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Editorial: Introducing Perspectives

Sarma Kancharla and Stephen Nagler

Phys. Rev. B 113, 110001 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gauge theory and mixed state criticality

Takamasa Ando, Shinsei Ryu, and Masataka Watanabe

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115106 (2026) - Published 3 March, 2026

The authors develop here a systematic framework for constructing spontaneous symmetry-breaking (SSB) phases of strong symmetries, a concept specific to mixed quantum states. Starting from the ground-state phase diagram of lattice gauge theory models, the approach yields various mixed-state topological phases and explicit models for the critical points between them, including cases with gapless symmetry-protected topological order. They further clarify that lattice gauge theory ground states can be viewed as purifications of the corresponding mixed SSB states.

Knight shift measurements probing Fermi surface changes under pressure in CeRhIn5

Y.-H. Nian, C. Chaffey, P. Sherpa, L. Santillan, K. Nagashima, P. Klavins, V. Taufour, and N. J. Curro

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115108 (2026) - Published 5 March, 2026

Here, the authors report nuclear magnetic resonance Knight shift measurements as a function of pressure in the archetype heavy fermion superconductor CeRhIn5, revealing a suppression of the hyperfine coupling between the nuclear and electron spins. The result can be understood as a change of 4f electron content at the Fermi surface as the system approaches a quantum critical point.

Spin-dependent quasiparticle lifetimes in altermagnets

Kristoffer Leraand, Kristian Mæland, and Asle Sudbø

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115148 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Altermagnets host spin-split electronic bands with zero magnetization. An important question is how robust this spin splitting is in the presence of many-body interactions. The authors show here how self-energy effects arising from interactions between electrons and three bosonic modes, namely phonons, magnons, and phonon-magnon hybridized modes, renormalize the electronic band structure in a minimal altermagnetic model. They find that the altermagnetic spin splitting remains spectroscopically resolvable despite the interaction-induced renormalization and broadening. Moreover, they uncover a distinct asymmetry in the magnon-induced quasiparticle broadening between the two electron spin species.

Majorana braiding simulations with projective measurements

Philipp Frey, Themba Hodge, Eric Mascot, and Stephan Rachel

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115153 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Majorana modes are anyons that form on the boundary of topological superconductors; they can be utilized for quantum processing. However, the logical encoding scheme used to store information can restrict the set of allowed quantum gates, infringing on universality. Here, the authors explicate the theory required to map between the sparse and dense qubit encodings by using projective measurements. This allows for the implementation of a universal gate set, which is forbidden from either encoding individually. Through incorporation into a scalable simulation method, this provides the basis for numerical implementation of a topological quantum computer.

Interlayer coupling in two-dimensional MoS2 and phosphorene bilayers: Benchmark quantum Monte Carlo study of interaction energies and quasiparticle band gaps

Y. Huang, M. Manzoor, J. Brndiar, L. Mitas, P. R. C. Kent, and I. Štich

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115159 (2026) - Published 30 March, 2026

The properties of 2D materials can be modulated by a host of different ways, one being a variable number of layers. Here, using ultra-accurate quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods, the authors study how the interlayer coupling modulates electronic properties in bilayers of MoS2 and phosphorene. In bilayer MoS2, they find that the interlayer coupling is purely van der Waals and significantly weaker than in the bilayer phosphorene. Compared to the monolayer, QMC calculations indicate only a modest reduction of the band gap by 0.24±0.07 eV in the bilayer and a significant bias by both DFT and GW methods.

Metastability of the topological magnetic orders in the chiral antiferromagnet EuPtSi

S. Rousseau, G. Seyfarth, G. Knebel, D. Aoki, Y. Ōnuki, and A. Pourret

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115160 (2026) - Published 30 March, 2026

Here, the authors report transport measurements down to 0.1 K revealing robust metastable skyrmion states in the chiral antiferromagnet EuPtSi. For magnetic field along [111], a nanoscale skyrmion lattice forms within the conical state and produces a pronounced topological Hall response. The extremely small skyrmion size places the system in the nonadiabatic transport regime. Field cooling stabilizes this phase far below the equilibrium temperature range, demonstrating strong metastability and positioning EuPtSi as a rare platform for nanoscale topological spin textures.

