Volume 114, Issue 10

15 August 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Capturing exchange-correlation spin-torque effects with a semilocal functional

Marie-Therese Huebsch, Fabien Tran, and Martijn Marsman

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105101 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Most first-principles calculations on noncollinear systems published to date have been performed using exchange-correlation approximations that neglect exchange-correlation spin torque and are not U(1) $\times$ SU(2) gauge invariant. Within the framework of spin-current density functional theory (SCDFT), the authors present here the development and implementation—in the Vienna $a b$ $i n i t i o$ simulation package—of a functional that addresses these fundamental issues. Applications to the Cr $_{3}$ molecule and the antiferromagnetic crystal MnO are presented. SCDFT captures transverse spin gradients that are key to describing magnetic exchange.

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Unified ab initio quantum-electrodynamical density functional theory for cavity-modified electron-phonon-photon coupling in solids

Benshu Fan, I-Te Lu, Michael Ruggenthaler, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105111 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Optical cavities can reshape materials through quantum vacuum fluctuations, even without external illumination. Here, the authors develop a unified first-principles framework that treats electrons, atomic vibrations, polarization, and optical response on equal footing. Applied to gallium nitride, the approach predicts cavity-induced changes in electronic structure, lattice vibrations, dielectric response, and light absorption, together with measurable terahertz transmission shifts. The framework opens a route to engineering solid-state properties using the quantum vacuum.

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Fingerprinting fractons with pump-probe spectroscopy

Wei-En Tseng, Oliver Hart, and Rahul Nandkishore

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105124 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Here, the authors show that pump-probe spectroscopy provides distinctive signatures of fracton phases through lineon-planon braiding. The restricted mobility of excitations enables an emergent planon bound state and leads to strikingly different long-time responses upon swapping the pump and probe polarizations. These responses reveal braiding statistics, bound-state formation, and the subdimensional mobility of fractionalized excitations, thereby distinguishing fracton phases from conventional topologically ordered spin liquids.

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Probing the pseudogap and beyond: Examining single-particle properties of the hole- and electron-doped Hubbard model

Wen O. Wang, Edwin W. Huang, Brian Moritz, and Thomas P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105126 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Here, the authors use determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations to obtain high-resolution single-particle spectra of the doped Hubbard model, uncovering a pronounced electron-hole asymmetry. At low hole doping, proximity to the Mott gap suppresses antinodal coherence and produces Fermi arcs, whereas under electron doping, more coherent quasiparticles and stronger antiferromagnetic correlations generate hot spots. Probe-dependent pseudogap temperatures support a smooth crossover driven by strong correlations rather than a sharp phase transition.

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Three-point density correlations in a weakly interacting two-dimensional Fermi liquid

C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105133 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

Recent advances in quantum gas microscopy have enabled measurement of multipoint correlations in quantum gases. For a Fermi gas without interactions these correlations are quantized, reflecting the topology of the Fermi sea. Interactions modify this result, but in a certain limit the deviation from quantization is predicted to depend only on the Landau Fermi liquid parameters. This manuscript presents perturbative calculations that clarify the limit in which the correlations are universal and quantitatively predict the correlations in a Fermi gas with a weak contact interaction.

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Exciton and biexciton preparation via coherent swing-up excitation in a GaAs quantum dot embedded in a micropillar cavity

Claudia Piccinini, Aleksander Rodek, Abdulmalik A. Madigawa, Ailton Garcia, Jr., Saimon F. Covre da Silva, Martin A. Jacobsen, Luca Vannucci, Gregor Weihs, Armando Rastelli, Vikas Remesh, Niels Gregersen, and Battulga Munkhbat

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105306 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Here, the authors implement the recently proposed Swing-UP of the quantum emitter population (SUPER) scheme to investigate the coherent preparation of exciton and biexciton states in GaAs quantum dots using two red-detuned laser pulses. The experiments show that, by tuning the polarization and energy of the utilized pulses, one can achieve highly efficient preparation of an individual exciton state, a coherent superposition of fine-structure-split exciton states, or the biexciton state, establishing the SUPER scheme as a versatile tool for selective quantum-state preparation.

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Refraction-induced transverse charge transport

Ronika Sarkar, Arka Bandyopadhyay, Awadhesh Narayan, and Diptiman Sen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105406 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

The authors introduce here a new mechanism that produces a Hall-like transverse response in time-reversal-invariant materials, driven entirely by geometric effects. A tilted potential interface causes electron wave packets to undergo a refractionlike deflection upon transmission, generating a finite transverse current and Hall-like conductance without magnetic fields or broken time-reversal symmetry. The analytical framework and numerical simulations across multiple lattice models and device geometries establish the conductance signatures, while real-time wave-packet dynamics confirms the geometric origin and robustness of this effect.

