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Altermagnetic Magnons in Twisted van der Waals Antiferromagnets
KTH, Centres, SeRC - Swedish e-Science Research Centre. KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Applied Physics, Light and Matter Physics.ORCID iD: 0009-0005-6165-3237
School of Science, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China.
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Applied Physics, Light and Matter Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8041-186X
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Applied Physics, Light and Matter Physics. KTH, Centres, SeRC - Swedish e-Science Research Centre. Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3326-7786
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2026 (English)In: Nano Letters, ISSN 1530-6984, E-ISSN 1530-6992, Vol. 26, no 15, p. 5078-5085Article in journal, Letter (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Magnonics promises low-dissipation information processing, yet spin-polarized magnon transport requires magnetic fields or spin–orbit couplings. Altermagnets exhibit spin-polarized electronic states and zero net magnetization. However, achieving large magnon spin splitting and robust magnonic spin currents remains challenging. Here we show that twisted van der Waals antiferromagnets provide a symmetry-tunable platform for the altermagnetic magnons. Alternating intralayer exchange arises in twisted bilayers lacking inversion and horizontal mirror symmetries, rendering nonrelativistic magnon spin splitting. Breaking out-of-plane rotational symmetries of a constituent monolayer significantly enhances low-energy splittings. We illustrate general conclusions in twisted CrPS4 (d-wave) and CrI3 (i-wave) bilayers. Moreover, pronounced field-free spin currents, characterized by robust spin Seebeck and spin Nernst effects, emerge in CrPS4. Remarkably, the spin transport is efficiently tuned by twist angle and exceeds that of conventional altermagnets by orders of magnitude. Our work provides novel insights into controlling magnons, deepening our fundamental understanding of altermagnetic spintronics.

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American Chemical Society (ACS) , 2026. Vol. 26, no 15, p. 5078-5085
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altermagnetic magnon, magnonic spin current, symmetry-controlled splitting, twist engineering, van der Waals antiferromagnet
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Condensed Matter Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-381130DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6c00198ISI: 001734551300001PubMedID: 41944267Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105036485642OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-381130DiVA, id: diva2:2059691
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