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Volume 113, Issue 4

15 January 2026
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Temperature-dependent photoionization thresholds of alkali-metal nanoparticles reveal thermal expansion and the melting transition

Abdelrahman O. Haridy, Atef A. Sheekhoon, and Vitaly V. Kresin

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041404 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Nanoscale phase transitions are challenging to study: calorimetry of minuscule samples is problematic, while structural imaging by electron microscopy can by itself melt samples. The authors show here that a precise measurement of the work functions of isolated alkali nanoparticles in a beam can identify their melting transition. For ~8 nm particles, it is lowered by nearly 100 K, aligning with the Gibbs–Thomson equation. The need for better understanding of the temperature dependence of liquid metal work functions is highlighted.

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Defects potentials for two-dimensional topological materials

Yuval Abulafia, Amit Goft, Nadav Orion, and Eric Akkermans

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045102 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Topological materials exhibit distinct electronic characteristics that make them ideal candidates for rapid, reliable, and energy-saving technologies. However, the process of creating these materials is known to be particularly challenging. Here, the authors present a simpler approach to two-dimensional materials by starting with nontopological lattice structures and introducing properly crafted defects to modify their topological properties. These changes are demonstrated through observable electronic characteristics, such as local electron density, offering a clear and practical strategy for designing new topological materials and advancing the creation of more robust quantum and electronic devices.

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Emergence of a hidden-order phase well below the charge density wave transition in a topological Weyl semimetal (TaSe4)2I

Sk Kalimuddin, Sudipta Chatterjee, Arnab Bera, Satyabrata Bera, Deep Singha Roy, Soham Das, Tuhin Debnath, Ashis K. Nandy, Shishir K. Pandey, and Mintu Mondal

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045114 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

The coexistence of Weyl fermions and a charge density wave (CDW) state is exceptionally rare. Here, the authors uncover a hidden transition deep within the CDW state of (TaSe4)2I by tracking a concurrent increase in noise exponent, variance, and non-Gaussian correlations, together with anomalies in resistivity and thermopower that mark a Fermi surface reconstruction. First-principles and symmetry analysis connect this hidden-order phase to a lattice-driven symmetry lowering and gap opening, providing new insights and opening avenues to explore emergent secondary order and fluctuation-driven phenomena in Weyl CDW materials.

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Thermalization and Mpemba-like patterns in effective temperature dynamics of strongly coupled dissipative quantum chaotic systems

Xuanhua Wang, Jie Su, and Jin Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045119 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

The authors present here the emergence of Mpemba-like patterns—the anomalous evolution of effective temperatures—in strongly coupled, dissipative Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models. The authors demonstrate that, unlike Markovian effects in spin chains, these patterns are dynamically driven and governed by nonequilibrium statistics during rapid thermalization, requiring a strong system-bath coupling threshold. The standard Lindbladian approximation fails to capture these anomalies. These findings hint at similar patterns in thermalization of primordial black holes strongly interacting with the environment.

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Collapsing of spin-split Fermi surfaces in the magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate EuAuSb

Juntao Yao, Zhixiang Hu, Niraj Aryal, Asish K. Kundu, Antu Laha, Chuhang Liu, Lijun Wu, Yimei Zhu, Elio Vescovo, Weiguo Yin, and Qiang Li

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045138 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Strong coupling between magnetic moments and itinerant electrons can drive topological phase transitions and Fermi surface reconstructions, offering promising routes toward topological quantum computing. Here, the authors report a rare instance of Fermi surface splitting and collapse in the magnetic Weyl semimetal EuAuSb, revealed by temperature dependent Shubnikov–de Haas quantum oscillation measurements. These phenomena are attributed to the progressive weakening of short-range magnetic correlations and the exchange coupling between conduction electrons and localized magnetic moments with increasing temperature.

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Electronic crystal phases in the presence of nonuniform Berry curvature and tunable Berry flux: The λN-jellium model

Félix Desrochers, Joe Huxford, Mark R. Hirsbrunner, and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045148 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

The authors introduce here a continuum model with a tunable Berry curvature profile and total Berry flux, to study electronic crystallization in geometrically nontrivial bands. Their numerical study of the model reveals sharp distinctions between topology driven by an underlying periodic potential and topology arising from spontaneous crystallization under strong electronic interactions. They shed light on this contrasting behavior using analytical arguments, including a general weak-potential formula for the Chern number and energetic considerations for anomalous Hall and halo Wigner crystals.

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Gate voltage tunable second harmonic generation in monolayer and bilayer black phosphene

Kainan Chang, Yan Meng, Yanyan Qian, Yuwei Shan, Luxia Wang, and Jin Luo Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045408 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Here, the authors explore giant and electrically tunable second-harmonic generation (SHG) in black phosphorene. Notably, its effective nonlinear susceptibility surpasses AgGaSe2 by orders of magnitude and is widely tunable via gate voltage and chemical potential. They clarify the link between conventional SHG and electric field induced SHG, showing that they coincide at low gate voltages. These nonlinear optical properties establish black phosphorene as a superior platform for active photonic devices.

