Browse Issues:

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Coauthor! Coauthor!

Randall D. Kamien and Daniel Ucko

Phys. Rev. B 109, 190001 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Exact conditions for ensemble density functional theory

Thais R. Scott, John Kozlowski, Steven Crisostomo, Aurora Pribram-Jones, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195120 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Ensemble density functional theory (EDFT) offers a promising path for computing excitation energies via a theory of the ensemble density — a weighted sum of interacting excited-state densities. Recovering excitation energies is theoretically simple, but practical application requires approximations dependent on weight choice. Here, the authors derive exact conditions for EDFT. Using an exactly solvable model, they illustrate violations of exact conditions, weight-dependent derivative discontinuities in the strong-interaction limit, and ultimately the significance of weight dependence for future functional design.

Unified theory of optical absorption and luminescence including both direct and phonon-assisted processes

Sabyasachi Tiwari, Emmanouil Kioupakis, José Menendez, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195127 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Here, the authors make a fundamental theoretical advancement by unifying the theory of optical transitions in semiconductors including direct and phonon-assisted processes. This unification overcomes the fundamental limitation in the textbook theory of phonon-assisted optical absorption that gives unphysical absorption rates for photon energies greater than the direct band gap. They demonstrate the predictive power of their theory by calculating optical absorption and luminescence in standard semiconductors, and they achieve excellent quantitative agreement with the best available experiments. This work brings a paradigm shift in the theory of optical transitions, and opens the pathway for precise calculations of semiconductor optical properties.

Phases and exotic phase transitions of a two-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model

Anika Götz, Martin Hohenadler, and Fakher F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195154 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

The authors study here a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model on a square lattice by auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo. A novel approach allows analytical integration over the phonons, considerably reducing autocorrelation times and allowing investigation of new regions of the phase diagram. By varying the strength of the direct hopping at the O(4) symmetric point, they discover novel phases in this textbook model. In particular, for small values of the direct hopping, they observe emergent orthogonal Dirac fermions, with an exotic quantum phase transition akin to deconfined quantum criticality.

Integrability as an attractor of adiabatic flows

Hyeongjin Kim and Anatoli Polkovnikov

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195162 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

Generic many-body particle systems typically exhibit chaos and thermalization. Amidst this chaotic landscape there are special systems called integrable, for example, systems of noninteracting particles that are neither chaotic nor thermalizing. Integrable systems usually require a high degree of fine-tuning of the Hamiltonian that defines their dynamics. The authors find that these special systems act as natural geometric attractors of adiabatic flows that follow the directions of fastest relaxation of observables. They also found that near integrability observables exhibit universal slow relaxation in time, forming long-lived nonequilibrium states similar to turbulent cascades.

Cavity moiré materials: Controlling magnetic frustration with quantum light-matter interaction

Kanta Masuki and Yuto Ashida

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195173 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) studies the interaction between light and matter at the single quantum level and has played a central role in quantum science and technology. Combining the idea of cavity QED with moiré materials, the authors develop here a theory of cavity moiré materials, i.e., moiré materials confined in a cavity. These results indicate that the cavity confinement enables one to control magnetic frustration of moiré materials and might allow the realization of various exotic phases, such as the quantum spin liquid.

Accelerated molecular vibrational decay and suppressed electronic nonlinearities in plasmonic cavities through coherent Raman scattering

Lukas A. Jakob, William M. Deacon, Rakesh Arul, Bart de Nijs, Niclas S. Mueller, and Jeremy J. Baumberg

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195404 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Molecular vibrations play a key role in sensing, catalysis, molecular electronics and beyond, but investigating the coherence and dynamics of individual molecules is extremely challenging. Here, the authors study the vibrational dynamics of ~100 molecules confined in plasmonic nanocavities through simultaneous coherent and incoherent Raman scattering to access both phonon population decay and dephasing. The results show that the dephasing of collective molecular vibrations is accelerated by excitation-power-dependent processes, amplified by the plasmonic near-field enhancement in the cavity.

Polariton-assisted long-distance energy transfer between excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors

Tuomas Pajunpää, Fedor Nigmatulin, Suvi-Tuuli Akkanen, Henry Fernandez, Gerrit Groenhof, and Zhipei Sun

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195409 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Polaritons formed by strong exciton-photon coupling can drastically increase the distance of coherent energy exchange between excitonic materials, but poor durability or low operational temperature in previously demonstrated materials has limited the range of possible applications. Here, the authors demonstrate two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors placed in a tunable optical microcavity as a durable, room-temperature platform for polariton-mediated energy transfer between excitons. The full quantum mechanical simulations based on experimental parameters reveal efficient energy transfer over 1 μm distance on a femtosecond timescale.