Topological edge states in curved zigzag superlattices in nonlinear semiconductor microcavity exciton polaritons

Jing Wang, Tobias Schneider, Wei Hu, Stefan Schumacher, and Xuekai Ma

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115302 (2026) - Published 3 March, 2026

Topological edge states are highly sought-after in zigzag chains. Here, the authors introduce a zigzag superlattice composed of two sublattices that supports multiple topological edge states. In this configuration, intercell and intracell couplings are imbalanced through eigenstate tunneling or the deformation of higher-order modes. Arranging the superlattices into an arc structure encourages specific bulk states to become more localized at the edge. A similar state transformation can be achieved via repulsive nonlinearity, which also facilitates the coexistence of distinct edge states.

Valley physics in the two-band k·p model for SiGe heterostructures and spin qubits

Tancredi Salamone, Biel Martinez Diaz, Jing Li, Lukas Cvitkovich, and Yann-Michel Niquet

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115304 (2026) - Published 5 March, 2026

The management of valley splittings is one of the main challenges for electron spin qubits in Si/SiGe heterostructures. Here, the authors implement intervalley potentials in a two-band k·p model for the opposite X, Y, and Z valleys of silicon, explicitly accounting for alloy disorder. The approach reproduces tight-binding valley splittings, valley-orbit mixing, and intervalley dipole matrix elements at a much lower computational cost. Through simulation of a realistic Si/SiGe spin qubit device, including electron-phonon interactions, the authors illustrate how this model enables efficient modeling of SiGe heterostructure devices where spin and valley physics are relevant.

Fluctuation-dissipation bounds in time-dependently driven conductors

Ludovico Tesser, José Balduque, and Janine Splettstoesser

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115401 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026

The current noise in quantum conductors not only affects current precision, but also reveals information about the system. Close to equilibrium, this noise fulfils the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. This is more difficult out of equilibrium, especially under temperature bias and time-dependent driving, crucial for quantum heat engines. Here, the authors demonstrate a constraint between the nonequilibrium noise and dissipated or generated power for arbitrary conductors and driving. Unlike the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, the bound found here is most restrictive far from equilibrium, where temperature biases are large.

Feynman paradox in a spherical axion insulator

Anastasiia Chyzhykova, Jeroen van den Brink, and Flavio S. Nogueira

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115414 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

The Feynman paradox highlights that static electromagnetic fields can store angular momentum. Here, the authors show that axion electrodynamics in a spherical topological insulator provides a topological realization of this effect. Varying the distance of a nearby charged probe induces Hall currents on the surface that convert electromagnetic angular momentum into mechanical rotation of the sphere, with a frequency derived from the topological response.

Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations in two-dimensional hole gases with competing cyclotron and Zeeman energy

Davide Costa, Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Davide Degli Esposti, and Giordano Scappucci

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115418 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Evaluating fundamental properties of two-dimensional hole gases in strained germanium quantum wells is a complex task due to the competition between cyclotron and Zeeman energies. Here, the authors present a self-consistent framework to accurately extract the effective mass, g factor, and quantum lifetime from Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations at a single temperature. By applying this procedure to a low-disorder Ge/SiGe heterostructure, the authors demonstrate a benchmark quantum mobility for holes in group-IV semiconductors, with clean fractional quantum Hall states observed.

Dispersion of collective modes in spinful fractional quantum Hall states on the sphere

Rakesh K. Dora and Ajit C. Balram

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115420 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) fluids are prototypical examples of topologically ordered systems. The addition of a flavor degree of freedom, such as spin, adds to the richness of the FQH phenomenology. Here, the authors compute the dispersion of various collective excitations in the most prominent spinless and spinful FQH states. Intriguingly, they find that certain spinful FQH states host a novel collective mode, which they explain via a parton construction. The predicted parton mode can be observed in light scattering experiments.

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Approximate Markovianity in high-temperature hidden Markov networks

Yifan F. Zhang and Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115101 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026

Berry curvature of low-energy excitons in rhombohedral graphene

Henry Davenport, Frank Schindler, and Johannes Knolle

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115102 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026

Ordering the topological order in the fractional quantum Hall effect

Meng Cheng, Seth Musser, Amir Raz, Nathan Seiberg, and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115103 (2026) - Published 3 March, 2026

Wilson polygons and the topology of zero-dimensional systems

Gen Yin, Rameswar Bhattacharjee, Thomas Wang, and Miklos Kertesz

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115104 (2026) - Published 3 March, 2026

