[{"title":"Deterministic domain selection of antiferromagnets via magnetic fields","OA_place":"repository","year":"2026","date_updated":"2026-03-16T08:57:18Z","publication":"arXiv","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","month":"01","author":[{"first_name":"Sophie F.","full_name":"Weber, Sophie F.","last_name":"Weber"},{"orcid":"0000-0003-2724-3523","first_name":"Veronika","id":"23cb1cf6-2c7a-11ef-91a4-f72fc19f20b3","full_name":"Sunko, Veronika","last_name":"Sunko"}],"doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2601.06646","department":[{"_id":"VeSu"}],"external_id":{"arxiv":["2601.06646"]},"acknowledgement":"SFW acknowledges funding from Chalmers University of Technology through the department of Physics and the Areas of Advance Nano and Materials Science. VS acknowledges funding from Institute of Science and Technology Austria. Monte Carlo simulations were performed using computing resources from the PDC Center for High Performance Computing. These resources were granted by the National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS), partially funded by the Swedish Research Council through grant agreement no. 2022-06725.","citation":{"ista":"Weber SF, Sunko V. Deterministic domain selection of antiferromagnets via magnetic fields. arXiv, 2601.06646.","ama":"Weber SF, Sunko V. Deterministic domain selection of antiferromagnets via magnetic fields. <i>arXiv</i>. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.06646\">10.48550/arXiv.2601.06646</a>","chicago":"Weber, Sophie F., and Veronika Sunko. “Deterministic Domain Selection of Antiferromagnets via Magnetic Fields.” <i>ArXiv</i>, n.d. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.06646\">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.06646</a>.","mla":"Weber, Sophie F., and Veronika Sunko. “Deterministic Domain Selection of Antiferromagnets via Magnetic Fields.” <i>ArXiv</i>, 2601.06646, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.06646\">10.48550/arXiv.2601.06646</a>.","ieee":"S. F. Weber and V. Sunko, “Deterministic domain selection of antiferromagnets via magnetic fields,” <i>arXiv</i>. .","apa":"Weber, S. F., &#38; Sunko, V. (n.d.). Deterministic domain selection of antiferromagnets via magnetic fields. <i>arXiv</i>. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.06646\">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.06646</a>","short":"S.F. Weber, V. Sunko, ArXiv (n.d.)."},"article_number":"2601.06646","date_published":"2026-01-10T00:00:00Z","arxiv":1,"publication_status":"submitted","type":"preprint","status":"public","abstract":[{"text":"Antiferromagnets (AFMs) hold promise for applications in digital logic. However, switching AFM domains is challenging, as magnetic fields do not couple to the bulk antiferromagnetic order parameter. Here we show that magnetic-field-driven switching of AFM domains can in many cases be enabled by a generic reduction of magnetic exchange at surfaces. We use statistical mechanics and Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate that an inequivalence in magnetic exchange between top and bottom surface moments, combined with the enhanced magnetic susceptibility of surface spins, can enable deterministic selection of antiferromagnetic domains depending on the magnetic-field ramping direction. We further show that this mechanism provides a natural interpretation for experimental observations of hysteresis in magneto-optical response of the van der Waals AFM $\\mathrm{MnBi_2Te_4}$. Our findings highlight the critical role of surface spins in responses of antiferromagnets to magnetic fields. Furthermore, our results suggest that antiferromagnetic domain selection via purely magnetic means may be a more common and experimentally accessible phenomenon than previously assumed.","lang":"eng"}],"oa":1,"date_created":"2026-03-11T10:40:20Z","oa_version":"Preprint","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.06646","open_access":"1"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"day":"10","article_processing_charge":"No","_id":"21438","OA_type":"green"},{"arxiv":1,"article_number":"2507.12588","date_published":"2026-04-09T00:00:00Z","acknowledgement":"We thank Linda Ye and Yue Sun for helpful discussion. Experimental and theoretical work at LBNL and UC Berkeley was funded by the Quantum Materials (KC2202) program under the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. V.S. and J.O. received support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s EPiQS Initiative through Grant GBMF4537 to J.O. at UC Berkeley. J.K. received support from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. 