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 …

Surface-Symmetry-Driven Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Canted Ferrimagnetism in Collinear Magnetoelectric Antiferromagnet

OV Pylypovskyi, SF Weber, P Makushko… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Antiferromagnets are normally thought of as materials with compensated magnetic
sublattices. This adds to their technological advantages but complicates readout of the …

Layer Hall detection of the Néel vector in centrosymmetric magnetoelectric antiferromagnets

LL Tao, Q Zhang, H Li, HJ Zhao, X Wang, B Song… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The efficient detection of the Néel vector in antiferromagnets is one of the prerequisites
toward antiferromagnetic spintronic devices and remains a challenging problem. Here, we …

Nonrelativistic ferromagnetotriakontadipolar order and spin splitting in hematite

XH Verbeek, D Voderholzer, S Schären… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
We show that hematite, α-Fe 2 O 3, below its Morin transition, has a ferroic ordering of rank-5
magnetic triakontadipoles on the Fe ions. In the absence of spin-orbit coupling, these are the …

Interface-induced magnetization in altermagnets and antiferromagnets

EW Hodt, P Sukhachov, J Linder - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Altermagnets are a class of antiferromagnetic materials which have electron bands with
lifted spin degeneracy in momentum space but vanishing net magnetization and no stray …

Anisotropic 2D van der Waals Magnets Hosting 1D Spin Chains

E Park, JP Philbin, H Chi, JJ Sanchez… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The exploration of 1D magnetism, frequently portrayed as spin chains, constitutes an
actively pursued research field that illuminates fundamental principles in many‐body …

Antiferromagnetic Nanoscale Bit Arrays of Magnetoelectric Cr2O3 Thin Films

P Rickhaus, OV Pylypovskyi, G Seniutinas, V Borras… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Magnetism of oxide antiferromagnets (AFMs) has been studied in single crystals and
extended thin films. The properties of AFM nanostructures still remain underexplored. Here …

First-principles study of structural, electronic, and magnetic properties at the interface

M Reher, NA Spaldin, SF Weber - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
We perform first-principles density functional calculations to elucidate structural, electronic,
and magnetic properties at the interface of (0001) Cr 2 O 3−(111) Pt bilayers. This …

Emergent surface multiferroicity

S Bhowal, A Urru, SF Weber, NA Spaldin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12434, 2024 - arxiv.org
We show that the surface of a centrosymmetric, collinear, compensated antiferromagnet,
which hosts bulk ferroically ordered magnetic octupoles, exhibits a linear magnetoelectric …

Local Magnetoelectric Effects as a Predictor of Surface Magnetic Order

SF Weber, A Urru, NA Spaldin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.06625, 2024 - arxiv.org
We use symmetry analysis and density functional theory to show that changes in magnetic
order at a surface with respect to magnetic order in the bulk can be generically determined …