Bipartite fluctuations and charge fractionalization in quantum wires

Magali Korolev and Karyn Le Hur

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115105 (2026) - Published 3 March, 2026

Gauge theory and mixed state criticality

Takamasa Ando, Shinsei Ryu, and Masataka Watanabe

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115106 (2026) - Published 3 March, 2026

The authors develop here a systematic framework for constructing spontaneous symmetry-breaking (SSB) phases of strong symmetries, a concept specific to mixed quantum states. Starting from the ground-state phase diagram of lattice gauge theory models, the approach yields various mixed-state topological phases and explicit models for the critical points between them, including cases with gapless symmetry-protected topological order. They further clarify that lattice gauge theory ground states can be viewed as purifications of the corresponding mixed SSB states.

Integrability of a family of clean SYK models from the critical Ising chain

Kohei Fukai and Hosho Katsura

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115107 (2026) - Published 4 March, 2026

Knight shift measurements probing Fermi surface changes under pressure in CeRhIn5

Y.-H. Nian, C. Chaffey, P. Sherpa, L. Santillan, K. Nagashima, P. Klavins, V. Taufour, and N. J. Curro

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115108 (2026) - Published 5 March, 2026

Here, the authors report nuclear magnetic resonance Knight shift measurements as a function of pressure in the archetype heavy fermion superconductor CeRhIn5, revealing a suppression of the hyperfine coupling between the nuclear and electron spins. The result can be understood as a change of 4f electron content at the Fermi surface as the system approaches a quantum critical point.

Interplay of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and Coulomb interaction in topological spin-triplet excitonic condensates

Quoc-Huy Ninh, Huu-Nha Nguyen, and Van-Nham Phan

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115109 (2026) - Published 5 March, 2026

Percolative instabilities and sparse-limit fractality in 1TTaS2

Poulomi Maji, Md Aquib Molla, Koushik Dey, Bikash Das, Sambit Choudhury, Tanima Kundu, Pabitra Kumar Hazra, Mainak Palit, Sujan Maity, Bipul Karmakar, Kai Rossnagel, Sanjoy Kr Mahatha, Bhaskaran Muralidharan, Shamashis Sengupta, Sanchari Goswami, and Subhadeep Datta

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115110 (2026) - Published 5 March, 2026

Marginal Fermi liquids from Fermi surfaces coupled via matrix boson gas

Vibhu Mishra

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115111 (2026) - Published 6 March, 2026

Bound states and Pb 6p orbital selectivity in orthorhombic CsPbI3 bulk crystal

L. Craco, B. Oliveira, S. S. Carara, P. H. Z. de Arruda, and S. Leoni

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115112 (2026) - Published 6 March, 2026

Dirac bilinears in condensed matter physics: Relativistic correction for observables and conjugate electromagnetic fields

Shintaro Hoshino, Tatsuya Miki, Michi-To Suzuki, and Hiroaki Ikeda

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115113 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Spin and charge transport mediated by fractionalized excitations

Alexey Ermakov and Alessandro Principi

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115115 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Lattice and orbital-resolved fermiology of metallenes

Kameyab Raza Abidi, Mohammad Bagheri, and Pekka Koskinen

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115117 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Dynamic order of a quantum spin liquid at nonzero temperatures

Minsu Park, Masafumi Udagawa, and Eun-Gook Moon

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115118 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Temperature-dependent nuclear quantum effects in muoniated benzene: A path integral molecular dynamics study

Li Deng, Liangwen Chen, Lei Yang, and Zhiyu Sun

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115119 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Phase diagrams of S=12 bilayer models of SU(2) symmetric antiferromagnets

Fan Zhang, Nisheeta Desai, Wenan Guo, and Ribhu K. Kaul

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115120 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026

Photodynamic melting of phase-reversed charge stripes and enhanced condensation

Jianhao Sun, Richard T. Scalettar, and Rubem Mondaini

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115121 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026

Constructing a variational ground state of matter fermions coupled to a vison pair in Kitaev's honeycomb model

Theo Grace and Alessandro Principi

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115122 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Quantum path-integral method for the fictitious-particle Hubbard model

Zhijie Fan, Tianning Xiao, and Youjin Deng

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115123 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Origin of the distinct ground states in the two polymorphs of VSe2

Li-Ya Qiao, Xiu-Cai Jiang, Ming-Cui Ding, and Yu-Zhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115125 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Explicit formula for perturbation theory at any order with infinitely many perturbations

