Discovery of Novel Magnetic Materials through Pseudospin Control

Project Personnel

Daniel Agterberg

Principal Investigator

Michael Weinert

Co-PI

Lian Li

Co-PI

Funding Divisions

Division Of Materials Research (DMR)

Materials discovery requires new tools that enable design principles. The properties of many technologically relevant materials, such as perfect conductivity in superconductors and electric current control of magnets, arise from the spin of electrons. This project will use pseudospin - a quantum mechanical degree of freedom analogous to electron spin - as a new tool for materials discovery. The research will follow the collaborative and iterative closed-loop Materials Genome Initiative approach by combining analytic and predictive computational theory, together with epitaxial growth of materials one atomic layer at a time, and characterization using advanced microscopy and spectroscopy techniques. This project will develop new guiding principles based on controlling pseudospin in materials design, a paradigm shift in quantum materials discovery that will enable both superconductors that can sustain high magnetic fields and novel magnets. This activity will provide training for the next-generation quantum workforce.

Publications

Odd-Parity Magnetism Driven by Antiferromagnetic Exchange
Y. Yu, M. B. Lyngby, T. Shishidou, M. Roig, A. Kreisel, M. Weinert, B. M. Andersen, and D. F. Agterberg
7/22/2025
Fresnel diffraction imaging of surface nanostructure using coherent resonant x-ray scattering
L. Burgard, C. Neupane, A. Balodhi, S. Bista, S. Butun, R. Jangid, A. Barbour, N. Basit, D. F. Agterberg, M. Weinert, C. Mazzoli, and M. G. Kim
7/1/2025
Quasisymmetry-Constrained Spin Ferromagnetism in Altermagnets
M. Roig, Y. Yu, R. C. Ekman, A. Kreisel, B. M. Andersen, and D. F. Agterberg
7/1/2025
Local signatures of altermagnetism
J. Gondolf, A. Kreisel, M. Roig, Y. Yu, D. F. Agterberg, and B. M. Andersen
5/21/2025
Large critical fields in superconducting Ti4Ir2O from spin-orbit coupling
H. Wu, T. Shishidou, M. Weinert, and D. F. Agterberg
5/8/2025
Altermagnetism from coincident Van Hove singularities: application to κ-Cl
Y. Yu, H. G. Suh, M. Roig, and D. F. Agterberg
3/26/2025
Spin–orbit enabled unconventional Stoner magnetism
Y. Yu, T. Shishidou, S. Sumita, M. Weinert, and D. F. Agterberg
11/8/2024
Minimal models for altermagnetism
M. Roig, A. Kreisel, Y. Yu, B. M. Andersen, and D. F. Agterberg
10/8/2024

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Research Highlights

Spin-orbit Enabled Unconventional Stoner Magnetism
Michael Weinert and Daniel Agterberg (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
9/5/2025

Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)