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Magnetic skyrmion lattice disclinations in pentagon- and heptagon-shaped FeGe nanostructures

Thibaud Denneulin, Nikolai S. Kiselev, Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024411 (2026) - Published 7 July, 2026

Magnetic skyrmions typically form hexagonal lattices in chiral magnets, where translational defects such as dislocations are well known but angular defects remain largely unexplored. Here, the authors stabilize fivefold and sevenfold skyrmion lattice disclinations in pentagon- and heptagon-shaped FeGe nanostructures fabricated by focused ion beam milling. Lorentz transmission electron microscopy and electron holography reveal their magnetic and elastic structure. Supported by micromagnetic simulations, the results show how geometric confinement engineers defects in skyrmion lattices.

Identifying the origin of out-of-plane spin polarization in the noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Ge

Mingxing Wu, Kouta Kondou, Taishi Chen, Satoru Nakatsuji, and YoshiChika Otani

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020403 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Noncollinear antiferromagnets Mn3X (X=Sn, Ge) possess out-of-plane spin polarization that enables field-free magnetization switching. However, its microscopic origin remains under debate, specifically whether it arises from the antiferromagnetic order dependent magnetic spin Hall effect or antiferromagnetic order independent spin swapping. To address this issue here, the authors comparatively evaluate the spin torques in single-crystal Mn3Ge/Py bilayers with different crystallographic orientations using spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance technique. Their results reveal that both mechanisms coexist with comparable magnitudes, responsible for the out-of-plane spin polarization.

Classifying the topology of finite chiral structures using complete matchings

Maxine M. McCarthy and D. M. Whittaker

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024210 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Here, the authors propose a general framework to understand the relationship between structural connectivity and topological classification. Their approach can be applied to arbitrary finite chiral structures that may have a highly complex connectivity and lack a natural bulk description, in contrast to most classification schemes. Furthermore, by splitting the structure into sections, they show that many systems exhibit a richer classification than predicted with a purely symmetry-based approach. Tied to the topological phases they classify, unusual localization and transport phenomena are predicted and experimentally demonstrated.

Free-fermion measurement-induced volume- to area-law entanglement transition in the presence of fermion interactions

Matthew S. Foster, Haoyu Guo, Chao-Ming Jian, and Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024306 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

In quantum many-body systems, chaotic dynamics that explore all configurations can give way to a localized phase, frozen into a small corner of possibilities. These phases are distinguished by the extensivity of entanglement. Here, the authors argue that the entanglement transition driven by measurements in a broad class of interacting quantum circuits can be described by free fermions, and they develop a controlled description of the transition via non-Abelian bosonization. The results are also relevant to decodability transitions in certain surface codes with coherent errors.

Replica Keldysh field theory of quantum-jump processes: General formalism and application to imbalanced and inefficient fermion counting

Felix Kloiber-Tollinger and Lukas M. Sieberer

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024307 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Understanding measurement-induced phenomena beyond idealized measurements of Hermitian observables requires a general theoretical framework. Here, the authors develop a replica Keldysh field theory for quantum-jump processes with non-Hermitian jump operators and inefficient detection. The theory establishes a direct connection between measurement-induced and steady-state phase transitions in driven open quantum systems. Applied to monitored fermionic gain and loss, it reveals that inefficient detection induces volume-law entropy scaling while quantum entanglement remains area-law.

Theory and experiment of chirality-induced magnetic nonreciprocity manifested by the coupling phase

Jiguang Yao, Ying Yang, Chenyang Lu, Lihua Zhong, Xiaolong Fan, Desheng Xue, and Can-Ming Hu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024408 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Here, the authors show how magnetic nonreciprocity can arise without a structurally chiral device. In a cavity–magnon-polariton system, two linearly polarized independent microwave fields combine into a synthetic chiral field, whose handedness depends on the propagation direction. This behavior is governed by a nontrivial accumulation of coupling phases in a closed loop mediated by traveling photons. Its microscopic origin is traced to polarization-dependent Zeeman coupling, on which a unified framework for structural and synthetic chirality is established.

