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Chiral transformation of polar skyrmion bubbles: A phase field study

Mei-Xiong Zhu, Yun-Long Tang, Yin-Lian Zhu, Xiu-Liang Ma, and Yu-Jia Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014118 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

The authors introduce here an extended phase-field model with a biquadratic polarization-gradient coupling that enables the spontaneous emergence of Bloch-type polarization in ferroelectric skyrmion bubbles. Using SrTiO3/PbTiO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures as a model system, the authors find a coupling-driven transition from achiral to chiral skyrmions and ultimately to mixed-chiral bubbles. While random initial states yield racemic chirality, homochiral vortex precursors deterministically imprint uniform skyrmion handedness under an applied electric field.

Ultrafast modification of coherent phonons during the photoinduced insulator-to-metal phase transition in neodymium nickelate

Oleg Dogadov, Grace A. Pan, Andrea Villa, Dan Ferenc Segedin, Premysl Marsik, Charles M. Brooks, Hanjong Paik, Qi Song, Valeria Russo, Carlo S. Casari, Julia A. Mundy, Giulio Cerullo, and Stefano Dal Conte

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014304 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Due to the high interest in the insulator-metal transition (IMT) in rare-earth nickelates for potential applications, a deep understanding of the role of different degrees of freedom is required. Here, the authors perform transient reflectivity measurements to study the photoinduced IMT in NdNiO3. They show that the ultrafast reflectivity change is concomitant with the suppression of the coherent phonons of the insulating phase, revealing a strong connection between the electronic changes and rapid lattice modifications across the IMT.

Enhancement of magnon flux toward a Bose-Einstein condensate

Franziska Kühn, Matthias R. Schweizer, Tamara Azevedo, Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka, Georg von Freymann, Victor S. L'vov, Burkard Hillebrands, and Alexander A. Serga

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014409 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

In this combined theoretical and experimental study, the authors investigate angle-dependent parametric pumping of magnons in yttrium iron garnet. They demonstrate that the direction of the magnetic field governs magnon scattering pathways via kinetic instability. Parallel pumping lowers the threshold, whereas perpendicular pumping increases the population near the spectral minimum, thereby optimizing the flux of magnons into the Bose-Einstein condensate.

Dislocation-driven nucleation type switching across repeated ultrafast magnetostructural phase transition

Jan Hajduček, Antoine Andrieux, Jon Ander Arregi, Martin Tichý, Paolo Cattaneo, Beatrice Ferrari, Fabrizio Carbone, Vojtěch Uhlíř, and Thomas LaGrange

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014414 (2026) - Published 13 January, 2026

Repeated ultrafast laser cycling of the magnetostructural phase transition in freestanding FeRh thin films fundamentally alter their nucleation dynamics. Using in situ femtosecond laser exposure in transmission electron microscopy, the authors reveal here that cumulative laser irradiation switches the antiferromagnetic–ferromagnetic transition from homogeneous to heterogeneous nucleation, lowers the transition temperature, and creates submicron magnetic vortices pinned by evolving dislocation networks. The work establishes a microscopic link defect formation and nucleation behavior in FeRh.

Acoustic phonon softening and lattice instability driven by on-site f-d hybridization in CeCoSi

Takeshi Matsumura, Takumi Hasegawa, Ryuma Nakajima, Kenshin Kurauchi, Satoshi Tsutsui, Daisuke Ishikawa, Alfred Q. R. Baron, and Hiroshi Tanida

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014415 (2026) - Published 13 January, 2026

Generally, a localized spin doublet without orbital degeneracy is not expected to exhibit lattice instability. However, the 4f-electron system CeCoSi, which has a spin-doublet ground state in a tetragonal crystal field, undergoes a structural transition. Using high-resolution inelastic x-ray scattering, the authors observe here a softening of a transverse acoustic phonon mode toward low temperatures. This behavior is explained by a Ce–Ce coupling mediated by local 4f5d hybridization arising from the noncentrosymmetric local environment at the Ce site.

Magnon-mediated electric current drag and nonlocal spin-Peltier effect in the ac regime

Oliver Franke, Duje Akrap, and Piet W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014419 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Spin waves in magnetic insulators can transmit information and energy between metals without moving charge. This work reveals how the resulting nonlocal, magnon-mediated charge current evolves as the driving frequency increases from low frequencies to the terahertz range. The magnon current also heats or cools the electrons, an effect known as the spin-Peltier effect. This effect is most pronounced in the nonlocal setting, when the applied field and the temperature response are spatially separated by the magnetic insulator.

