Volume 114, Issue 26 (partial)

1 November 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetoelastic mapping of the high-field phase diagram in the topological cubic helimagnet ${SrFeO}_{3}$

Masaki Gen, Shun Okumura, Shusaku Imajo, Taro Nakajima, Karel Prokes, Shunsuke Kitou, Yusuke Tokunaga, Yoichi Nii, Koichi Kindo, Yoshimitsu Kohama, Shintaro Ishiwata, and Taka-hisa Arima

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264406 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Here, the authors substantially update the high-field magnetic phase diagram of SrFeO $_{3}$ , which hosts a hedgehog–antihedgehog lattice. Most strikingly, they uncover a first-order metamagnetic transition into the forced ferromagnetic phase, accompanied by negative volume magnetostriction and dramatic elastic softening. These anomalous magnetoelastic responses signal changes in charge degrees of freedom, shedding new light on the role of ligand holes in helical magnetism.

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Superconducting diode effect in magnetic superconductors realized by nonreciprocal domain-wall dynamics

Dong Hui Han, Suk Bum Chung, and Se Kwon Kim

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264410 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

The authors propose here a route to the superconducting diode effect through nonreciprocal magnetic domain-wall dynamics in ferromagnetic superconductors. Applied magnetic fields break time-reversal and inversion symmetries, producing direction-dependent critical currents for Walker breakdown—the onset of sustained domain-wall precession. Owing to the order parameter redundancy, the precession generates nonsingular phase slips. By connecting magnetic dynamics with superconducting transport, the authors identify a mechanism for realizing the superconducting diode effect without the need for complex heterostructures.

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Exact dimer ground states of long-range spin chains and ladders

Jędrzej Wardyn and Miłosz Panfil

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264414 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

This work establishes necessary conditions for the exact dimer ground states in a wide class of spin chain models with arbitrary long-range interactions. The stability of the dimer phase is also probed by introducing an anisotropy or dimerisation with the analytical findings supported by the numerical computations. The considered models encompass physical phenomena ranging from spin-Peierls materials to dimer state implementations in quantum information processing.

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Bulk signatures of reentrant superconductivity in ${UTe}_{2}$ from ultrasound measurements

N. Marquardt, C. Duffy, C. Proust, S. Badoux, M. Amano Patino, G. Lapertot, D. Aoki, J.-P. Brison, G. Knebel, and D. LeBoeuf

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264505 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

The authors study here the field-reentrant superconducting phase of the unconventional superconductor UTe $_{2}$ using ultrasound measurements up to 77 T and down to 0.5 K. They find clear signatures of the field reentrant superconducting phase found for a field angle of 30 degrees from the $b$ to the $c$ axis in a longitudinal elastic mode, establishing the bulk nature of this superconducting phase. The authors observe an intriguing excess attenuation across the superconducting phase, which suggests unusual vortex dynamics and pinning mechanisms.

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Signatures of Gaussian superconducting fluctuations in nonlocal noise magnetometry

Dror Orgad

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264511 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Are superconducting fluctuations in a film above its transition temperature dominated by short-lived Cooper pairs or by vortices? Here, the author calculates the magnetic-noise correlations sensed by two spatially separated diamond quantum probes, considering the film both in equilibrium and under an applied electric field. The distinct relaxation scales and directional patterns of the noise offer a means of distinguishing between the two scenarios.

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LETTER

Customizing zero modes with arbitrary spatial profiles

Luohong Liu (刘烙宏), Qicheng Zhang (张起成), Shuaishuai Tong (童帅帅), and Chunyin Qiu (邱春印)

Phys. Rev. B 114, L260304 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Here, the authors demonstrate a universal head-body architecture that creates spectrally isolated zero modes with fully customizable spatial profiles in arbitrary lattices. Unidirectional couplings to a zero-energy head site enable independent amplitude and phase design, as visualized by the Tai Chi zero-mode pattern. Acoustic experiments realize diverse one- and two-dimensional morphologies, including “WHU” letters and phase vortices, underscoring the scheme’s robustness and practical versatility for on-demand wave-field engineering.

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LETTER

Fluctuation-induced supersolidity at the superfluid-solid interface

Baptiste Coquinot, Ragheed Alhyder, Alberto Cappellaro, and Mikhail Lemeshko

Phys. Rev. B 114, L260503 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Supersolidity, the coexistence of superfluidity and crystalline order, typically requires carefully tuned interactions. Here, the authors propose an alternative route: coupling a superfluid to phonons at a smooth solid interface. They show that this coupling can spontaneously induce a periodic density modulation while preserving superfluidity. The mechanism applies to both superfluid helium and Bose-Einstein condensates, and offers a route to engineering hybrid systems combining interfacial supersolidity with bulk superfluidity.

LETTERS

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

LETTER

Twinkling Bloch oscillation in anti-Hermitian lattices

Xiling Feng, Zhan Liu, Kuoxi Zhang, Shuaishuai Tong, Qicheng Zhang, and Chunyin Qiu

Phys. Rev. B 114, L260301 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

LETTER

Failure of the Goldstone theorem for vector fields and boundary-mode proliferation in hyperbolic lattices

Daniel Sela, Nan Cheng, and Kai Sun

Phys. Rev. B 114, L260302 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

LETTER

Competing regimes of carrier and impurity scattering limiting phonon heat conduction in heavily doped silicon

Raja Sen, Juan Carlos Acosta Abanto, Mélanie Brouillard, Alessandro Ciavatta, Séverine Gomès, Jean-François Robillard, Philippe Dollfus, Lorenzo Paulatto, Nathalie Vast, Jérôme Saint-Martin, Jelena Sjakste, and Pierre-Olivier Chapuis

