Three physicists receive Europhysics Prize for altermagnetism - UA.NEWS
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The European Physical Society has awarded the 2026 Europhysics Prize to Professor Jairo Sinova, Dr. Libor Šmejkal, and Professor Tomas Jungwirth for research into altermagnetism, a new type of collinear magnetic order. The prize, whose award ceremony was scheduled for September 2026 in Graz, Austria, was granted by the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society, ScienceDaily reports. Established in 1975, the Europhysics Prize recognizes significant achievements in condensed matter physics. This year's award was granted for theoretical and experimental work that established altermagnetism as a distinct form of collinear magnetic order. The third category of collinear magnetismFor more than a century, collinear magnets have generally been divided into ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. In ferromagnets, magnetic moments produce a net magnetization, while in antiferromagnets, oppositely directed moments cancel each other out. Like antiferromagnets, altermagnets have no net magnetization. At the same time, their electrons can exhibit properties previously associated with ferromagnets.
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