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The authors model a dual-gated junction with ferromagnetic leads to achieve all-electrical control and readout of hidden order in globally spin-degenerate anti-altermagnets. Quantum transport calculations reveal that an out-of-plane displacement field breaks inversion symmetry to generate highly asymmetric tunnel magnetoresistance, stabilized by intrinsic Rashba spin-orbit coupling without requiring layer-specific chemical potential shifts. This solves a major readout bottleneck in collinear magnetic materials by translating compensated momentum-space spin textures directly into measurable transport signals.
Purely electrostatic gating can now read and manipulate previously invisible anti-altermagnetic states, turning globally spin-degenerate layers into reconfigurable tunnel magnetoresistance switches.
Anti-altermagnets (AAMs) are a recently identified class of layered magnetic materials where opposite spin-splitting in adjacent layers creates a globally spin-degenerate band structure, rendering conventional spectroscopic detection highly difficult. In this paper, we theoretically demonstrate an all-electrical method to manipulate and probe this hidden magnetic order using a dual-gated transport junction. By applying a perpendicular displacement field, we break the spatial inversion symmetry of the lattice, explicitly lifting the global spin degeneracy. We attach ferromagnetic (FM) leads on either side of the AAM. Using quantum transport calculations, we show that this gate-induced spin-splitting manifests as a strongly asymmetric tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) as a function of the lead magnetization. We identify specific crystallographic orientations where the TMR retains its symmetry despite the fully split bands, a direct consequence of exact momentum-space compensation. We further reveal that Rashba spin-orbit coupling guarantees robust, highly directional transport asymmetries even in the absence of an explicit chemical potential mismatch between the layers. Our findings establish a clear, electrically tunable framework for exploiting AAMs in next-generation spintronic architectures.