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It is commonly believed that in typical collinear antiferromagnets, with no net magnetization, the energy bands are spin-(Kramers-degenerate. The opposite case is usually associated with a global time-reversal symmetry breaking (e.g., via ferro(i)magnetism), or with the spin-orbit interaction is combined with the broken spatial inversion symmetry. Recently, another type of spin splitting was demonstrated to emerge in some fully compensated by symmetry, nonrelativistic, collinear magnets, and not even necessarily non-centrosymmetric. These materials feature non-zero spin density staggered not only in real, but also in momentum space. This duality results in a combination of characteristics typical of ferro- and antiferromagnets. Here we discuss this novel concept in application to a well-known semiconductor, FeSb2, and predict that upon certain alloying it becomes magnetic, and features such magnetic duality. The calculated energy bands split antisymmetrically with respect to spin degenerate nodal surfaces (and not nodal points, as in the case of spin-orbit splitting. This combination of a large (0.2 eV) spin splitting, compensated net magnetization and metallic ground-state, and a particular magnetic easy axis generate a large anomalous Hall conductivity (~150 S/cm) and a sizable magneto-optical Kerr effect, all deemed to be hallmarks of nonzero net magnetization. We identify a large contribution to the anomalous response originating from the spin-orbit interaction gapped anti-Kramers nodal surfaces, a mechanism distinct from the nodal lines and Weyl {it points} in ferromagnets.
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