2146752. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. During the preparation of this manuscript, we became aware of the following related work: refs. 56,57,58.","department":[{"_id":"VeSu"}],"scopus_import":"1","OA_place":"publisher","quality_controlled":"1","article_type":"original","article_processing_charge":"Yes","main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-026-00856-w"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"The cobalt-intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide CoxTaS2 hosts a rich landscape of magnetic phases that depend sensitively on x. While the stoichiometric compound with x = 1/3 exhibits a single magnetic transition, samples with x≤0.325 display two transitions with an anomalous Hall effect (AHE) emerging in the lower temperature phase. Here, we resolve the spin structure in each phase by employing a suite of magneto-optical probes that include the discovery of anomalous magneto-birefringence: a spontaneous time-reversal sensitive rotation of the principal optic axes. A symmetry-based analysis identifies the AHE-active phase as an anisotropic (2+1)Q state, in which magnetic modulation at one wavevector (Q) differs in symmetry from that at the remaining two. The (2+1)Q state naturally exhibits scalar spin chirality as a mechanism for the AHE and expands the classification of multi-Q magnetic phases."}],"status":"public","type":"journal_article","citation":{"ieee":"J. Kruppe, J. Rodriguez, C. Xu, J. Analytis, J. Orenstein, and V. Sunko, “Anisotropic multi-Q order in CoxTaS2,” <i>npj Quantum Materials</i>. Springer Nature, 2026.","mla":"Kruppe, Jonathon, et al. “Anisotropic Multi-Q Order in CoxTaS2.” <i>Npj Quantum Materials</i>, 2507.12588, Springer Nature, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-026-00856-w\">10.1038/s41535-026-00856-w</a>.","apa":"Kruppe, J., Rodriguez, J., Xu, C., Analytis, J., Orenstein, J., &#38; Sunko, V. (2026). Anisotropic multi-Q order in CoxTaS2. <i>Npj Quantum Materials</i>. Springer Nature. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-026-00856-w\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-026-00856-w</a>","short":"J. Kruppe, J. Rodriguez, C. Xu, J. Analytis, J. Orenstein, V. Sunko, Npj Quantum Materials (2026).","ista":"Kruppe J, Rodriguez J, Xu C, Analytis J, Orenstein J, Sunko V. 2026. Anisotropic multi-Q order in CoxTaS2. npj Quantum Materials., 2507.12588.","chicago":"Kruppe, Jonathon, Josue Rodriguez, Catherine Xu, James Analytis, Joseph Orenstein, and Veronika Sunko. “Anisotropic Multi-Q Order in CoxTaS2.” <i>Npj Quantum Materials</i>. Springer Nature, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-026-00856-w\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-026-00856-w</a>.","ama":"Kruppe J, Rodriguez J, Xu C, Analytis J, Orenstein J, Sunko V. Anisotropic multi-Q order in CoxTaS2. <i>npj Quantum Materials</i>. 2026. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-026-00856-w\">10.1038/s41535-026-00856-w</a>"},"external_id":{"arxiv":["2507.12588"]},"doi":"10.1038/s41535-026-00856-w","author":[{"first_name":"Jonathon","full_name":"Kruppe, Jonathon","last_name":"Kruppe"},{"first_name":"Josue","last_name":"Rodriguez","full_name":"Rodriguez, Josue"},{"last_name":"Xu","full_name":"Xu, Catherine","first_name":"Catherine"},{"first_name":"James","full_name":"Analytis, James","last_name":"Analytis"},{"first_name":"Joseph","last_name":"Orenstein","full_name":"Orenstein, Joseph"},{"id":"23cb1cf6-2c7a-11ef-91a4-f72fc19f20b3","full_name":"Sunko, Veronika","last_name":"Sunko","orcid":"0000-0003-2724-3523","first_name":"Veronika"}],"month":"04","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","publication":"npj Quantum Materials","date_updated":"2026-04-15T13:03:14Z","publisher":"Springer