Volume 114, Issue 6

15 July 2026

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Theory of next-generation even-denominator states

Misha Yutushui and David F. Mross

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065121 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Here, the authors establish a comprehensive theory for the recently observed “next-generation” even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states and reveal that they are topologically equivalent to Bonderson-Slingerland phases. They present numerical simulations showing significant and systematic microscopic differences between the two families of states: next-generation states are favored in the lowest Landau level, while Bonderson-Slingerland states are favored in the first excited level. Finally, the authors prove that essential universal properties of topological edges are preserved under flux attachment and leverage this result to predict experimental signatures of next-generation even-denominator states.

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$O (N)$ free-scalar and Wilson-Fisher conformal field theories on the fuzzy sphere

Wenhan Guo, Zheng Zhou (周正), Tzu-Chieh Wei, and Yin-Chen He

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065102 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

The fuzzy-sphere regularization has emerged as a powerful route to three-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). Here, the authors extend it to the $O (N)$ vector model, a cornerstone of many critical phenomena, constructing microscopic models for both the $O (N)$ Wilson-Fisher and free-scalar CFTs at general $N$ for fuzzy-sphere numerical calculations. Benchmarked for $N = 2, 3, 4$ against conformal bootstrap and Monte Carlo, the approach yields consistent results and grants direct access to operator spectra, including higher-spin and pseudoscalar operators that may be hard to reach by other methods. It also uncovers an unexpected feature: the fuzzy-sphere ground-state wave functions have large overlap with the trivial product state and small entanglement.

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Exciton interacting with the phonons of an electronic Wigner crystal

Jens Havgaard Nyhegn, Esben Rohan Christensen, and Georg M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065122 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

In monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, an electronic Wigner crystal imprints a weak umklapp branch in the exciton spectrum. The authors develop here a field-theoretical description of an exciton coupled to the crystal’s gapless phonons and solve it using a self-consistent Born approximation. The interactions create new exciton polarons, with phonon-assisted interband processes playing a key role and substantially weakening the umklapp peak. The authors map out the density dependence and predict when phonons qualitatively modify the optical Wigner-crystal signature.

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Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Charge dynamics in the Weyl semimetals ${NbIrTe}_{4}$ and ${TaIrTe}_{4}$ under pressure: Signatures of an electronic phase transition

M. Lamp, J. Ebad-Allah, A. Chmeruk, N. Bura, R. Schönemann, L. Balicas, S. H. Lee, Z. Q. Mao, L. Chioncel, and C. A. Kuntscher

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065101 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

$O (N)$ free-scalar and Wilson-Fisher conformal field theories on the fuzzy sphere

Wenhan Guo, Zheng Zhou (周正), Tzu-Chieh Wei, and Yin-Chen He

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065102 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Analytic continuation by feature learning

Zhe Zhao, Guochen Wang, Jingping Xu, Ce Wang, and Yaping Yang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065103 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Phase structure of the one-dimensional $Z_{2}$ lattice gauge theory with second nearest-neighbor interactions

Yeimer Zambrano, Aleksey Alekseev, Konrad J. Kapcia, Krzysztof Cichy, and Agnieszka Cichy

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065104 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Continuous transition from Fermi liquid to fractional Chern insulator

Ya-Hui Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065107 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Fractionalized superconductivity and spin stiffnesses in the SU(2) gauge theory of the two-dimensional Hubbard model

Demetrio Vilardi and Pietro M. Bonetti

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065108 (2026) - Published 7 July, 2026

Origin of the anomalous Hall effect in a disordered ferromagnetic ${Ho}_{1.25} {Au}_{0.75} {Si}_{1.55}$ single crystal

Shoucai Yue, Nan Zhou, Lanxin Liu, Yongqiang Pan, Ruihuan Lan, Yifan Deng, Xiaoguang Zhu, Wenhai Song, Dingfu Shao, Yang Liu, Yan Sun, Xuan Luo, and Yuping Sun

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065109 (2026) - Published 7 July, 2026

Dynamical response of the Kitaev spin liquid under third-nearest-neighbor Heisenberg interaction

Chuan Chen and Jiucai Wang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065110 (2026) - Published 9 July, 2026

Topological edge states in two-dimensional $Z_{4}$ Potts paramagnet protected by the $Z_{4}^{\times 3}$ symmetry

