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 …

Altermagnetic lifting of Kramers spin degeneracy

J Krempaský, L Šmejkal, SW D'souza, M Hajlaoui… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Lifted Kramers spin degeneracy (LKSD) has been among the central topics of condensed-
matter physics since the dawn of the band theory of solids,. It underpins established practical …

Efficient Spin-to-Charge Conversion via Altermagnetic Spin Splitting Effect in Antiferromagnet

H Bai, YC Zhang, YJ Zhou, P Chen, CH Wan, L Han… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
The relativistic spin Hall effect and inverse spin Hall effect enable the efficient generation
and detection of spin current. Recently, a nonrelativistic altermagnetic spin splitting effect …

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 …

Crystal Thermal Transport in Altermagnetic

X Zhou, W Feng, RW Zhang, L Šmejkal, J Sinova… - Physical review …, 2024 - APS
We demonstrate the emergence of a pronounced thermal transport in the recently
discovered class of magnetic materials—altermagnets. From symmetry arguments and first …

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 …

Observation of time-reversal symmetry breaking in the band structure of altermagnetic RuO2

O Fedchenko, J Minár, A Akashdeep, SW D'Souza… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Altermagnets are an emerging elementary class of collinear magnets. Unlike ferromagnets,
their distinct crystal symmetries inhibit magnetization while, unlike antiferromagnets, they …

Observation of a giant band splitting in altermagnetic MnTe

T Osumi, S Souma, T Aoyama, K Yamauchi, A Honma… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) on hexagonal MnTe, a
candidate for an altermagnet with a high critical temperature (TN= 307 K). By utilizing photon …