Magnetic field induced magnon portfolio in the van der Waals magnet CrOCl

T. Riccardi, F. Le Mardélé, L. A. Veyrat de Lachenal, A. Pawbake, I. Plutnarova, Z. Sofer, G. Jacquet, F. Petot, A. Saúl, B. Grémaud, A. L. Barra, M. Orlita, J. Coraux, C. Faugeras, and B. A. Piot

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024419 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Magnonic excitations are investigated in the CrOCl van der Waals (vdW) antiferromagnet with absorption experiments in a broad continuous energy range. In an external magnetic field, the dispersions of magnon branches characteristic of different magnetic orders are subsequently observed, revealing a strong biaxial anisotropy, hysteretic magnon spectra, as well as the formation of spatially separated magnetic phases. Theexperiments here show that competing exchange interactions broaden the options to generate different kinds of magnonic excitations within the same vdW material.

Suppression of magnetism in Co3Sn2S2 under external pressure

A. Chmeruk, D. Jones, R. Dwadasi, J. Ebad-Allah, F. Beiuşeanu, F. Schilberth, M. A. Kassem, U. Schade, A. Veber, L. Puskar, Y. Tabata, T. Waki, H. Nakamura, C. A. Kuntscher, A. Östlin, and L. Chioncel

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024423 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Magnetic materials with nontrivial band topology combine key concepts of modern solid-state physics and are expected to broaden the range of emergent quantum phases. At the same time, external pressure has proven to be a viable tool in manipulating the band topology and magnetism. Using first-principle simulations combined with optical spectroscopy measurements, the authors show here how the correlation effects are largely responsible for the suppression of the ferromagnetic state in a prototypical Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2 under external pressure.

Exact quench dynamics from thermal pure quantum states

Hui-Huang Chen

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020302 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Here, the authors present an exact solution for the entanglement dynamics following a quench from a thermal pure quantum state in a free-fermion system. The entanglement entropy exhibits a distinctive double-plateau structure, rather than the usual linear growth and saturation. The result is established through conformal field theory, exact lattice simulations, and a quasiparticle picture.

Zitterbewegung velocity in semiclassical electron dynamics

Dimitrie Culcer

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020305 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Zitterbewegung, the trembling motion caused by interband coherence, is usually viewed as a purely quantum effect. Here, the author shows that it also has a natural place in semiclassical electron dynamics as an additional velocity term. This term explains the electric-field-induced position shift of Bloch electrons and reveals a direct connection to the minimum conductivity of massless Dirac fermions.

Pseudo-Goldstone mode in altermagnetic α-MnTe: High-field electron spin resonance studies

K. Yu. Povarov, J. Wosnitza, S. Rößler, M. Schmidt, A. A. Tsirlin, and S. A. Zvyagin

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020407 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

The altermagnetic material α-MnTe and its magnetic properties have been attracting a lot of attention recently. Here, the authors investigate the low-energy spin-wave mode in an applied magnetic field utilizing electron spin resonance spectroscopy. In a specific geometry of the experiment, the spin-wave Goldstone mode acquires a gap, controlled by the magnetic field. The universal ν/T behavior of the resonance linewidth suggests thermally assisted magnon-magnon collisions as the key magnetic relaxation mechanism in α-MnTe.

Superfluid weight in disordered flat-band superconductors as a competition between localization functionals

Kryštof Kolář, Tero T. Heikkilä, and Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020503 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Here, the authors present a startling analytical result concerning the effect of disorder on the superfluid weight in flat-band superconductors. They demonstrate within the uniform pairing assumption that the direct effect of disorder on superfluid weight is mostly negligible. In particular, to lowest order it is given in terms of the difference between the intraband and interband parts of the localization functional of impurity wave functions, which typically vanishes.

Thermodynamic constraints on perfect equilibrium superconducting diodes

Pavan Hosur

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020505 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Why are perfect superconducting diodes so elusive? Here, the author shows that near-perfect diode behavior requires singularities in the equilibrium free energy landscape. This explains why high efficiencies arise more naturally in engineered Josephson devices and predicts that unexpectedly large efficiencies in equilibrium superconductors imply hidden structure in the free energy landscape.

LETTERS

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Local electronic structure and dynamics of hydrogen in CeO2

A. Koda, T. U. Ito, M. Hiraishi, H. Okabe, and R. Kadono

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020101 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Anomalously robust Fabry-Pérot bound states in the continuum in a coupled triple-resonator system

Chao Song, Quansen Wang, Han Jia, Zhiwei Guo, Lujun Huang, and Yong Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020201 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Anomaly-induced hybrid bulk electromagnetic mode in Weyl semimetals

Subrahmanyam D., Suhas Gangadharaiah, and E. G. Mishchenko

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020301 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Exact quench dynamics from thermal pure quantum states

Hui-Huang Chen

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020302 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Here, the authors present an exact solution for the entanglement dynamics following a quench from a thermal pure quantum state in a free-fermion system. The entanglement entropy exhibits a distinctive double-plateau structure, rather than the usual linear growth and saturation. The result is established through conformal field theory, exact lattice simulations, and a quasiparticle picture.