J. M. Jones and M. W. Long

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115126 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Observation of magnetic polarons in EuB6 by small-angle neutron scattering

Gabrielle Beaudin, Alexandre Désilets-Benoit, Andrea Daniele Bianchi, Robert Arnold, Stavros Samothrakitis, Nikola Anna Galvan Leos, Jorge L. Gavilano, Michel Kenzelmann, Kilian D. Stenning, Mark Laver, Simon Gerber, Michael Nicklas, Robert Cubitt, and Charles Dewhurst

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115127 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Designing second-order topological insulators in heterobilayers via interlayer coupling and out-of-plane magnetic fields

Xiaoliang Xiao, Weixiang Kong, Jiali Yang, Jin-Zhu Zhao, and Yuanjun Jin

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115128 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Compact representation and long-time extrapolation of real-time data for quantum systems using the ESPRIT algorithm

André Erpenbeck, Yuanran Zhu, Yang Yu, Lei Zhang, Richard Gerum, Olga Goulko, Chao Yang, Guy Cohen, and Emanuel Gull

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115129 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Magnetic field and pressure tuning of the heavy fermion antiferromagnet CePdIn

Bin Shen, Feng Du, Rui Li, Hang Su, Yasuyuki Shimura, Takahiro Onimaru, Kazunori Umeo, Xin Lu, Toshiro Takabatake, Michael Smidman, and Huiqiu Yuan

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115130 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

Angular dependence and powder average of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Timothy G. Burrow, Myrtille O. J. Y. Hunault, Fabien Besnard, Amélie Juhin, and Christian Brouder

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115131 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Generalized Nagaoka ferromagnetism accompanied by flavor-selective Mott states in an SU(N) Fermi-Hubbard model

Juntaro Fujii, Kazuki Yamamoto, and Akihisa Koga

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115132 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Correlated electronic structure of the alternating monolayer-bilayer nickelate La5Ni3O11

Harrison LaBollita and Antia S. Botana

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115133 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Anisotropic scattering rates in strain-tuned Sr2RuO4

Ben Currie, David T. S. Perkins, Evgeny Kozik, Joseph J. Betouras, and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115134 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Non-Hermitian quantum geometric tensor and nonlinear electrical response

Kai Chen and Jie Zhu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115135 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

Gradient-expansion of the inhomogeneous electron gas revisited

Mario Benites, Angel Rosado, and Efstratios Manousakis

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115136 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

CaFe2O(PO4)2: A compound with S=52 corner sharing triangular sawtooth chains

R. C. Moharana, Sk. Soyeb Ali, V. K. Sahu, J. Link, I. Heinmaa, S. Chattopadhyay, S. K. Panda, R. Stern, T. Chakrabarty, and B. Koteswararao

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115137 (2026) - Published 18 March, 2026

Antiferromagnetism and Kekulé valence bond order in the honeycomb optical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-Hubbard model

Sohan Malkaruge Costa, Benjamin Cohen-Stead, and Steven Johnston

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115138 (2026) - Published 18 March, 2026

Generalized Cutler-Mott relation in a crossover between Fermi and non-Fermi liquid regimes of two-site charge Kondo simulators

T. K. T. Nguyen and M. N. Kiselev

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115140 (2026) - Published 18 March, 2026

Multipolar fluctuations from localized 4f electrons in CeRh2As2

Koki Numa, Eri Matsuda, Akimitsu Kirikoshi, and Junya Otsuki

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115141 (2026) - Published 18 March, 2026

Incommensurate twisted bilayer graphene: Emerging quasiperiodicity and stability

Ian Jauslin and Vieri Mastropietro

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115142 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Theoretical study of the origin of x-ray atomic background anomalies by a full-potential multiple scattering approach

Kazuki Yoshikawa, Fabio Iesari, Yoshiaki Tamura, Naoki Nakatani, Fukiko Ota, Andrea Di Cicco, and Keisuke Hatada

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115143 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Probing the critical behavior of a sign-problematic model with Monte Carlo simulations

Ye Ling, Yuting Wang, Wenan Guo, and Yuhai Liu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115144 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Ideal nodal-sphere semimetal in the three-dimensional boron allotrope CT-B24

Xiao-Jing Gao, Yanfeng Ge, and Yan Gao

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115145 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Higher-dimensional overscreened fixed points and their deformations

