Unconventional magnons in collinear magnets dictated by spin space groups

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08715-7Spin space group theory is applied to identify more than 200 collinear magnets with unconventional magnons; high-throughput calculations with spin–orbit coupling find that most of these unconventional magnets are dictated by the Heisenberg exchange interaction.

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Unconventional magnons in collinear magnets dictated by spin space groups

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08715-7Spin space group theory is applied to identify more than 200 collinear magnets with unconventional magnons; high-throughput calculations with spin–orbit coupling find that most of these unconventional magnets are dictated by the Heisenberg exchange interaction.