Colour symmetry and altermagnetic-like spin textures in noncollinear antiferromagnets

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Hauptverfasser: Radaelli, Paolo G., Gurung, Gautam
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author Radaelli, Paolo G.
Gurung, Gautam
author_facet Radaelli, Paolo G.
Gurung, Gautam
contents We present a formalism based on colour symmetry to analyse the momentum-space spin textures of non-collinear antiferromagnets. We show that, out of the spin textures allowed by the magnetic point group, \textcolor{\altcolor} {one can extract a component that is invariant by general rotations in spin space, and can exist in the absence of spin-orbit coupling, in complete analogy to spin textures in altermagnets}. We demonstrate this approach in the case of three complex, non-collinear magnets, Mn$_3$Ir(Ge,Si), Pb$_2$MnO$_4$ and Mn$_3$GaN. For Mn$_3$GaN, we also show that the predictions of colour-symmetry analysis are consistent with density functional theory calculations performed on the same system both with and without spin-orbit coupling.
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spellingShingle Colour symmetry and altermagnetic-like spin textures in noncollinear antiferromagnets
Radaelli, Paolo G.
Gurung, Gautam
Strongly Correlated Electrons
We present a formalism based on colour symmetry to analyse the momentum-space spin textures of non-collinear antiferromagnets. We show that, out of the spin textures allowed by the magnetic point group, \textcolor{\altcolor} {one can extract a component that is invariant by general rotations in spin space, and can exist in the absence of spin-orbit coupling, in complete analogy to spin textures in altermagnets}. We demonstrate this approach in the case of three complex, non-collinear magnets, Mn$_3$Ir(Ge,Si), Pb$_2$MnO$_4$ and Mn$_3$GaN. For Mn$_3$GaN, we also show that the predictions of colour-symmetry analysis are consistent with density functional theory calculations performed on the same system both with and without spin-orbit coupling.
title Colour symmetry and altermagnetic-like spin textures in noncollinear antiferromagnets
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02947