Tuning spinaron and Kondo resonances via quantum confinement

Markus Aapro, Abraham Kipnis, Jose L. Lado, Shawulienu Kezilebieke, and Peter Liljeroth

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195415 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

The interactions between conduction electrons and magnetic impurities lead to exotic entangled many-body states. Scanning tunneling microscope allows us to probe many-body excitations of a magnetic impurity and create tunable conduction electron environments by building quantum corrals atom by atom. Combining these techniques, the authors explore here how electronic confinement in quantum corrals affects two types of quantum impurity models, one realizing a candidate system for Kondo physics, and a second realizing a candidate system of spinaron many-body excitations.

Generation of charge current by the inverse Stern-Gerlach effect in semiconductors

N. J. Harmon, E. Z. Kurth, D. Coleman, and L. Flanigan

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195423 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

In the 100 years since the Stern-Gerlach experiment, ideas to use inhomogeneous magnetic fields for spintronics have been rare. In the theory here, the authors consider an inverse Stern-Gerlach effect in solid state systems of reduced dimension, in which charge current is produced by an injected carrier spin polarization in a nonuniform field. They find the combination of counter-flowing spin plus spin relaxation leads to interesting dynamics that produce a “Stern-Gerlach” potential, while at the same time reducing the spin transport length.

Vector detection of ac magnetic fields by nitrogen vacancy centers of single orientation in diamond

Pooja Lamba, Akshat Rana, Sougata Halder, Siddharth Dhomkar, Dieter Suter, and Rama K. Kamineni

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195424 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are highly sensitive nanoscale sensors of dc and ac magnetic fields. Vector detection of ac magnetic fields, where both strength and orientation of the applied field is determined, requires at least three NV centers of different orientations by the conventional method. Here, the authors propose and demonstrate a method for vector detection of ac magnetic fields by using NV centers having a single orientation. This method is equally applicable for single NV centers.

Tip-induced creation and Jahn-Teller distortions of sulfur vacancies in single-layer MoS2

Daniel Jansen, Tfyeche Tounsi, Jeison Fischer, Arkady V. Krasheninnikov, Thomas Michely, Hannu-Pekka Komsa, and Wouter Jolie

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195430 (2024) - Published 24 May, 2024

Vacancies in semiconducting 2D transition metal dichalcogenides enable studies of quantum phenomena at the nanoscale, such as single photon emission or Jahn-Teller distortions. Here, the authors show that a scanning tunneling microscope can enable local creation of single vacancies as well as vacancy dimers in single-layer MoS2. Charging the vacancy through local gating leads to two distinct types of Jahn-Teller distortions, in quantitative agreement with ab initio calculations. Strong hybridization within vacancy dimers illustrates the potential for artificial defect lattices with tailored electronic band structures.

Polaronic polariton quasiparticles in a dark excitonic medium

Kenneth Choo, Olivier Bleu, Jesper Levinsen, and Meera M. Parish

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195432 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

The authors present here a new paradigm for hybrid light-matter particles based on Landau’s quasiparticle concept. Specifically, they show that exciton polaritons form novel polaronlike quasiparticles due to interactions with the dark excitonic medium that is typically present in a semiconductor microcavity. This theory provides a new mechanism for the loss of light-matter coupling commonly observed in experiments, and it explains recent puzzling measurements on polariton interactions in atomically thin semiconductors, thus opening a pathway for engineering strong interactions in light-matter systems.

Coexistence of one-dimensional and two-dimensional topology and genesis of Dirac cones in the chiral Aubry-André model

T. V. C. Antão, D. A. Miranda, and N. M. R. Peres

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195436 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

The chiral Aubry-André model is introduced as an atomic chain with staggered hoppings and a superimposed hopping modulation, revealing a unique interplay of one-dimensional and two-dimensional topological properties. Here, the authors describe the model’s phases and the coexistence of a 2D Chern number and a 1D winding number, combining features of the integer and half-integer quantum Hall effect with SSH-type 1D protected edge modes, motivating the engineering of complex topological insulators using the physics of quasicrystallinity.

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Mirror real Chern insulator in two and three dimensions

Yang Wang, Chaoxi Cui, Run-Wu Zhang, Xiaotian Wang, Zhi-Ming Yu, Gui-Bin Liu, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195101 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

Ferroquadrupolar lattice instability in an antiferromagnetically ordered state in single-crystalline DyCuGe

Isao Ishii, Kanna Sunazaki, Koji Araki, Makoto Shoji, Kentaro Isobe, Alexander V. Andreev, and Takashi Suzuki

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195102 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

Low-temperature transport properties of spin-12 random Heisenberg chains

Yuejiu Zhao and Long Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195103 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

Anisotropic nonsaturating magnetoresistance observed in HoMn6Ge6: A kagome Dirac semimetal

Achintya Low, Tushar Kanti Bhowmik, Susanta Ghosh, and Setti Thirupathaiah

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195104 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

Kinetic theory of ultrasubsonic fermion systems and applications to flat-band magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene transport

Seth M. Davis and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195105 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