Aleksandar Ljepoja, L. C. R. Wijewardhana, and Yashar Komijani

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115146 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Charge carrier relaxation dynamics in the one-dimensional Kondo lattice model

Arturo Perez-Romero, Mica Schwarm, and Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115147 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Spin-dependent quasiparticle lifetimes in altermagnets

Kristoffer Leraand, Kristian Mæland, and Asle Sudbø

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115148 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Altermagnets host spin-split electronic bands with zero magnetization. An important question is how robust this spin splitting is in the presence of many-body interactions. The authors show here how self-energy effects arising from interactions between electrons and three bosonic modes, namely phonons, magnons, and phonon-magnon hybridized modes, renormalize the electronic band structure in a minimal altermagnetic model. They find that the altermagnetic spin splitting remains spectroscopically resolvable despite the interaction-induced renormalization and broadening. Moreover, they uncover a distinct asymmetry in the magnon-induced quasiparticle broadening between the two electron spin species.

Quantum phases in a two-dimensional generalized interacting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model

Rahul Ghosh

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115149 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Soft symmetries of topological orders

Ryohei Kobayashi and Maissam Barkeshli

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115150 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Near-flat-band-driven violation of the Pauli limit in heavy fermion superconductors

Yan-Xiao Wang and Yin Zhong

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115152 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Majorana braiding simulations with projective measurements

Philipp Frey, Themba Hodge, Eric Mascot, and Stephan Rachel

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115153 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Majorana modes are anyons that form on the boundary of topological superconductors; they can be utilized for quantum processing. However, the logical encoding scheme used to store information can restrict the set of allowed quantum gates, infringing on universality. Here, the authors explicate the theory required to map between the sparse and dense qubit encodings by using projective measurements. This allows for the implementation of a universal gate set, which is forbidden from either encoding individually. Through incorporation into a scalable simulation method, this provides the basis for numerical implementation of a topological quantum computer.

Buckling and flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene

Jannes van Poppelen and Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115154 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Transient dynamical phase diagram of the spin-boson model at finite temperature

Olga Goulko, Hsing-Ta Chen, Moshe Goldstein, and Guy Cohen

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115155 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Correlation between entanglement and the negative sign problem

Ping Xu, Yang Shen, Yuan-Yao He, and Mingpu Qin

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115156 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Real critical exponents from the ε-expansion in an interacting U(1) model with non-Hermitian Z4 anisotropy

Eduard Naichuk, Jeroen van den Brink, and Flavio S. Nogueira

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115157 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Exceptional-point induced dynamic sensitivity to particle-number parity

J. Y. Liu-Sun and Z. Song

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115158 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Interlayer coupling in two-dimensional MoS2 and phosphorene bilayers: Benchmark quantum Monte Carlo study of interaction energies and quasiparticle band gaps

Y. Huang, M. Manzoor, J. Brndiar, L. Mitas, P. R. C. Kent, and I. Štich

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115159 (2026) - Published 30 March, 2026

The properties of 2D materials can be modulated by a host of different ways, one being a variable number of layers. Here, using ultra-accurate quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods, the authors study how the interlayer coupling modulates electronic properties in bilayers of MoS2 and phosphorene. In bilayer MoS2, they find that the interlayer coupling is purely van der Waals and significantly weaker than in the bilayer phosphorene. Compared to the monolayer, QMC calculations indicate only a modest reduction of the band gap by 0.24±0.07 eV in the bilayer and a significant bias by both DFT and GW methods.

Metastability of the topological magnetic orders in the chiral antiferromagnet EuPtSi

S. Rousseau, G. Seyfarth, G. Knebel, D. Aoki, Y. Ōnuki, and A. Pourret

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115160 (2026) - Published 30 March, 2026

Here, the authors report transport measurements down to 0.1 K revealing robust metastable skyrmion states in the chiral antiferromagnet EuPtSi. For magnetic field along [111], a nanoscale skyrmion lattice forms within the conical state and produces a pronounced topological Hall response. The extremely small skyrmion size places the system in the nonadiabatic transport regime. Field cooling stabilizes this phase far below the equilibrium temperature range, demonstrating strong metastability and positioning EuPtSi as a rare platform for nanoscale topological spin textures.