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Radial Rashba spin-orbit fields in commensurate twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers

Thomas Naimer, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Klaus Zollner, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045417 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

The authors investigate here predominantly radial in-plane spin-orbit fields in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers (NbSe2, WSe2, and WTe2) using density functional theory. Their results highlight the crucial role of the 180o in-plane rotational symmetry as well as the dependence on the size of the commensurate supercell. By fitting the first-principles results to an effective model Hamiltonian, the authors extract the twist-angle-dependent and supercell-size-dependent parameters governing the spin-orbit fields, relevant for designing spintronic devices.

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Resolving exciton and polariton multiparticle correlations in an optical microcavity in the strong-coupling regime

Victoria Quirós-Cordero, Esteban Rojas-Gatjens, Martin Gomez-Dominguez, Hao Li, Carlo A. R. Perini, Natalie Stingelin, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Eric R. Bittner, Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada, and Carlos Silva-Acuña

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041102 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Here, the authors use advanced nonlinear spectroscopy to directly observe how excitons and polaritons interact in a strongly coupled semiconductor microcavity. Their measurements reveal ultrafast energy flow into polariton states and uncover clear signatures of multiparticle Coulomb interactions that link reservoir and polariton modes. These previously hidden correlation pathways shape polariton behavior far beyond mean-field expectations, offering fresh insight into the fundamental processes that enable polariton condensation and other collective quantum phenomena.

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On the topological dual of the XXZ spin chain

Yicheng Tang, Pradip Kattel, and Natan Andrei

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041113 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

The spin-½ XXZ chain is a well-known model of spontaneous symmetry breaking. But what is its symmetry-protected topological dual model? Here, the authors construct a fermionic dual model via a modified Jordan–Wigner transformation. They demonstrate its topological nature through exact string order parameters, entanglement spectrum degeneracies, and Majorana zero modes, and identify the duals of the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases as two distinct topological phases separated by an extended Luttinger liquid regime.

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Emergent symmetry and phase transitions on the domain wall of Z2 topological orders

Hong-Hao Song, Chen Peng, Rui-Zhen Huang, and Long Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041114 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Domain walls of topological phases can host exotic gapless states. In the one-dimensional domain wall between Z2 topological orders, the authors uncover here a hidden nonsymmorphic symmetry that enforces an emergent SU(2)1 conformal field theory. The domain wall is either gapless or symmetry breaking, reflecting its symmetry anomaly inherited from the bulk topological order. The gapless domain wall corresponds to a topological quantum critical point, fulfilling a holographic construction of topological phase transitions.

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Quantum theory of optical spin texture in a chiral tellurium lattice

Pronoy Das, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Jungho Mun, Xueji Wang, Junsuk Rho, and Zubin Jacob

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041116 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Chiral tellurium exhibits a giant optical gyrotropy whose microscopic origin has remained elusive. Here, the authors develop a quantum theory revealing that this phenomenon originates from spin-textured optical waves at the atomic scale. They develop the concept of deep microscopic optical band structure to demonstrate how the twisted lattice of tellurium lifts optical degeneracies for spinning optical waves. The theory captures quantitatively the superdispersive optical gyrotropy with excellent experimental agreement, unveiling hidden optical spin features analogous to electronic spin texture.

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Single-band triangular lattice Hubbard model with tunable anisotropy from twisted rhombic homobilayers

Wen Sun, Chuyi Tuo, and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041119 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

The authors demonstrate here that twisted semiconductor homobilayers with band extrema at the Y valley on diamond lattices provide a promising platform for realizing a single-band triangular lattice Hubbard model with tunable hopping anisotropy via a displacement field. In the absence of a displacement field, the low-energy physics is governed by weakly coupled chains with quasi-one-dimensional band structure; increasing the displacement field generates interchain hopping, realizing a two-dimensional triangular lattice with tunable hopping anisotropy. To gain further insight into the role of hopping anisotropy, they employ density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) to explore the many-body physics of this model at U/t = 10 and half filling. The resulting phase diagram includes chiral spin liquid, nonmagnetic, and Néel antiferromagnetic phases, all accessible through displacement field control.

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Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

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Incommensurate stabilized fractional Chern insulator in alternating twisted trilayer graphene

Moru Song and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041101 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

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Resolving exciton and polariton multiparticle correlations in an optical microcavity in the strong-coupling regime

Victoria Quirós-Cordero, Esteban Rojas-Gatjens, Martin Gomez-Dominguez, Hao Li, Carlo A. R. Perini, Natalie Stingelin, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Eric R. Bittner, Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada, and Carlos Silva-Acuña

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041102 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Here, the authors use advanced nonlinear spectroscopy to directly observe how excitons and polaritons interact in a strongly coupled semiconductor microcavity. Their measurements reveal ultrafast energy flow into polariton states and uncover clear signatures of multiparticle Coulomb interactions that link reservoir and polariton modes. These previously hidden correlation pathways shape polariton behavior far beyond mean-field expectations, offering fresh insight into the fundamental processes that enable polariton condensation and other collective quantum phenomena.