Dissipation-induced nonlinear topological gear switching

Xuzhen Cao, Xiaolin Li, Liang Bai, Zhaoxin Liang, Li-Chen Zhao, and Ying Hu

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020303 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

Non-Abelian geometric quantum energy pump

Yang Peng

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020304 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Zitterbewegung velocity in semiclassical electron dynamics

Dimitrie Culcer

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020305 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Zitterbewegung, the trembling motion caused by interband coherence, is usually viewed as a purely quantum effect. Here, the author shows that it also has a natural place in semiclassical electron dynamics as an additional velocity term. This term explains the electric-field-induced position shift of Bloch electrons and reveals a direct connection to the minimum conductivity of massless Dirac fermions.

Magnetism

Competitive orders in altermagnetic chiral magnons

Congzhe Yan, Zhijun Jiang, Jinyang Ni, and Guoqing Chang

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020401 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Robust topological surface states in skyrmion-host magnets Eu(Ga,Al)4: Evidence for dual topology

Yuki Arai, Kosuke Nakayama, Takemi Kato, Tomonori Nakamura, Asuka Honma, Seigo Souma, Kenichi Ozawa, Kiyohisa Tanaka, Daisuke Shiga, Hiroshi Kumigashira, Yoshinori Okada, Kouji Segawa, and Takafumi Sato

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020402 (2026) - Published 7 July, 2026

Identifying the origin of out-of-plane spin polarization in the noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Ge

Mingxing Wu, Kouta Kondou, Taishi Chen, Satoru Nakatsuji, and YoshiChika Otani

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020403 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Noncollinear antiferromagnets Mn3X (X=Sn, Ge) possess out-of-plane spin polarization that enables field-free magnetization switching. However, its microscopic origin remains under debate, specifically whether it arises from the antiferromagnetic order dependent magnetic spin Hall effect or antiferromagnetic order independent spin swapping. To address this issue here, the authors comparatively evaluate the spin torques in single-crystal Mn3Ge/Py bilayers with different crystallographic orientations using spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance technique. Their results reveal that both mechanisms coexist with comparable magnitudes, responsible for the out-of-plane spin polarization.

Shaping magnetic order by local frustration for itinerant fermions on a graph

Revathy B. S. and Shovan Dutta

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020404 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Negligible current-induced torque from the bulk and interface of Al

Taiyang Zhang, Lujun Zhu, Zhihao Yan, and Lijun Zhu

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020405 (2026) - Published 24 July, 2026

d-wave surface altermagnetism in centrosymmetric collinear antiferromagnets

Ersoy Şaşıoğlu, Ingrid Mertig, and Samir Lounis

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020406 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Pseudo-Goldstone mode in altermagnetic α-MnTe: High-field electron spin resonance studies

K. Yu. Povarov, J. Wosnitza, S. Rößler, M. Schmidt, A. A. Tsirlin, and S. A. Zvyagin

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020407 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

The altermagnetic material α-MnTe and its magnetic properties have been attracting a lot of attention recently. Here, the authors investigate the low-energy spin-wave mode in an applied magnetic field utilizing electron spin resonance spectroscopy. In a specific geometry of the experiment, the spin-wave Goldstone mode acquires a gap, controlled by the magnetic field. The universal ν/T behavior of the resonance linewidth suggests thermally assisted magnon-magnon collisions as the key magnetic relaxation mechanism in α-MnTe.

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Majorana zero modes and topological nature in the Bi2Ta3S6 family of superconductors

Yue Xie, Zhilong Yang, Ruihan Zhang, Sheng Zhang, Quansheng Wu, Gang Wang, Hongming Weng, Zhong Fang, Xi Dai, and Zhijun Wang

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020501 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Gross-Pitaevskii theory for an excitonic Bose supersolid

Sara Conti, Andrey Chaves, Alexander R. Hamilton, Jacques Tempere, Milorad V. Milošević, and David Neilson

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020502 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Superfluid weight in disordered flat-band superconductors as a competition between localization functionals

Kryštof Kolář, Tero T. Heikkilä, and Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020503 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Here, the authors present a startling analytical result concerning the effect of disorder on the superfluid weight in flat-band superconductors. They demonstrate within the uniform pairing assumption that the direct effect of disorder on superfluid weight is mostly negligible. In particular, to lowest order it is given in terms of the difference between the intraband and interband parts of the localization functional of impurity wave functions, which typically vanishes.