Transport spectroscopy study of minibands in MoS2 moiré superlattices

Chithra H. Sharma, Marta Prada, Jan-Hendrik Schmidt, Isabel González Díaz-Palacio, Tobias Stauber, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Lars Tiemann, and Robert H. Blick

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195106 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

Topological zero-modes of the spectral localizer of trivial metals

Selma Franca and Adolfo G. Grushin

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195107 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

ZN lattice gauge theories with matter fields

Kaustubh Roy and Elio J. König

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195108 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

Temperature flow in pseudo-Majorana functional renormalization for quantum spins

Benedikt Schneider, Johannes Reuther, Matías G. Gonzalez, Björn Sbierski, and Nils Niggemann

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195109 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Controlled expansion for transport in a class of non-Fermi liquids

Zhengyan Darius Shi

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195110 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Spin-selective evolution of the Zhang-Rice state in binary transition metal oxide MnO(001) film

Asish K. Kundu, Polina M. Sheverdyaeva, Paolo Moras, Krishnakumar S. R. Menon, Subhasish Mandal, and Carlo Carbone

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195111 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Magnetic order and strongly correlated effects in the one-dimensional Ising-Kondo lattice

Xiaofan Zhou, Jingtao Fan, and Suotang Jia

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195112 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Emergent entanglement in multilayers with multiband spectrum and interlayer electron coupling

Andreas Sinner

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195113 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Charting the free energy landscape of metastable topological magnetic objects

Juan Carlos Criado, Peter D. Hatton, Álvaro Lanza, Sebastian Schenk, and Michael Spannowsky

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195114 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

First-principles treatment of vibrational broadening in x-ray excited valence band spectra for nSrTiO3(001)

Scott A. Chambers, Deepnarayan Biswas, Tien-Lin Lee, Mark van Schilfgaarde, and Peter V. Sushko

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195115 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

Stability and noncentered PT symmetry of real topological phases

S. J. Yue, Qing Liu, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Y. X. Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195116 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

Strain control of band topology and surface states in antiferromagnetic EuCd2As2

Nayra A. Álvarez Pari, V. K. Bharadwaj, R. Jaeschke-Ubiergo, A. Valadkhani, Roser Valentí, L. Šmejkal, and Jairo Sinova

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195117 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

Disentangling the physics of the attractive Hubbard model as a fully interacting model of fermions via the accessible and symmetry-resolved entanglement entropies

Tong Shen, Hatem Barghathi, Adrian Del Maestro, and Brenda M. Rubenstein

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195119 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

Exact conditions for ensemble density functional theory

Thais R. Scott, John Kozlowski, Steven Crisostomo, Aurora Pribram-Jones, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195120 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Ensemble density functional theory (EDFT) offers a promising path for computing excitation energies via a theory of the ensemble density — a weighted sum of interacting excited-state densities. Recovering excitation energies is theoretically simple, but practical application requires approximations dependent on weight choice. Here, the authors derive exact conditions for EDFT. Using an exactly solvable model, they illustrate violations of exact conditions, weight-dependent derivative discontinuities in the strong-interaction limit, and ultimately the significance of weight dependence for future functional design.

Site-selective doublon-holon dynamics in a pumped one-dimensional Hubbard superlattice with staggered Coulomb interactions

Zhenyu Cheng, Ying Li, Hantao Lu, Xiang Hu, Zhongbing Huang, Gregory A. Fiete, and Liang Du

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195121 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Effective model for superconductivity in magic-angle graphene

Disha Hou, Yuhai Liu, Toshihiro Sato, Fakher F. Assaad, Wenan Guo, and Zhenjiu Wang

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195122 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Effects of periodically kicked Dirac mass term in the Chern insulators

Fei Yang, Zheng Wei, Tian-Meng Li, and Su-Peng Kou

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195123 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Topological solitons in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain with periodic hopping modulation, domain wall, and disorder

Surajit Mandal and Satyaki Kar

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195124 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Machine learning the Kondo entanglement cloud from local measurements

Faluke Aikebaier, Teemu Ojanen, and Jose L. Lado

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195125 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Chemical disorder induced electronic orders in correlated metals: Rekindled failed-order scenario

Jinning Hou (侯晋宁), Yuting Tan (谭宇婷), and Wei Ku (顧威)

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195126 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Unified theory of optical absorption and luminescence including both direct and phonon-assisted processes

Sabyasachi Tiwari, Emmanouil Kioupakis, José Menendez, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195127 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Here, the authors make a fundamental theoretical advancement by unifying the theory of optical transitions in semiconductors including direct and phonon-assisted processes. This unification overcomes the fundamental limitation in the textbook theory of phonon-assisted optical absorption that gives unphysical absorption rates for photon energies greater than the direct band gap. They demonstrate the predictive power of their theory by calculating optical absorption and luminescence in standard semiconductors, and they achieve excellent quantitative agreement with the best available experiments. This work brings a paradigm shift in the theory of optical transitions, and opens the pathway for precise calculations of semiconductor optical properties.

