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 …

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 …

Minimal models for altermagnetism

M Roig, A Kreisel, Y Yu, BM Andersen, DF Agterberg - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Altermagnets feature vanishing net magnetization, like antiferromagnets, but exhibit time-
reversal symmetry breaking and momentum-dependent spin-split band structures. Motivated …

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 …

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 …

Weak-coupling theory of neutron scattering as a probe of altermagnetism

TA Maier, S Okamoto - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Inelastic neutron scattering provides a powerful probe of the magnetic excitations of
quantum magnets. Altermagnets have recently emerged as a new class of magnets with …

Two-dimensional altermagnets: Superconductivity in a minimal microscopic model

B Brekke, A Brataas, A Sudbø - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We propose a minimal toy model for a two-dimensional altermagnet. The model unravels
altermagnetic properties at a microscopic level. We find spin-split electron and …

X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Altermagnetic -MnTe

A Hariki, A Dal Din, OJ Amin, T Yamaguchi, A Badura… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Altermagnetism is a recently identified magnetic symmetry class combining characteristics of
conventional collinear ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, that were regarded as mutually …

Dynamic paramagnon-polarons in altermagnets

CRW Steward, RM Fernandes, J Schmalian - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The combined rotational and time-reversal symmetry breakings that define an altermagnet
lead to an unusual d-wave (or g-wave) magnetization order parameter, which in turn can be …

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 …