Nature","corr_author":"1","year":"2026","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2397-4648"]},"title":"Anisotropic multi-Q order in CoxTaS2","OA_type":"gold","_id":"21436","day":"09","date_created":"2026-03-11T10:39:55Z","oa":1,"publication_status":"epub_ahead"},{"OA_type":"green","article_processing_charge":"No","_id":"21703","day":"08","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.07653","open_access":"1"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"oa_version":"Preprint","date_created":"2026-04-10T14:17:21Z","oa":1,"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Altermagnetism has recently emerged as a distinct class of collinear antiferromagnets that break time-reversal symmetry, exhibiting a host of novel properties. Applied strain has attracted particular attention as a key tuning parameter for altermagnets. Although several experimental studies have demonstrated the preparation of single-domain states through a combination of applied strain and magnetic field, the route to such states remains unclear. Here, we use magneto-optical measurements on single crystals of MnTe under applied strain to show that, in contrast to previous reports, strain acts primarily to rotate the Néel vector L continuously. Since the orientation of L determines the magnetic point group symmetry, this continuous rotation effectively tunes the symmetry and its associated physical properties. Furthermore, we demonstrate that built-in strain in free-standing crystals is sufficient to pin L into continuous textures over millimeter length scales. Together, these results provide guidance for future device design and open the door to leveraging the Néel vector orientation as a tunable degree of freedom in spintronic applications."}],"type":"preprint","status":"public","publication_status":"submitted","date_published":"2026-04-08T00:00:00Z","arxiv":1,"article_number":"2604.07653","citation":{"ista":"Alex Liebman-Peláez AL-P, Kruppe J, Regmi RB, Ghimire NJ, Sun Y, Mazin II, Noad HML, Analytis J, Sunko V, Orenstein J. Strain continuously rotates the Néel vector in altermagnetic MnTe. arXiv, 2604.07653.","chicago":"Alex Liebman-Peláez, Alex Liebman-Peláez, Jon Kruppe, Resham Babu Regmi, Nirmal J. Ghimire, Yue Sun, Igor I. Mazin, Hilary M. L. Noad, James Analytis, Veronika Sunko, and Joseph Orenstein. “Strain Continuously Rotates the Néel Vector in Altermagnetic MnTe.” <i>ArXiv</i>, n.d. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.07653\">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.07653</a>.","ama":"Alex Liebman-Peláez AL-P, Kruppe J, Regmi RB, et al. Strain continuously rotates the Néel vector in altermagnetic MnTe. <i>arXiv</i>. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.07653\">10.48550/arXiv.2604.07653</a>","ieee":"A. L.-P. Alex Liebman-Peláez <i>et al.</i>, “Strain continuously rotates the Néel vector in altermagnetic MnTe,” <i>arXiv</i>. .","mla":"Alex Liebman-Peláez, Alex Liebman-Peláez, et al. “Strain Continuously Rotates the Néel Vector in Altermagnetic MnTe.” <i>ArXiv</i>, 2604.07653, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.07653\">10.48550/arXiv.2604.07653</a>.","short":"A.L.-P. Alex Liebman-Peláez, J. Kruppe, R.B. Regmi, N.J. Ghimire, Y. Sun, I.I. Mazin, H.M.L. Noad, J. Analytis, V. Sunko, J. Orenstein, ArXiv (n.d.).","apa":"Alex Liebman-Peláez, A. L.-P., Kruppe, J., Regmi, R. B., Ghimire, N. J., Sun, Y., Mazin, I. I., … Orenstein, J. (n.d.). Strain continuously rotates the Néel vector in altermagnetic MnTe. <i>arXiv</i>. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.07653\">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.07653</a>"},"external_id":{"arxiv":["2604.07653"]},"acknowledgement":"This research was primarily funded by the Quantum Materials (KC2202) program under the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, which supported the experimental and theoretical work at the LBNL and UC Berkeley. N.J.G., R. B. R., and I.I.M.