Revolutionary Discovery: Scientists Prove Existence of New Type of Magnetism

The third branch of magnetism has been experimentally demonstrated in manganese telluride, opening up opportunities for new research directions.
A recent study published in Nature reveals that an international team of scientists has challenged the conventional division of magnetism into two types: ferromagnetism, known for thousands of years, and antiferromagnetism, identified roughly a century ago. The researchers have now successfully demonstrated, through direct experiments, a third type of magnetism—altermagnetism—which had been theoretically predicted by scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague several years earlier.