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 …

Altermagnetic superconducting diode effect

S Banerjee, MS Scheurer - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Nonreciprocal superconductivity, also known as the superconducting diode effect, has been
extensively studied in the presence of a magnetic field or some form of ferromagnetic order …

Twisted magnetic van der Waals bilayers: an ideal platform for altermagnetism

Y Liu, J Yu, CC Liu - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We introduce a universal methodology for generating and manipulating altermagnetism in
two-dimensional (2D) magnetic Van der Waals (MvdW) materials through twisting. We find …

Orientation-dependent Josephson effect in spin-singlet superconductor/altermagnet/spin-triplet superconductor junctions

Q Cheng, QF Sun - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We study the Josephson effect in the spin-singlet superconductor/altermagnet/spin-triplet
superconductor junctions using the Green's function method. The current-phase difference …

Creation and manipulation of higher-order topological states by altermagnets

YX Li, Y Liu, CC Liu - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We propose to implement tunable higher-order topological states in a heterojunction
consisting of a two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator and the recently discovered …

Three-dimensional map** and electronic origin of large altermagnetic splitting near Fermi level in CrSb

G Yang, Z Li, S Yang, J Li, H Zheng, W Zhu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recently, a new kind of collinear magnetism, dubbed altermagnetism, has attracted
considerable interests. A key characteristic of altermagnet is the momentum-dependent …

AI-driven inverse design of materials: Past, present and future

XQ Han, XD Wang, MY Xu, Z Feng, BW Yao… - Chinese Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of advanced materials is the cornerstone of human technological
development and progress. The structures of materials and their corresponding properties …

Field-free Josephson diode effect in altermagnet/normal metal/altermagnet junctions

Q Cheng, Y Mao, QF Sun - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The field-free and highly efficient diodes with the nonreciprocity of supercurrent are believed
to be the core block of superconducting computing devices without dissipation. In this paper …

Mirror Chern bands and Weyl nodal loops in altermagnets

DS Antonenko, RM Fernandes… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The electronic spectra of altermagnets are a fertile ground for non-trivial topology due to the
unique interplay between time-reversal and crystalline symmetries. This is reflected in the …

Detecting the Néel vector of altermagnets in heterostructures with a topological insulator and a crystalline valley-edge insulator

M Ezawa - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We investigate topological phases in a bilayer system composed of an altermagnet and a
two-dimensional topological insulator described by the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model. A …