\r\nwere supported by Army Research Office under Cooperative Agreement Number W911NF- 22-2-0173. H.M.L.N. and V.S. acknowledge funding through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) through Grant No. TRR288—422213477, Project No. A10. H.M.L.N. acknowledges financial support from the Max Planck Society. Research in Dresden benefits from the environment provided by the DFG Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat (EXC2147, Project ID 390858490).","department":[{"_id":"VeSu"}],"author":[{"first_name":"Alex Liebman-Peláez","full_name":"Alex Liebman-Peláez, Alex Liebman-Peláez","last_name":"Alex Liebman-Peláez"},{"first_name":"Jon","full_name":"Kruppe, Jon","last_name":"Kruppe"},{"first_name":"Resham Babu","full_name":"Regmi, Resham Babu","last_name":"Regmi"},{"first_name":"Nirmal J.","full_name":"Ghimire, Nirmal J.","last_name":"Ghimire"},{"first_name":"Yue","last_name":"Sun","full_name":"Sun, Yue"},{"first_name":"Igor I.","last_name":"Mazin","full_name":"Mazin, Igor I."},{"first_name":"Hilary M. L.","last_name":"Noad","full_name":"Noad, Hilary M. L."},{"first_name":"James","last_name":"Analytis","full_name":"Analytis, James"},{"last_name":"Sunko","full_name":"Sunko, Veronika","id":"23cb1cf6-2c7a-11ef-91a4-f72fc19f20b3","first_name":"Veronika","orcid":"0000-0003-2724-3523"},{"full_name":"Orenstein, Joseph","last_name":"Orenstein","first_name":"Joseph"}],"doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2604.07653","month":"04","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","publication":"arXiv","date_updated":"2026-05-04T06:27:12Z","OA_place":"repository","year":"2026","title":"Strain continuously rotates the Néel vector in altermagnetic MnTe"},{"type":"journal_article","status":"public","related_material":{"record":[{"status":"public","relation":"research_data","id":"21422"}]},"tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"quality_controlled":"1","article_type":"original","article_processing_charge":"Yes","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72577-4"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) is a powerful probe of broken time-reversal symmetry (T), typically used to study ferromagnets. While MOKE has been observed in some antiferromagnets (AFMs) with vanishing magnetization, it is often associated with structures whose symmetry is lower than basic collinear, bipartite order. In contrast, theory predicts a mechanism for MOKE intrinsic to all AFMs of A-type, i.e. layered AFMs in which ferromagnetic layers are antiferromagnetically aligned. Here we report the experimental confirmation of this mechanism in a bulk AFM. We achieve this by measuring the imaginary component of MOKE as a function of photon energy in MnBi2Te4, an A-type AFM where T is preserved in combination with a translation, and comparing the experimental results with model calculations. Our model suggests that observable MOKE should be expected in all collinear A-type AFMs with out-of-plane spin order, thus enabling optical detection of AFM domains and expanding the scope of MOKE to few-layer AFMs."}],"OA_place":"publisher","has_accepted_license":"1","date_published":"2026-05-12T00:00:00Z","DOAJ_listed":"1","acknowledgement":"We thank Christine Kuntscher for providing optical conductivity and reflectance data published in ref. 33, and Nicola Spaldin, Joel Moore and Bevin Huang for useful discussions. V.S. and J.O. received support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s EPiQS Initiative through Grant GBMF4537 awarded to J.O. at UC Berkeley. Experimental and theoretical work at LBNL and UC Berkeley was funded by the Quantum Materials (KC2202) program under the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Work at the University of Kansas was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, EPSCoR, and Materials Sciences and Engineering Division under Award No. DE-SC0025319. Parts of device fabrication were performed in the KU Nanofabrication Facility, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health NIGMS P30GM145499. Work at ORNL was supported by the U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division. For the DFT calculations we used resources provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at C3SE. We acknowledge support from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Number 2201516 under the Accelnet program of Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE). This publication is funded in part by a QuantEmX grant from ICAM and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant GBMF9616 to S. 