Complex Magnetic Behavior in RuO${}_2$ Thin Films Driven by Strain and Substrate Effects

Mojtaba Alaei, Nafise Rezaei, Ilia Mikhailov +2

Ruthenium dioxide (RuO${}_2$) has been proposed as a prototypical metallic $d$-wave altermagnet, a Néel-ordered compensated antiferromagnetic state exhibiting nonrelativistic moment…