Giant Room-Temperature Third-Order Electrical Transport in a Thin-Film Altermagnet Candidate
This study demonstrates that (101)-oriented RuO₂ thin films, a candidate altermagnet, exhibit giant room-temperature third-order electrical transport responses driven by simultaneous T-odd and T-even quantum geometric quantities, providing a robust method to detect Néel order and a versatile platform for quantum spintronic devices.
Hongyu Chen, Peixin Qin, Ziang Meng, Guojian Zhao, Kai Chen, Chuanying Xi, Xiaoning Wang, Li Liu, Zhiyuan Duan, Sixu Jiang, Jingyu Li, Xiaoyang Tan, Jinghua Liu, Jianfeng Wang, Huiying Liu, Chengbao J (…)2026-04-16🔬 physics.app-ph