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most citedAntiferroelectric Altermagnets: Antiferroelectricity Alters Magnets

183 citations · 900 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

cond-mat.other2026

Magnon Polarization Textures and Transport in Antiferromagnets and Altermagnets

Konstantin S. Denisov, Igor Žutić

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) host magnons that can exhibit fully circular, elliptic and linear polarizations of sublattice magnetization dynamics. We analyze theoretically different mom…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Ferroelectric switching of odd-parity magnon spin splitting

Yuhan Liang, Xingyu Yan, Bowen Hao +13

Magnetic symmetry can lift spin degeneracy in momentum space without producing net magnetization, generating spin textures classified by their parity under momentum reversal. Even-…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Magnetically induced Circular Photogalvanic Effect in Symmetric Two-dimensional Materials

Peng Liu, Fanhao Jia, Ruixue Li +3

Photocurrents that depend on the helicity of the incident light can be generated in both bulk and low-dimensional materials lacking inversion symmetry, known as the circular photog…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Many-body description of two-dimensional van der Waals ferroelectric InSe

Denzel Ayala, Dimitar Pashov, Tong Zhou +3

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals ferroelectrics are recognized for enabling many applications, from memory and logic to neuromorphic computing, as well as transforming other mate…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Superconducting spintronics with electron symmetry filtering and interfacial spin-orbit coupling

Pablo Tuero, César González-Ruano, Igor Žutić +3

Over the recent years, crossroads of magnetism and superconductivity led to the emerging field of superconducting spintronics. A cornerstone of this venture is the generation of eq…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Altermagnetoelectric Spin Field Effect Transistor

Ziye Zhu, Xianzhang Chen, Xunkai Duan +4

Spin field-effect transistors (SFETs) are promising candidates for low-power spin-based electronics, yet existing realizations that rely on spin-orbit coupling are constrained by l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Challenges and opportunities in proximity-driven exciton-spin engineering in van der Waals heterostructures

Mushir Thodika, Dimitar Pashov, Igor Zutic +2

van der Waals heterostructures consisting of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and two-dimensional (2D) magnets offer a versatile platform to study the coexistence and transf…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 3 cited

Giant shot noise in superconductor/ferromagnet junctions with orbital-symmetry-controlled spin-orbit coupling

César González-Ruano, Chenghao Shen, Pablo Tuero +5

By measuring the shot noise, a consequence of charge quantization, in superconductor/insulator/ferromagnet (V/MgO/Fe) junctions, we discover a giant increase, orders of magnitude l…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Two-dimensional magnetic tunnel p-n junctions for low-power electronics

Wenkai Zhu, Ziao Wang, Tiangui Hu +13

For decades, semiconductors and their heterostructures have underpinned both fundamental and applied research across all areas of electronics. Two-dimensional, 2D (atomically thin)…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 20 cited

Altermagnetic Proximity Effect

Ziye Zhu, Richang Huang, Xianzhang Chen +5

Proximity effects not only complement the conventional methods of designing materials, but also enable realizing properties that are not present in any constituent region of the co…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 17 cited

Unconventional Spintronics from Chiral Perovskites

Yuntian Liu, Reshna Shrestha, Konstantin Denisov +4

Spintronic devices typically employ heterostructures with ferromagnets which break time-reversal symmetry and have non-vanishing magnetization. With the growing class of materials…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 21 cited

Emergent Multiferroic Altermagnets and Spin Control via Noncollinear Molecular Polarization

Ziye Zhu, Yuntian Liu, Xunkai Duan +5

Altermagnets, with spin splitting and vanishing magnetization, have been attributed to many fascinating phenomena and potential applications. In particular, integrating ferroelectr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 5 cited

Movable Dirac Points with Ferroelectrics: Kink States and Berry Curvature Dipoles

Konstantin S. Denisov, Yuntian Liu, Igor Žutić

Two-dimensional (2D) Dirac states and Dirac points with linear dispersion are the hallmark of graphene, topological insulators, semimetals, and superconductors. Lowering a symmetry…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 7 cited

Symmetry Classification for Alternating Excitons in Two-Dimensional Altermagnets

Jiayu David Cao, Konstantin S. Denisov, Yuntian Liu +1

Excitons, bound electron-holes states, often dominate the optical response of two-dimensional (2D) materials and reflect their inherent properties, including spin-orbit coupling, m…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 73 cited

Two-Dimensional Ferroelectric Altermagnets: From Model to Material Realization

Ziye Zhu, Xunkai Duan, Jiayong Zhang +3

Multiferroic altermagnets offer new opportunities for magnetoelectric coupling and electrically tunable spintronics. However, due to intrinsic symmetry conflicts between altermagne…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 1 cited

Towards Scalable Braiding: Topological Superconductivity Unlocked under Arbitrary Magnetic Field Directions in Curved Planar Josephson Junctions

Richang Huang, Yongliang Hu, Xianzhang Chen +4

The non-Abelian statistics of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are central to fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. Planar Josephson junctions provide a particularly versatile pl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 4 cited

Tunable resonant s-p mixing of excitons in van der Waals heterostructures

Jiayu David Cao, Konstantin S. Denisov, Igor Zutic

Excitonic states of tightly-bound electron-hole pairs dominate the optical response in a growing class of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their van der Waals (vdW) heterostructu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 3 cited

Terahertz Spin-Light Coupling in Proximitized Dirac Materials

Konstantin S. Denisov, Igor V. Rozhansky, Sergio O. Valenzuela +1

The two-dimensional (2D) materials are highly susceptible to the influence of their neighbors, thereby enabling the design by proximity phenomena. We reveal a remarkable terahertz…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 4 cited

Anisotropic spin dynamics in antiferromagnets with a nonrelativistic spin splitting

Konstantin S. Denisov, Igor Žutić

Antiferromagnets (AFM) with a nonrelativistic spin splitting (NSS) of electronic bands expand the range of spin-dependent phenomena and their applications. A crucial understanding…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 183 cited

Antiferroelectric Altermagnets: Antiferroelectricity Alters Magnets

Xunkai Duan, Jiayong Zhang, Ziye Zhu +4

Magnetoelectric coupling is crucial for uncovering fundamental phenomena and advancing technologies in high-density data storage and energy-efficient devices. The emergence of alte…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 5 cited

Signatures of enhanced spin-triplet superconductivity induced by interfacial properties

Chenghao Shen, Jong E. Han, Thomas Vezin +2

While spin-triplet pairing remains elusive in nature, there is a growing effort to realize proximity-induced equal-spin triplet superconductivity in junctions with magnetic regions…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 7 cited

Microwave Signatures of Topological Superconductivity in Planar Josephson Junctions

Barış Pekerten, David Brandão, Bassel Heiba Elfeky +4

Planar Josephson junctions provide a platform to host topological superconductivity which, through manipulating Majorana bound states (MBS), could enable fault-tolerant quantum com…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 7 cited

Phase jumps in Josephson junctions with time-dependent spin-orbit coupling

David Monroe, Chenghao Shen, Dario Tringali +3

Planar Josephson junctions (JJs), based on common superconductors and III-V semiconductors, are sought for Majorana states and fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, with gate-…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 6 cited

Beyond the standard model of topological Josephson junctions: From crystalline anisotropy to finite-size and diode effects

Barış Pekerten, David Brandão, Bailey Bussiere +6

A planar Josephson junction is a versatile platform to realize topological superconductivity over a large parameter space and host Majorana bound states. With a change in Zeeman fi…