Temperature gradient driven motion of magnetic domains in a magnetic metal multilayer by entropic forces

Lin Huang, Joseph Barker, Lekshmi Kailas, Soumyarup Hait, Simon D. Connell, Gavin Burnell, and Christopher H. Marrows

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014428 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Magnetic domains are known to move along temperature gradients, a phenomenon for which various mechanisms have been theoretically proposed. Here, the authors use magnetic force microscopy to quantify this effect for domains in a perpendicularly magnetized Pt/CoB/Ir multilayer. The domains always moved towards the hottest region. Quantitative evaluation of the different effects that could drive the domain motion shows that entropic forces, related to the spatial gradient in domain wall energy, dominate over spin-transfer torques arising from currents of magnons or electron spins.

Thermodynamics and heat transport of a Yb3Sc2Ga3O12 single crystal: A quantum spin liquid candidate

Y. F. Xin, A. Rutherford, N. Li, M. L. Feng, Y. J. Liu, Z. Y. Zhao, Y. Y. Wang, H. Liang, Y. Zhou, Q. J. Li, M. Y. Xu, W. Xie, E. S. Choi, X. Zhao, J. Ma, H. D. Zhou, and X. F. Sun

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014436 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Experimental realization of a quantum spin liquid is rare in three-dimensional frustrated magnets, in which quantum fluctuations are less prominent. Here, the authors investigate the ultralow-temperature magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, and thermal transport properties of a Yb3Sc2Ga3O12 single crystal, which is a hyperkagome lattice-based garnet. Their study demonstrates a disordered ground state with effective ½ spin and antiferromagnetic coupling in this three-dimensional frustrated material.

Magnetoelastic honeycomb fragmentation in VI3

Enlin Shen, Tiberiu I. Popescu, Nishwal Gora, Guratinder Kaur, Edmond Chan, Harry Lane, Jose A. Rodriguez-Rivera, Guangyong Xu, Peter M. Gehring, Russell A. Ewings, Andy N. Fitch, and Chris Stock

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014439 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Using a combination of neutron and x‑ray diffraction and neutron spectroscopy, the authors show here that VI3 undergoes a single structural transition at Ts 80 K followed by ferromagnetic order at Tc 50 K, producing two crystallographically inequivalent V3+ sites. They demonstrate that magnetoelastic coupling fragments the honeycomb lattice into two interpenetrating hexagonal sublattices, reshaping low‑temperature spin–orbital physics.

Angular momentum of vortex-core Majorana zero modes

Giulia Venditti, Christophe Berthod, and Louk Rademaker

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014502 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

When putting a d+id superconductor on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator, the Majorana zero modes (MZMs) appearing inside vortices can have a nontrivial angular momentum. Here, the authors show the emergence of distinct Majorana “flavors”, beyond Chern-based classifications. They also assess the stability and topological protection of these MZMs, as well as possible experimental signatures.

Enhanced Kohn-Luttinger superconductivity in geometric bands

Ammar Jahin and Shi-Zeng Lin

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014504 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

The authors reveal here that quantum geometry, encoded in the Berry curvature and wavefunction structure of electronic bands, can dramatically enhance Kohn–Luttinger superconductivity in two dimensions. They show that electrons in a geometrically nontrivial band can form a high-Tc topological superconductor purely from repulsive interactions, enabled by a resonance between the Cooper pair angular momentum and the Berry flux enclosed by the Fermi surface. These results provide a geometric route to strong superconductivity and offer new insight into rhombohedral graphene and twisted transition metal dichalcogenide systems.

Enhancement of antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in UTe2 under pressure revealed by Te125 NMR

Devi Vijayan Ambika, Qing-Ping Ding, Corey E. Frank, Sheng Ran, Nicholas P. Butch, and Yuji Furukawa

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014510 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

The authors investigate here the evolution of magnetic fluctuations under pressure in the spin-triplet superconductor candidate UTe2, which exhibits multiple superconducting phases. These are SC1, in which the critical temperature (Tc) decreases with increasing pressure, and SC2, where Tc increases. Using 125Te NMR measurements, the authors reveal the coexistence of antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic fluctuations, where the antiferromagnetic fluctuations are enhanced as pressure increases. This suggests a significant role for antiferromagnetic fluctuations in stabilizing the SC2 phase, while rendering the SC1 phase less favorable.

