Volume 114, Issue 27 (partial)

1 November 2026

Browse Issues:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Balanced electron and phonon heat transport in metallic $ε$ -TaN

Sungyeb Jung, Hongze Li, Yudan Li, Noah Rossignol, Woongchul Choi, Yaguo Wang, Jianshi Zhou, Li Shi, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274301 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

High thermal conductivity in materials is typically dominated by either electronic or lattice transport channels. Here, combining theoretical calculations with experimental measurements, the authors report ε-TaN breaks this conventional picture: both electrons and phonons make substantial contributions to heat conduction, resulting in a room-temperature thermal conductivity that lies between those of aluminum and gold. By establishing a clear physical descriptor, these findings introduce a novel strategy for designing next-generation thermal conductors.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pressure-driven metal-semiconductor-metal transition in ${Ca}_{2} N$ : Localization and hybridization of interstitial electrons

Yiwei Liang, Biao Wan, and Huiyang Gou

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274105 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Here, the authors show that compression drives an anomalous metal–semiconductor–metal transition in the electride Ca $_{2}$ N. Initial compression localizes the extended interstitial anionic electrons, opening a band gap. Further compression induces rehybridization between the localized interstitial states and Ca d orbitals, restoring metallicity. These findings provide a unified framework linking interstitial electron behavior to electronic phase transitions in electrides.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Elastic, anelastic, and dielectric relaxations associated with the sequence of ferroelastic and isosymmetric phase transitions in the formamidinium lead halide perovskite $CH {(N H_{2})}_{2} PbB r_{3}$

Dexin Yang, Yulin Peng, and Michael A. Carpenter

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274106 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Here, the authors combine resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS), thermal and dielectric measurements, and strain analysis to reveal a rich sequence of ferroelastic and isosymmetric structural instabilities associated with octahedral tilting and the orientational ordering and dynamics of FA $^{+}$ cations in formamidinium lead bromide (FAPbBr $_{3}$ ). Acoustic loss reveals mobile ferroelastic domain walls and their sensitivity to thermal history, while the possibility of local polarity within these walls remains an open question.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gapped and gapless quantum spin liquids on the ruby lattice

Atanu Maity, Rhine Samajdar, and Yasir Iqbal

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274412 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Quantum spin liquids can preserve exactly the same symmetries while harboring fundamentally different patterns of fractionalization. Here, the authors uncover a landscape of gapped and gapless $U (1)$ and ℤ $_{2}$ spin liquids on the ruby lattice, a frustrated geometry realized in programmable Rydberg atom arrays. Distinctive fingerprints in their excitation spectra and spin correlations offer a practical route to telling these elusive states apart in numerical studies and experiments.

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Finite-temperature lattice dynamics of ${PbZrO}_{3}$

Kinnary Patel, Bin Xu, Sergey Prosandeev, and Laurent Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274101 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Correlated inhomogeneous absorption profiles across distinct optical transitions in a rare-earth doped crystal

Flora Segur, Sacha Welinski, Alban Ferrier, Perrine Berger, and Anne Louchet-Chauvet

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274102 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

High-temperature superconductivity from kinetic energy

Hanbit Oh, Hui Yang, and Ya-Hui Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274103 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Role of spatial defect correlations in reversible polarization switching in ${BiFeO}_{3} − {BaTiO}_{3}$ ceramics

Zhourui Zhang, Zhanpeng Li, Tao Wang, Ting Zheng, and Jiagang Wu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274104 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pressure-driven metal-semiconductor-metal transition in ${Ca}_{2} N$ : Localization and hybridization of interstitial electrons

Yiwei Liang, Biao Wan, and Huiyang Gou

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274105 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Elastic, anelastic, and dielectric relaxations associated with the sequence of ferroelastic and isosymmetric phase transitions in the formamidinium lead halide perovskite $CH {(N H_{2})}_{2} PbB r_{3}$

Dexin Yang, Yulin Peng, and Michael A. Carpenter

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274106 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Tunable electronic properties of layered black arsenene: Effects of stacking, twist, electric field, and strain

Rameshwar L. Kumawat, Abhishek Kumar, Rajeev Ahuja, Vivekanand Shukla, and Biswarup Pathak

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274107 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Direct sound speed measurements of MgO along planetary adiabats up to 400 GPa using shock-ramp compression

Hannah J. Bausch, Joshua P. Townsend, Jean-Paul Davis, Sakun Duwal, Christopher T. Seagle, Tirzah M. Abbott, Alisha N. Clark, and Steven D. Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274108 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Pentavalent structure links high- and low-pressure phases of silicon

Jeffrey F. Partridge, Sean L. Butler, Dougal G. McCulloch, Jodie E. Bradby, and Nigel A. Marks

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274109 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Approximate mobility edge in nonreciprocal quasiperiodic lattices with next-nearest-neighbor hopping

Wenmin Wang, Xiaosen Yang, and Xianqi Tong

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274201 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

From compressed- to stretched-exponential dynamics in metallic glasses

Birte Riechers, Achraf Atila, Reza Rashidi, Fabian Westermeier, Michael Sprung, and Robert Maaß

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274202 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Balanced electron and phonon heat transport in metallic $ε$ -TaN

Sungyeb Jung, Hongze Li, Yudan Li, Noah Rossignol, Woongchul Choi, Yaguo Wang, Jianshi Zhou, Li Shi, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274301 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Magnetism

Pressure-driven evolution of magnetic excitations in ${Sr}_{3} {Ir}_{2} O_{7}$

Jin-Kwang Kim, Gilberto Fabbris, Barbara Lavina, Wenli Bi, Diego Casa, Daniel Haskel, B. J. Kim, and Jungho Kim