Enhancement of metallicity by Na doping in La3Ni2O7+δ

Yingying Gao, W. Zhou, W. H. Guo, Chunqiang Xu, H. F. Chen, Z. D. Han, Xiaofeng Xu, Yinzhong Wu, and B. Qian

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020504 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Thermodynamic constraints on perfect equilibrium superconducting diodes

Pavan Hosur

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020505 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Why are perfect superconducting diodes so elusive? Here, the author shows that near-perfect diode behavior requires singularities in the equilibrium free energy landscape. This explains why high efficiencies arise more naturally in engineered Josephson devices and predicts that unexpectedly large efficiencies in equilibrium superconductors imply hidden structure in the free energy landscape.

Higher-order topological superconductivity and electrically tunable Majorana corner modes in monolayer MnXPb2Pb (X=Se, Te) heterostructure

Yongting Shi, Qing Wang, Zhen-Guo Fu, Ping Zhang, and Ning Hao

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020506 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Two-dimensional helical superconductivity and gapless superconducting edge modes in the heterophase 1TWS2/2HWS2 bilayer

Xuance Jiang, Jennifer Cano, Yuan Ping, Yafis Barlas, and Deyu Lu

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020507 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

H-linear magnetoresistance in the T2 resistivity regime of overdoped infinite-layer nickelate La1xSrxNiO2

Yong-Cheng Pan, Tommy Kotte, Toni Helm, Motoki Osada, Atsushi Tsukazaki, and Yu-Te Hsu

Phys. Rev. B 114, L020508 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Phonons and the lattice dynamics in crystals with atomic diffusion: Concept and application to superionic ices

Hairui Ding, Artem R. Oganov, Haixu Cui, Jiachang Zhang, and Xiao Dong

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024101 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Acoustic helical dichroism enhanced by chiral quasibound states in the continuum

Qing Tong, Tong Fu, Yuqiong Cheng, and Shubo Wang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024102 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Pressure-induced structural transitions and dome-shaped superconductivity in the topological insulator PbBi6Te10

JunYing Hu, GuangYang Dai, Liang Ma, JingKai Bi, JianYong Chen, and ZhiWei Men

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024103 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

Long-range machine-learning potentials with environment-dependent charges enable predicting LO-TO splitting and dielectric constants

Dmitry Korogod, Alexander V. Shapeev, and Ivan S. Novikov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024104 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Creation of polar bubbles in a lead zirconate titanate nanodot

Shuai Yuan, Zhiyuan Wang, Yongxin Bai, and Runyu Xiao

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024105 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Atomic-scale origin of polarity at {011¯8} twin walls in calcite

Tomohiro Yamashita, Soma Seto, Yixin Lin, Yang Yang, Xiangdong Ding, Nicholas J. Butterfield, Ekhard Salje, Taro Kuwano, and Hiroko Yokota

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024106 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Crystal structures of ytterbium to 293 GPa

C. V. Storm, J. D. McHardy, C. M. Lonsdale, C. R. Roy, and M. I. McMahon

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024107 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Local atomic motifs in halide perovskite alloys reflect the landscape of enthalpies and band gaps

Fernando P. Sabino, Jia-Xin Xiong, Xiuwen Zhang, Gustavo M. Dalpian, and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024108 (2026) - Published 24 July, 2026

Grüneisen parameter of dense fluid helium at gigapascal pressures and 300 K

Jun Kong, Kaiyuan Shi, Xin Zhang, Jiaqing Zhang, Zhaoxu Du, Xingbang Dong, Haotian Yang, Lei Su, Xiao Dong, Eugene Gregoryanz, and Ho-kwang Mao

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024109 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Dimensional and doping stability of Peierls charge density waves in arrays of coupled one-dimensional chains

Aitor Garcia-Ruiz (艾飛宇), Che-Pin Hsu (許哲彬), Ming-Hao Liu (劉明豪), and Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024110 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Phonon dynamics of NaNbO3 as a function of temperature: An atomistic effective Hamiltonian study

Kinnary Patel, Sergei Prokhorenko, Yousra Nahas, Sergey Prosandeev, and Laurent Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024111 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Experimental and theoretical investigation of colossal permittivity in Nb-doped TiO2 at cryogenic temperatures

