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X-ray techniques map and measure the invisible properties of altermagnets

Two new tools to map and measure the invisible properties of altermagnets
Calculated RPED patterns of MnTe for circular po-larized light with helicity q || L~ [1100] at the L3-resonance ( hbar omega = 639.7eV a-d) or the L2-resonance ( hbar omega = 651.8eV e-h). Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/pl1p-v5rs

The new big thing in magnetics is altermagnetism, a form of magnetism that promises to power the next-generation of electronics. Unlike ferromagnets, like a fridge magnet, where all internal atomic spins align to create a strong magnetic field, altermagnets have no net magnetic pull (strongly magnetic on the inside, but appears non-magnetic on the outside). This is similar to antiferromagnets where internal spins cancel each other out...

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