Volume 114, Issue 4

15 July 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Broken SU(3) flavor symmetry in a quantum Hall valley nematic

G. Krizman, A. Kazakov, C.-W. Cho, V. V. Volobuev, A. Majou, E. Ben Achour, T. Wojtowicz, G. Bauer, Y. Guldner, B. A. Piot, Th. Jolicoeur, G. Springholz, and L.-A. de Vaulchier

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045109 (2026) - Published 7 July, 2026

Under high magnetic fields, electrons can organize and break internal symmetries associated with their pseudospin. Here, the authors demonstrate broken SU(3) symmetry assigned to the valley degree of freedom in the Pb(Sn)Se system by following the valley population revealed by the integer quantum Hall effect. A tilted magnetic field acts as a Zeeman valley field, lifting the valley pseudospin degeneracy and driving valley nematic order.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phonon-assisted anti-Stokes photoluminescence of light-hole excitons in a shallow $GaAs / {Al}_{0.03} {Ga}_{0.97} As$ quantum well

R. S. Nazarov, M. A. Maksimov, Yu. P. Efimov, S. A. Eliseev, V. A. Lovcjus, and Yu. V. Kapitonov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045301 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

The authors observe here phonon-assisted anti-Stokes photoluminescence of light-hole excitons under resonant heavy-hole excitation in a shallow GaAs/Al $_{0.03}$ Ga $_{0.97}$ As quantum well. The results reveal intersubband exciton transfer within a single high-quality nanostructure and highlight a promising route toward optical cooling of semiconductors.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Limited propagation of Pb-Pb interactions through graphene and Pb film growth for Pb/graphene/Pb/SiC intercalation systems

Yong Han, Shen Chen, Marek Kolmer, Michael C. Tringides, and James W. Evans

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045417 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

The growth of epitaxial thin films is directed by the substrate. Here, the authors investigate Pb film growth on SiC-supported graphene with an intercalated Pb(111)-like layer under graphene. They find that Pb–Pb interactions propagate only weakly through graphene, and that the potential energy surface for Pb adatoms does not inherit the periodicity of the intercalated Pb layer. Thus, the intercalated Pb(111) does not “remotely” direct the formation of a Pb(111) film. Nevertheless, the intercalated and on-top Pb(111)-like layers are in-registry reflecting their interaction with the same graphene sheet.

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Interface effects of Pb films on ${TlBiSe}_{2}$ and ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ topological insulators

Roberto Flammini, Oreste De Luca, Martina Casciaro, Tommaso Caruso, Fabio Biffoli, Daniela Pacilé, Khatira Z. Mehtiyeva, Ziya S. Aliev, Alexey Barinov, Alfonso Policicchio, Anastasia G. Ryabishchenkova, Fabio Ronci, Stefano Colonna, Evgueni V. Chulkov, Raffaele G. Agostino, Sergey V. Eremeev, and Marco Papagno

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045101 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Continuum fractons: Quantization and the few-body problem

Ylias Sadki, Abhishodh Prakash, and S. L. Sondhi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045102 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Strain-tuned orbital-dependent electronic correlations in FeTe thin films

Hyunjee Song, Sangjae Lee, Keun-Yeol Park, Jaehyun Park, Suyoung Lee, Yeonjae Lee, Jinyoung Kim, Jaeung Lee, Celesta S. Chang, Younsik Kim, and Changyoung Kim

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045103 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Berry curvature induced optical bistability

Navya Teja Dasari, Monu, Narayanan Namboodiri P., and Pankaj Bhalla

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045104 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Dominant superconductivity in a three-component Hubbard chain

Sheng Chen, Qiao Yang, Wéi Wú, and Fadi Sun

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045105 (2026) - Published 7 July, 2026

Weak second-order topological insulators hidden in trivial symmetry indicators: A reconfigurable spin splitter

Zihao He and Xiang Ni

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045106 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Dimensional crossover in metal slabs within orbital-free density functional theory

C. M. Horowitz, C. R. Proetto, and J. M. Pitarke

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045107 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Correlation-driven metallic phase revealed by an extended two-orbital coherent potential approximation

Xiu-Cai Jiang, Jin-Rong Xu, and Yu-Zhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045108 (2026) - Published 7 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Broken SU(3) flavor symmetry in a quantum Hall valley nematic

