Abstract

Superconductivity and magnetism are often antagonistic orders, realizing competing states that rarely coexist. A fundamental reason is that in spin singlet superconductors, magnetism leads to depairing effects quenching superconductivity. Altermagnets are a novel type of magnetic materials featuring a net zero magnetic moment, yet a non-trivial spin splitting in momentum space. These features potentially allow the coexistence of superconductivity and altermagnetism either in bulk or in hybrid heterostructures, providing a new platform to leverage complex orders and functionality in superconducting materials. Ultimately, superconducting altermagnets provide a potential new strategy in superconducting spintronics and superconducting quantum technologies. This minicolloquium will bring the theoretical and experimental communities of superconductivity and altermagnetism, with the aim of exploring some of the potential new avenues in superconducting altermagnets, ranging from fundamental phenomena to new functional devices.

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