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Breakdown of the symmetry constraint in a Floquet topological insulator

Ming-Jian Gao and Jun-Hong An

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041103 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

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Anomalous thermal broadening in the Shastry-Sutherland model and SrCu2(BO3)2

Zhenjiu Wang, Paul McClarty, Dobromila Dankova, Andreas Honecker, and Alexander Wietek

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041104 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

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Anomalous impurity-induced charge modulations in black phosphorus

Byeongin Lee, Junho Bang, Sayan Banerjee, João Augusto Sobral, Young Woo Choi, Claudia Felser, Mathias S. Scheurer, Jian-Feng Ge, and Doohee Cho

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041105 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

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Light wave induced nanosecond-long persistent state in the Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

Ahmed Ghalgaoui, Patrick Pilch, Taehee Kang, Matthias Runge, Sergey Kovalev, Yunkun Yang, Faxian Xiu, and Zhe Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041106 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

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Itinerant magnetism in the triangular-lattice Hubbard model at half doping: Application to twisted transition metal dichalcogenides

Yuchi He, Roman Rausch, Matthias Peschke, Christoph Karrasch, Philippe Corboz, Nick Bultinck, and S. A. Parameswaran

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041107 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

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Spectra of magnetoroton and chiral graviton modes of the fractional Chern insulator

Min Long, Hongyu Lu, Han-Qing Wu, and Zi Yang Meng

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041108 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

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Floquet higher-order Weyl semimetallic phase in three-dimensional graphdiyne

Xiaolin Wan, Fangyang Zhan, Xianyong Ding, Zheng Qin, Shengpu Huang, Dong-Hui Xu, and Rui Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041109 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

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Second harmonic Hall response in insulators: Interband quantum geometry and breakdown of Kleinman's conjecture

Wen-Yu He and K. T. Law

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041110 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

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Ideal quantum geometry of the surface states of rhombohedral graphite and its effects on the surface superconductivity

Guodong Jiang, Tero T. Heikkilä, and Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041111 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

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Wavefunction textures in twisted bilayer graphene from first principles

Albert Zhu, Daniel Bennett, Daniel T. Larson, Mohammed M. Al Ezzi, Efstratios Manousakis, and Efthimios Kaxiras

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041112 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

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On the topological dual of the XXZ spin chain

Yicheng Tang, Pradip Kattel, and Natan Andrei

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041113 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

The spin-½ XXZ chain is a well-known model of spontaneous symmetry breaking. But what is its symmetry-protected topological dual model? Here, the authors construct a fermionic dual model via a modified Jordan–Wigner transformation. They demonstrate its topological nature through exact string order parameters, entanglement spectrum degeneracies, and Majorana zero modes, and identify the duals of the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases as two distinct topological phases separated by an extended Luttinger liquid regime.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION
LETTER

Emergent symmetry and phase transitions on the domain wall of Z2 topological orders

Hong-Hao Song, Chen Peng, Rui-Zhen Huang, and Long Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041114 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Domain walls of topological phases can host exotic gapless states. In the one-dimensional domain wall between Z2 topological orders, the authors uncover here a hidden nonsymmorphic symmetry that enforces an emergent SU(2)1 conformal field theory. The domain wall is either gapless or symmetry breaking, reflecting its symmetry anomaly inherited from the bulk topological order. The gapless domain wall corresponds to a topological quantum critical point, fulfilling a holographic construction of topological phase transitions.

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Orbital order and superconductivity in bilayer nickelate compounds

Giniyat Khaliullin and Jiří Chaloupka

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041115 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

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Quantum theory of optical spin texture in a chiral tellurium lattice

Pronoy Das, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Jungho Mun, Xueji Wang, Junsuk Rho, and Zubin Jacob

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041116 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Chiral tellurium exhibits a giant optical gyrotropy whose microscopic origin has remained elusive. Here, the authors develop a quantum theory revealing that this phenomenon originates from spin-textured optical waves at the atomic scale. They develop the concept of deep microscopic optical band structure to demonstrate how the twisted lattice of tellurium lifts optical degeneracies for spinning optical waves. The theory captures quantitatively the superdispersive optical gyrotropy with excellent experimental agreement, unveiling hidden optical spin features analogous to electronic spin texture.

