{"id":211831,"date":"2025-04-19T02:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/layered-room-temperature-altermagnet-shows-promise-for-advanced-spintronics"},"modified":"2025-04-19T02:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:30:21","slug":"layered-room-temperature-altermagnet-shows-promise-for-advanced-spintronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/layered-room-temperature-altermagnet-shows-promise-for-advanced-spintronics","title":{"rendered":"Layered room-temperature altermagnet shows promise for advanced spintronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/layered-room-temperature-altermagnet-shows-promise-for-advanced-spintronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, magnetic materials have been divided into two main categories: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Over the past few years, however, physicists have uncovered the existence of altermagnets, a new type of magnetic material that exhibits features of both antiferromagnets and ferromagnets.<\/p>\n<p>Altermagnets are <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic materials<\/a> that have no net magnetization (i.e., their atomic magnetic moments cancel each other out), like antiferromagnets. Yet they also break spin degeneracy (i.e., the usual energy equality between spin-up and spin-down electrons), similarly to ferromagnets.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Southern University of Science and Technology, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and other institutes in China recently set out to realize a layered altermagnet that can generate non-collinear spin current. The room-temperature metallic altermagnet they unveiled was outlined in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-025-02864-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally, magnetic materials have been divided into two main categories: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Over the past few years, however, physicists have uncovered the existence of altermagnets, a new type of magnetic material that exhibits features of both antiferromagnets and ferromagnets. Altermagnets are magnetic materials that have no net magnetization (i.e., their atomic magnetic moments cancel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}