activity
20152026
most citedAltermagnetism: spin-momentum locked phase protected by non-relativistic symmetries

1.1k citations · 8.2k across the 58 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

60 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Influence of the Néel vector on the bulk electronic structure of MnTe measured from the surface

D. A. Usanov, A. B. Hellenes, S. Hahn +7

Altermagnetism gives rise to momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization. Here, we use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to investigate bulk -MnT…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Room-temperature ferroelectric p-wave magnet

Kaiwen Shen, Nicoly Hembeck, Warlley H. Campos +16

P -wave magnets exhibit odd-parity spin polarization in momentum space while retaining zero net magnetization, offering a promising route toward nonrelativistic spintronics. Previo…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Reversible field-free superconducting diode effect controlled by an antiferromagnet

Filip Krizek, Kamil Olejník, Tobias Edwinson +19

The semiconductor diode, which allows current to flow preferentially in one direction, is a fundamental building block of numerous modern electronic circuits. Its superconducting a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Time-reversal-odd Transport in Odd-Parity Magnets

Ling Bai, Si Li, Libor Šmejkal +2

Unconventional magnets combining vanishing net magnetization with spin-split electronic structures and anomalous transport have attracted considerable attention. Using spin-group s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Nanoscale imaging of spin textures with locally varying altermagnetic response in -FeO

R. Yamamoto, S. Mayr, A. Hariki +20

Altermagnetism is a recently identified magnetic state in which time-reversal symmetry is broken despite a collinear compensated spin structure. The response of altermagnets is det…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Discerning ground state and photoemission-induced spin textures in altermagnetic -MnTe

D. A. Usanov, S. W. D'Souza, A. Dal Din +12

The recently discovered class of altermagnets provide a physical realization of an unconventional compensated magnetic phase with a higher partial-wave type of ordering, reminiscen…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Nonrelativistic-Ising superconductivity in p-wave magnets

Maxim Khodas, Libor Šmejkal, I. I. Mazin

We discuss a possibility of superconductivity in the p-wave magnets. These are recently discovered materials that have zero net magnetization by symmetry and finite non-relativisti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Direct demonstration of time-reversal-symmetry-breaking spin injection from a compensated magnet

Jone Mencos, Antonin Badura, Eoin Dolan +21

The injection, propagation and detection of spin currents are essential physical processes in spintronics. So far, the separation of charge and spin currents was facilitated by the…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 5 cited

Cavity-induced coherent magnetization and polaritons in altermagnets

Mohsen Yarmohammadi, Libor Šmejkal, James K. Freericks

Altermagnets feature antiparallel spin sublattices with -, -, or -wave spin order, yielding nonrelativistic spin splitting without net magnetization. We show that embeddin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 4 cited

Quantization of spin circular photogalvanic effect in altermagnetic Weyl semimetals

Hiroki Yoshida, Jan Priessnitz, Libor Šmejkal +1

We theoretically predict a spin-current analog of the quantized circular photogalvanic effect in Weyl semimetals. This phenomenon is forbidden in antiferromagnets by symmetry but u…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Altermagnetic spintronics

T. Jungwirth, J. Sinova, P. Wadley +5

The research landscape of magnetism has been recently enriched by the discovery of altermagnetism. It is an unconventional phase of matter characterized by a d-wave (or higher even…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Quantum-impurity sensing of altermagnetic order

V. A. S. V. Bittencourt, Hossein Hosseinabadi, Jairo Sinova +2

Quantum sensing with individual spin defects has emerged as a versatile platform to probe microscopic properties of condensed matter systems. Here we demonstrate that quantum relax…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Symmetry, microscopy and spectroscopy signatures of altermagnetism

Tomas Jungwirth, Jairo Sinova, Rafael M. Fernandes +5

Altermagnetism is a collinear compensated magnetically-ordered phase with a d, g or i-wave anisotropy and alternating spin polarization of the electronic structure in the position…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Optical signatures of bulk g-wave altermagnetism in MnTe

Luca Haag, Marius Weber, Kai Leckron +3

For planar d-wave altermagnets, it has been shown that a spin polarization can be induced in a controlled fashion by ultrashort-pulse excitation, even though the material is magnet…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

Spin Hall magnetoresistance at the altermagnetic insulator/Pt interface

Miina Leiviskä, Reza Firouzmandi, Kyo-Hoon Ahn +22

The resistance of a heavy metal can be modulated by an adjacent magnetic material through the combined effects of the spin Hall effect, inverse spin Hall effect, and dissipation of…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Transport theory and spin-transfer physics in d-wave altermagnets

Ricardo Zarzuela, Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo, Olena Gomonay +2

We develop a mesoscale transport theory for the charge and spin degrees of freedom of itinerant carriers in a -wave altermagnet. Our effective Lagrangian description is built up…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 6 cited

Ultrafast electron dynamics in altermagnetic materials

Marius Weber, Kai Leckron, Luca Haag +4

Altermagnets constitute a new class of magnetic materials that combine properties previously thought to be exclusive to either antiferromagnets or ferromagnets, and have unique pro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Altermagnetism: an unconventional spin-ordered phase of matter

T. Jungwirth, R. M. Fernandes, E. Fradkin +3

The Pauli exclusion principle combined with interactions between fermions is a basic mechanism across condensed-matter systems giving rise to a spontaneous breaking of the spin-spa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 5 cited

Altermagnets and beyond: Nodal magnetically-ordered phases

Tomas Jungwirth, Rafael M. Fernandes, Jairo Sinova +1

The recent discovery of altermagnets has opened new perspectives in the field of ordered phases in condensed matter. In strongly-correlated superfluids, the nodal p-wave and d-wave…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 419 cited

Altermagnetism: Exploring New Frontiers in Magnetism and Spintronics

Ling Bai, Wanxiang Feng, Siyuan Liu +3

Recent developments have introduced a groundbreaking form of collinear magnetism known as "altermagnetism". This emerging magnetic phase is characterized by robust time-reversal sy…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 25 cited

Spontaneous Crystal Thermal Hall Effect in Insulating Altermagnets

Rhea Hoyer, Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo, Kyo-Hoon Ahn +2

We show that magnetic insulators with a collinear and compensated order can exhibit a thermal Hall effect even at zero magnetic field if they have altermagnetic symmetries. We pred…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 17 cited

Anomalous Nernst effect in the noncollinear antiferromagnet MnSi

Christoph Sürgers, Gerda Fischer, Warlley H. Campos +6

Investigating the off-diagonal components of the conductivity and thermoelectric tensor of materials hosting complex antiferromagnetic structures has become a viable method to reve…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 37 cited

Observation of the anomalous Nernst effect in altermagnetic candidate Mn5Si3

Antonin Badura, Warlley H. Campos, Venkata K. Bharadwaj +20

The anomalous Nernst effect generates transverse voltage to the applied thermal gradient in magnetically ordered systems. The effect was previously considered excluded in compensat…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 29 cited

Spin and Orbital Magnetism by Light in Rutile Altermagnets

T. Adamantopoulos, M. Merte, F. Freimuth +8

While the understanding of altermagnetism is still at a very early stage, it is expected to play a role in various fields of condensed matter research, for example spintronics, cal…