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Raman scattering from moiré phonons

Vitor Dantas, Héctor Ochoa, Rafael M. Fernandes, and Natalia B. Perkins

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041117 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

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Topological Dirac hourglass nodal line state in the superconductor TaOsSi

Lei Zhang, Wenyingdi He, Guangtao Wang, Dongyang Wang, and Zhenwei Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041118 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

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LETTER

Single-band triangular lattice Hubbard model with tunable anisotropy from twisted rhombic homobilayers

Wen Sun, Chuyi Tuo, and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041119 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

The authors demonstrate here that twisted semiconductor homobilayers with band extrema at the Y valley on diamond lattices provide a promising platform for realizing a single-band triangular lattice Hubbard model with tunable hopping anisotropy via a displacement field. In the absence of a displacement field, the low-energy physics is governed by weakly coupled chains with quasi-one-dimensional band structure; increasing the displacement field generates interchain hopping, realizing a two-dimensional triangular lattice with tunable hopping anisotropy. To gain further insight into the role of hopping anisotropy, they employ density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) to explore the many-body physics of this model at U/t = 10 and half filling. The resulting phase diagram includes chiral spin liquid, nonmagnetic, and Néel antiferromagnetic phases, all accessible through displacement field control.

Semiconductors I: bulk

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Dynamics of surface electrons in a topological insulator: Cyclotron resonance at room temperature

I. Mohelsky, F. Le Mardelé, J. Dzian, J. Wyzula, X. D. Sun, C. W. Cho, B. A. Piot, M. Shankar, R. Sankar, A. Ferguson, D. Santos-Cottin, P. Marsik, C. Bernhard, A. Akrap, M. Potemski, and M. Orlita

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041201 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Smectic charge order at the surface of CoSb2 films

Zhongyi Wang, Zhizhong Ding, Yifan Wang, Chaojie Luo, Jinze Fan, Junhan Zheng, Shengyong Qin, Wei Qin, Ping Cui, Zhenyu Zhang, Hui Zhang, and Changgan Zeng

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041401 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

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Emergence of net chirality in a two-dimensional Dirac fermion system with altermagnetic mass

Peng-Yi Liu, Yu-Hao Wan, and Qing-Feng Sun

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041402 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

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Asymmetric thermal conductivity mediated by nonreciprocal polaritons

Sina Jafari Ghalekohneh and Bo Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041403 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

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Temperature-dependent photoionization thresholds of alkali-metal nanoparticles reveal thermal expansion and the melting transition

Abdelrahman O. Haridy, Atef A. Sheekhoon, and Vitaly V. Kresin

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041404 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Nanoscale phase transitions are challenging to study: calorimetry of minuscule samples is problematic, while structural imaging by electron microscopy can by itself melt samples. The authors show here that a precise measurement of the work functions of isolated alkali nanoparticles in a beam can identify their melting transition. For ~8 nm particles, it is lowered by nearly 100 K, aligning with the Gibbs–Thomson equation. The need for better understanding of the temperature dependence of liquid metal work functions is highlighted.

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Tuning of SiV quantum emission in nitrogen-doped nanodiamonds by dual-color excitation

A. A. Zhivopistsev, A. M. Romshin, A. V. Gritsienko, D. G. Pasternak, R. H. Bagramov, V. P. Filonenko, F. M. Maksimov, A. I. Chernov, A. M. Skomorokhov, A. A. Rodionov, N. I. Kargin, and I. I. Vlasov

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041405 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

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Anomalous Knudsen effect signaling long-lived modes in two-dimensional electron gases

Grigory A. Starkov and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041406 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

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Probing quantum geometric nonlinear magnetization via second-harmonic magneto-optical Kerr effect

Xuan Qian, Xiao-Bin Qiang, Wenkai Zhu, Yuqing Huang, Yiyuan Chen, Hai-Zhou Lu, Yang Ji, and Kaiyou Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, L041407 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Current-induced time-reversal-even nonlinear spin polarization in p-wave magnets

Ren-Zhao Niu, Hou-Jian Duan, Rong Ma, Ming-Xun Deng, and Rui-Qiang Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045101 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

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Defects potentials for two-dimensional topological materials

Yuval Abulafia, Amit Goft, Nadav Orion, and Eric Akkermans

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045102 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Topological materials exhibit distinct electronic characteristics that make them ideal candidates for rapid, reliable, and energy-saving technologies. However, the process of creating these materials is known to be particularly challenging. Here, the authors present a simpler approach to two-dimensional materials by starting with nontopological lattice structures and introducing properly crafted defects to modify their topological properties. These changes are demonstrated through observable electronic characteristics, such as local electron density, offering a clear and practical strategy for designing new topological materials and advancing the creation of more robust quantum and electronic devices.

