Scientists are on the hunt for materials that display both magnetism and superconductivity. Such materials have been difficult to find because those two effects are typically mutually exclusive. Now Lucas Pupim and Mathias Scheurer at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, propose an innovative way to engineer these materials [1]. They show theoretically that the approach could be used to realize altermagnetic superconductivity, an exotic phenomenon with potential applications in spin-based electronics.
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