Phys. Rev. B 114, L260303 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Customizing zero modes with arbitrary spatial profiles

Luohong Liu (刘烙宏), Qicheng Zhang (张起成), Shuaishuai Tong (童帅帅), and Chunyin Qiu (邱春印)

Phys. Rev. B 114, L260304 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Magnetism

LETTER

Sign reversal of Faraday rotation with thickness in nanometer-thick magnetic films

A. V. Otinova, D. O. Ignatyeva, A. N. Kalish, P. M. Vetoshko, A. L. Kudryashov, and V. I. Belotelov

Phys. Rev. B 114, L260401 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

LETTER

Extended $s$ -wave altermagnets

Matteo Dürrnagel, Lennart Klebl, Tobias Müller, Ronny Thomale, and Michael Klett

Phys. Rev. B 114, L260402 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Superfluidity and superconductivity

LETTER

Superconductivity as a probe of altermagnetism: Critical temperature, field, and current

A. A. Mazanik, Rodrigo de las Heras, and F. S. Bergeret

Phys. Rev. B 114, L260501 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

LETTER

Pair-density-wave superconductivity and Anderson's theorem in bilayer nickelates

Hanbit Oh and Ya-Hui Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, L260502 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Fluctuation-induced supersolidity at the superfluid-solid interface

Baptiste Coquinot, Ragheed Alhyder, Alberto Cappellaro, and Mikhail Lemeshko

Phys. Rev. B 114, L260503 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

LETTER

Band-selective Rashba and Ising spin-singlet pairings in two-dimensional ${IrTe}_{2}$

Kunal Dutta, Rajesh O. Sharma, Shreya Das, Samir Rom, Indra Dasgupta, Tanmoy Das, and Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. B 114, L260504 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Comprehensive structure exploration and thermodynamics of graphitic heteroatom doped graphene superstructures

Benedict Saunders, Lukas Hörmann, and Reinhard J. Maurer

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264101 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Mode coupling and incommensurate instability in a ${PbZr}_{0.976} {Ti}_{0.024} O_{3}$ crystal

S. B. Vakhrushev, I. N. Leontyev, Iu. A. Bronwald, and K. A. Petroukhno

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264102 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Elastic anisotropy and phase transition in silver single crystals shock compressed to 170 GPa

J. A. Hawreliak, H. A. Moon, J. M. Winey, and Y. M. Gupta

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264103 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Effects of Zr substitution on ferroelectric switching in ${HfO}_{2}$

Chuang Xue, Tongcai Yue, Yufeng Xue, Qian Yin, Sida Li, Shuning Lv, Tengfei Cao, Qi Hu, and Li-Min Liu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264104 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Coherent phonons in photoexcited semiconductors from first principles

Yuhui Qiu, Rong-Tian Pang, Meng-Xue Guan, and Jin-Jian Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264105 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Surface-induced contraction mechanism of basal plane dislocations in 4H-SiC: Dislocation dynamics analysis

Atsuo Hirano, Noboru Takahashi, and Akiyuki Takahashi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264106 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Scarred discrete time crystal in a periodically driven dimerized spin chain

Davood Marripour, Saeed S. Jahromi, and Jahanfar Abouie

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264301 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Negative thermal expansion, lattice dynamics, and complex magnetism in ${TbFeO}_{3}$

Shubham Farswan, Reshma Kumawat, Dipankar Sarkar, Deeksha Singh, Md. Atif Hasan, Devajyoti Mukherjee, and Kaushik Sen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264302 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Magnetism

Angular momentum splitter effect of $d$ -wave axial phonons in orbital altermagnets

Dimos Chatzichrysafis and Alexander Mook

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264401 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Negligible Kitaev interaction in the van der Waals antiferromagnet ${NiBr}_{2}$ revealed by neutron spectroscopy

Hao Xu, Shufan Cheng, Yanyan Shangguan, Song Bao, Junbo Liao, Bo Zhang, Zihang Song, Shuai Dong, Maofeng Wu, Shinichi Itoh, Daichi Ueta, and Jinsheng Wen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264402 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Orbital-to-spin conversion in Pt and W: Sign reversal and crystal-phase dependence

Riko Fukunaga, Naoki Yano, Asahi Oe, Hisanobu Kashiki, and Kazuya Ando

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264403 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Low-temperature magnetism and crystal field effects in the triangular-lattice delafossites ${TlErSe}_{2}$ and ${TlTmSe}_{2}$

Bastian Rubrecht, Ellen Häußler, Mirtha Pillaca, Pritam Bhattacharyya, Liviu Hozoi, Artem Nosenko, Dmitri V. Efremov, Bernd Büchner, Anja U. B. Wolter, and Thomas Doert

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264404 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Strong interfacial coupling induced topological spin textures in two-dimensional magnetic heterostructures

Xiaoxiao Man, Xiaoqing Gao, Yuanyuan Wang, Yaling Zhang, Xiaoxuan Liu, Yongli Xie, Yun Zhang, Huisheng Zhang, and Xiaohong Xu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264405 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetoelastic mapping of the high-field phase diagram in the topological cubic helimagnet ${SrFeO}_{3}$

Masaki Gen, Shun Okumura, Shusaku Imajo, Taro Nakajima, Karel Prokes, Shunsuke Kitou, Yusuke Tokunaga, Yoichi Nii, Koichi Kindo, Yoshimitsu Kohama, Shintaro Ishiwata, and Taka-hisa Arima

Phys. Rev. B 114, 264406 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026