Shanghai, June 26, 2025 – One of the most innovative events in the international scientific community has just concluded at Shanghai University: Workshop on Altermagnets and School on Magnetic Symmetry, dedicated to a rapidly emerging frontier in condensed matter physics — altermagnetism. This was not just another academic conference, but a landmark global summit that brought together leading researchers from around the world between June 23 and 26.

An international team of scientists from the University of St Andrews (UK) and the CNR-SPIN Institute (Italy) has set a new benchmark in the precision with which researchers can probe fundamental physical phenomena in quantum materials. Their breakthrough study, published in Nature Physics, confirms a nearly century-old theoretical prediction, and may have far-reaching implications for materials science and advanced computing.