Semiconductors I: bulk

Photoluminescence study of hydrogen-passivated type-II silicon clathrate films

Yinan Liu, Joseph P. Briggs, Reuben T. Collins, Meenakshi Singh, P. Craig Taylor, Khalid Mateen, Moussa Kane, and Carolyn A. Koh

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115201 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026

Unified theory of the photovoltaic Hall effect by field- and light-induced Berry curvatures

Yuta Murotani, Tomohiro Fujimoto, and Ryusuke Matsunaga

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115202 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026

Significant first-principles electron-phonon coupling effects in the LiZnAs and ScAgC half-Heusler thermoelectrics

Vinod Kumar Solet and Sudhir K. Pandey

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115203 (2026) - Published 6 March, 2026

Ab initio study of carrier mobility in Bi2O2Se

Yubo Yuan, Ziye Zhu, Jiaming Hu, and Wenbin Li

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115204 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

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

Electric field induced spin and/or valley polarization in Weiss oscillations of monolayer 1TMoS2

Yang Li, Wen Zeng, and Rui Shen

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115301 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026

Topological edge states in curved zigzag superlattices in nonlinear semiconductor microcavity exciton polaritons

Jing Wang, Tobias Schneider, Wei Hu, Stefan Schumacher, and Xuekai Ma

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115302 (2026) - Published 3 March, 2026

Topological edge states are highly sought-after in zigzag chains. Here, the authors introduce a zigzag superlattice composed of two sublattices that supports multiple topological edge states. In this configuration, intercell and intracell couplings are imbalanced through eigenstate tunneling or the deformation of higher-order modes. Arranging the superlattices into an arc structure encourages specific bulk states to become more localized at the edge. A similar state transformation can be achieved via repulsive nonlinearity, which also facilitates the coexistence of distinct edge states.

Andreev reflection anomaly in superconducting Weyl semimetal junctions

Mou Yang, Yun-Peng Kong, Hou-Jian Duan, Ming-Xun Deng, and Rui-Qiang Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115303 (2026) - Published 4 March, 2026

Valley physics in the two-band k·p model for SiGe heterostructures and spin qubits

Tancredi Salamone, Biel Martinez Diaz, Jing Li, Lukas Cvitkovich, and Yann-Michel Niquet

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115304 (2026) - Published 5 March, 2026

The management of valley splittings is one of the main challenges for electron spin qubits in Si/SiGe heterostructures. Here, the authors implement intervalley potentials in a two-band k·p model for the opposite X, Y, and Z valleys of silicon, explicitly accounting for alloy disorder. The approach reproduces tight-binding valley splittings, valley-orbit mixing, and intervalley dipole matrix elements at a much lower computational cost. Through simulation of a realistic Si/SiGe spin qubit device, including electron-phonon interactions, the authors illustrate how this model enables efficient modeling of SiGe heterostructure devices where spin and valley physics are relevant.

Nonmagnetic vacancy engineering for enhanced spin-orbit and valley splitting in WS2/CrBr3 van der Waals heterostructures

Danyang Guo, Yongsheng Zhao, Haishan Zhang, Juan Lyu, Jian Gong, and Shaoqiang Guo

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115305 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Spin-photon coupling using circular double quantum dots

Ferdinand Omlor, Florinda Viñas Boström, and Martin Leijnse

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115306 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026

Quantifying mode-resolved coherence in phonon transport in GaN/AlN superlattices

Li-Mu Wang, Hong-Ao Yang, and Bing-Yang Cao

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115307 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Realization of condensed moiré exciton polaritons with tunable coherence in twisted photonic lattices at room temperature

Chunzi Xing, Yu Wang, Tobias Schneider, Xiaokun Zhai, Xinzheng Zhang, Haitao Dai, Xiao Wang, Anlian Pan, Zhenyu Xiong, Hao Wu, Yuan Ren, Stefan Schumacher, Xuekai Ma, and Tingge Gao

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115308 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Study of exciton-photon coupling in CuCl semiconductor microcavities with large decay of cavity photons

Rintaro Miyanaga, Goro Oohata, Satoshi Tanaka, and Kohji Mizoguchi

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115309 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Spin-photon entanglement dynamics under cavity-delayed feedback

Noam Tur and Ido Schwartz

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115310 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Fluctuation-dissipation bounds in time-dependently driven conductors

Ludovico Tesser, José Balduque, and Janine Splettstoesser

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115401 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026

The current noise in quantum conductors not only affects current precision, but also reveals information about the system. Close to equilibrium, this noise fulfils the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. This is more difficult out of equilibrium, especially under temperature bias and time-dependent driving, crucial for quantum heat engines. Here, the authors demonstrate a constraint between the nonequilibrium noise and dissipated or generated power for arbitrary conductors and driving. Unlike the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, the bound found here is most restrictive far from equilibrium, where temperature biases are large.

