SLAC researchers find proof of altermagnetism, a new magnetic phase

Link to pub - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv3196

Physics aside, Chiral Altermagnon is a great band name.

Some of the sexiest sounding sentences in research findings I have read. “ Their results showed direct experimental evidence of chirality – an asymmetric magnetic structure, akin to a spiral staircase or a screw – in the spins of an altermagnetic candidate material.”

I appreciate the clarity that crystallizes in poetry that this author manages in their report!

Wait so this is distinct from antiferromagnetism how exactly, I thought the net-zero moment was the whole definition there?

This is huge if true

So Insane Clown Posse was right all along to question how fuckin' magnets work.