School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2006 Xiyuan Avenue, Chengdu, Sichuan 611731, China State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films ...

For a long time, it has been believed that magnetism is of only two types; ferromagnetism and anti-ferromagnetism. Both forms have their own importance, for instance, without ferromagnets one ...

For decades, researchers believed ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism were opposites, forever incompatible. But altermagnets, first proposed just two years ago, are a sort of bridge between the two.

"Ferromagnetism, where the magnetic moments, which you can picture like small compass arrows on the atomic scale, all point in the same direction. And antiferromagnetism, where the neighboring ...