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Pervasive symmetry-lowering nanoscale structural fluctuations in the cuprate La2xSrxCuO4

R. J. Spieker, M. Spaić, I. Khayr, X. He, D. Zhai, Z. W. Anderson, N. Bielinski, F. Ye, Y. Liu, S. Chi, S. Sarker, M. J. Krogstad, R. Osborn, D. Pelc, and M. Greven

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014101 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Three-dimensional configuration of translational boundaries in antiferroelectric PbZrO3 revealed by electron ptychography

Yi Zheng, Yunpeng Ma, Jizhe Cui, Wenfeng Yang, Kang Sun, Haozhi Sha, Qian Li, and Rong Yu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014103 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Tailoring antiferroelectric phase transitions in ultrahigh energy storage ceramics

Kai Dai (戴凯), Feifan Hu (胡斐凡), Kai Jiang (姜凯), Zhen Liu (刘振), Genshui Wang (王根水), Jun Wang (王军), Anyang Cui (崔安阳), and Zhigao Hu (胡志高)

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014104 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Programming multivortex polarization states in BaTiO3/SrTiO3 ferroelectric-dielectric composites

Xianjiang Qin, Taoping Bai, Zhongyou Li, Tengang Liu, Xuhui Lou, Haidong Fan, Qingyuan Wang, Delong He, Jinbo Bai, Chuan Qiao, Wentao Jiang, and Xiaobao Tian

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014105 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Hypercoordinate states of silica via chemical compression with carbon dioxide in planetary interiors

Yifan Tian, Xinyang Li, and Hanyu Liu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014106 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

Density functional theory study of Th-doped LiCAF and LiSAF for nuclear clock applications

Martin Pimon, Tobias Kirschbaum, Thorsten Schumm, Adriana Pálffy, and Andreas Grüneis

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014107 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Sliding-induced polarization stability in two-dimensional materials: Tolerance to local symmetry breaking resulting from point defects and ambient molecules

Yue Wang, Yinghe Zhao, Fengyu Li, Xiuyun Zhang, Yan Xing, and Xianghong Niu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014108 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

Structural reassessment and emergent altermagnetism of MnS under high pressure

Jing Zhao, Shuaiqi Ma, Bingqing Cao, Wenfeng Wu, Guo Chen, Pei Wang, and Xianlong Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014109 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

Strain-engineered electron and hole transport in gallium oxide

Kaike Yang, Hao-Mai Yang, Mei-Lin Li, Ju-Hong Tang, Cai-Xin Zhang, Guanghui Zhou, Benliang Zhou, and Roberto D'Agosta

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014110 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Disordered purification phase transition in hybrid random circuits

Kengo Anzai, Hiroaki Matsueda, and Yoshihito Kuno

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014111 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Rényi Markov length in one-dimensional nontrivial mixed-state phases

Yoshihito Kuno, Takahiro Orito, and Ikuo Ichinose

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014113 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Deep potential-driven molecular dynamics study of the liquid-to-glass transition in a Fe-P-C alloy: Atomic coordination evolution and medium-range order formation

Jialiang Liu, Qiulin Bi, Hanmei Chen, Junting Li, Shunwei Chen, Conghui Si, and Xiujun Han

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014114 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Realization of tunable valley topological states via bistable plasma photonic crystals

Shuo Wang, Xiaoxuan Li, Miao Zhang, Tengkun Deng, Weili Fan, Yafeng He, and Fucheng Liu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014115 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Prediction of A15 tilt grain boundary structures

Wenwen Zou, Zihan Su, Juan Zhang, and Kai Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014116 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Melting curve of graphite and thermophysical properties of graphite and liquid carbon in the vicinity of this curve

A. V. Ivanov, A. M. Kondratyev, and A. D. Rakhel

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014117 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Chiral transformation of polar skyrmion bubbles: A phase field study

Mei-Xiong Zhu, Yun-Long Tang, Yin-Lian Zhu, Xiu-Liang Ma, and Yu-Jia Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014118 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

The authors introduce here an extended phase-field model with a biquadratic polarization-gradient coupling that enables the spontaneous emergence of Bloch-type polarization in ferroelectric skyrmion bubbles. Using SrTiO3/PbTiO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures as a model system, the authors find a coupling-driven transition from achiral to chiral skyrmions and ultimately to mixed-chiral bubbles. While random initial states yield racemic chirality, homochiral vortex precursors deterministically imprint uniform skyrmion handedness under an applied electric field.