Quantifying humidity effects on commensurability-dependent friction in bilayer graphene: A generalized registry index model

Binyang Shao, Xiaoyan Ren, Kun Liu, Lili Zhang, Yigang Cao, Xingju Zhao, and Shunfang Li

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115402 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026

Influence of magnon-magnon and magnon-phonon interactions on magnon relaxation under external strain and magnetic fields in monolayer MnSe2

Chang-Hao Ding, Wenwen Liu, Yuan Yao, Hao Chen, Nannan Luo, Jiang Zeng, Li-Ming Tang, Hui Pan, and Ke-Qiu Chen

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115403 (2026) - Published 3 March, 2026

Theoretical study on the physical origin of room-temperature ferroelectricity in a Bi2TeO5 monolayer

Xiao-Feng Luo, Bo-Wen Huang, Xue Jiang, Jin-Zhu Zhao, and Ji-Jun Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115404 (2026) - Published 5 March, 2026

Monolayer and bilayer 1TTaSe2 in the star-of-David charge density wave phase: Insights from intra- and interlayer bonding and quasibonding

Shi-Xuan Yuan, Yu-Meng Gao, Han Zhang, Mei-Yan Tian, Meng-Jia Huai, Jiang-Long Wang, and Xing-Qiang Shi

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115405 (2026) - Published 6 March, 2026

Emergence of Hermitian topology from non-Hermitian knots

Gaurav Hajong, Ranjan Modak, and Bhabani Prasad Mandal

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115406 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Unsupervised learning for non-Hermitian systems with higher-order hopping

Taeyoon Kim, Yihao Xu, Yuxiao Li, Alexander Montes McNeil, Allen Zhang, Michael Moebius, Sunil Mittal, and Yongmin Liu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115407 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Valley-selective linear dichroism and excitonic effects in Lieb-lattice altermagnets

Haonan Wang, Xilong Xu, Du Li, and Li Yang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115408 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Chiral anomaly induced nonlinear transverse planar transport phenomena in three-dimensional spin-orbit coupled metals

Rishi G. Gopalakrishnan, Binayyak B. Roy, Gargee Sharma, and Sumanta Tewari

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115409 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026

Plasmonic nanocavity induced valley manipulation in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides: A phenomenological description

Jiawei Sun, Zhiwei Hu, Wen Chen, Yang Li, Huatian Hu, and Hongxing Xu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115410 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

One-dimensional moiré engineering in zigzag graphene nanoribbons on hBN

Ryosuke Okumura, Naoto Nakatsuji, Takuto Kawakami, and Mikito Koshino

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115411 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Evanescent mode assisted Klein tunneling in dual-gated bilayer graphene

Yupeng Huang and W. Zeng

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115412 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Impact of the valence band on Rydberg excitons in cuprous oxide quantum wells

Niklas Scheuler, Jörg Main, Patric Rommel, Frieder Pfeiffer, Stefan Scheel, and Pavel A. Belov

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115413 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Feynman paradox in a spherical axion insulator

Anastasiia Chyzhykova, Jeroen van den Brink, and Flavio S. Nogueira

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115414 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

The Feynman paradox highlights that static electromagnetic fields can store angular momentum. Here, the authors show that axion electrodynamics in a spherical topological insulator provides a topological realization of this effect. Varying the distance of a nearby charged probe induces Hall currents on the surface that convert electromagnetic angular momentum into mechanical rotation of the sphere, with a frequency derived from the topological response.