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Magneto-optical Kerr effect in an A-type antiferromagnet. <i>Nature Communications</i>. Springer Nature. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72577-4\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72577-4</a>","short":"V. Sunko, S. Ahsanullah, V. Jain, S. Weber, S. Kumaran, J. Yan, J. Orenstein, D. Ovchinnikov, Nature Communications (2026).","ista":"Sunko V, Ahsanullah S, Jain V, Weber S, Kumaran S, Yan J, Orenstein J, Ovchinnikov D. 2026. Magneto-optical Kerr effect in an A-type antiferromagnet. Nature Communications.","chicago":"Sunko, Veronika, Salman Ahsanullah, Vivek Jain, Sophie Weber, Sivaloganathan Kumaran, Jiaqiang Yan, Joseph Orenstein, and Dmitry Ovchinnikov. “Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect in an A-Type Antiferromagnet.” <i>Nature Communications</i>. Springer Nature, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72577-4\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72577-4</a>.","ama":"Sunko V, Ahsanullah S, Jain V, et al. Magneto-optical Kerr effect in an A-type antiferromagnet. <i>Nature Communications</i>. 2026. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72577-4\">10.1038/s41467-026-72577-4</a>"},"author":[{"orcid":"0000-0003-2724-3523","first_name":"Veronika","last_name":"Sunko","id":"23cb1cf6-2c7a-11ef-91a4-f72fc19f20b3","full_name":"Sunko, Veronika"},{"first_name":"Salman","full_name":"Ahsanullah, Salman","last_name":"Ahsanullah"},{"full_name":"Jain, Vivek","last_name":"Jain","first_name":"Vivek"},{"full_name":"Weber, Sophie","last_name":"Weber","first_name":"Sophie"},{"full_name":"Kumaran, Sivaloganathan","last_name":"Kumaran","first_name":"Sivaloganathan"},{"last_name":"Yan","full_name":"Yan, Jiaqiang","first_name":"Jiaqiang"},{"full_name":"Orenstein, Joseph","last_name":"Orenstein","first_name":"Joseph"},{"full_name":"Ovchinnikov, Dmitry","last_name":"Ovchinnikov","first_name":"Dmitry"}],"doi":"10.1038/s41467-026-72577-4","month":"05","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"date_created":"2026-03-11T07:04:26Z","oa_version":"None","oa":1,"file_date_updated":"2026-03-11T10:28:37Z","OA_type":"free access","article_processing_charge":"No","_id":"21422","day":"11","tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"file":[{"checksum":"54db0b68f0cf919009317fd3da8f733b","content_type":"application/zip","creator":"vsunko","date_created":"2026-03-11T10:28:34Z","access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","file_size":85004,"date_updated":"2026-03-11T10:28:34Z","file_id":"21429","file_name":"MBT_Data_Paper.zip","success":1},{"file_id":"21430","file_name":"README.txt","success":1,"date_updated":"2026-03-11T10:28:37Z","checksum":"df1785b7ada7cd07f76a441ee4f52266","content_type":"text/plain","creator":"vsunko","date_created":"2026-03-11T10:28:37Z","access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","file_size":2593}],"related_material":{"record":[{"status":"public","relation":"used_in_publication","id":"21872"}]},"status":"public","type":"research_data","department":[{"_id":"VeSu"}],"doi":"10.15479/AT-ISTA-21422","author":[{"id":"23cb1cf6-2c7a-11ef-91a4-f72fc19f20b3","full_name":"Sunko, Veronika","last_name":"Sunko","orcid":"0000-0003-2724-3523","first_name":"Veronika"}],"month":"03","user_id":"68b8ca59-c5b3-11ee-8790-cd641c68093d","has_accepted_license":"1","date_published":"2026-03-11T00:00:00Z","citation":{"chicago":"Sunko, Veronika. “Data Underpinning ‘Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect in an A-Type Antiferromagnet.’” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-21422\">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-21422</a>.","ama":"Sunko V. Data underpinning “Magneto-optical Kerr effect in an A-type antiferromagnet.” 2026. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-21422\">10.15479/AT-ISTA-21422</a>","ista":"Sunko V. 2026. Data underpinning ‘Magneto-optical Kerr effect in an A-type antiferromagnet’, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-21422\">10.15479/AT-ISTA-21422</a>.","apa":"Sunko, V. (2026). Data underpinning “Magneto-optical Kerr effect in an A-type antiferromagnet.