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 …

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 …

Bilayer stacking -type altermagnet: A general approach to generating two-dimensional altermagnetism

S Zeng, YJ Zhao - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In this paper, we propose a concept of bilayer stacking A-type altermagnet (BSAA), in which
two identical ferromagnetic monolayers are stacked with antiferromagnetic coupling to form …

Weak Ferromagnetism in Altermagnets from Alternating -Tensor Anisotropy

D Jo, D Go, Y Mokrousov, PM Oppeneer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Altermagnets are magnetic materials with antiferromagnetic spin ordering but exhibit
ferromagnetic properties. Understanding the microscopic origin of the latter is a central …

Altermagnetism from interaction-driven itinerant magnetism

S Giuli, C Mejuto-Zaera, M Capone - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.00909, 2024 - arxiv.org
Altermagnetism, a new phase of collinear spin-order sharing similarities with
antiferromagnets and ferromagnets, has introduced a new guiding principle for spintronic …

Field-sensitive dislocation bound states in two-dimensional -wave altermagnets

D Zhu, D Liu, ZY Zhuang, Z Wu, Z Yan - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
When a two-dimensional d-wave altermagnet is grown on a substrate, the interplay of
momentum-dependent spin splittings arising from altermagnetism and Rashba spin-orbit …

Tunable second-order Josephson response in altermagnets

HP Sun, SB Zhang, CA Li, B Trauzettel - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.19413, 2024 - arxiv.org
We study the influence of external electric and Zeeman fields on the Josephson response in
a planar superconductor/altermagnet/superconductor junction. Remarkably, we discover …

Altermagnetism and compensated ferrimagnetism in MnPX3-based (X= S, Se) heterostructures

Y Liu, Y Liu, X Wang, N Xia, G Xu, Y Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent research interests in the non-relativistic spin splitting of electronic band structures
have led to the explorations of altermagnets and other compensated magnets. Here, we …

Robust magnetoelectric coupling in altermagnetic-ferroelectric type-III multiferroics

W Sun, W Wang, C Yang, Y Liu, X Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Multiferroic materials, characterized by the coexisting of ferroelectric polarization (breaking
spatial inversion symmetry) and magnetism (breaking time-reversal symmetry), with strong …

Altermagnetism: A Chemical Perspective

S Fender, O Gonzalez, K Bediako - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
Altermagnets have been recently introduced as a classification of collinear, spin
compensated magnetic materials that host net-zero magnetization, yet display some …