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274401 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

High-frequency magnetotransport in ${LaMnO}_{3}$ samples synthesized by microwave irradiation versus conventional heating

Y. H. Lee, M. Manikandan, and R. Mahendiran

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274402 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Modification of Damon-Eshbach magnetostatic mode spectra in ferromagnet/paramagnet bilayer

M. A. Kuznetsov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274403 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Effect of compensation on magnetic ordering in (Ga,Mn)As

I. A. Kokurin and N. S. Averkiev

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274404 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

${}^{23}{Na}$ -NMR study on the one-dimensional superoxide spin-chain compound ${NaO}_{2}$

Takayuki Goto, Mizuki Miyajima, and Takashi Kambe

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274405 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Tailoring the damping-like effective field via interfacial exchange coupling in a perpendicularly magnetized Pt/Co/IrMn trilayer

Quanzhi Zhang, Ze Yan, Xi Guo, Yang Cao, Tong Li, Mingsu Si, Li Xi, Desheng Xue, and Dezheng Yang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274406 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Collapse of the Shastry-Sutherland lattice in ${TmB}_{4}$ under tilted magnetic fields

Matúš Orendáč, Slavomír Gabáni, Gabriel Pristáš, Július Bačkai, Konrad Siemensmeyer, Karel Prokeš, Natalya Shitsevalova, Yurii Skourski, and Karol Flachbart

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274407 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Anomalous Hall and Nernst effects driven by static and fluctuating spin chiralities on kagome lattice

He-Lin Li, Zhen-Gang Zhu, and Gang Su

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274408 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Lifetime of bimerons and antibimerons in two-dimensional magnets

Moritz A. Goerzen, Tim Drevelow, Soumyajyoti Haldar, Hendrik Schrautzer, Stefan Heinze, and Dongzhe Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274409 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Disorder effects on the anomalous Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional ferromagnetic Rashba model

Bing Liu, Hongchao Yang, Ye Yang, Xiaole Qiu, Lianzhen Cao, and Weiwei Chen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274410 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Spin filtering by electron reflection from surfaces of collinear compensated magnets

E. E. Krasovskii and A. N. Yaresko

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274411 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gapped and gapless quantum spin liquids on the ruby lattice

Atanu Maity, Rhine Samajdar, and Yasir Iqbal

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274412 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Electron spin relaxation and coherence times of silicon vacancies in $4 H − SiC$

Irene Donà, Michele Segantini, Gianluca Marcozzi, Nguyen Tien Son, Takeshi Ohshima, Ha Duong Ngo, and Boris Naydenov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274413 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Electrical control of spin photocurrent in the magnetoelectric oxide ${Cr}_{2} O_{3}$

Zhuo-Cheng Gu and Hiroaki Ishizuka

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274414 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Real-space magnetoelectric coupling in the altermagnet ${MoOBr}_{3}$ : Symmetry analysis and first-principles calculations

Ya-Zhe Xu, Ning Ding, Cheng-Ao Ji, Xue-Zeng Lu, Shuai Dong, and Shan-Shan Wang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274415 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Parity-driven RKKY decoupling and anomalous $1 / R$ Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in odd-parity magnets

Morteza Salehi and Tohid Farajollahpour

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274416 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Colossal magnetoresistance in the narrow-gap magnetic semiconductor ${Eu}_{2} {CdAs}_{2}$

Zhiyu Zhou, Zhi-Cheng Wang, Xiyu Chen, Xin-Yu Zhao, Yaran Duan, Shiran Tao, Guang-Han Cao, and Shuai Dong

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274417 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Generalized approach to relaxation time of magnetic nanoparticles with interactions: From superparamagnetic to glasslike freezing

Jean Claudio Cardoso Cerbino and Diego Muraca

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274418 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Thermomagnonic torques in insulating altermagnets

Edward Schwartz, Hamed Vakili, and Alexey A. Kovalev

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274419 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Revisiting spin Hamiltonian parameters in a Kitaev material via Bayesian optimization of magnetization curves

Takahiro Misawa, Ryo Tamura, Kazuyoshi Yoshimi, and Youhei Yamaji

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274420 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Anomalously high quasiparticle thermal conductivity in the underdoped cuprate superconductor ${HgBa}_{2} {CuO}_{4 + δ}$

Jordan Baglo, Quentin Barthélemy, Étienne Lefrançois, Anne Forget, Dorothée Colson, Cyril Proust, and Louis Taillefer

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274501 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Pressure-induced superconductivity in the ${RhBi}_{2}$ polymorphs

KeYuan Ma, Lifen Shi, Samuel Gallego Parra, Oksana E. Kvitnitskaya, Dmitri Efremov, Jonathan Noky, Qing Dong, Walter Schnelle, Yurii Prots, Thomas Doert, Helge Rosner, Claudia Felser, and Sergey A. Medvedev

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274502 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Nonmonotonic evolution of the superconducting transition temperature and robust multigap superconductivity with extended $s$ -wave and $s$ -wave gaps in Zn-incorporated FeSe

Han-Shu Xu, Changhao Ding, Guanyin Gao, Xin Zhang, Xinyu Yin, Xucai Kan, Xiulan Xu, Jiaping Hu, Wen Xie, Wensen Wei, Yuxiao Hou, Keyu An, Haoxiang Li, Kaibin Tang, and Yu-Yan Han

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274503 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Susceptibility-driven Mott criticality in the two-component Bose-Hubbard model with local Rabi coupling

Tomasz Polak

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274504 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Designing XY and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya couplings in Majorana Cooper pair boxes

Manato Teranishi, Shintaro Hoshino, and Ai Yamakage

Phys. Rev. B 114, 274505 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026