On-line SPICE-SPIN+X Seminars

On-line Seminar: 18.02.2026 - 15:00 CET

Emergent altermagnetism at surfaces of antiferromagnets

Alexander Mook, University of Münster

We demonstrate the emergence of altermagnetism at the surfaces of antiferromagnets, vastly expanding the number of material candidates with altermagnetic characteristics and establishing a route to two-dimensional altermagnetism through surface-induced symmetry breaking [1]. We do so by developing a surface spin group formalism that fully classifies all surface magnetic states and identifies altermagnetic surface spin groups that can arise at the surfaces of antiferromagnets. We use this formalism to identify over 140 antiferromagnetic entries from the MAGNDATA database with at least one altermagnetic surface, often times with multiple such surfaces in the same material. We illustrate this emergent phenomenon in a realistic Lieb lattice-based minimal model and present ab initio calculations on two representative material candidates, NaMnP and FeGe.

References:

[1] Colin Lange, Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo, Atasi Chakraborty, Xanthe H. Verbeek, Libor Šmejkal, Jairo Sinova, Alexander Mook, arXiv:2602.08773 (2026)

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