Anisotropic Surface Spin Waves as Signature of A-type Altermagnets
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| author | Sun, Zhoujian Chen, Yiyuan Yu, Tao Lu, Hai-Zhou Xie, X. C. |
| author_facet | Sun, Zhoujian Chen, Yiyuan Yu, Tao Lu, Hai-Zhou Xie, X. C. |
| contents | Altermagnets have attracted intense interest because they have the advantages of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. However, their experimental identification remains challenging, in particular for the A-type altermagnets that account for a large group of material candidates. Here, we discover a kind of anisotropic surface spin waves in A-type altermagnets, which is absent in ferromagnets and conventional antiferromagnets. The anisotropic surface spin waves arise directly from the nature of altermagnets, i.e., the spin-opposite sublattices cannot be related by translation or inversion, which breaks the combined spatial-inversion and time-reversal symmetry, leading to the anisotropic surface spin waves with two properties, the chirality-dependent top-bottom positions and chiral split constant frequency contours. We further show that these two properties can be measured experimentally from the stray field and by resonance absorption spectrum, respectively. Our results provide a signature for detecting altermagnets and will inspire spin-based logic and information-storage devices. |
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| spellingShingle | Anisotropic Surface Spin Waves as Signature of A-type Altermagnets Sun, Zhoujian Chen, Yiyuan Yu, Tao Lu, Hai-Zhou Xie, X. C. Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Altermagnets have attracted intense interest because they have the advantages of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. However, their experimental identification remains challenging, in particular for the A-type altermagnets that account for a large group of material candidates. Here, we discover a kind of anisotropic surface spin waves in A-type altermagnets, which is absent in ferromagnets and conventional antiferromagnets. The anisotropic surface spin waves arise directly from the nature of altermagnets, i.e., the spin-opposite sublattices cannot be related by translation or inversion, which breaks the combined spatial-inversion and time-reversal symmetry, leading to the anisotropic surface spin waves with two properties, the chirality-dependent top-bottom positions and chiral split constant frequency contours. We further show that these two properties can be measured experimentally from the stray field and by resonance absorption spectrum, respectively. Our results provide a signature for detecting altermagnets and will inspire spin-based logic and information-storage devices. |
| title | Anisotropic Surface Spin Waves as Signature of A-type Altermagnets |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14735 |