Universal structure of measurement-induced information in many-body ground states

Zihan Cheng, Rui Wen, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Romain Vasseur, and Andrew C. Potter

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195128 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Comparative study of a high-entropy metal disulfide and its parent compounds using x-ray absorption spectroscopy

Anna Z. Laila, Truc Ly Nguyen, Ryota Furui, Abhijeet Shelke, Fan-Hsiu Chang, Hong-Ji Lin, Chien-Te Chen, Satoru Hamamoto, Atsushi Fujimori, Takashi Mizokawa, Ashish Chainani, and Ayako Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195129 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Optical signatures of type-II Weyl fermions in the noncentrosymmetric semimetals RAlSi (R=La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm)

J. Kunze, M. Köpf, Weizheng Cao, Yanpeng Qi, and C. A. Kuntscher

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195130 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Phase diagram of a square lattice model of XY spins with direction-dependent interactions

Fan Zhang, Wenan Guo, and Ribhu K. Kaul

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195131 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Ab initio transport theory for the intrinsic spin Hall effect applied to 5d metals

Akash Bajaj, Reena Gupta, Ilya V. Tokatly, Stefano Sanvito, and Andrea Droghetti

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195132 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Pattern formation in charge density wave states after a quantum quench

Lingyu Yang, Yang Yang, and Gia-Wei Chern

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195133 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Indication of exchange interaction induced spin splitting in unoccupied electronic states of the high-TC ferromagnet (Cr0.35Sb0.65)2Te3

C. W. Chuang, Y. Nakata, K. Hori, S. Gupta, F. M. F. de Groot, A. Fujimori, T. P. T. Nguyen, K. Yamauchi, I. Rajput, A. Lakhani, F.-H. Chang, H.-J. Lin, C.-T. Chen, F. Matsukura, S. Souma, T. Takahashi, T. Sato, and A. Chainani

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195134 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

Effective theory for graphene nanoribbons with junctions

Johann Ostmeyer, Lado Razmadze, Evan Berkowitz, Thomas Luu, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195135 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

Axion electrodynamics without Witten effect in metamaterials

Eduardo Barredo-Alamilla, Daniel A. Bobylev, and Maxim A. Gorlach

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195136 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

Nonstandard Hubbard model and electron pairing

M. Zendra, F. Borgonovi, G. L. Celardo, and S. Gurvitz

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195137 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

Electronic properties of BiTeX (X =Cl, Br, and I) through generalized tight-binding models: Orthogonal and nonorthogonal perspectives

S. Ganjehie, S. Hessami Pilehrood, S. A. Ketabi, and M. Nakhaee

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195138 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

Absence of backscattering in Fermi-arc mediated conductivity of the topological Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

Vsevolod Ivanov, Lotte Borkowski, Xiangang Wan, and Sergey Y. Savrasov

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195139 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

Back-reaction and correlation effects on prethermalization in Mott-Hubbard systems

Friedemann Queisser, Christian Kohlfürst, and Ralf Schützhold

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195140 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

Ultrafast Raman thermometry in driven YBa2Cu3O6.48

T.-H. Chou, M. Först, M. Fechner, M. Henstridge, S. Roy, M. Buzzi, D. Nicoletti, Y. Liu, S. Nakata, B. Keimer, and A. Cavalleri

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195141 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

Magnetic field induced insulator-to-metal Mott transition in λ-type organic conductors

S. Fukuoka, T. Oka, Y. Ihara, A. Kawamoto, S. Imajo, and K. Kindo

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195142 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

Interfaces of nodal-line semimetals: Drum states, transport, and refraction

Mattia Rudi, Alessandro De Martino, Kristof Moors, Domenico Giuliano, and Francesco Buccheri

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195144 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

Magnetism and weak electronic correlations in the kagome metal ScV6Sn6

Tianye Yu, Junwen Lai, Xiangyang Liu, Peitao Liu, Xing-Qiu Chen, and Yan Sun

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195145 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

Valley-dependent multiple quantum states and topological transitions in germanene-based ferromagnetic van der Waals heterostructures

Feng Xue, Jiaheng Li, Yizhou Liu, Ruqian Wu, Yong Xu, and Wenhui Duan

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195147 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

Two-dimensional quantum lattice models via mode optimized hybrid CPU-GPU density matrix renormalization group method

Andor Menczer, Kornél Kapás, Miklós Antal Werner, and Örs Legeza

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195148 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

In-plane Wilson loop for measurement of quantized non-Abelian Berry flux

Alexander C. Tyner, Shouvik Sur, Qunfei Zhou, Danilo Puggioni, Pierre Darancet, James M. Rondinelli, and Pallab Goswami

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195149 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

Extraction of important degrees of freedom in quantum dynamics using singular value decomposition: Application to linear optical spectrum in two-dimensional Mott insulators

J. Tokimoto, S. Ohmura, A. Takahashi, K. Iwano, and H. Okamoto

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195150 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