Van An Dinh, Yujiro Hashimoto, Koji Kimura, Taro Kuwano, Dung Ngoc Dinh, Ryoji Asahi, Koichi Hayashi, Hiroki Taniguchi, and Yoshitada Morikawa

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024112 (2026) - Published 31 July, 2026

Probing pressure-induced structural evolution and its impact on the optical behavior of the vacancy-ordered halide double perovskite Rb2TeBr6

Suvashree Mukherjee, Asish Kumar Mishra, K. A. Irshad, Boby Joseph, and Goutam Dev Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024113 (2026) - Published 31 July, 2026

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Non-self-averaging topological Anderson insulator

Zheng-Wei Zuo and Jun-Chong Liu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024201 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Non-Hermitian comb effect in coupled clean and quasiperiodic chains

Soumya Ranjan Padhi, Souvik Roy, Biswajit Paul, Sanchayan Banerjee, and Tapan Mishra

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024202 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

High winding number in rhombohedrally stacked Su-Schrieffer-Heeger multilayers

Feng Lu, Ao Zhou, Shujie Cheng, and Gao Xianlong

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024203 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Intrinsic structure of relaxor ferroelectrics from first principles

Xinyu Xu, Kehan Cai, Yubai Shi, Peichen Zhong, and Pinchen Xie

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024204 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Nonzero momentum implies delocalization when translation symmetry is broken in one dimension

Amanda Gatto Lamas and Taylor L. Hughes

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024205 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Anomalous transport in quasiperiodic lattices: Emergent exceptional points at band edges and log-periodic oscillations

Jinyuan Shang and Haiping Hu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024206 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Fading ergodicity and quantum dynamics in random matrix ensembles

Rafał Świętek, Maksymilian Kliczkowski, Miroslav Hopjan, and Lev Vidmar

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024207 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Beyond the imbalance: Site-resolved dynamics probing resonances in many-body localization

Asmi Haldar, Thibault Scoquart, Fabien Alet, and Nicolas Laflorencie

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024208 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026

Dichotomous effect of oxygen vacancy in high-entropy oxide films with Mott electrons

Suresh Chandra Joshi, Nandana Bhattacharya, Ke Qu, Manav Beniwal, Haonan Wang, Jyotirmay Maity, Prithwijit Mandal, Hua Zhou, Zhenzhong Yang, Christoph Klewe, and Srimanta Middey

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024209 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Classifying the topology of finite chiral structures using complete matchings

Maxine M. McCarthy and D. M. Whittaker

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024210 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Here, the authors propose a general framework to understand the relationship between structural connectivity and topological classification. Their approach can be applied to arbitrary finite chiral structures that may have a highly complex connectivity and lack a natural bulk description, in contrast to most classification schemes. Furthermore, by splitting the structure into sections, they show that many systems exhibit a richer classification than predicted with a purely symmetry-based approach. Tied to the topological phases they classify, unusual localization and transport phenomena are predicted and experimentally demonstrated.

Limitations of singular value decomposition based diagnostics for non-Hermitian many-body localization with time-reversal symmetry

Huimin You, Jinghu Liu, Yunbo Zhang, and Zhihao Xu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024211 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Entanglement transitions in noisy quantum circuits on trees

Vikram Ravindranath, Yiqiu Han, and Xiao Chen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024301 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Nonequilibrium physics of a density difference dependent Hamiltonian: Quantum scarring in the presence of dynamical gauge fields and chiral symmetry

W. N. Faugno, Hosho Katsura, and Tomoki Ozawa

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024302 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Ultrafast electron-lattice coupling in cobalt films probed by nanoscale extreme ultraviolet transient gratings

G. Kurdi, D. Fainozzi, L. Foglia, N. Khatu, S. Laterza, R. Mincigrucci, E. Paltanin, J. S. Pelli-Cresi, B. Wehinger, S. Bonetti, C. Masciovecchio, and F. Bencivenga

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024303 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Origin of ultralow thermal conductivity in HgTe: Strong anharmonicity and resonant four-phonon scattering

Yuhang Wu, Ya Hu, Xin Jin, Dengfeng Li, and Xiaolong Yang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024304 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Supercurrent-induced phonon angular momentum

Takehito Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024305 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Free-fermion measurement-induced volume- to area-law entanglement transition in the presence of fermion interactions

Matthew S. Foster, Haoyu Guo, Chao-Ming Jian, and Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024306 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

In quantum many-body systems, chaotic dynamics that explore all configurations can give way to a localized phase, frozen into a small corner of possibilities. These phases are distinguished by the extensivity of entanglement. Here, the authors argue that the entanglement transition driven by measurements in a broad class of interacting quantum circuits can be described by free fermions, and they develop a controlled description of the transition via non-Abelian bosonization. The results are also relevant to decodability transitions in certain surface codes with coherent errors.