Ground state phase diagram and Haldane-like symmetry-protected phase in the S=12 Heisenberg model on the two-dimensional square-hexagon-octagon lattice

Yumeng Luo, Yuehong Li, Mengfan Jiang, Muwei Wu, Jian-Jian Yang, Dao-Xin Yao, and Han-Qing Wu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045103 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Spin and orbital Edelstein effect in gated monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Tapesh Gautam and S. Satpathy

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045104 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Finite-frequency admittance and noise of a helical edge coupled to a magnet

Oliver Franke, Paula Koll, Peter G. Silvestrov, and Piet W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045105 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Structural features and electronic properties of La4Ni3O10 with oxygen vacancies

Xuelei Sui, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaohong Shao, and Bing Huang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045106 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Particle-hole symmetric slave-boson method for the mixed valence problem

Liam L. H. Lau and Piers Coleman

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045107 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Cavity quantum Hall hydrodynamics

Gabriel Cardoso, Liu Yang, Thors Hans Hansson, and Qing-Dong Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045108 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Quantum Hall effect in a chiral cavity

Liu Yang, Gabriel Cardoso, Thors Hans Hansson, and Qing-Dong Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045109 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Bound states at semiconductor–Mott insulator interfaces

Jan Verlage and Peter Kratzer

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045110 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Model for charge carrier spectra in topological semimetals of the TaAs family

G. P. Mikitik and Yu. V. Sharlai

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045111 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Band-mixing effects in one-dimensional charge transfer insulators

Samuel Milner, Steven Johnston, and A. E. Feiguin

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045112 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Field-induced magnetic phase transitions and transport anomalies in GdAlSi

Zheng Li, Sheng Xu, Yi-Yan Wang, Tian-Hao Li, Shu-Xiang Li, Jin-Jin Wang, Jun-Jian Mi, Qian Tao, and Zhu-An Xu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045113 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

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Emergence of a hidden-order phase well below the charge density wave transition in a topological Weyl semimetal (TaSe4)2I

Sk Kalimuddin, Sudipta Chatterjee, Arnab Bera, Satyabrata Bera, Deep Singha Roy, Soham Das, Tuhin Debnath, Ashis K. Nandy, Shishir K. Pandey, and Mintu Mondal

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045114 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

The coexistence of Weyl fermions and a charge density wave (CDW) state is exceptionally rare. Here, the authors uncover a hidden transition deep within the CDW state of (TaSe4)2I by tracking a concurrent increase in noise exponent, variance, and non-Gaussian correlations, together with anomalies in resistivity and thermopower that mark a Fermi surface reconstruction. First-principles and symmetry analysis connect this hidden-order phase to a lattice-driven symmetry lowering and gap opening, providing new insights and opening avenues to explore emergent secondary order and fluctuation-driven phenomena in Weyl CDW materials.

Phonon-mediated superconductivity in Na2CoSe2O: A first-principles study

Jing Jiang, Zhen-Feng Ouyang, Pei-Han Sun, Ben-Chao Gong, Peng-Jie Guo, Huan-Cheng Yang, Zhong-Yi Lu, and Kai Liu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045116 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Variational optimization of projected entangled-pair states on the triangular lattice

Jan Naumann, Jens Eisert, and Philipp Schmoll

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045117 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Terahertz harmonic generation across the Mott insulator-metal transition

G. L. Prajapati, S. Ray, I. Ilyakov, A. N. Ponomaryov, A. Arshad, T. V. A. G. de Oliveira, G. Dubey, D. S. Rana, J.-C. Deinert, P. Werner, and S. Kovalev

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045118 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

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Thermalization and Mpemba-like patterns in effective temperature dynamics of strongly coupled dissipative quantum chaotic systems

Xuanhua Wang, Jie Su, and Jin Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045119 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

The authors present here the emergence of Mpemba-like patterns—the anomalous evolution of effective temperatures—in strongly coupled, dissipative Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models. The authors demonstrate that, unlike Markovian effects in spin chains, these patterns are dynamically driven and governed by nonequilibrium statistics during rapid thermalization, requiring a strong system-bath coupling threshold. The standard Lindbladian approximation fails to capture these anomalies. These findings hint at similar patterns in thermalization of primordial black holes strongly interacting with the environment.

Quantum critical dynamical response of the twisted Kitaev spin chain

Uliana E. Khodaeva, Dmitry L. Kovrizhin, and Johannes Knolle

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045120 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Vestigial d-wave charge-4e superconductivity from bidirectional pair density waves

Ethan Huecker and Yuxuan Wang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045121 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Role of Ward-Takahashi identity in an electron-phonon coupled system: Revisiting the phonon shift current

Takahiro Morimoto and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045122 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Physical properties and correlated electron behavior of the kagome metal Cu3V2Sb4

Mengqin Liu, Chuanlin Liu, Hanlin Wu, Xin Zhou, Dan Liu, Sheng Li, and Zhixiang Shi

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045123 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Emergence of quantum spin liquid and spin-flop phase in Kitaev antiferromagnets in a [111] magnetic field

Shuai Liu, Hao Wu, Jinbin Li, Xiaoqun Wang, and Qiang Luo

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045124 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Exciton Berryology

Henry Davenport, Johannes Knolle, and Frank Schindler

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045125 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Hierarchy of timescales in a disordered spin-12 XX ladder

Kadir Çeven, Lukas Peinemann, and Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045126 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Low-energy photoexcitations inside the Mott gap in doped Hubbard and t−J ladders

Sumal Chandra, Kazuya Shinjo, Shigetoshi Sota, Seiji Yunoki, and Takami Tohyama

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045127 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