Electronic structure and magnetic tendencies of trilayer La4Ni3O10 under pressure: Structural transition, molecular orbitals, and layer differentiation

Harrison LaBollita, Jesse Kapeghian, Michael R. Norman, and Antia S. Botana

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195151 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

Absence of localization in Weyl semimetals

Jinmin Yi and A. A. Burkov

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195152 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Polaron spectra and edge singularities for correlated flat bands

Dimitri Pimenov

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195153 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Phases and exotic phase transitions of a two-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model

Anika Götz, Martin Hohenadler, and Fakher F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195154 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

The authors study here a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model on a square lattice by auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo. A novel approach allows analytical integration over the phonons, considerably reducing autocorrelation times and allowing investigation of new regions of the phase diagram. By varying the strength of the direct hopping at the O(4) symmetric point, they discover novel phases in this textbook model. In particular, for small values of the direct hopping, they observe emergent orthogonal Dirac fermions, with an exotic quantum phase transition akin to deconfined quantum criticality.

Band structure and excitonic properties of WSe2 in the isolated monolayer limit in an all-electron approach

Niloufar Dadkhah and Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195155 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

Orbital-free potential functionals with submillihartree errors for single-well slabs

Pavel Okun, Antonio C. Cancio, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195156 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

Fermionic sign problem minimization by constant path integral contour shifts

Christoph Gäntgen, Evan Berkowitz, Thomas Luu, Johann Ostmeyer, and Marcel Rodekamp

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195158 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

Enhanced Drude weight in a one-dimensional system of fermions with pair-hopping events

M. S. Bahovadinov, R. O. Sharipov, B. L. Altshuler, and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195159 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

Electronic states in one-dimensional helical crystals: General properties and application to InSeI

Jiaming Hu, Shu Zhao, Wenbin Li, and Hua Wang

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195160 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

Robustness of critical U(1) spin liquids and emergent symmetries in tensor networks

Henrik Dreyer, Laurens Vanderstraeten, Ji-Yao Chen, Ruben Verresen, and Norbert Schuch

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195161 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

Integrability as an attractor of adiabatic flows

Hyeongjin Kim and Anatoli Polkovnikov

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195162 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

Generic many-body particle systems typically exhibit chaos and thermalization. Amidst this chaotic landscape there are special systems called integrable, for example, systems of noninteracting particles that are neither chaotic nor thermalizing. Integrable systems usually require a high degree of fine-tuning of the Hamiltonian that defines their dynamics. The authors find that these special systems act as natural geometric attractors of adiabatic flows that follow the directions of fastest relaxation of observables. They also found that near integrability observables exhibit universal slow relaxation in time, forming long-lived nonequilibrium states similar to turbulent cascades.

Phase evolution of Ce-based heavy-fermion superconductors under compression: A combined first-principles and effective-model study

Hao-Tian Ma, Peng-Fei Tian, Da-Liang Guo, Xing Ming, Xiao-Jun Zheng, Yu Liu, and Huan Li

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195164 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Theory of topological defects and textures in two-dimensional quantum orders with spontaneous symmetry breaking

Yan-Qi Wang, Chunxiao Liu, and Yuan-Ming Lu

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195165 (2024) - Published 24 May, 2024

Correlated phases and topological phase transition in twisted bilayer graphene at one quantum of magnetic flux

Miguel Sánchez Sánchez and Tobias Stauber

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195167 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Quasi-one-dimensional exchange interactions and short-range magnetic correlations in CuTeO4

Zubia Hasan, Eli Zoghlin, Michal Winiarski, Kathryn E. Arpino, Thomas Halloran, Thao T. Tran, and Tyrel M. McQueen

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195168 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Relevant long-range interaction of the entanglement Hamiltonian emerges from a short-range gapped system

Chuhao Li, Rui-Zhen Huang, Yi-Ming Ding, Zi Yang Meng, Yan-Cheng Wang, and Zheng Yan

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195169 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Charge-ordered phases in the hole-doped triangular Mott insulator 4Hb-TaS2

Junho Bang, Byeongin Lee, Hyungryul Yang, Sunghun Kim, Dirk Wulferding, and Doohee Cho

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195170 (2024) - Published 30 May, 2024

Coupling strongly correlated electron systems to a tunable electronic reservoir

S. Bag, L. Fratino, A. Camjayi, M. Civelli, and M. Rozenberg

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195171 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Electronic and optical properties of the fully and partially inverse CoFe2O4 spinel from first principles calculations including many-body effects

Shohreh Rafiezadeh, Vijaya Begum-Hudde, and Rossitza Pentcheva

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195172 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Cavity moiré materials: Controlling magnetic frustration with quantum light-matter interaction

Kanta Masuki and Yuto Ashida

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195173 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) studies the interaction between light and matter at the single quantum level and has played a central role in quantum science and technology. Combining the idea of cavity QED with moiré materials, the authors develop here a theory of cavity moiré materials, i.e., moiré materials confined in a cavity. These results indicate that the cavity confinement enables one to control magnetic frustration of moiré materials and might allow the realization of various exotic phases, such as the quantum spin liquid.