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One-dimensional electronic states in a moiré superlattice of twisted bilayer ${WTe}_{2}$

Takuto Kawakami, Hayato Tateishi, Daiki Yoshida, Xiaohan Yang, Naoto Nakatsuji, Limi Chen, Kohei Aso, Yukiko Yamada-Takamura, Yoshifumi Oshima, Yijin Zhang, Tomoki Machida, Koichiro Kato, and Mikito Koshino

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105407 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Most moiré superlattices studied to date are two-dimensional, but a recently discovered one-dimensional counterpart raises the question of whether it can host genuinely one-dimensional electronic states. Here, the authors show that lattice relaxation in twisted bilayer WTe $_{2}$ generates nearly one-dimensional electronic bands and reveal the microscopic origin of this behavior. They also develop a general theoretical framework for understanding and predicting one-dimensional moiré superlattices in a broad class of anisotropic layered materials.

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Landau levels and magneto-optics in $30^{\circ}$ quasiperiodic twisted bilayer graphene

Masaru Hitomi, Takuto Kawakami, and Mikito Koshino

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105412 (2026) - Published 19 August, 2026

Here, the authors show how magnetic fields expose the hidden quasiband structure of 30° twisted bilayer graphene, a quasicrystal with 12-fold rotational symmetry but no translational symmetry. Their Landau-level theory reveals quantized orbits of quasiband pockets, unusual spectral patterns, and magneto-optical selection rules enforced by quasicrystalline symmetry, providing a route to quantum magneto-optics in broader quasiperiodic van der Waals materials.

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Nonequilibrium bosonization of fractional quantum Hall edges

Christian Spånslätt, Jinhong Park, and Alexander D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105418 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Edge transport is a powerful probe of anyons in fractional quantum Hall states. Here, the authors develop a nonequilibrium bosonization theory of interacting fractional quantum Hall edges, enabling a unified treatment of full counting statistics, anyon correlations, and tunneling transport far from equilibrium. For multimode edges, the theory reveals how interaction-induced fractionalization affects anyon dynamics through mutual braiding phases. It further predicts distinct signatures in experimentally accessible Fano factors, providing a route to probe anyonic braiding and fractionalization in nonequilibrium transport.

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Capturing exchange-correlation spin-torque effects with a semilocal functional

Marie-Therese Huebsch, Fabien Tran, and Martijn Marsman

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105101 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Temperature-driven sodium-ion dynamical-to-static crossover in the zigzag ordered phase of ${Na}_{0.5} {CoO}_{2}$

Shangfei Wu, Hengxin Tan, Dong Wu, Mingshu Tan, Xinyu Zhou, Tianchen Hu, Tao Dong, Feng Jin, Qingming Zhang, and Nanlin Wang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105102 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Exact two-electron spectrum and interaction effects in the Lieb lattice

Ellie M. Han, Marcos S. Figueira, and Peter S. Riseborough

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105103 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Interaction-driven spin polaron in itinerant flat-band ferromagnetism

Wei-Tao Zhou, Zhao-Yang Dong, and Jian-Xin Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105104 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Physical pictures for quasisymmetry in crystals

Bryan D. Assunção, Emmanuel V. C. Lopes, Tome M. Schmidt, and Gerson J. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105105 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Ground-state correlations in the one-dimensional Fermi one-component plasma

Massimo Boninsegni

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105106 (2026) - Published 4 August, 2026

Formulation of intrinsic nonlinear thermal conductivity for bosonic systems using quantum kinetic equation

Aoi Kuwabara and Joji Nasu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105107 (2026) - Published 4 August, 2026

$η$ -pairing state in a flatband lattice: Effect of interband coupling on logarithmic scaling of entanglement entropy

Seik Pak, Hanbyul Kim, Chan Bin Bark, Sang-Jin Sin, Jae-yoon Choi, and Moon Jip Park

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105108 (2026) - Published 6 August, 2026

Symmetric entanglers for noninvertible symmetry-protected topological phases

Minyoung You

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105109 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Role of interstitial $s$ orbital in a model of infinite-layer nickelates

Yan Peng, Rui Peng, and Mi Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105110 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unified ab initio quantum-electrodynamical density functional theory for cavity-modified electron-phonon-photon coupling in solids

Benshu Fan, I-Te Lu, Michael Ruggenthaler, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105111 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Electron correlation in semiconductors and insulators via symbolic regression

Nick Pant, Viet-Anh Ha, Donghwan Kim, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105112 (2026) - Published 12 August, 2026

Quantum geometry-driven photogalvanic responses in semi-Dirac systems

Bristi Ghosh, Malay Bandyopadhyay, and Snehasish Nandy

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105113 (2026) - Published 12 August, 2026