Electronic structure of the kagome compound CaTi3Bi4 using high-field torque magnetometry and density functional theory

Kyryl Shtefiienko, Cole Phillips, Brenden R. Ortiz, David E. Graf, and Keshav Shrestha

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045128 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Strong-coupling theory of bilayer plasmon excitations

Hiroyuki Yamase, Luciano Zinni, Matías Bejas, and Andrés Greco

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045129 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Topological order and fractons from gauging exponential symmetries

Guilherme Delfino, Claudio Chamon, and Yizhi You

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045130 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Phases and criticality of the triangular lattice SU(N) Hofstadter-Hubbard model

Lu Zhang, Rongning Liu, and Xue-Yang Song

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045131 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Emergent magnetism and spin liquids in an extended Hubbard model at fractional filling

Zhenhao Song, Urban F. P. Seifert, Leon Balents, and Hong-Chen Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045132 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Interaction between shallow NV− centers and spin-active azafullerenes on hydrogenated and fluorinated diamond (001) surfaces

Bastien Anézo, Denis Arčon, and Chris Ewels

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045133 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Surface topological quantum criticality II: Conformal manifolds, isolated fixed points, and entanglement

Saran Vijayan and Fei Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045134 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Connection between free-fermion and interacting crystalline symmetry-protected topological phases

Chen-Shen Lee, Ken Shiozaki, and Chang-Tse Hsieh

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045135 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Electronic correlations are dominated by c−f hybridization in the pyrochlore superconductor CeRu2

Suppanut Sangphet, Minyinan Lei, Xiaoxiao Wang, Xingtian Sun, Xiuhua Chen, Xin Li, Kaiwen Chen, Yilin Wang, Lei Shu, Rui Peng, Haichao Xu, and Donglai Feng

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045136 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Dimensional control of the band gap crossover in layered lead iodide

M. Rosmus, A. Antezak, A. Ptok, F. Fortuna, C. P. Sonny Tsotezem, E. M. Staicu Casagrande, A. Momeni, A. Ouvrard, C. Bigi, M. Zonno, A. Ouerghi, H. Khemliche, A. F. Santander-Syro, and E. Frantzeskakis

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045137 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

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Collapsing of spin-split Fermi surfaces in the magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate EuAuSb

Juntao Yao, Zhixiang Hu, Niraj Aryal, Asish K. Kundu, Antu Laha, Chuhang Liu, Lijun Wu, Yimei Zhu, Elio Vescovo, Weiguo Yin, and Qiang Li

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045138 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Strong coupling between magnetic moments and itinerant electrons can drive topological phase transitions and Fermi surface reconstructions, offering promising routes toward topological quantum computing. Here, the authors report a rare instance of Fermi surface splitting and collapse in the magnetic Weyl semimetal EuAuSb, revealed by temperature dependent Shubnikov–de Haas quantum oscillation measurements. These phenomena are attributed to the progressive weakening of short-range magnetic correlations and the exchange coupling between conduction electrons and localized magnetic moments with increasing temperature.

Structural stability, electronic structure, and magnetic properties of the single-layer trilayer La3Ni2O7 polymorph

Shekhar Sharma, Yi-Feng Zhao, and Antia S. Botana

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045139 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Bond ordering in flux phases of interacting spinless fermions on the square lattice

Yifan Liu and Vivek Aji

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045140 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Nonequilibrium statistics of a biased Kondo resonance

Jong E. Han

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045141 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Statistics of Abelian topological excitations

Hanyu Xue

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045143 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Spin susceptibility in a pseudogap state with fluctuating spiral magnetic order

Paulo Forni, Pietro M. Bonetti, Henrik Müller-Groeling, Demetrio Vilardi, and Walter Metzner

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045144 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Total invisibility of compound particles from the perspective of multipole expansion

Mikhail Bukharin, Anar Ospanova, and Alexey Basharin

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045145 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

Quantum geometry from the Moyal product: Quantum kinetic equation and nonlinear response

Takamori Park, Xiaoyang Huang, Lucile Savary, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045146 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Optical study on charge density waves in Cr-doped CsV3Sb5 kagome metals

Minjae Kim, Jaekyung Jang, Saqlain Yousuf, Hong Gu Lee, Yu-Seong Seo, Hanoh Lee, Tuson Park, and Jungseek Hwang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045147 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

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Electronic crystal phases in the presence of nonuniform Berry curvature and tunable Berry flux: The λN-jellium model

Félix Desrochers, Joe Huxford, Mark R. Hirsbrunner, and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045148 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

The authors introduce here a continuum model with a tunable Berry curvature profile and total Berry flux, to study electronic crystallization in geometrically nontrivial bands. Their numerical study of the model reveals sharp distinctions between topology driven by an underlying periodic potential and topology arising from spontaneous crystallization under strong electronic interactions. They shed light on this contrasting behavior using analytical arguments, including a general weak-potential formula for the Chern number and energetic considerations for anomalous Hall and halo Wigner crystals.