Replica Keldysh field theory of quantum-jump processes: General formalism and application to imbalanced and inefficient fermion counting

Felix Kloiber-Tollinger and Lukas M. Sieberer

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024307 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Understanding measurement-induced phenomena beyond idealized measurements of Hermitian observables requires a general theoretical framework. Here, the authors develop a replica Keldysh field theory for quantum-jump processes with non-Hermitian jump operators and inefficient detection. The theory establishes a direct connection between measurement-induced and steady-state phase transitions in driven open quantum systems. Applied to monitored fermionic gain and loss, it reveals that inefficient detection induces volume-law entropy scaling while quantum entanglement remains area-law.

Nonequilibrium orders in parametrically driven field theories

Carl Philipp Zelle, Romain Daviet, Andrew J. Millis, and Sebastian Diehl

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024308 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Phase transition and negative thermal expansion in copper pyrophosphate Cu2P2O7 studied by neutron total scattering and the reverse Monte Carlo method

Martin T. Dove, Naike Shi, Shaojie Wang, Jiaxin Song, Juping Xu, Wen Yin, Jun Chen, Yang Hai, and Guanqun Cai

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024309 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Scalable phonon-laser arrays with self-organized synchronization

Hugo Molinares, Guillermo Romero, Victor Montenegro, and Vitalie Eremeev

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024310 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Limits of Clifford disentangling in tensor network states

Sergi Masot-Llima, Piotr Sierant, Paolo Stornati, and Artur Garcia-Saez

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024311 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Quantum complexity in rule-based constrained many-body models: Scars, fragmentation, and chaos

Arkaprava Sil and Sudipto Singha Roy

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024312 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Programmable dissipation for controlling nonunitary Floquet dynamics

Guang-Chen He, Xiao-Meng Zhang, Zhao-Xian Chen, Ze-Guo Chen, and Ming-Hui Lu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024313 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Enhancing persistent heat current using inhomogeneous magnetization

Md Anwar Hosen and Linxiao Zhu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024314 (2026) - Published 31 July, 2026

Magnetism

Stabilization of the hcp structure in the ruthenium-substituted high-entropy Cantor alloys Cr20Mn20(Fe20xRux)Co20Ni20 (0  x  20) and their magnetic and structural properties

Yaşar Orbay, David Koch, Benedikt Eggert, Aslı Çakır, Katharina Ollefs, Heiko Wende, Michael Farle, and Mehmet Acet

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024401 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Impact of stealthy hyperuniform magnetic impurity configurations on bulk magnetism in a two-dimensional Heisenberg model

Kota Asakura, Kazuki Yamamoto, and Akihisa Koga

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024403 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Synthesis, physical properties, and band structure of antiferromagnetic Cr2Se3

Xiaoqing Qian, Wenhao Shen, Shouli Zhou, Zixin Cui, Zize Zheng, Wei Wei, Yingying Gao, Bin Li, Xiaofeng Xu, Wei Zhou, and Chunqiang Xu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024404 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Topological magnons on the ferromagnetic zigzag lattice

Skandan Subramanian, Tom Berlijn, Lucas Lindsay, Do Hoon Kiem, Randy S. Fishman, and John W. Villanova

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024405 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Coexistence of mixed-dimensional fluctuations and incommensurate long-range order in the frustrated antiferromagnet Ce5AgPb3

Zhijie Ma, Ying Sun, Jiechen Luo, Sihao Deng, Hongde Wang, Xiuliang Yuan, Kaiqi Zhang, Lunhua He, Cong Wang, and Youguo Shi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024406 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Spin-transfer torque on curved surfaces: A generalized Thiele formalism

J. I. Costilla, M. Castro, K. V. Yershov, D. Altbir, V. L. Carvalho-Santos, and V. P. Kravchuk

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024407 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Theory and experiment of chirality-induced magnetic nonreciprocity manifested by the coupling phase

Jiguang Yao, Ying Yang, Chenyang Lu, Lihua Zhong, Xiaolong Fan, Desheng Xue, and Can-Ming Hu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024408 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Here, the authors show how magnetic nonreciprocity can arise without a structurally chiral device. In a cavity–magnon-polariton system, two linearly polarized independent microwave fields combine into a synthetic chiral field, whose handedness depends on the propagation direction. This behavior is governed by a nontrivial accumulation of coupling phases in a closed loop mediated by traveling photons. Its microscopic origin is traced to polarization-dependent Zeeman coupling, on which a unified framework for structural and synthetic chirality is established.

