?

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-11-04 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

Ruthenium dioxide was named as one of the first and most promising altermagnetic candidates with dd-wave symmetry. We summarize key findings for this material and critically discuss prospects of making it altermagnetic.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2511.01647,
  title  = {Is ruthenium dioxide altermagnet?},
  author = {Alexander A. Tsirlin and Ece Uykur and Oleg Janson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.01647},
  year   = {2025}
}

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