Topological phase transitions and quarter-metal states of rhombohedral trilayer graphene

Hao-Sen Jin, Xi-Yue Wang, and Hang Xie

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045149 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Robust qubit interactions mediated by photonic topological edge states

Boris Gurevich, Weihua Xie, Mohsen Yarmohammadi, and Michael H. Kolodrubetz

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045150 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Chirality reversal at finite magnetic impurity strength and local signatures of a topological phase transition

Ruiqi Xu, Arnab Seth, and Itamar Kimchi

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045151 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Charge current and phase diagram of the disordered open longer-range Kitaev chain

Emmanuele G. Cinnirella, Andrea Nava, and Domenico Giuliano

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045152 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Resistivity anomalies arising from spin correlations in magnetic metals

Youngro Lee, Daniil Evtushynsky, and Henrik M. Rønnow

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045153 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Magnetic field dependence of the spin fluctuations in CeCu5.8Ag0.2

X. Boraley, A. D. Christianson, J. Lass, C. Balz, M. Bartkowiak, Ch. Niedermayer, J. M. Lawrence, L. Poudel, D. G. Mandrus, F. Ronning, M. Janoschek, and D. G. Mazzone

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045154 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

Instabilities of a generalized Gross-Neveu-Yukawa quantum criticality

Jaewon Kim

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045155 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Electronic band structure, phonon dispersion, and magnetic triple-q state in GdGaI

Tatsuya Kaneko, Ryota Mizuno, Shu Kamiyama, Hideo Miyamoto, and Masayuki Ochi

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045156 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Probing quantum spin systems with Kolmogorov-Arnold neural network quantum states

Mahmud Ashraf Shamim, Eric A. F. Reinhardt, Talal Ahmed Chowdhury, Sergei Gleyzer, and Paulo T. Araujo

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045157 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

Non-Hermitian linear electro-optic effect through interactions of free and bound charges

Sylvain Lannebère, Nader Engheta, and Mário G. Silveirinha

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045158 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

Semiconductors I: bulk

Diffusion mechanisms via vacancies of a magnesium acceptor in gallium nitride

Kaori Seino, Kenji Shiraishi, and Atsushi Oshiyama

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045201 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Comparative study of phonon-limited carrier transport in the Weyl semimetal TaAs family

Shashi B. Mishra, Zhe Liu, Sabyasachi Tiwari, Feliciano Giustino, and Elena R. Margine

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045202 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Transient Pauli blocking in an InN film as a mechanism for broadband ultrafast optical switching

Junjun Jia, Minseok Kim, Yuzo Shigesato, Ryotaro Nakazawa, Keisuke Fukutani, Satoshi Kera, Toshiki Makimoto, and Takashi Yagi

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045203 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Optical and polaronic properties of vacancy-ordered double perovskites: A first-principles investigation

Surajit Adhikari, Ayan Chakravorty, and Priya Johari

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045204 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

Reverse phonon thermal flux from an applied electric field

Chunhua Li and David Broido

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045205 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

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

Evidence of metallic samarium at the samarium nitride surface

K. Kneisel, J. R. Chan, A. Tadich, C. A. Casey-Stevens, B. C. C. Cowie, B. J. Ruck, W. F. Holmes-Hewett, and F. Natali

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045301 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Holes in silicon are heavier than expected: Transport properties of extremely high mobility electrons and holes in silicon MOSFETs

J. P. Wendoloski, J. Hillier, S. D. Liles, M. J. Rendell, Y. Ashlea-Alava, B. Raes, R. Li, S. Kubicek, C. Godfrin, J. Jussot, S. Beyne, D. Wan, Md. M. Rahman, S. Yianni, K. W. Chan, F. E. Hudson, W. H. Lim, K. De Greve, A. S. Dzurak, and A. R. Hamilton

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045302 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Surface state dominated transport in HgTe topological insulator devices

M. Hofer, C. Fuchs, L. Fürst, T. Kießling, W. Beugeling, S. Schreyeck, H. Buhmann, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045303 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Dynamic structure factor of quantum hard rods from exact form factors

Stanisław Kiedrzyński, Emilia Witkowska, and Miłosz Panfil

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045401 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Tunneling spectroscopy of the spinon-Kondo effect in one-dimensional Mott insulators

Rodrigo G. Pereira, Bruno F. Marquez, Karen Hallberg, Tim Bauer, and Reinhold Egger

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045402 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with the energy levels of free parafermions

Edward McCann

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045403 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Asymptotic fourth-order time-convolutionless generator for the spin-boson model: Analytical derivation and benchmarking

Prem Kumar, K. P. Athulya, and Sibasish Ghosh

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045404 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Interaction-driven Chern insulator at zero electric field in ABCB-stacked tetralayer graphene

Yulu Ren, Yang Shen, Chengyang Xu, Wanfei Shan, and Weidong Luo

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045405 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Excitons in two-dimensional inversion-symmetry-breaking tetragonal monolayers: The role of intrinsic built-in electric potential difference

