Data-Driven Discovery of Unconventional Antiferromagnets

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Autori principali: Cui, Qirui, Liu, Chenxu, Delin, Anna, Wang, Kaiyou
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Cui, Qirui
Liu, Chenxu
Delin, Anna
Wang, Kaiyou
author_facet Cui, Qirui
Liu, Chenxu
Delin, Anna
Wang, Kaiyou
contents Unconventional antiferromagnets combine zero net magnetization with spin-split electronic bands, offering a distinct, important platform for spintronics. Their discovery, however, has so far depended largely on case-by-case studies and on a limited number of compounds with experimentally resolved magnetic structures. Here, we overcome these bottlenecks by resolving magnetic ground states across a broad materials database. We narrow down 37163 magnets from the Materials Project to 189 collinear antiferromagnets by combining physics-informed prescreening, high-throughput exchange calculations and Luttinger-Tisza analysis. Among these, symmetry analysis identifies 36 altermagnets and 11 Luttinger-compensated ferrimagnets (LCFs), including 22 altermagnets and 9 LCFs that have not been reported previously. The identified unconventional antiferromagnets can support nonrelativistic spin Hall effects and doping-tunable spin transport with switchable polarization and giant anisotropy. Our framework converts broad structural databases into a curated, symmetry-classified set of experimentally testable compensated spin-split magnets, establishing a scalable route for the efficient discovery of functional antiferromagnets.
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spellingShingle Data-Driven Discovery of Unconventional Antiferromagnets
Cui, Qirui
Liu, Chenxu
Delin, Anna
Wang, Kaiyou
Materials Science
Applied Physics
Unconventional antiferromagnets combine zero net magnetization with spin-split electronic bands, offering a distinct, important platform for spintronics. Their discovery, however, has so far depended largely on case-by-case studies and on a limited number of compounds with experimentally resolved magnetic structures. Here, we overcome these bottlenecks by resolving magnetic ground states across a broad materials database. We narrow down 37163 magnets from the Materials Project to 189 collinear antiferromagnets by combining physics-informed prescreening, high-throughput exchange calculations and Luttinger-Tisza analysis. Among these, symmetry analysis identifies 36 altermagnets and 11 Luttinger-compensated ferrimagnets (LCFs), including 22 altermagnets and 9 LCFs that have not been reported previously. The identified unconventional antiferromagnets can support nonrelativistic spin Hall effects and doping-tunable spin transport with switchable polarization and giant anisotropy. Our framework converts broad structural databases into a curated, symmetry-classified set of experimentally testable compensated spin-split magnets, establishing a scalable route for the efficient discovery of functional antiferromagnets.
title Data-Driven Discovery of Unconventional Antiferromagnets
topic Materials Science
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00409