G. Krizman, A. Kazakov, C.-W. Cho, V. V. Volobuev, A. Majou, E. Ben Achour, T. Wojtowicz, G. Bauer, Y. Guldner, B. A. Piot, Th. Jolicoeur, G. Springholz, and L.-A. de Vaulchier

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045109 (2026) - Published 7 July, 2026

Stripe spin-density wave and chiral superconductivity in $t {WSe}_{2}$

Erekle Jmukhadze, Sam Olin, Allan H. MacDonald, and Wei-Cheng Lee

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045110 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

High-order angular Hall response in multiband semimetals

Arpan Manna and Soumik Mukhopadhyay

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045111 (2026) - Published 10 July, 2026

Orbital-selective electron correlations in high- $T_{c}$ bilayer nickelates: From a global phase diagram to implications for spectroscopy

Zhiguang Liao, Yiming Wang, Lei Chen, Guijing Duan, Rong Yu, and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045112 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Imaginary time formalism for causal nonlinear response functions

Sounak Sinha and Barry Bradlyn

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045113 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Pseudogap and strange metal states in the square-lattice Hubbard model: A comprehensive study

Arata Tanaka

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045114 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Temperature-dependent dielectric function of calcium fluoride: From a compact functional form to atom-surface interactions

T. Das, D. Alam, C. A. Ullrich, and U. D. Jentschura

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045115 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Electronic structure of the thermoelectric charge density wave material ${CeTe}_{2 - x} {Sb}_{x}$ investigated via angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Seungho Seong, Sang Wook Han, B. I. Min, Yong Seung Kwon, and J.-S. Kang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045116 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Phases of interacting Fibonacci anyons on a ladder at half-filling

Nico Kirchner, Roderich Moessner, Frank Pollmann, and Adam Gammon-Smith

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045117 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Complex magnetic behavior of the Ce sawtooth chains in ${CeRhSn}_{2}$

P. Opletal, J. Fikáček, E. Duverger–Nédellec, A. Thamizhavel, Z. Hossain, R. Tarasenko, V. Tkáč, D. Legut, Bin Shen, P. Gegenwart, and J. Custers

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045118 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Topological phonons in anomalous Hall crystals

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

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045119 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Hinge modes of three-dimensional Euler insulators

Yutaro Tanaka and Shingo Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045120 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Tunable electron-plasmon coupling in the layered transition metal dichalcogenide ${ZrSe}_{2 - x} {Te}_{x}$

Tongrui Li, Yuzhe Wang, Haoyuan Yan, Jiexiong Sun, Rui Xu, Jianghao Yao, Sen Liao, Shiwu Su, Yunbo Wu, Zhanfeng Liu, Yilin Wang, Zhe Sun, Donglai Feng, and Juan Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045121 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Localized orbital perspective on orientation-dependent high-harmonic generation in MgO

Tong Wu, Zitan Zuo, Xiang Li, Shengzhe Pan, Shicheng Jiang, Ruifeng Lu, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045122 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Spacetime duality between sequential and measurement-feedback circuits

Tsung-Cheng Lu, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, and Yizhi You

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045123 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Strongly correlated Josephson junction: Proximity effect in the single-layer Hubbard model

Don Rolih and Rok Žitko

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045124 (2026) - Published 24 July, 2026

Environment-dependent tight-binding models from ab initio pseudoatomic orbital Hamiltonians

M. Buongiorno Nardelli

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045125 (2026) - Published 24 July, 2026

Localization phase diagram of the hexagonal lattice with irrational magnetic flux

Qi Gao, Shuo Zhang, and Wei Chen (陈薇)

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045126 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Real-time exciton dynamics in two-dimensional materials under ultrashort laser pulses

Dmitry Tumakov and Daria Popova-Gorelova

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045127 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Correlation-driven lattice anharmonicity and anomalous thermal transport in the kagome metal ${CaCu}_{5}$

Tongrui Li, Zhicheng Jiang, Peng Wu, Jian Yuan, Jie Sun, Lidong Zhang, Zhengtai Liu, Yanfeng Guo, Dawei Shen, and Zhe Sun

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045128 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Implementation and application of a $DFT + U + V$ approach within the all-electron FLAPW method

W. Beida, G. Bihlmayer, C. Friedrich, G. Michalicek, D. Wortmann, and S. Blügel

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045129 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Spacetime Markov length: A diagnostic for fault tolerance via mixed-state phases

Amir-Reza Negari, Tyler D. Ellison, and Timothy H. Hsieh

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045130 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Intrinsic and extrinsic dual-component evolution of electronic transport in a magnetic Weyl semimetal