First principles study of [111]-oriented epitaxially strained rare-earth nickelate NdNiO3

Alexander Lione, Jorge Íñiguez-González, and Nicholas C. Bristowe

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014119 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Atomic-scale insights into the high dielectric permittivity of bismuth silicate glass

J. R. Stellhorn, A. Masuno, Y. Onodera, S. Kohara, K. Yoshida, Y. Yanaba, H. Inoue, T. Ohkubo, and H. Taniguchi

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014201 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Disorder-enhanced transport as a general feature of long-range hopping models

Elisa Zanardini, Giuseppe Luca Celardo, Nahum C. Chávez, and Fausto Borgonovi

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014202 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Temperature chaos may lead to many thermodynamic states in spin glasses

Wenlong Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014203 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Realizing type-III acoustic Dirac cones with the staggered Mielke model

Yuan Li, Jingwen Ma, and Xiankai Sun

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014301 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Loss of interface spin transparency from conductivity mismatch in topological insulator based spintronic terahertz emitters

Jon K. Gustafson, Nicholas S. Sirica, Nicholas G. Combs, Enrique D. Cobas, Mehmet A. Noyan, Connie H. Li, and Olaf M. J. van ‘t Erve

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014302 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Interpretation of excitation spectrum of 1TTiSe2 in the time-dependent density functional theory framework

J. P. Echeverry, E. V. Chulkov, and V. M. Silkin

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014303 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Ultrafast modification of coherent phonons during the photoinduced insulator-to-metal phase transition in neodymium nickelate

Oleg Dogadov, Grace A. Pan, Andrea Villa, Dan Ferenc Segedin, Premysl Marsik, Charles M. Brooks, Hanjong Paik, Qi Song, Valeria Russo, Carlo S. Casari, Julia A. Mundy, Giulio Cerullo, and Stefano Dal Conte

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014304 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Due to the high interest in the insulator-metal transition (IMT) in rare-earth nickelates for potential applications, a deep understanding of the role of different degrees of freedom is required. Here, the authors perform transient reflectivity measurements to study the photoinduced IMT in NdNiO3. They show that the ultrafast reflectivity change is concomitant with the suppression of the coherent phonons of the insulating phase, revealing a strong connection between the electronic changes and rapid lattice modifications across the IMT.

Dynamics of defects and interfaces for interacting quantum hard disks

Fabian Ballar Trigueros, Vighnesh Dattatraya Naik, and Markus Heyl

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014305 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Relaxation critical dynamics in measurement-induced phase transitions

Wantao Wang, Shuo Liu, Jiaqiang Li, Shi-Xin Zhang, and Shuai Yin

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014307 (2026) - Published 13 January, 2026

Entanglement dynamics from universal low-lying modes

Shreya Vardhan and Sanjay Moudgalya

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014308 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Orbital angular momentum manipulation through optical pattern dynamics

Yue Chai, Delphine Wolfersberger, and Nicolas Marsal

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014309 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Nonuniversality from conserved superoperators in unitary circuits

Marco Lastres, Frank Pollmann, and Sanjay Moudgalya

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014310 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Operator dependence and robustness of spacetime-localized response in a quantum critical spin chain

Daichi Imagawa, Keiju Murata, and Daisuke Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014311 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Spectroscopy and transport of nonpolarons in silicon and germanium: Influence of doping and temperature

Raveena Gupta, Joao Abreu, and Matthieu J. Verstraete

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014312 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Ab initio calculations of the thermoelectric figure of merit within the relaxation-time approximation

L. Chaput, H. Miranda, A. Togo, M. Engel, M. Schlipf, M. Marsman, and G. Kresse

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014313 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Simulating generalized fluids via interacting wave packet evolution

Andrew Urilyon, Leonardo Biagetti, Jitendra Kethepalli, and Jacopo De Nardis

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014314 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Understanding of polarization switching of ferroelectric HfO2 in the multidomain structure

Ran Xiong, Xinpeng Mu, Yao Wu, Jie Jiang, Binjian Zeng, Lizhong Sun, Min Liao, Yichun Zhou, and Qiong Yang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014315 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Symmetry-induced fragmentation and dissipative time crystal

Haowei Li and Wei Yi

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014316 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

Fragmented quantum phases in the antiblockade regime of a Rydberg atom array

Han-Chao Chen, Zheng-Yuan Zhang, Meng Zhou, Xin Liu, Li-Hua Zhang, Bang Liu, Lu-Xia Wang, Dong-Sheng Ding, and Bao-Sen Shi

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014317 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Magnetism

Spin-orbit coupling controlled two-dimensional magnetism in chromium trihalides

Inhee Lee, Jiefu Cen, Oleksandr Molchanov, Shi Feng, Warren L. Huey, Johan van Tol, Joshua E. Goldberger, Nandini Trivedi, Hae-Young Kee, and P. Chris Hammel

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014401 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Domain wall skyrmion-based magnonic crystal

