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.

An international team of researchers has discovered a new magnetic state of matter, termed orthogonal ferromagnetism. The results, led by Federico Mazzola (CNR-SPIN), were recently published in Nature Communications.

Researchers from CNR-SPIN in collaboration with University of Genoa and QuantifiedAir (NL) developed a novel fabrication protocol to realize pass-through device geometries from oxide thin films deposited on SrTiO₃ substrates.

An international collaboration led by Dr. Alessandro Stroppa (CNR-SPIN, Italy) and Prof. Qihang Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China), with researchers from the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, has achieved a groundbreaking advance in magnetoelectric materials.The team has discovered a novel phenomenon termed "Ferroelectric Switchable Altermagnetism," demonstrating for the first time the reversible electrical control of altermagnetic spin states through ferroelectric polarization switching. This fundamental breakthrough, published as an Editors' Suggestion in Physical Review Letters and featured in Physics, establishes a new mechanism for non-volatile electrical manipulation of magnetic order with the first theoretical demonstration of electrically tunable altermagnetic properties, and a transformative approach for developing fully voltage-controlled multiferroic devices.

Negli ultimi mesi, due interviste rilasciate alla giornalista Valentina Busiello (informazione.it) da Fabio Miletto Granozio, Direttore di SPIN, e da Mario Cuoco, responsabile della sede di Salerno, sono state dedicate a far meglio conoscere al grande pubblico alcune delle principali tematiche di ricerca di SPIN, rimarcando al tempo stesso l’impegno dell’Istituto nel campo della comunicazione della scienza.

Si è conclusa venerdì 14 marzo la Fiera Didacta Italia 2025, il più importante appuntamento culturale dedicato al mondo della scuola, riconosciuto come un punto di incontro privilegiato tra scuole, aziende, enti, associazioni, docenti, dirigenti scolastici e operatori del settore.

The Workshop on Altermagnets and School on Magnetic Symmetry organized by Shanghai University (SHU), Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and CNR-SPIN will be held in Shanghai from June 23rd to June 26th.

Il dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche dell'Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, in collaborazione con CNR-SPIN L’Aquila, organizza la settima edizione della conferenza "SuperFOx - Superconductivity and Functional Oxides", che si terrà a L'Aquila dal 19 al 21 febbraio 2025.

The second International Workshop dedicated to Iron-based Superconductors (IBS) will take place in Miyazaki, Japan, on February 13th to 15th, 2025.