Magnetizing altermagnets through ultrafast asymmetric spin dynamics

Zhaobo Zhou, Sangeeta Sharma, John Kay Dewhurst, and Junjie He

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024409 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Majorana signatures in planar tunneling through a Kitaev spin liquid

Weiyao Li, Vitor Dantas, Wen-Han Kao, and Natalia B. Perkins

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024410 (2026) - Published 7 July, 2026

Magnetic skyrmion lattice disclinations in pentagon- and heptagon-shaped FeGe nanostructures

Thibaud Denneulin, Nikolai S. Kiselev, Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024411 (2026) - Published 7 July, 2026

Magnetic skyrmions typically form hexagonal lattices in chiral magnets, where translational defects such as dislocations are well known but angular defects remain largely unexplored. Here, the authors stabilize fivefold and sevenfold skyrmion lattice disclinations in pentagon- and heptagon-shaped FeGe nanostructures fabricated by focused ion beam milling. Lorentz transmission electron microscopy and electron holography reveal their magnetic and elastic structure. Supported by micromagnetic simulations, the results show how geometric confinement engineers defects in skyrmion lattices.

Orbital-dominated hyperfine fields and intermediate-valence behavior of Ce impurities in antiferromagnetic GdIn3 and TbIn3

W. L. Ferreira, L. F. D. Pereira, Arnaldo A. M. Filho, R. N. Saxena, A. W. Carbonari, Bruno S. Correa, M. S. Costa, and G. A. Cabrera-Pasca

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024413 (2026) - Published 10 July, 2026

Microscopic origin of polarization-controlled magnetization switching in FePt/BaTiO3

Qurat ul ain, Thi H. Ho, Soon Cheol Hong, Dorj Odkhuu, and S. H. Rhim

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024414 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Composition-dependent Gilbert damping anisotropy in epitaxial Fe100xCox alloys

Yibing Zhao, Fu Liu, Yongzuo Wang, Jiazhan Chang, Ying Jin, Mingsu Si, Cunxu Gao, Wenbo Sui, Guozhi Chai, and Changjun Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024415 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Anomalous semiconductorlike transport induced by the Curie transition in a Co51V31Ga18 metamagnetic Heusler alloy

Hongwei Liu, Qi Chen, Yuanlei Zhang, Tianzhi Xia, Yanru Kang, Yiming Cao, Kun Xu, Zhe Li, Changqin Liu, Yongsheng Liu, Liang Zuo, and Zongbin Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024416 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

High-field crossover from linear to nonlinear magnetoelectric effect in Co3O4

S. Ghara, Y. Kinoshita, A. Miyake, Y. Ishii, L. Prodan, V. Tsurkan, Y. Skourski, J. Wosnitza, Y. H. Matsuda, S. Miyahara, M. Tokunaga, and I. Kézsmárki

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024417 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Spin wave interactions in the pyrochlore Heisenberg antiferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions

V. V. Jyothis, Kallol Mondal, Himanshu Mavani, and V. Ravi Chandra

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024418 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Magnetic field induced magnon portfolio in the van der Waals magnet CrOCl

T. Riccardi, F. Le Mardélé, L. A. Veyrat de Lachenal, A. Pawbake, I. Plutnarova, Z. Sofer, G. Jacquet, F. Petot, A. Saúl, B. Grémaud, A. L. Barra, M. Orlita, J. Coraux, C. Faugeras, and B. A. Piot

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024419 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Magnonic excitations are investigated in the CrOCl van der Waals (vdW) antiferromagnet with absorption experiments in a broad continuous energy range. In an external magnetic field, the dispersions of magnon branches characteristic of different magnetic orders are subsequently observed, revealing a strong biaxial anisotropy, hysteretic magnon spectra, as well as the formation of spatially separated magnetic phases. Theexperiments here show that competing exchange interactions broaden the options to generate different kinds of magnonic excitations within the same vdW material.