Zhenyu Wang, Xingen Zheng, Zhixiong Li, Zhizhi Zhang, and Xiansi Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014402 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Magnetic circular dichroism in core-level x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of altermagnetic RuO2 films

Y. Lytvynenko, A. Akashdeep, T. P. Vo, O. Tkach, S. V. Chernov, A. Gloskovskii, C. Schlueter, C. Luo, V. Ukleev, F. Radu, F. Kronast, T. Hiroto, A. Winkelmann, J. Minár, M. Kläui, G. Schönhense, G. Jakob, H. J. Elmers, and O. Fedchenko

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014403 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Magnon nesting in driven two-dimensional quantum magnets

Hossein Hosseinabadi, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Eugene Demler, and Jamir Marino

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014404 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Thickness-dependent magnon spin transport in antiferromagnetic insulators: Crossover from a quasi-three-dimensional to quasi-two-dimensional regime

Mathias Åsan Myhre, Verena Brehm, Thomas Delvaux, Arne Brataas, and Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014405 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

One-dimensional long-range Ising model: Two almost equivalent approximations

Valerio Pagni, Guido Giachetti, Andrea Trombettoni, and Nicolò Defenu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014406 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

Efficient spin-to-charge conversion and spin memory loss mitigation in oriented RuO2 films

Abhisek Mishra, Kshitij Singh Rathore, Swayang Priya Mahanta, and Subhankar Bedanta

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014407 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

Adaptive quantum dynamics with the time-dependent variational Monte Carlo method

Raffaele Salioni, Rocco Martinazzo, Davide Emilio Galli, and Christian Apostoli

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014408 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

Enhancement of magnon flux toward a Bose-Einstein condensate

Franziska Kühn, Matthias R. Schweizer, Tamara Azevedo, Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka, Georg von Freymann, Victor S. L'vov, Burkard Hillebrands, and Alexander A. Serga

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014409 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

In this combined theoretical and experimental study, the authors investigate angle-dependent parametric pumping of magnons in yttrium iron garnet. They demonstrate that the direction of the magnetic field governs magnon scattering pathways via kinetic instability. Parallel pumping lowers the threshold, whereas perpendicular pumping increases the population near the spectral minimum, thereby optimizing the flux of magnons into the Bose-Einstein condensate.

Exchange tensors, generalized RKKY interactions, and magnetization dynamics in heterostructures of ferromagnets and topological insulators

Christian Svingen Johnsen and Asle Sudbø

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014410 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Negative magnetization, magnetization switching, and associated exchange interactions in the Mn self-doped double perovskites Gd2Ni2xMnxO6 (1.0x1.6)

Canglong Li, Wenqian Yang, Xuechi Lu, Boyuan Zou, Xinshuai Niu, Jie Chen, Bing Zhang, Kexin Wen, and Godfrey Okumu Barasa

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014411 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Strain-induced magnetic domain morphology in Pt/CoFeB/Ir multilayers on BaTiO3(001)

Robbie G. Hunt, Khulaif Alshammari, Mannan Ali, Paul S. Keatley, and Thomas A. Moore

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014412 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Dominant orbital magnetization in the prototypical altermagnet MnTe

Chao Chen Ye, Karma Tenzin, Jagoda Sławińska, and Carmine Autieri

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014413 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Dislocation-driven nucleation type switching across repeated ultrafast magnetostructural phase transition

Jan Hajduček, Antoine Andrieux, Jon Ander Arregi, Martin Tichý, Paolo Cattaneo, Beatrice Ferrari, Fabrizio Carbone, Vojtěch Uhlíř, and Thomas LaGrange

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014414 (2026) - Published 13 January, 2026

Repeated ultrafast laser cycling of the magnetostructural phase transition in freestanding FeRh thin films fundamentally alter their nucleation dynamics. Using in situ femtosecond laser exposure in transmission electron microscopy, the authors reveal here that cumulative laser irradiation switches the antiferromagnetic–ferromagnetic transition from homogeneous to heterogeneous nucleation, lowers the transition temperature, and creates submicron magnetic vortices pinned by evolving dislocation networks. The work establishes a microscopic link defect formation and nucleation behavior in FeRh.

