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most citedCrystal-symmetry-paired spin-valley locking in a layered room-temperature antiferromagnet

147 citations · 184 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Emergent magnetic nonanalyticity in Dirac altermagnets

Xizhi Fu, Zhenqiao Huang, Fei Yang +3

Symmetry has long provided the organizing principle for understanding how materials respond to external perturbations. Here we show that what is permitted by symmetry need not be w…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Intrinsic anomalous Hall response in the bilayer kagome ferromagnet CoSn

Yuqi Qin, Soumya Sankar, Xingkai Cheng +4

Transition-metal kagome magnets provide a rich platform for investigating the interplay between layer stacking, magnetic order, and band topology. Here, we report the molecular bea…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Discovery of a symmetry-driven electronic cascade in a -wave altermagnet

Zhouyi Yin, Zheng Shi, Shuxuan Zhang +9

Altermagnets host magnetic compensation together with non-relativistic spin-split bands, a coexistence enabled by crystal symmetry. Yet whether and how crystal symmetry organizes c…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Odd spin symmetry and anisotropy switching in p-wave magnet CeNiAsO

Fayuan Zhang, Huaxun Li, Xingkai Cheng +18

Odd-parity magnets, complementary to altermagnets, exhibit unique properties such as high efficiency in charge-spin conversion and compatibility with conventional superconductivity…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Ultrafast Magneto-optical Fingerprints of Altermagnetism in MnTe

Xu Yang, Xingkai Cheng, Zhuo Deng +9

Recently identified altermagnets exhibit a distinctive dual-space nature: they possess spin-split electronic bands akin to ferromagnets in momentum space while maintaining the full…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Distinguishing and Separating In-Plane Hall Responses

Soumya Sankar, Xingkai Cheng, Junwei Liu +1

Electric Hall effects generated by an in-plane magnetic field have recently gained attention owing to their intrinsic origin in topological electronic states and potential applicat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Direct observation of quadruple spin-texture locking in a 2D d-wave altermagnet

Dan Mu, Bei Jiang, Qingchen Duan +14

Altermagnets combine vanishing net magnetization with nonrelativistic, momentum-dependent spin splitting, offering a new paradigm for spintronics. Spin-crystal symmetry coupling, n…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Realistic tight-binding model for V2Se2O-family altermagnets

Xingkai Cheng, Yifan Gao, Junjie Pengand Junwei Liu

Following earlier theoretical prediction, intercalated V2Se2O-family altermagnets such as RbV2Te2O and KV2Se2O have now been experimentally confirmed as d-wave altermagnets, repres…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Observation of spin-valley locked nodal lines in a quasi-2D altermagnet

Quanxin Hu, Xingkai Cheng, Qingchen Duan +19

The interplay among quantum degrees of freedom-spin, orbital and momentum-has emerged as a fertile ground for realizing magnetic quantum states with transformative potential for el…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Atomic-scale spin sensing of a 2D -wave altermagnet via helical tunneling

Zhuying Wang, Shuikang Yu, Xingkai Cheng +17

Altermagnetism simultaneously possesses nonrelativistic spin responses and zero net magnetization, thus combining advantages of ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. This superior…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Broadband nonlinear Hall response and multiple wave mixing in a room temperature altermagnet

Soumya Sankar, Xingkai Cheng, Xinyu Chen +10

Crystalline symmetries determine the linear and nonlinear response of materials to external stimuli such as mechanical pressure and electromagnetic fields, governing phenomena such…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Correlation-driven quantum geometry effects in a Kondo system

Ruizi Liu, Zehan Chen, Xingkai Cheng +9

Quantum geometry, including quantum metric and Berry curvature, which describes the topology of electronic states, can induce fascinating physical properties. Symmetry-dependent no…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Room temperature observation of the anomalous in-plane Hall effect in epitaxial thin films of a Weyl ferromagnet

Soumya Sankar, Xingkai Cheng, Tahir Murtaza +7

Topologically nontrivial electronic states can give rise to novel anomalous Hall effects. The potential appearance of these effects at room temperature holds promise for their appl…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 147 cited

Crystal-symmetry-paired spin-valley locking in a layered room-temperature antiferromagnet

Fayuan Zhang, Xingkai Cheng, Zhouyi Yin +19

Recent theoretical efforts predicted a type of unconventional antiferromagnet characterized by the crystal symmetry C (rotation or mirror), which connects antiferromagnetic sublatt…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 31 cited

Catalogue of -paired spin-momentum locking in antiferromagnetic systems

Mengli Hu, Xingkai Cheng, Zhenqiao Huang +1

Antiferromagnetic materials (AFMs) have been gaining lots of attentions due to its great potential in spintronics devices and the recently discovered novel spin structure in the mo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 4 cited

Crystal design of altermagnetism

Zhiyuan Zhou, Xingkai Cheng, Mengli Hu +3

Symmetry plays a fundamental role in condensed matter. The unique entanglement between magnetic sublattices and alternating crystal environment in altermagnets provides a unique op…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Electrical 180o switching of Néel vector in spin-splitting antiferromagnet

Lei Han, Xizhi Fu, Rui Peng +17

Antiferromagnetic spintronics have attracted wide attention due to its great potential in constructing ultra-dense and ultra-fast antiferromagnetic memory that suits modern high-pe…