{"id":213204,"date":"2025-05-03T21:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T02:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/new-era-of-magnetization-research-sheds-light-on-future-applications-in-spintronics-and-valleytronics"},"modified":"2025-05-03T21:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T02:12:36","slug":"new-era-of-magnetization-research-sheds-light-on-future-applications-in-spintronics-and-valleytronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/new-era-of-magnetization-research-sheds-light-on-future-applications-in-spintronics-and-valleytronics","title":{"rendered":"New era of magnetization: Research sheds light on future applications in spintronics and valleytronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-era-of-magnetization-research-sheds-light-on-future-applications-in-spintronics-and-valleytronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Altermagnets, which exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting without spin\u2013orbit coupling (SOC) or net magnetization, have recently attracted significant international attention.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Prof. Liu Junwei from the Department of Physics at the Hong Kong University of <i>Science<\/i> and Technology (HKUST), along with their experimental collaborators, published their latest research findings in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-025-02864-2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Physics<\/i><\/a>, which unveiled the first experimental observation of a two-dimensional layered <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/room+temperature\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">room-temperature<\/a> altermagnet, validating the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theoretical+predictions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theoretical predictions<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-021-23127-7\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/a> made by Prof. Liu in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The realization and control of spin-polarized electronic states in solids are crucial for spintronics for encoding and processing information. Spin polarization is typically generated by coupling an electron\u2019s spin to other degrees of freedom, such as orbital or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+moments\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic moments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altermagnets, which exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting without spin\u2013orbit coupling (SOC) or net magnetization, have recently attracted significant international attention. A team led by Prof. Liu Junwei from the Department of Physics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), along with their experimental collaborators, published their latest research findings in Nature Physics, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213204","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}