Acoustic phonon softening and lattice instability driven by on-site f-d hybridization in CeCoSi

Takeshi Matsumura, Takumi Hasegawa, Ryuma Nakajima, Kenshin Kurauchi, Satoshi Tsutsui, Daisuke Ishikawa, Alfred Q. R. Baron, and Hiroshi Tanida

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014415 (2026) - Published 13 January, 2026

Generally, a localized spin doublet without orbital degeneracy is not expected to exhibit lattice instability. However, the 4f-electron system CeCoSi, which has a spin-doublet ground state in a tetragonal crystal field, undergoes a structural transition. Using high-resolution inelastic x-ray scattering, the authors observe here a softening of a transverse acoustic phonon mode toward low temperatures. This behavior is explained by a Ce–Ce coupling mediated by local 4f5d hybridization arising from the noncentrosymmetric local environment at the Ce site.

Magnetic properties of rare-earth iron garnet films subjected to a uniaxial strain

Maxim A. Makeev, Suyash Rijal, Temuujin Bayaraa, and Laurent Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014416 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Fidelity zeros and Lee-Yang theory of quantum phase transitions

Tian-Yi Gu and Gaoyong Sun

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014417 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Magnetic field dependence of parallel spin stripe order in La1.6xNd0.4SrxCuO4 at optimal doping

Qiang Chen, Qianli Ma, Xinran Liu, A. A. Aczel, T. J. Williams, and B. D. Gaulin

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014418 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Magnon-mediated electric current drag and nonlocal spin-Peltier effect in the ac regime

Oliver Franke, Duje Akrap, and Piet W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014419 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Spin waves in magnetic insulators can transmit information and energy between metals without moving charge. This work reveals how the resulting nonlocal, magnon-mediated charge current evolves as the driving frequency increases from low frequencies to the terahertz range. The magnon current also heats or cools the electrons, an effect known as the spin-Peltier effect. This effect is most pronounced in the nonlocal setting, when the applied field and the temperature response are spatially separated by the magnetic insulator.

Theory of nonlinear magnetoelectric transport effects in normal metal–magnetic insulator heterostructures

Oliver Franke and Piet W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014420 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Emergent impedance due to antiferromagnetic domain wall dynamics

Yuta Yamane, Jotaro J. Nakane, Yasufumi Araki, and Jun'ichi Ieda

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014421 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

Universal strategy for spin and valley control: Electric-field-induced splitting and anomalous valley Hall effect in antiferromagnetic bilayers

Yuqi Liu, Jianting Dong, Guangxin Ni, and Guoying Gao

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014422 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Tuning the angular dependence of the switching field of thin film nanomagnets

Ida Breivik and Erik Folven

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014423 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Refined spin Hamiltonian on the Cairo pentagonal lattice of Bi2Fe4O9

Emma Y. Lenander, Frida B. Nielsen, Jakob Lass, Ursula B. Hansen, Kristine M. L. Krighaar, Asbjørn Preuss, Tobias Weber, Mechthild Enderle, Henrik Jacobsen, Uwe Stuhr, Ryoichi Kajimoto, Mitsutaka Nakamura, Manfred Burianek, Andrea Kirsch, Henrik M. Rønnow, Kim Lefmann, and Pascale P. Deen

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014424 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Mechanism of ferromagnetic resonance in ferromagnet-superconductor trilayers

Dariia Popadiuk, Julia Kharlan, Anatolii Kravets, Vladislav Korenivski, Jarosław W. Kłos, and Vladimir Golub

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014425 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Unconventional magnetism in spin-orbit coupled systems

Jian-Keng Yuan, Zhiming Pan, and Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014426 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

First-principles study of bulk stacking, Jeff picture, magnetic Hamiltonian, g factors, and structural distortions of αRuCl3

Seung-Ju Hong, Tae Yun Kim, and Cheol-Hwan Park

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014427 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Temperature gradient driven motion of magnetic domains in a magnetic metal multilayer by entropic forces

Lin Huang, Joseph Barker, Lekshmi Kailas, Soumyarup Hait, Simon D. Connell, Gavin Burnell, and Christopher H. Marrows

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014428 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Magnetic domains are known to move along temperature gradients, a phenomenon for which various mechanisms have been theoretically proposed. Here, the authors use magnetic force microscopy to quantify this effect for domains in a perpendicularly magnetized Pt/CoB/Ir multilayer. The domains always moved towards the hottest region. Quantitative evaluation of the different effects that could drive the domain motion shows that entropic forces, related to the spatial gradient in domain wall energy, dominate over spin-transfer torques arising from currents of magnons or electron spins.

