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 …

Altermagnetism with non-collinear spins

SW Cheong, FT Huang - npj Quantum Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Altermagnetism is introduced as a category of magnetic states with 'collinear'
antiferromagnetic spins and alternating variations of local structures around spins in such a …

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 …

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 …

Broken Kramers degeneracy in altermagnetic MnTe

S Lee, S Lee, S Jung, J Jung, D Kim, Y Lee, B Seok… - Physical review …, 2024 - APS
Altermagnetism is a newly identified fundamental class of magnetism with vanishing net
magnetization and time-reversal symmetry broken electronic structure. Probing the unusual …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Ferroically Ordered Magnetic Octupoles in -Wave Altermagnets

S Bhowal, NA Spaldin - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
We show that time-reversal symmetry-broken, centrosymmetric antiferromagnets with
nonrelativistic spin splitting of d-wave symmetry—the so-called d-wave altermagnets—are …

Topological superconductivity in two-dimensional altermagnetic metals

D Zhu, ZY Zhuang, Z Wu, Z Yan - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Bringing magnetic metals into superconducting states represents an important approach for
realizing unconventional superconductors and potentially even topological …