Semiconductors I: bulk

Realizing high phonon anharmonicity in layered Mg3Sb2: A temperature-dependent optical phonon study

Minati Tiadi, Dillip K. Satapathy, and Manjusha Battabyal

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195201 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Tunable spin photogalvanic effect in two-dimensional van der Waals ferroelectric semiconductors with spin-orbit coupling

Shibo Fang, Min Wang, Xingyue Yang, Zongmeng Yang, Qiuhui Li, Zhaochu Luo, and Jing Lu

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195202 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Effects of atomic vibrations on the electronic structure and the photocatalytic efficiency of α-Fe2O3

Hongxu Luo and Sai Lyu

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195203 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

Phase diagram and structure evolution mechanism in ultrahigh energy storage NaNbO3-based superparaelectric relaxor ferroelectric ceramics

Kai Dai (戴凯), Yafang Li (李亚芳), Yuting Yan (严雨婷), Zhen Liu (刘振), Anyang Cui (崔安阳), Kai Jiang (姜凯), Liyan Shang (商丽燕), Yawei Li (李亚巍), Genshui Wang (王根水), and Zhigao Hu (胡志高)

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195204 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

Limitations of mean-field approximations in describing shift-current and injection-current in materials

Shunsuke A. Sato and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195205 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

Wavelike dynamics for high harmonic generation in solids

Hubin Cui, Liang Li, Yuntian Zhang, Sen Qiao, Di Wu, Pengfei Lan, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195206 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics

Structural disorder-induced topological phase transitions in quasicrystals

Tan Peng, Yong-Chen Xiong, Chun-Bo Hua, Zheng-Rong Liu, Xiaolu Zhu, Wei Cao, Fang Lv, Yue Hou, Bin Zhou, Ziyu Wang, and Rui Xiong

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195301 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

Nuclear spin relaxation mediated by donor-bound and free electrons in wide CdTe quantum wells

B. F. Gribakin, V. M. Litvyak, M. Kotur, R. André, M. Vladimirova, D. R. Yakovlev, and K. V. Kavokin

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195302 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Enhancement of laser pulse induced photocurrents by topological states in graphene nanoribbons

Rulin Wang, Fuzhen Bi, Wencai Lu, Xiao Zheng, and ChiYung Yam

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195303 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Beyond mean-field corrections to the blueshift of a driven-dissipative exciton-polariton condensate

Félix Helluin, Léonie Canet, and Anna Minguzzi

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195304 (2024) - Published 24 May, 2024

Constructing helical edge states with two-dimensional C6 and C6-like symmetric photonic crystals

Xiaolong Wang, Wenjie Sui, Yu Zhang, Zirui Zhang, Yongxi Yao, Xinqi Meng, Hongfang Zhang, Yujing Wang, and Bing Yang

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195305 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Tunable in-plane bihyperbolicity in bismuth monolayer

Xikui Ma, Shuting Hou, Mingzheng Wang, Yueheng Du, Chao Ding, Han Gao, Lei Sun, and Mingwen Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195401 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Driving viscous hydrodynamics in bulk electron flow in graphene using micromagnets

Jack N. Engdahl, Aydın Cem Keser, Thomas Schmidt, and Oleg P. Sushkov

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195402 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Quantized thermal and spin transports of dirty planar topological superconductors

Sanjib Kumar Das and Bitan Roy

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195403 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Accelerated molecular vibrational decay and suppressed electronic nonlinearities in plasmonic cavities through coherent Raman scattering

Lukas A. Jakob, William M. Deacon, Rakesh Arul, Bart de Nijs, Niclas S. Mueller, and Jeremy J. Baumberg

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195404 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Molecular vibrations play a key role in sensing, catalysis, molecular electronics and beyond, but investigating the coherence and dynamics of individual molecules is extremely challenging. Here, the authors study the vibrational dynamics of ~100 molecules confined in plasmonic nanocavities through simultaneous coherent and incoherent Raman scattering to access both phonon population decay and dephasing. The results show that the dephasing of collective molecular vibrations is accelerated by excitation-power-dependent processes, amplified by the plasmonic near-field enhancement in the cavity.

Microscopic Green's function approach for generalized Dirac Hamiltonians

Jeyson Támara-Isaza, Pablo Burset, and William J. Herrera

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195405 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Gate-tunable topological phases in superlattice modulated bilayer graphene

Yongxin Zeng, Tobias M. R. Wolf, Chunli Huang, Nemin Wei, Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Allan H. MacDonald, and Jennifer Cano

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195406 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Topology of Bi2Se3 nanosheets

L. Maisel Licerán, S. J. H. Koerhuis, D. Vanmaekelbergh, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195407 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Quarter-quantized thermal Hall effect with parity anomaly

Yu-Hao Wan and Qing-Feng Sun

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195408 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Polariton-assisted long-distance energy transfer between excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors

Tuomas Pajunpää, Fedor Nigmatulin, Suvi-Tuuli Akkanen, Henry Fernandez, Gerrit Groenhof, and Zhipei Sun

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195409 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Polaritons formed by strong exciton-photon coupling can drastically increase the distance of coherent energy exchange between excitonic materials, but poor durability or low operational temperature in previously demonstrated materials has limited the range of possible applications. Here, the authors demonstrate two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors placed in a tunable optical microcavity as a durable, room-temperature platform for polariton-mediated energy transfer between excitons. The full quantum mechanical simulations based on experimental parameters reveal efficient energy transfer over 1 μm distance on a femtosecond timescale.