Yiting Feng, Meng Lyu, Jinying Yang, Shen Zhang, Yibo Wang, Qiusa Ren, Binbin Wang, Hongxiang Wei, Baogen Shen, and Enke Liu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045131 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Multiorbital character of the density wave in trilayer nickelate superconductors

Abhi Suthar, Vignesh Sundaramurthy, Matías Bejas, Congcong Le, Pascal Puphal, Pablo Sosa-Lizama, Armin Schulz, Jürgen Nuss, Masahiko Isobe, Peter A. van Aken, Y. Eren Suyolcu, Matteo Minola, Andreas P. Schnyder, Xianxin Wu, Bernhard Keimer, Giniyat Khaliullin, Andrés Greco, and Matthias Hepting

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045132 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Theory of orientation averaging in x-ray spectroscopies: Understanding polarization dependence in a Cartesian tensor approach

Sihan Zhang (张思翰), Oana Bunău, Marius Retegan, and Pieter Glatzel

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045133 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Semiconductors I: bulk

Local ionic enthalpy mismatch as the origin of high thermoelectric performance in superionic crystals

Yixin Xu, Xing Xiang, Zhigang Li, Qiye Zheng, Yuan Yu, and Yanguang Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045201 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

First-principles study of quasiparticle band structures and exciton binding energies of Zintl ${A M}_{2} X_{2}$ ( $A = Ca$ , Sr, Ba; $M = Zn$ , Cd; $X = N$ , P, As, Sb) solar absorbers

Xiangyang Li, Fan Zhang, Weiwei Gao, and Jijun Zhao

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045202 (2026) - Published 9 July, 2026

Origin of acceptor preference in silicon, diamond, and silicon carbide

Xuefen Cai, Feiyang Chen, Huachun Wang, Yi-Feng Zheng, Bin Wang, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045203 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Ab initio quasiharmonic thermoelasticity, piezoelectricity, and thermoelectricity of polar solids at finite temperature and pressure: Application to wurtzite ZnO

Xuejun Gong and Andrea Dal Corso

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045204 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Muonium reaction in ${La}_{2} O_{3}$ : Investigation of the last steps in muon implantation

C. M. S. Santos, A. G. Marinopoulos, J. M. Gil, R. C. Vilão, A. Weidinger, and T. Prokscha

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045205 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Carrier mobility trends in nitride perovskites: First-principles insights and phenomenological models

Yutong Li, Dong An, Bonan Zhu, Yuan Huang, and Gang Tang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045206 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phonon-assisted anti-Stokes photoluminescence of light-hole excitons in a shallow $GaAs / {Al}_{0.03} {Ga}_{0.97} As$ quantum well

R. S. Nazarov, M. A. Maksimov, Yu. P. Efimov, S. A. Eliseev, V. A. Lovcjus, and Yu. V. Kapitonov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045301 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Nonreciprocal transverse currents in Rashba metal junctions under out-of-plane Zeeman fields

Megha Bera, Bijay Kumar Sahoo, and Abhiram Soori

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045302 (2026) - Published 7 July, 2026

Bulk photovoltaic effect in two-dimensional perovskite oxides

Chunmei Zhang, Jian Zhou, and Liang Si

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045303 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Phonon-induced frequency shift in semiconductor spin qubits

Irina Heinz, Jeroen Danon, and Guido Burkard

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045304 (2026) - Published 10 July, 2026

Electron hydrodynamics and Bernoulli effect in Venturi-shaped two-dimensional systems

C. A. Monari, A. D. Levin, A. S. Jaroshevich, Z. D. Kvon, V. A. Chitta, D. V. Dmitriev, A. K. Bakarov, and G. M. Gusev

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045305 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Degenerate toroidal quasibound states in the continuum enabling polarization-independent exciton-polaritons

Xianyan Wei, Chaomian Wu, Yawei Chen, Jianhua Zeng, Weiyi Hong, and Fu Deng

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045401 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Topological phase transitions in strained Lieb-kagome lattices

W. P. Lima, T. F. O. Lara, J. P. G. Nascimento, J. Milton Pereira, Jr., and D. R. da Costa

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045402 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Topological phase transition and nonlinear anomalous Hall effects in strained gapped graphene under polarized light

Zi-Jie Wang, Hong-Yu Chen, Guo-Bao Zhu, An-Chun Ji, and Qing Sun

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045403 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Spatiotemporal chaos in the interface growth of topological insulators

