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 …

Direct observation of altermagnetic band splitting in CrSb thin films

S Reimers, L Odenbreit, L Šmejkal, VN Strocov… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Altermagnetism represents an emergent collinear magnetic phase with compensated order
and an unconventional alternating even-parity wave spin order in the non-relativistic band …

Antiferromagnetic spintronics and beyond

A Dal Din, OJ Amin, P Wadley, KW Edmonds - npj Spintronics, 2024 - nature.com
In this review article, we summarize some recent key results in the development of
antiferromagnetic spintronics. Current-induced switching of the Néel vector orientation has …

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 …

Large Band Splitting in -Wave Altermagnet CrSb

J Ding, Z Jiang, X Chen, Z Tao, Z Liu, T Li, J Liu… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Altermagnetism (AM), a newly discovered magnetic state, ingeniously integrates the
properties of ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, representing a significant …

Absence of Altermagnetic Spin Splitting Character in Rutile Oxide

J Liu, J Zhan, T Li, J Liu, S Cheng, Y Shi, L Deng… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Rutile RuO 2 has been posited as a potential d-wave altermagnetism candidate, with a
predicted significant spin splitting up to 1.4 eV. Despite accumulating theoretical predictions …

Canted spin order as a platform for ultrafast conversion of magnons

RA Leenders, D Afanasiev, AV Kimel… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Traditionally, magnetic solids are divided into two main classes—ferromagnets and
antiferromagnets with parallel and antiparallel spin orders, respectively. Although normally …

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 …

Spontaneous formation of altermagnetism from orbital ordering

V Leeb, A Mook, L Šmejkal, J Knolle - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Altermagnetism has emerged as a third type of collinear magnetism. In contrast to standard
ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, altermagnets exhibit extra even-parity wave spin order …

Observation of Spin Splitting in Room‐Temperature Metallic Antiferromagnet CrSb

M Zeng, MY Zhu, YP Zhu, XR Liu, XM Ma… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, unconventional antiferromagnets that enable the spin splitting (SS) of electronic
states have been theoretically proposed and experimentally realized, where the magnetic …