Analysis of stability and near-equilibrium dynamics of self-assembled Casimir cavities

Mikhail Krasnov, Arslan Mazitov, Nikita Orekhov, and Denis G. Baranov

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195411 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Deciphering cooperative effects in plexciton formation between Ag nanocluster and fullerene

Tatsuya Yoshida, Kazuya Watanabe, Fumiharu Nishita, Daiki Yamamoto, Hiroshi Okuyama, and Tomokazu Yasuike

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195412 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Significant electron-phonon coupling in nanographene confined in single-walled carbon nanotubes due to the large amplitude of radial breathinglike vibrations

Bingze Wu, Mingfeng Zhu, Chunguang Zhai, Yaping Zhao, Yexuan Meng, Jiajun Dong, Xuan Li, Ran Liu, Kunpeng Tang, Lei Shi, Bertil Sundqvist, and Mingguang Yao

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195413 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

Synergistic role of pd hybridization and magnetism in enhanced water splitting on ferromagnetic 1T transition metal dichalcogenides

Yuyuan Huang, Shunfang Li, Zhenyu Zhang, and Ping Cui

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195414 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

Tuning spinaron and Kondo resonances via quantum confinement

Markus Aapro, Abraham Kipnis, Jose L. Lado, Shawulienu Kezilebieke, and Peter Liljeroth

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195415 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

The interactions between conduction electrons and magnetic impurities lead to exotic entangled many-body states. Scanning tunneling microscope allows us to probe many-body excitations of a magnetic impurity and create tunable conduction electron environments by building quantum corrals atom by atom. Combining these techniques, the authors explore here how electronic confinement in quantum corrals affects two types of quantum impurity models, one realizing a candidate system for Kondo physics, and a second realizing a candidate system of spinaron many-body excitations.

Adsorption model for atoms and molecules on doped semiconducting oxides

Abhinav S. Raman, Colin Lehman-Chong, and Aleksandra Vojvodic

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195416 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

Element-selective structural visualization for the oxygen-induced surface of Nb(110)

Yuuki Yasui, Katsuyuki Matsunaga, Keisuke Sagisaka, and Yoshiaki Sugimoto

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195417 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Longitudinal and transverse mobilities of n-type monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides in the presence of proximity-induced interactions at low temperature

J. Liu, W. Xu, Y. M. Xiao, L. Ding, H. W. Li, B. Van Duppen, M. V. Milošević, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195418 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Generic model with unconventional Rashba bands and giant spin galvanic effect

Xinliang Huang, Yuhang Xiao, Rui Song, and Ning Hao

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195419 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Two-dimensional symmetry-protected topological phases and transitions in open quantum systems

Yuxuan Guo and Yuto Ashida

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195420 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

Quantum oscillations in acoustic phonons of nodal-line semimetals

Hao-Jie Lin, Tianyu Liu, and Hai-Zhou Lu

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195421 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

Competing multiferroic phases in monolayer and few-layer NiI2

Nanshu Liu, Cong Wang, Changlin Yan, Changsong Xu, Jun Hu, Yanning Zhang, and Wei Ji

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195422 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

Generation of charge current by the inverse Stern-Gerlach effect in semiconductors

N. J. Harmon, E. Z. Kurth, D. Coleman, and L. Flanigan

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195423 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

In the 100 years since the Stern-Gerlach experiment, ideas to use inhomogeneous magnetic fields for spintronics have been rare. In the theory here, the authors consider an inverse Stern-Gerlach effect in solid state systems of reduced dimension, in which charge current is produced by an injected carrier spin polarization in a nonuniform field. They find the combination of counter-flowing spin plus spin relaxation leads to interesting dynamics that produce a “Stern-Gerlach” potential, while at the same time reducing the spin transport length.

Vector detection of ac magnetic fields by nitrogen vacancy centers of single orientation in diamond

Pooja Lamba, Akshat Rana, Sougata Halder, Siddharth Dhomkar, Dieter Suter, and Rama K. Kamineni

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195424 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are highly sensitive nanoscale sensors of dc and ac magnetic fields. Vector detection of ac magnetic fields, where both strength and orientation of the applied field is determined, requires at least three NV centers of different orientations by the conventional method. Here, the authors propose and demonstrate a method for vector detection of ac magnetic fields by using NV centers having a single orientation. This method is equally applicable for single NV centers.