Anisotropy-driven circular high-harmonic generation in semi-Dirac semimetals

Kartik Prabhu, M. S. Mrudul, and Gopal Dixit

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105114 (2026) - Published 12 August, 2026

Switchable giant spin injection current in the Janus altermagnet ${Fe}_{2} SSeO$

Fanxian Pei, Dan Li, Lei Li, Jiajun Lu, Run-Wu Zhang, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105115 (2026) - Published 12 August, 2026

Exploring topological frustration towards two dimensions

Alberto Giuseppe Catalano, Nora Reinić, Gianpaolo Torre, Sven Benjamin Kožić, Karlo Delić, Simone Montangero, Fabio Franchini, and Salvatore Marco Giampaolo

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105116 (2026) - Published 12 August, 2026

Quantum anomalous Hall effect in flat bands with weak ferrimagnetism

Yedi Shen, Sanyi You, Zhenhua Qiao, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105117 (2026) - Published 14 August, 2026

Floquet Dirac semimetal under an optical comb

Xi-Ming Wang, Xu-Jin Wang, Xing Gao, and Jie-Yun Yan

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105118 (2026) - Published 14 August, 2026

Higher-form entanglement asymmetry and topological order

Amanda Gatto Lamas, Jacopo Gliozzi, and Taylor L. Hughes

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105119 (2026) - Published 14 August, 2026

Probing of core excitons in solid NaF with polarization-selective attosecond time-resolved four-wave mixing spectroscopy

Kevin Gulu Xiong, Rafael Quintero-Bermudez, Vincent Eggers, Hugo Laurell, Melody Wu, and Stephen R. Leone

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105120 (2026) - Published 14 August, 2026

In-plane magnetic response and Maki parameter of alternating-twist multilayers

Igor Vasilevskiy, Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, Khadija Challaouy, Dionisios Margetis, Guillermo Gómez-Santos, and Tobias Stauber

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105121 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Antichiral surface states and higher-order topological states based on the modified Haldane model

Jia-Rui Xu, Zhan Xiong, Kai Deng, Hai-Xiao Wang, Shiyang Liu, Yixian Qian, and Jian-Hua Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105122 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Chaos in systems with quantum group symmetry

Victor Gorbenko and Aleksandr Zhabin

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105123 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fingerprinting fractons with pump-probe spectroscopy

Wei-En Tseng, Oliver Hart, and Rahul Nandkishore

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105124 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Random geometry of maximum-density dimer packings of the site-diluted kagome lattice

Ritesh Bhola and Kedar Damle

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105125 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Probing the pseudogap and beyond: Examining single-particle properties of the hole- and electron-doped Hubbard model

Wen O. Wang, Edwin W. Huang, Brian Moritz, and Thomas P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105126 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Charge order on a triangular lattice with Mott physics and arbitrary charge density

Aleksey Alekseev, Agnieszka Cichy, and Konrad Jerzy Kapcia

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105127 (2026) - Published 18 August, 2026

Third-order optical response in $d$ -wave altermagnets: Analytical and numerical results from a microscopic model

Shihao Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105128 (2026) - Published 18 August, 2026

Engineering symmetry-protected topological states in waveguide arrays

Lavi K. Upreti

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105129 (2026) - Published 19 August, 2026

Emergent superfluidity of hard-core excitons in single-layer breathing-kagome ${{Nb}_{3} Te}_{x} {Cl}_{8 - x}$

Mahtab A. Khan and Michael N. Leuenberger

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105130 (2026) - Published 19 August, 2026

Enhanced carrier binding and bond correlations in the Hubbard-Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with dispersive optical phonons

Debshikha Banerjee, Alberto Nocera, and Steven Johnston

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105131 (2026) - Published 19 August, 2026

Geometric decoherence time in Lindbladian dynamics

Rishabh Jha, Stephan Haas, and Abhinav Prem

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105132 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Three-point density correlations in a weakly interacting two-dimensional Fermi liquid

C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105133 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

Quantum criticality and non-Fermi liquids: The Wilsonian renormalization group perspective

Mateusz Homenda, Pawel Jakubczyk, and Hiroyuki Yamase

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105134 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Continuous symmetry analysis and systematic identification of candidate order parameters for interacting fermion models

Cheng-Hao He, Yi-Zhuang You, and Xiao Yan Xu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105135 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Spin-orbit crossover and the origin of magnetic torque in kagome metals

Mathias S. Scheurer and Harley D. Scammell

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105136 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Anisotropic acoustic deformation potential characterization via coherent acoustic phonons in black phosphorus for dynamical strain sensor

Wenjun Wang, Xin Meng, Wei-hua Xiao, Zirui Shi, Yuhang Cai, Qinyu He, Shilong Zhao, Xiaochuan Xu, Liang Guo, Xiaobin Chen, Vitalyi E. Gusev, and Feng He

