SIG-16 is a Special Interest Group of the European Crystallographic Association

Useful links

Softwares and tools

ISOTROPY Software Suite at BYU

Bilbao Crystallographic Server

MAGNDATA – a database of magnetic structures

 

IUCr and other associations

IUCr Commission on Magnetic Structures and IUCr CMS Home Page

The European Magnetism Association

IUCr Commission on Neutron Scattering

 

Magnetic Space Groups

Daniel Litvin’s Tables of Magnetic Space Groups

Daniel Litvin’s magnetic-symmetry group resources

Magnetic space-group data files at BYU

 

Useful articles

Guidelines for communicating commensurate magnetic structures. A report of the International Union of Crystallography Commission on Magnetic Structures

J.M. Perez-Mato, … R.B. von Dreele
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials • Volume 80, Issue Pt 4 • 2024

A recapitulation of magnetic space groups and their UNI symbols

B.J. Campbell, … J.M. Perez-Mato, J.R. Rodríguez-Carvajal
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials • Volume 80 • 1 October 2024

Introducing a unified magnetic space-group symbol

B.J. Campbell, … J.M. Perez-Mato, J.R. Rodríguez-Carvajal
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances • Volume 78 • 2022

Computational analysis tools for magnetic structures in the Bilbao Crystallographic Server

E.S. Tasci, … J.M. Perez-Mato, … M.I. Aroyo
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials • Volume 81 • 1 April 2025

Symmetry classification of magnetic orders using oriented spin space groups

Y. Liu, … J.M. Perez-Mato, Q. Liu
Nature • Volume 652, Issue 8111 • 2026

Following the guidelines for communicating commensurate magnetic structures: real case examples

F. Damay
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials • Volume 80, Issue Pt 4 • 2024