Strong coupling of Fabry-Pérot cavity mode, anapole, and exciton supported by an optical cavity with heterogeneous nano-optical metasurfaces

Junjie Li, Yang Cheng, Wei Liu, Xiaoshan Liu, Pingping Pan, Jing Chen, Zhengqi Liu, and Guiqiang Liu

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195425 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

Transition from antiferromagnetic metal to room-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductor in monolayer CrTe2 via Li adsorption

Yiwen Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Haoshen Ye, Junting Zhang, and Jianli Wang

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195426 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

Mechanical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger quasicrystal: Topology, localization, and mobility edge

D. A. Miranda, T. V. C. Antão, and N. M. R Peres

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195427 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

Competing lattice instability and magnetism on the surface of kagome metals

Hengxin Tan and Binghai Yan

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195428 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

Giant piezoelectricity in group-IV monochalcogenides with ferroelectric AA layer stacking

Seungjun Lee, Hyeong-Ryul Kim, Wei Jiang, Young-Kyun Kwon, and Tony Low

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195429 (2024) - Published 23 May, 2024

Tip-induced creation and Jahn-Teller distortions of sulfur vacancies in single-layer MoS2

Daniel Jansen, Tfyeche Tounsi, Jeison Fischer, Arkady V. Krasheninnikov, Thomas Michely, Hannu-Pekka Komsa, and Wouter Jolie

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195430 (2024) - Published 24 May, 2024

Vacancies in semiconducting 2D transition metal dichalcogenides enable studies of quantum phenomena at the nanoscale, such as single photon emission or Jahn-Teller distortions. Here, the authors show that a scanning tunneling microscope can enable local creation of single vacancies as well as vacancy dimers in single-layer MoS2. Charging the vacancy through local gating leads to two distinct types of Jahn-Teller distortions, in quantitative agreement with ab initio calculations. Strong hybridization within vacancy dimers illustrates the potential for artificial defect lattices with tailored electronic band structures.

Near-field radiative heat transfer between shifted graphene gratings

Minggang Luo, Youssef Jeyar, Brahim Guizal, and Mauro Antezza

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195431 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Polaronic polariton quasiparticles in a dark excitonic medium

Kenneth Choo, Olivier Bleu, Jesper Levinsen, and Meera M. Parish

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195432 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

The authors present here a new paradigm for hybrid light-matter particles based on Landau’s quasiparticle concept. Specifically, they show that exciton polaritons form novel polaronlike quasiparticles due to interactions with the dark excitonic medium that is typically present in a semiconductor microcavity. This theory provides a new mechanism for the loss of light-matter coupling commonly observed in experiments, and it explains recent puzzling measurements on polariton interactions in atomically thin semiconductors, thus opening a pathway for engineering strong interactions in light-matter systems.

Dirac Landau levels for surfaces with constant negative curvature

Maximilian Fürst, Denis Kochan, Ioachim-Gheorghe Dusa, Cosimo Gorini, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195433 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Graphene plasmonic skyrmion lattices generated by radially polarized light beams

Lei Wang, Lixin Ge, Ke Gong, Wei Cai, Xinzheng Zhang, and Jingjun Xu

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195434 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Giant spin transport anisotropy in magnetic topological insulators

Marc Vila, Aron W. Cummings, and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195435 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Coexistence of one-dimensional and two-dimensional topology and genesis of Dirac cones in the chiral Aubry-André model

T. V. C. Antão, D. A. Miranda, and N. M. R. Peres

Phys. Rev. B 109, 195436 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

The chiral Aubry-André model is introduced as an atomic chain with staggered hoppings and a superimposed hopping modulation, revealing a unique interplay of one-dimensional and two-dimensional topological properties. Here, the authors describe the model’s phases and the coexistence of a 2D Chern number and a 1D winding number, combining features of the integer and half-integer quantum Hall effect with SSH-type 1D protected edge modes, motivating the engineering of complex topological insulators using the physics of quasicrystallinity.

ERRATA

Erratum: Charge order induced Dirac pockets in the nonsymmorphic crystal TaTe4 [Phys. Rev. B 108, 155121 (2023)]

Yichen Zhang, Ruixiang Zhou, Hanlin Wu, Ji Seop Oh, Sheng Li, Jianwei Huang, Jonathan D. Denlinger, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, Sung-Kwan Mo, Kevin F. Kelly, Gregory T. McCandless, Julia Y. Chan, Robert J. Birgeneau, Bing Lv, Gang Li, and Ming Yi

Phys. Rev. B 109, 199901 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Erratum: Twistronics of Janus transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers [Phys. Rev. B 106, 235159 (2022)]

Mattia Angeli, Gabriel R. Schleder, and Efthimios Kaxiras

Phys. Rev. B 109, 199902 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

Sign In to Your Journals Account

Filter

Filter

Article Lookup

Enter a citation