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105137 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Steady-state study of the nonequilibrium properties of ${SrVO}_{3}$

Tommaso Maria Mazzocchi, Markus Aichhorn, and Enrico Arrigoni

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105138 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Scattering of Raman phonons on magnetic and electronic excitations in the pyrochlores ${Nd}_{2} {Zr}_{2} O_{7}$ and ${Nd}_{2} {Ir}_{2} O_{7}$

Sami Muhammad, Yuanyuan Xu, Christos Kakogiannis, Takumi Ohtsuki, Yang Qiu, Satoru Nakatsuji, Eli Zoghlin, Stephen D. Wilson, and Natalia Drichko

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105139 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Temperature-dependent evolution of the electronic structure in ${EuZn}_{2} {As}_{2}$ across the Néel transition

Milo Sprague, Anup Pradhan Sakhya, Barun Ghosh, Mazharul Islam Mondal, Arun K. Kumay, Himanshu Sheokand, Kapil Gope, Tetiana Romanova, Dariusz Kaczorowski, Arun Bansil, and Madhab Neupane

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105140 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Majorana-assisted nonlocal spin correlation in quasi-one-dimensional Kitaev spin liquids

Yuki Yamazaki, Shingo Kobayashi, and Akira Furusaki

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105141 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Symmetries of spin splitting induced by spin-orbit coupling in nonmagnetic crystals

Fan Yang, Rafael M. Fernandes, and Turan Birol

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105142 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Model density approach to Ewald summations

Chiara Ribaldone and Jacques Kontak Desmarais

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105143 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Energy relaxation due to two-phonon scattering of electrons: Breakdown of the energy diffusion model

Joshua Covey and Dmitrii L. Maslov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105144 (2026) - Published 31 August, 2026

Atomic antisite disorder induced spin rearrangement in ${CaZnFe}_{2} O_{5}$

Maocai Pi, Junye Yang, Feiran Shen, Shuai Tang, Xubin Ye, Lunhua He, Zhiwei Hu, Chang-Yang Kuo, Chien-Te Chen, A. E. Lebedeva, S. V. Streltsov, Zhao Pan, Yao Shen, and Youwen Long

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105145 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Topological superconductivity in a Hubbard model for twisted-bilayer cuprates

T. Vibert and D. Sénéchal

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105146 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Self-consistent Hessian-level meta-generalized gradient approximation

Pooria Dabbaghi, Juan Maria García Lastra, and Piotr de Silva

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105147 (2026) - Published 31 August, 2026

Local phase-space Berry curvature and Hall transport in textured twisted bilayer graphene

Tohid Farajollahpour

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105148 (2026) - Published 31 August, 2026

Semiconductors I: bulk

Ultrasensitive temperature sensing with ${Nd}^{3 +}$ via a three-level thermal coupling strategy

Yifan Zhu, Wangze Li, Zeyu Sun, Xilin Zhou, Yanzhen Xiao, Sihan Wang, Xiadiyan Refuhati, Lei Yan, Zhenglong Zhang, Zhengkun Fu, and Hairong Zheng

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105201 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

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

Tuning electronic properties and Schottky contact in graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures by electric gating and interlayer coupling

Poonam Sharma, Archana Sharma, and Alok Shukla

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105301 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Waveguiding in two-dimensional Floquet non-Abelian topological insulators

Yujie Zhou, Changsen Li, Xiumei Wang, and Xingping Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105302 (2026) - Published 12 August, 2026

$A$ -site adatoms stabilize $A B O_{3} (001)$ surface reconstructions

Siyu Wu, Chao He, Linzhe Tang, Shaogang Xu, and Hu Xu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105303 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Temperature-dependent modeling of exciton-polariton bistability in semiconductor microcavities

R. Wushouer, O. A. Egorov, R. Buschlinger, and U. Peschel

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105304 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Numerical simulation of charged-defect-induced decoherence in conveyor-mode spin qubit shuttling in Si/SiGe

Nils Ciroth, Arnau Sala, Ran Xue, Lasse Ermoneit, Thomas Koprucki, Markus Kantner, and Lars R. Schreiber

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105305 (2026) - Published 19 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exciton and biexciton preparation via coherent swing-up excitation in a GaAs quantum dot embedded in a micropillar cavity

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105306 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Amplification of valley polarization in an hBN-separated ${MoSe}_{2} − {WSe}_{2}$ heterostructure

Fateme Mahdikhany, Jacob Cutshall, Daniel Shanks, Garett Reichenbach, Davoud Adinehloo, Michael R. Koehler, David G. Mandrus, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Vasili Perebeinos, Brian J. LeRoy, and John R. Schaibley

Phys. Rev. B 114, 105307 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026