Emergent Multiferroic Altermagnets and Spin Control via Noncollinear Molecular Polarization
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| author | Zhu, Ziye Liu, Yuntian Duan, Xunkai Zhang, Jiayong Hao, Bowen Wei, Su-Huai Zutic, Igor Zhou, Tong |
| author_facet | Zhu, Ziye Liu, Yuntian Duan, Xunkai Zhang, Jiayong Hao, Bowen Wei, Su-Huai Zutic, Igor Zhou, Tong |
| contents | Altermagnets, with spin splitting and vanishing magnetization, have been attributed to many fascinating phenomena and potential applications. In particular, integrating ferroelectricity with altermagnetism to enable magnetoelectric coupling and electric control of spin has drawn significant attention. However, its experimental realization and precise spin manipulation remain elusive. Here, by focusing on molecular ferroelectrics, the first discovered ferroelectrics renowned for their highly controllable molecular polarizations and structural flexibility, we reveal that these obstacles can be removed by an emergent multiferroic altermagnets with tunable spin polarization in a large class of fabricated organic materials. Using a symmetry-based design and a tight-binding model, we uncover the underlying mechanism of such molecular ferroelectric altermagnets and demonstrate how noncollinear molecular polarization can switch the spin polarization on and off and even reverse its sign. From the first-principles calculations, we verify the feasibility of these materials in a series of well-established hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites and metal-organic frameworks. Our findings bridge molecular ferroelectrics and altermagnetic spintronics, highlighting an unexplored potential of multifunctional organic multiferroics. |
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| spellingShingle | Emergent Multiferroic Altermagnets and Spin Control via Noncollinear Molecular Polarization Zhu, Ziye Liu, Yuntian Duan, Xunkai Zhang, Jiayong Hao, Bowen Wei, Su-Huai Zutic, Igor Zhou, Tong Materials Science Altermagnets, with spin splitting and vanishing magnetization, have been attributed to many fascinating phenomena and potential applications. In particular, integrating ferroelectricity with altermagnetism to enable magnetoelectric coupling and electric control of spin has drawn significant attention. However, its experimental realization and precise spin manipulation remain elusive. Here, by focusing on molecular ferroelectrics, the first discovered ferroelectrics renowned for their highly controllable molecular polarizations and structural flexibility, we reveal that these obstacles can be removed by an emergent multiferroic altermagnets with tunable spin polarization in a large class of fabricated organic materials. Using a symmetry-based design and a tight-binding model, we uncover the underlying mechanism of such molecular ferroelectric altermagnets and demonstrate how noncollinear molecular polarization can switch the spin polarization on and off and even reverse its sign. From the first-principles calculations, we verify the feasibility of these materials in a series of well-established hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites and metal-organic frameworks. Our findings bridge molecular ferroelectrics and altermagnetic spintronics, highlighting an unexplored potential of multifunctional organic multiferroics. |
| title | Emergent Multiferroic Altermagnets and Spin Control via Noncollinear Molecular Polarization |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07039 |