Ziwei Zhao, Li Xiang, Yaqi Deng, Xu Li, Juexian Cao, and Wangping Xu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045406 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Strain-induced magnetism and half-metallicity in monolayer graphullerenes of the smallest fullerene C20

Jing Nie, Pei-Yi Liang, Jun-Xi Li, Wan-Xin Li, Du-Xin Liang, Fang Lin, and Shi-Zhang Chen

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045407 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gate voltage tunable second harmonic generation in monolayer and bilayer black phosphene

Kainan Chang, Yan Meng, Yanyan Qian, Yuwei Shan, Luxia Wang, and Jin Luo Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045408 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Here, the authors explore giant and electrically tunable second-harmonic generation (SHG) in black phosphorene. Notably, its effective nonlinear susceptibility surpasses AgGaSe2 by orders of magnitude and is widely tunable via gate voltage and chemical potential. They clarify the link between conventional SHG and electric field induced SHG, showing that they coincide at low gate voltages. These nonlinear optical properties establish black phosphorene as a superior platform for active photonic devices.

Sliding ferroelectricity, second harmonic generation, and bulk photovoltaic effect induced by 60∘ twisting in bilayer PtSe2

Yiyang Du, Hongsheng Liu, Shi Qiu, Anbing Zhang, Luneng Zhao, Feng Ding, and Junfeng Gao

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045409 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Dispersion model for the optical absorption of two-dimensional materials

K. Lizárraga, Cesar E. P. Villegas, R. Lira, E. Serquen, Hsiang-Lin Liu, J. A. Guerra, A. R. Rocha, and P. Venezuela

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045410 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Tunable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and topological spin textures in monolayer Janus-Cr2NAs

Fei Wei, Wenjun Zhang, Gengtao Chen, Zhixiang Ren, Shishen Yan, and Shishou Kang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045411 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

PT-symmetric laser-absorber modes for evanescent waves in anti-PT-symmetric photonic heterostructures

Meijie Li, Can Tao, Huan He, Sihao Zhang, Huanan Li, and Jingjun Xu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045412 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Interconvertibility in the thermodynamic properties of Lieb-kagome lattices

T. F. O. Lara, E. B. Barros, M. Godoy, R. N. Costa Filho, T. A. S. Pereira, and D. R. da Costa

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045413 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Exact formula and spectral decomposition of the heat flux in molecular dynamics for arbitrary many-body potentials

Markos Poulos, Donatas Surblys, and Konstantinos Termentzidis

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045414 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Giant octupole moment in magnetic multilayers

Chang Niu, Lulu Li, Yiqing Wang, Lei Wang, and Ke Xia

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045415 (2026) - Published 13 January, 2026

Bosonic realization of SU(3) chiral Haldane phases

Linpu Zhang and Junjun Xu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045416 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

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Radial Rashba spin-orbit fields in commensurate twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers

Thomas Naimer, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Klaus Zollner, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045417 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

The authors investigate here predominantly radial in-plane spin-orbit fields in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers (NbSe2, WSe2, and WTe2) using density functional theory. Their results highlight the crucial role of the 180o in-plane rotational symmetry as well as the dependence on the size of the commensurate supercell. By fitting the first-principles results to an effective model Hamiltonian, the authors extract the twist-angle-dependent and supercell-size-dependent parameters governing the spin-orbit fields, relevant for designing spintronic devices.

Coherent suppression and dephasing-induced reentrance of high harmonics in gapped Dirac materials

Wolfgang Hogger, Alexander Riedel, Debadrito Roy, Angelika Knothe, Cosimo Gorini, Juan-Diego Urbina, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045418 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

Electric and light field modulated quantum Stirling cycle in monolayer Pt2HgSe3

Xiaogang Zhang and Guojun Jin

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045420 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Ultrafast photovoltage reversal in Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 nanobelts

Bob Minyu Wang, Rodrigo Becerra Silva, and Dong Yu

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045421 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Quasibound states in the continuum–induced second harmonic generation enhancement in high-Q triple dielectric nanoresonators

Xu Tu, Meibao Qin, Huifu Qiu, Feng Wu, Tingting Liu, Lujun Huang, and Shuyuan Xiao

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045422 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Multiple quantum spin Hall states and topological current divider in twisted bilayer WSe2

Hao He, Zhao Gong, Shuai Li, Jian-Jun Liu, Hui-Ying Mu, and Xing-Tao An

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045423 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Hydrogenation-induced multiferroicity and switchable thermal transport in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride

Chunfeng Cui, Yuwen Zhang, Qiao Chen, Yonghe Deng, Chao Tang, Chaoyu He, Jin Li, and Tao Ouyang

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045424 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Optical gain from thermal current in gapped two-dimensional materials with merging double-Dirac cones

Meng-jie Tong, Biao Fan, and Feng Zhai

Phys. Rev. B 113, 045425 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

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