Yutaro Tanaka and Akira Furusaki

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045404 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Gain-assisted optical manipulation of lateral binding force

Jin Wang, Can Can Li, Wei Jie Shi, Zheng-Gao Dong, Hui Yuan Dong, and Kin Hung Fung

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045405 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Domain-wall/metal-electrode injection barrier in lithium niobate: Fowler-Nordheim tunneling fits best

Manuel Zahn, Elke Beyreuther, Iuliia Kiseleva, Julius Ratzenberger, Michael Rüsing, and Lukas M. Eng

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045406 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Transient triplet blockade in Andreev junction

R. Taranko, J. Barański, A. Jankiewicz, K. Wrześniewski, I. Weymann, and T. Domański

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045407 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Nonlinear anisotropy in phase-tuned wide-gap halides

L. Landivar Scott, L. M. Vogl, C. Klenke, S. Puri, and H. Nakamura

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045408 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Quasinormal mode framework for exceptional-point metasurfaces

Yifan Shou, Yanxiang Wang, Qiang-Kai-Lai Huang, Wenduo Yu, Hanqi Chen, Licheng Zhou, Hongsheng Chen, and Ying Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045409 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Competition and coupling of nanoscale radiative and conductive thermal transfer in a fully filled hyperbolic medium

Xingyu Yao, Yue Yang, Zhaole Liao, and Zhekai Chen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045410 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Twisted propagating skyrmions with customized helicity via transformation optics

Chuanjie Hu, Jian Chen, Shuwen Xue, Youwen Liu, Yanyang Fu, and Huanyang Chen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045411 (2026) - Published 10 July, 2026

Electronic phonon–induced magnetism in moiré Mott-Wigner crystals

Weide Liang, Xiaoying Du, Na Zhang, and Hongyi Yu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045412 (2026) - Published 10 July, 2026

Geometric flat-band splitting in the double-layer metallic Lieb lattice

Go Itami and Osamu Sakai

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045413 (2026) - Published 9 July, 2026

Optical helicity density in the thermal near field of twisted bilayer van der Waals materials

Xiaohong Zhang, Chiyu Yang, Wenshan Cai, and Zhuomin M. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045414 (2026) - Published 10 July, 2026

Transmission in a quantum wire manipulated by the non-Hermitian skin effect

Cui Jiang, Jia-Rui Li, Jun-Jie Yuan, and Wei-Jiang Gong

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045415 (2026) - Published 10 July, 2026

Second-order topological insulator induced by compensated altermagnetism without bulk spin splitting

Lizhou Liu, Qing-Feng Sun, and Ying-Tao Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045416 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Limited propagation of Pb-Pb interactions through graphene and Pb film growth for Pb/graphene/Pb/SiC intercalation systems

Yong Han, Shen Chen, Marek Kolmer, Michael C. Tringides, and James W. Evans

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045417 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Extremely anisotropic second harmonic generation in in-plane Janus transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures

Xiaozhendong Bao, Shi-Qi Li, Hu Chen, Qianyu Chen, Yifan Wu, Lichuan Zhang, Yuee Xie, and Yuanping Chen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045418 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Tunable linear polarization of interface excitons at lateral heterojunctions

M. V. Durnev and D. S. Smirnov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045419 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Photon-mediated entanglement between spin qubits beyond the dispersive regime

Andrei I. Nikitchenko and Guido Burkard

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045420 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Toward a unified description of valley polarization in two-dimensional tetragonal altermagnets driven by strain and in-plane magnetization

Bo Huang, Churen Gui, Ao Zhang, Zhixiong Yang, Shu-Zong Li, Zhenqing Li, Hongxing Li, and Wei-Bing Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045421 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Current-induced spin-orbit torque on the surface of a transition metal dichalcogenide connected to the two-dimensional ferromagnet ${CrI}_{3}$ : Effects of twisting and gating

Leyla Majidi, Azadeh Faridi, and Reza Asgari

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045422 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Twistoptics in planar heterostructures with an arbitrary number of rotated three-dimensional thin layers and two-dimensional conductive sheets

Christian Lanza, José Álvarez-Cuervo, Kirill V. Voronin, Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez, Aitana Tarazaga Martín-Luengo, Javier Martín-Sánchez, Alexey Y. Nikitin, and Pablo Alonso-González

Phys. Rev. B 114, 045423 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026