Disproportionate influence of site disorder on the evolution of magnetic phases in the anti-Heusler alloy Al2MnFe

Soumya Bhowmik, Santanu Pakhira, Ashis Kundu, V. Raghavendra Reddy, Mukul Kabir, and Chandan Mazumdar

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014429 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Classical and quantum theory of magnonic and magnetoelastic nonlinear dynamics in continuum geometries

Marco Brühlmann, Yunyoung Hwang, Jorge Puebla, and Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014430 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

Hall effect in LaCrGe3 at pressures up to 24 kbar and a HT phase diagram of the pressure-induced magnetic phase

Sergey L. Bud'ko, Shuyuan Huyan, and Paul C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014431 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Revealing spin and spatial symmetry decoupling in systems with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Yuxuan Mu, Di Wang, and Xiangang Wan

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014432 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Spin-Seebeck signatures of spin chirality in kagome antiferromagnets

Feodor Svetlanov Konomaev, Mithuss Tharmalingam, and Kjetil M. D. Hals

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014433 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Manipulating non-Abelian anyons of Kitaev quantum spin liquids with local magnetic fields

Haoran Wang and Alessandro Principi

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014434 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Three-dimensional domain-wall membranes

J. J. Mankenberg and Ar. Abanov

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014435 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Thermodynamics and heat transport of a Yb3Sc2Ga3O12 single crystal: A quantum spin liquid candidate

Y. F. Xin, A. Rutherford, N. Li, M. L. Feng, Y. J. Liu, Z. Y. Zhao, Y. Y. Wang, H. Liang, Y. Zhou, Q. J. Li, M. Y. Xu, W. Xie, E. S. Choi, X. Zhao, J. Ma, H. D. Zhou, and X. F. Sun

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014436 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Experimental realization of a quantum spin liquid is rare in three-dimensional frustrated magnets, in which quantum fluctuations are less prominent. Here, the authors investigate the ultralow-temperature magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, and thermal transport properties of a Yb3Sc2Ga3O12 single crystal, which is a hyperkagome lattice-based garnet. Their study demonstrates a disordered ground state with effective ½ spin and antiferromagnetic coupling in this three-dimensional frustrated material.

Quenched disorder in the triangular lattice antiferromagnet YbZn2GaO5

Leshan Zhao, Tong Chen, Matthew B. Stone, Qiang Zhang, Colin L. Sarkis, S. M. Koohpayeh, and Collin L. Broholm

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014437 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Transverse and unidirectional spin pumping

Ping Li, Chengyuan Cai, and Tao Yu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014438 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

Magnetoelastic honeycomb fragmentation in VI3

Enlin Shen, Tiberiu I. Popescu, Nishwal Gora, Guratinder Kaur, Edmond Chan, Harry Lane, Jose A. Rodriguez-Rivera, Guangyong Xu, Peter M. Gehring, Russell A. Ewings, Andy N. Fitch, and Chris Stock

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014439 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Using a combination of neutron and x‑ray diffraction and neutron spectroscopy, the authors show here that VI3 undergoes a single structural transition at Ts 80 K followed by ferromagnetic order at Tc 50 K, producing two crystallographically inequivalent V3+ sites. They demonstrate that magnetoelastic coupling fragments the honeycomb lattice into two interpenetrating hexagonal sublattices, reshaping low‑temperature spin–orbital physics.

Anomalous relaxation dynamics of nonequilibrium normal state in YBa2Cu3O7δ below Tc

Jinzhong Zhang, Qingming Huang, Zhangqiang Yang, Zhiyuan Sun, and Ye Yang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014440 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Control of spin scattering via spacer layers in NiFe/nonmagnetic heterostructures

M. V. Bakhmetiev, A. S. Pakhomov, A. D. Morozov, A. I. Chernov, and R. B. Morgunov

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014442 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Revisiting vestigial order in nematic superconductors: Gauge-field mechanisms and model constraints

I. Maccari, E. Babaev, and J. Carlström

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014501 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Angular momentum of vortex-core Majorana zero modes

Giulia Venditti, Christophe Berthod, and Louk Rademaker

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014502 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

When putting a d+id superconductor on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator, the Majorana zero modes (MZMs) appearing inside vortices can have a nontrivial angular momentum. Here, the authors show the emergence of distinct Majorana “flavors”, beyond Chern-based classifications. They also assess the stability and topological protection of these MZMs, as well as possible experimental signatures.

Revealing superconducting chiral edge modes via resistance distributions

Linghao Huang, Dongheng Qian, and Jing Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014503 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Enhanced Kohn-Luttinger superconductivity in geometric bands

Ammar Jahin and Shi-Zeng Lin

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014504 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

The authors reveal here that quantum geometry, encoded in the Berry curvature and wavefunction structure of electronic bands, can dramatically enhance Kohn–Luttinger superconductivity in two dimensions. They show that electrons in a geometrically nontrivial band can form a high-Tc topological superconductor purely from repulsive interactions, enabled by a resonance between the Cooper pair angular momentum and the Berry flux enclosed by the Fermi surface. These results provide a geometric route to strong superconductivity and offer new insight into rhombohedral graphene and twisted transition metal dichalcogenide systems.