Generation and manipulation of photon number wave packets in photonic cavities

L. Nimmesgern, M. Cygorek, D. E. Reiter, and V. M. Axt

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115415 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

Finite-size effects on metallization versus chiral Majorana fermions

Xin Yue (岳鑫), Guo-Jian Qiao (乔国健), and C. P. Sun (孙昌璞)

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115416 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

Ultrafast terahertz photoconductivity and near-field imaging of nanoscale inhomogeneities in multilayer epitaxial graphene nanoribbons

Arvind Singh, Jan Kunc, Tinkara Troha, Hynek Němec, and Petr Kužel

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115417 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations in two-dimensional hole gases with competing cyclotron and Zeeman energy

Davide Costa, Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Davide Degli Esposti, and Giordano Scappucci

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115418 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Evaluating fundamental properties of two-dimensional hole gases in strained germanium quantum wells is a complex task due to the competition between cyclotron and Zeeman energies. Here, the authors present a self-consistent framework to accurately extract the effective mass, g factor, and quantum lifetime from Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations at a single temperature. By applying this procedure to a low-disorder Ge/SiGe heterostructure, the authors demonstrate a benchmark quantum mobility for holes in group-IV semiconductors, with clean fractional quantum Hall states observed.

Magnetotransport properties of an unconventional Rashba spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional electronic system

Aryan Pandita and SK Firoz Islam

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115419 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Dispersion of collective modes in spinful fractional quantum Hall states on the sphere

Rakesh K. Dora and Ajit C. Balram

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115420 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Fractional quantum Hall (FQH) fluids are prototypical examples of topologically ordered systems. The addition of a flavor degree of freedom, such as spin, adds to the richness of the FQH phenomenology. Here, the authors compute the dispersion of various collective excitations in the most prominent spinless and spinful FQH states. Intriguingly, they find that certain spinful FQH states host a novel collective mode, which they explain via a parton construction. The predicted parton mode can be observed in light scattering experiments.

Electric spin and valley tunneling Hall effects

W. Zeng

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115421 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Dynamically tunable chiral absorptance based on quasibound states in the continuum via Brillouin zone folding

Jiangbin Li, Qilin Duan, Jiahao Zhi, Xin Dong, Yidan Hu, Bin Li, Shan Zhu, and Huanyang Chen

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115422 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Skin effect protected by custodial chiral symmetry

Xiaoran Jing, Tian Chen, and Xiangdong Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115423 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Higher-order hyperbolic topological solitonic insulators

Yingxu Zong, Weixuan Zhang, Lei Huang, and Xiangdong Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115424 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Nonvolatile electrically controlled spin valve via homojunction engineering

Yinggan Zhang, Baisheng Sa, Jian Zhou, and Zhimei Sun

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115425 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Ballistic transport in one-dimensional Rashba systems in the context of Majorana nanowires

Haining Pan, Jacob R. Taylor, Jay D. Sau, and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115426 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Tunneling Hall effects in a 1TMoS2-based npn junction under electric and light fields

Xingfei Zhou, Mengying Li, Fenghua Qi, Yafang Xu, and Guojun Jin

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115427 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Linear thermal noise in a four-terminal system with a Berry curvature dipole

Wenyu Chen, Miaomiao Wei, Yunjin Yu, Fuming Xu, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115428 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Andreev spin qubit protected by Franck-Condon blockade

P. D. Kurilovich, T. Vakhtel, T. Connolly, C. G. L. Bøttcher, and B. van Heck

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115429 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Interplay of spin-orbit interaction and Andreev reflection in proximized quantum dots

Bogdan R. Bułka, Tadeusz Domański, and Karol I. Wysokiński

Phys. Rev. B 113, 115430 (2026) - Published 30 March, 2026

PERSPECTIVES

Report on reproducibility in condensed matter physics

A. Akrap, D. Bordelon, S. Chatterjee, E. D. Dahlberg, R. P. Devaty, S. M. Frolov, C. Gould, L. H. Greene, S. Guchhait, J. J. Hamlin, B. M. Hunt, M. J. A. Jardine, M. Kayyalha, R. C. Kurchin, V. Kozii, H. F. Legg, I. I. Mazin, V. Mourik, A. B. Özgüler, J. Peñuela-Parra, B. Seradjeh, B. Skinner, K. F. Quader, and J. P. Zwolak

Phys. Rev. B 113, 119601 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

This report from a diverse collaboration of experts addresses community concerns around reproducibility in condensed matter physics by establishing clear best practices for researchers, publishers, and institutions. It advocates for mandatory sharing of primary data, code, and full experimental parameters to enhance and safeguard the field’s scientific integrity.

ERRATA

Erratum: Magnetic properties of monolayer, multilayer, and bulk CrTe2 [Phys. Rev. B 111, 035118 (2025)]

A. A. Katanin and E. M. Agapov

Phys. Rev. B 113, 119901 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026

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