Highly fluctuating double-q magnetic order in the van der Waals metal CeTe3

Ryutaro Okuma, Yuita Fujisawa, Natsumi Maekawa, Akiko Nakao, Yoshihisa Ishikawa, Riki Kobayashi, Yoshinori Okada, and Daichi Ueta

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024420 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026

Ratchet effect of magnetic skyrmions modified by anisotropy of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Fanglin Meng, Linjie Liu, Weijin Chen, and Yue Zheng

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024421 (2026) - Published 24 July, 2026

Pressure tuning of the helical antiferromagnetic state in CeVGe3

R.-Z. Lin, P.-Y. Cheng, Y. Shimizu, T. Vasina, T.-L. Hung, D. Braithwaite, H. Jin, P. Klavins, N. J. Curro, Rajiv R. P. Singh, V. Taufour, and C.-L. Huang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024422 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Suppression of magnetism in Co3Sn2S2 under external pressure

A. Chmeruk, D. Jones, R. Dwadasi, J. Ebad-Allah, F. Beiuşeanu, F. Schilberth, M. A. Kassem, U. Schade, A. Veber, L. Puskar, Y. Tabata, T. Waki, H. Nakamura, C. A. Kuntscher, A. Östlin, and L. Chioncel

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024423 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Magnetic materials with nontrivial band topology combine key concepts of modern solid-state physics and are expected to broaden the range of emergent quantum phases. At the same time, external pressure has proven to be a viable tool in manipulating the band topology and magnetism. Using first-principle simulations combined with optical spectroscopy measurements, the authors show here how the correlation effects are largely responsible for the suppression of the ferromagnetic state in a prototypical Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2 under external pressure.

Unquenched orbital angular momentum as the origin of spin inertia

Tarek Moussa, Darpa Narayan Basu, Ritwik Mondal, and Akashdeep Kamra

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024424 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Multiple quasiparticle bound states in a local superconducting gap variation

Romy Morin, Denis M. Basko, Manuel Houzet, and Julia S. Meyer

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024501 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Equidistant resonance jumps in superconducting coplanar resonators driven by Abrikosov vortices

Dmitrii S. Kalashnikov, Denis Yu. Vodolazov, Ruslan I. Kinzibaev, Andrei G. Shishkin, and Vasily S. Stolyarov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024502 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Superconducting state with broken time-reversal symmetry and collective modes in the kagome superconductors AV3Sb5 (A=K, Cs, Rb)

Xinloong Han, Jun Zhan, Jiangping Hu, Fu-chun Zhang, and Xianxin Wu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024503 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Superconductivity of non-A15 compounds in V-Sn binary system

Xin Li, Guo-Yong Shi, Rui-Tong Xiao, Zhi-Zhuo Liu, Hong Jiang, Yue-Hua Su, Huai-Jun Sun, Cai-Zhuang Wang, and Chao Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024504 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Superconducting order parameter in aperiodic binary systems

Sougata Biswas, Debika Debnath, and Paramita Dutta

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024505 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Low-temperature anomaly and anisotropy of critical magnetic fields in transition metal dichalcogenide superconductors

Tomoya Sano, Kota Tabata, Akihiro Sasaki, and Yasuhiro Asano

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024506 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Plasmon excitations and their attenuation in dirty superconductors

Daniil K. Karuzin and Mikhail A. Skvortsov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024507 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Quantum-geometric thermal conductivity of superconductors

Maximilian Buthenhoff and Yusuke Nishida

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024508 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Sublattice polarization and filamentary superconductivity in strained graphene

Tao Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024509 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Semiclassical theory for proximity-induced superconducting systems with spin-orbit coupling

Zhen-Cheng Liao, Cong Xiao, Zhi Wang, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024510 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Machine learning protocol to identify pairing symmetries via quasiparticle interference imaging in Ising superconductors

Adam Hložný, Jozef Haniš, Martin Gmitra, and Marko Milivojević

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024511 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Superconductivity near a quantum critical point: Bounds on the transition temperature in the γ-model

Ahmed Elezaby and Artem Abanov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024512 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Superconducting diode effect in the weak localization regime

Naratip Nunchot and Youichi Yanase

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024513 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Enhanced superconductivity in atomically thin noble metals: From quantum confinement to interface-induced Lifshitz transition

Chun-Jie Zhang, Bing Zhang, Yapeng Wu, Xiao-Ping Li, and Lei Wang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024514 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Temperature-driven structural crossover of vortex matter in a Penrose quasicrystal

Munisa A. Tomayeva, Vyacheslav D. Neverov, Arkady A. Shanenko, Alexei Vagov, and Andrey V. Krasavin

Phys. Rev. B 114, 024516 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

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