Quantized crossed Andreev reflection in altermagnet/altermagnet topological superconductor/altermagnet heterojunction

Xing Wang, Kai-Yi Lyu, Yong Guo, and Yu-Xian Li

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014505 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Unconventional superconductivity in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Subhojit Roy, Andreas Kreisel, Brian M. Andersen, and Shantanu Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014506 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Uniform electron benchmark for the first-principles GW0-Eliashberg theory

Ryosuke Akashi and Hiroshi Shinaoka

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014507 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Supercurrent-induced antiferromagnetic order and spin-triplet pair generation in quantum critical d-wave superconductors

Kyohei Nakamura and Youichi Yanase

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014508 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Ultrafast Raman probe of the photoinduced superconducting to normal state transition in the cuprate Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ

Laurène Gatuingt, Alexandr Alekhin, Niloufar Nilforoushan, Sarah Houver, Alain Sacuto, Genda Gu, and Yann Gallais

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014509 (2026) - Published 13 January, 2026

Enhancement of antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in UTe2 under pressure revealed by Te125 NMR

Devi Vijayan Ambika, Qing-Ping Ding, Corey E. Frank, Sheng Ran, Nicholas P. Butch, and Yuji Furukawa

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014510 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

The authors investigate here the evolution of magnetic fluctuations under pressure in the spin-triplet superconductor candidate UTe2, which exhibits multiple superconducting phases. These are SC1, in which the critical temperature (Tc) decreases with increasing pressure, and SC2, where Tc increases. Using 125Te NMR measurements, the authors reveal the coexistence of antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic fluctuations, where the antiferromagnetic fluctuations are enhanced as pressure increases. This suggests a significant role for antiferromagnetic fluctuations in stabilizing the SC2 phase, while rendering the SC1 phase less favorable.

Orbital-selective superconductivity via interlayer electron transfer in the two-dimensional borides MB3 (M=Mg, Al, Ca, Sc, Y, and In)

Shengnan Bi, Fei Li, and Guochun Yang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014511 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Lithium impurity induced electron doping and in-gap states in high-Tc monolayer Fe(Te,Se)/SrTiO3

Yuxuan Lei, Zhuoran Xu, Guanyang He, Yu Li, Yi Liu, Yanzhao Liu, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014512 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Dynamical signatures and control of time-reversal symmetry breaking in twisted nodal superconductors

Jefferson Tang and Pavel A. Volkov

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014513 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Integrable model of a superconductor with non-Fermi liquid and Mott phases

Santhosh M., Jorge Dukelsky, and Gerardo Ortiz

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014514 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Broadband single microwave photon detector insensitive to thermal noise

Y. Q. Chai, M. Y. Wang, S. N. Wang, P. H. Ouyang, and L. F. Wei

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014515 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Signatures of superconducting Higgs mode in irradiated Josephson junctions

Aritra Lahiri, Juan Carlos Cuevas, and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014516 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Pauli “unlimited”: Magnetic field induced superconductivity in UTe2

Josephine J. Yu, Yue Yu, Chaitanya Murthy, and S. Raghu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014517 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

Prediction of hydrogen-induced high-temperature superconductivity in monolayer ScB2H2

Jialiang Cai, Zhengtao Liu, Zihao Huo, Wenxuan Chen, Guiyan Dong, Tiancheng Ma, Runxian Ji, Xin Wang, and Defang Duan

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014518 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Superconducting gap symmetry of two-dimensional electron gas at (111)-oriented LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface

Julian Czarnecki, Michał Zegrodnik, and Paweł Wójcik

Phys. Rev. B 113, 014519 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

ERRATA

Erratum: Josephson effect and odd-frequency pairing in superconducting junctions with unconventional magnets [Phys. Rev. B 111, 064502 (2025)]

Yuri Fukaya, Kazuki Maeda, Keiji Yada, Jorge Cayao, Yukio Tanaka, and Bo Lu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 019901 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Erratum: High field magnetization of FePS3 [Phys. Rev. B 101, 024415 (2020)]

A. R. Wildes, F. Duc, F. Bourdarot, D. Lançon, M. K. Chan, F. Weickert, N. Harrison, V. Simonet, M. E. Zhitomirsky, M. V. Gvozdikova, T. Ziman, and H. M. Rønnow

Phys. Rev. B 113, 019902 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

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