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-21422\">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-21422</a>","short":"V. Sunko, (2026).","ieee":"V. Sunko, “Data underpinning ‘Magneto-optical Kerr effect in an A-type antiferromagnet.’” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026.","mla":"Sunko, Veronika. <i>Data Underpinning “Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect in an A-Type Antiferromagnet.”</i> Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-21422\">10.15479/AT-ISTA-21422</a>."},"title":"Data underpinning \"Magneto-optical Kerr effect in an A-type antiferromagnet\"","publisher":"Institute of Science and Technology Austria","date_updated":"2026-05-18T08:04:37Z","corr_author":"1","OA_place":"repository","year":"2026"},{"title":"Strain-induced multiferroicity in Cr1/3NbS2","publication":"arXiv","corr_author":"1","year":"2025","OA_place":"repository","date_updated":"2026-03-16T08:43:57Z","department":[{"_id":"VeSu"}],"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","month":"10","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2510.11619","author":[{"first_name":"Y.","last_name":"Sun","full_name":"Sun, Y."},{"full_name":"Ahn, Y.","last_name":"Ahn","first_name":"Y."},{"first_name":"D.","full_name":"Sapkota, D.","last_name":"Sapkota"},{"first_name":"H. 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Experimental and theoretical work at LBNL and UC Berkeley was funded by the Quantum Materials (KC2202) program under the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences,\r\nMaterials Sciences and Engineering Division under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.\r\nY.S. also acknowledges support by the David J. Thouless Postdoctoral Fellowship at the\r\nDepartment of Physics, University of Washington. DGM acknowledges support from the\r\nGordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s EPiQS Initiative, Grant GBMF9069. L.Z. acknowledges the support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic\r\nEnergy Science (BES), under award No. DE-SC0024145","citation":{"ieee":"Y. Sun <i>et al.</i>, “Strain-induced multiferroicity in Cr1/3NbS2,” <i>arXiv</i>. .","mla":"Sun, Y., et al. “Strain-Induced Multiferroicity in Cr1/3NbS2.” <i>ArXiv</i>, 2510.11619, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.11619\">10.48550/arXiv.2510.11619</a>.","apa":"Sun, Y., Ahn, Y., Sapkota, D., Arachchige, H. S., Xue, R., Mozaffari, S., … Sunko, V. (n.d.). Strain-induced multiferroicity in Cr1/3NbS2. <i>arXiv</i>. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.11619\">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.11619</a>","short":"Y. Sun, Y. Ahn, D. Sapkota, H.S. Arachchige, R. Xue, S. Mozaffari, D.G. Mandrus, L. Zhao, J. Orenstein, V. Sunko, ArXiv (n.d.).","ista":"Sun Y, Ahn Y, Sapkota D, Arachchige HS, Xue R, Mozaffari S, Mandrus DG, Zhao L, Orenstein J, Sunko V. Strain-induced multiferroicity in Cr1/3NbS2. arXiv, 2510.11619.","chicago":"Sun, Y., Y. Ahn, D. Sapkota, H. S. Arachchige, R. Xue, S. Mozaffari, D. G. Mandrus, L. Zhao, J. Orenstein, and Veronika Sunko. “Strain-Induced Multiferroicity in Cr1/3NbS2.” <i>ArXiv</i>, n.d. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.11619\">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.11619</a>.","ama":"Sun Y, Ahn Y, Sapkota D, et al. Strain-induced multiferroicity in Cr1/3NbS2. <i>arXiv</i>. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.11619\">10.48550/arXiv.2510.11619</a>"},"date_published":"2025-10-13T00:00:00Z","arxiv":1,"article_number":"2510.11619","publication_status":"submitted","type":"preprint","status":"public","oa_version":"Preprint","date_created":"2026-03-11T10:39:44Z","main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.11619"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Multiferroic materials, in which electric polarization and magnetic order coexist and couple, offer rich opportunities for both fundamental discovery and technology. However, multiferroicity remains rare due to conflicting electronic requirements for ferroelectricity and magnetism. One route to circumvent this challenge is to exploit the noncollinear ordering of spin