The 2026 Europhysics Prize of the EPS Condensed Matter Division was awarded to Jairo Sinova (Physics HTC’94) and co-recipients Dr. Libor Šmejkal and Prof. Tomas Jungwirth for "the discovery of altermagnetism, a third elementary magnetic class that combines ferromagnetic-like and antiferromagnetic-like characteristics considered for a century as mutually exclusive, and characteristics unprecedented in either of the two conventional magnetic classes," reports the European Physics Society. "This discovery has fundamentally changed the way we classify magnetic materials – requiring a rewriting of the introductory chapters of magnetism textbooks – and has launched an entirely new research field of unconventional magnetism with many implications in other areas of condensed matter physics."
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