Altermagnetism: Exploring new frontiers in magnetism and spintronics

L Bai, W Feng, S Liu, L Šmejkal… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent developments have introduced a groundbreaking form of collinear magnetism
known as “altermagnetism”. This emerging magnetic phase is characterized by robust time …

Emerging research landscape of altermagnetism

L Šmejkal, J Sinova, T Jungwirth - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Magnetism is one of the largest, most fundamental, and technologically most relevant fields
of condensed-matter physics. Traditionally, two basic magnetic phases have been …

Beyond conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism: A phase with nonrelativistic spin and crystal rotation symmetry

L Šmejkal, J Sinova, T Jungwirth - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Recent series of theoretical and experimental reports have driven attention to time-reversal
symmetry-breaking spintronic and spin-splitting phenomena in materials with collinear …

Enumeration and representation theory of spin space groups

X Chen, J Ren, Y Zhu, Y Yu, A Zhang, P Liu, J Li, Y Liu… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Fundamental physical properties, such as phase transitions, electronic structures, and spin
excitations, in all magnetic ordered materials, were ultimately believed to rely on the …

Spin space groups: Full classification and applications

Z **ao, J Zhao, Y Li, R Shindou, ZD Song - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
In this work, we exhaust all the spin space symmetries, which fully characterize collinear,
noncollinear, and commensurate spiral as well as incommensurate spiral magnetism, etc …

Enumeration of spin-space groups: Toward a complete description of symmetries of magnetic orders

Y Jiang, Z Song, T Zhu, Z Fang, H Weng, ZX Liu… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Symmetries of three-dimensional periodic scalar fields are described by 230 space groups
(SGs). Symmetries of three-dimensional periodic (pseudo) vector fields, however, are …

Quantum geometry induced nonlinear transport in altermagnets

Y Fang, J Cano, SAA Ghorashi - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Quantum geometry plays a pivotal role in the second-order response of PT-symmetric
antiferromagnets. Here we study the nonlinear response of 2D altermagnets protected by C …

Magnetic topological quantum chemistry

L Elcoro, BJ Wieder, Z Song, Y Xu, B Bradlyn… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
For over 100 years, the group-theoretic characterization of crystalline solids has provided
the foundational language for diverse problems in physics and chemistry. However, the …

Uncovering spin-orbit coupling-independent hidden spin polarization of energy bands in antiferromagnets

LD Yuan, X Zhang, CM Acosta, A Zunger - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Many textbook physical effects in crystals are enabled by some specific symmetries. In
contrast to such 'apparent effects','hidden effect X'refers to the general condition where the …

Spin photovoltaic effect in antiferromagnetic materials: Mechanisms, symmetry constraints, and recent progress

RC **ao, YJ **, H Jiang - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials possess unique properties, such as rapid dynamic
response, resistance to external magnetic disturbances, and the absence of a stray field …