cycloids, whose symmetry permits the emergence of polar order. In this work, we introduce another pathway to multiferroic order in which strain generates polarization in materials that host nonpolar spin spirals. To demonstrate this phenomenon, we chose the spin spiral in the well-studied helimagnet Cr1/3NbS2. To detect the induced polarization, we introduce the technique of magnetoelectric birefringence (MEB), an optical probe that enables spatially-resolved and unambiguous detection of polar order. By combining MEB imaging with strain engineering, we confirm the onset of a polar vector at the magnetic transition, establishing strained Cr1/3NbS2 as a type-II multiferroic."}],"oa":1,"OA_type":"green","day":"13","_id":"21435","article_processing_charge":"No"},{"acknowledgement":"We thank Nicola Spaldin for valuable discussions. J.O. received support from the Quantum Materials (KC2202) program under the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s EPiQS Initiative through Grant GBMF4537 to J.O. at UC Berkeley.","date_published":"2025-11-20T00:00:00Z","arxiv":1,"article_number":"2511.16421","department":[{"_id":"VeSu"}],"OA_place":"repository","article_processing_charge":"No","abstract":[{"text":"Altermagnets are a class of collinear magnets that exhibit non-relativistic spin splitting (NRSS) of electronic bands in the absence of net magnetization. Their potential to generate large spin polarization without spin-orbit coupling has created strong interest in probes that access the underlying order parameter directly. In this Perspective, we show that linear magneto-birefringence (LMB) provides a natural and broadly applicable route to detecting altermagnetic order. Building on the correspondence between the momentum-space structure of NRSS and the ferroic ordering of magnetic multipoles in real space, we demonstrate how $d$-wave and $g$-wave NRSS textures yield distinct LMB responses. We present a symmetry-based framework that identifies the optical geometries and field configurations required to isolate specific multipole components, enabling domain imaging and providing benchmarks for theoretical models of LMB.","lang":"eng"}],"oa_version":"Preprint","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.16421"}],"status":"public","type":"preprint","tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"external_id":{"arxiv":["2511.16421"]},"citation":{"mla":"Sunko, Veronika, and J. Orenstein. “Linear Magneto-Birefringence as a Probe of Altermagnetism.” <i>ArXiv</i>, 2511.16421, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.16421\">10.48550/arXiv.2511.16421</a>.","ieee":"V. Sunko and J. Orenstein, “Linear magneto-birefringence as a probe of altermagnetism,” <i>arXiv</i>. .","short":"V. Sunko, J. Orenstein, ArXiv (n.d.).","apa":"Sunko, V., &#38; Orenstein, J. (n.d.). Linear magneto-birefringence as a probe of altermagnetism. <i>arXiv</i>. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.16421\">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.16421</a>","ista":"Sunko V, Orenstein J. Linear magneto-birefringence as a probe of altermagnetism. arXiv, 2511.16421.","ama":"Sunko V, Orenstein J. Linear magneto-birefringence as a probe of altermagnetism. <i>arXiv</i>. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.16421\">10.48550/arXiv.2511.16421</a>","chicago":"Sunko, Veronika, and J. Orenstein. “Linear Magneto-Birefringence as a Probe of Altermagnetism.” <i>ArXiv</i>, n.d. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.16421\">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.16421</a>."},"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","month":"11","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2511.16421","author":[{"first_name":"Veronika","orcid":"0000-0003-2724-3523","last_name":"Sunko","full_name":"Sunko, Veronika","id":"23cb1cf6-2c7a-11ef-91a4-f72fc19f20b3"},{"first_name":"J.","last_name":"Orenstein","full_name":"Orenstein, J."}],"corr_author":"1","year":"2025","date_updated":"2026-03-16T08:52:35Z","publication":"arXiv","title":"Linear magneto-birefringence as a probe of altermagnetism","day":"20","_id":"21437","OA_type":"green","oa":1,"date_created":"2026-03-11T10:40:08Z","publication_status":"submitted"}]