Hrant Topchyan, Tigran Hakobyan, Mkhitar Mirumyan, Tigran A. Sedrakyan, and Ara Sedrakyan

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065111 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Study of the triangular-lattice Hubbard model with constrained-path quantum Monte Carlo

Shu Fay Ung, Ankit Mahajan, and David R. Reichman

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065112 (2026) - Published 9 July, 2026

Quantum doubles in symmetric blockade structures

Hans Peter Büchler, Tobias F. Maier, Simon Fell, and Nicolai Lang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065113 (2026) - Published 9 July, 2026

Holographic aspects of dynamical mean-field theory

Kouichi Okunishi and Akihisa Koga

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065114 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Fragility of local moments against hybridization with flat bands

Max Fischer, Arianna Poli, Lorenzo Crippa, Dumitru Călugăru, Sergio Ciuchi, Matthias Vojta, Alessandro Toschi, and Giorgio Sangiovanni

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065115 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Successive semiconductor-metal-insulator transition in the mixed-valent oxide $CaF e_{3} O_{5}$

Hao-Hang Xu, Jian Liu, L. L. Tao, Xian-Jie Wang, Yu Sui, Ziyi Liu, and Jinguang Cheng

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065116 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Majorana zero modes in superconductor-magnet heterostructures with $d$ -wave order

Bastien Fajardo, T. Pereg-Barnea, Arun Paramekanti, and Kartiek Agarwal

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065117 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Kondo breakdown induced by non-Hermitian complex hybridization

Kazuki Yamamoto, Masaya Nakagawa, and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065118 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

Photoemission signatures of photoinduced carriers and excitons in one-dimensional Mott insulators

Taiga Nakamoto, Yuta Murakami, and Naoto Tsuji

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065119 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

First-order phase transition driven by competing charge-order fluctuations in $1 T^{'} − {TaTe}_{2}$

S. K. Mahatha, A. Kar, J. Corral-Sertal, Josu Diego, A. Korshunov, C.-Y. Lim, F. K. Diekmann, D. Subires, J. Phillips, T. K. Kim, D. Ishikawa, G. Marini, I. Vobornik, Ion Errea, S. Rohlf, M. Kalläne, V. Bellini, A. Q. R. Baron, Adolfo O. Fumega, A. Bosak, V. Pardo, K. Rossnagel, and S. Blanco-Canosa

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065120 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theory of next-generation even-denominator states

Misha Yutushui and David F. Mross

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065121 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exciton interacting with the phonons of an electronic Wigner crystal

Jens Havgaard Nyhegn, Esben Rohan Christensen, and Georg M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065122 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Self-consistent $G W$ + extended dynamical mean field theory for semiconductors and insulators

Viktor Christiansson, Francesco Petocchi, and Philipp Werner

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065123 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Symmetry-adapted energy estimation on quantum devices

Kosuke Nogaki, Steffen Backes, Tomonori Shirakawa, Seiji Yunoki, and Ryotaro Arita

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065124 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Total energy of twisted bilayer graphene from a tight binding model

Daniel Palmer, Naheed Ferdous, Gabriel Brown, Tawfiqur Rakib, Kittithat Krongchon, Lucas K. Wagner, and Harley T. Johnson

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065125 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Signatures of an enhanced valence bond solid transition in $κ − {(BEST)}_{2} {Cu}_{2} {(CN)}_{3}$ probed by nuclear magnetic and electron paramagnetic resonance

Keiju Wakasugi, Atsushi Kawamoto, Rikumaru Saito, Hiromi Taniguchi, and Takuya Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065126 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Probing non-Fermi-liquid behavior of a composite Fermi liquid via efficient thermal simulations

Bin-Bin Chen, Hongyu Lu, and Zi Yang Meng

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065127 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Raman spectroscopy of the van der Waals topological magnet GdGaI

Nan Jiang, Yijin Zhang, Yujie Xia, Tomo Higashihara, Ryutaro Okuma, Jun-ichi Yamaura, Yoshinori Okada, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Tiantian Zhang, Tomoki Machida, and Yasuhiro Niimi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065128 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Algebraic classification of crossing points in band structure

Shixiang Wei, Ziyu Hu, Zhenye Li, and Zeying Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065129 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026

Band splitting in the altermagnet CrSb

Vladimir P. Mineev

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065130 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026

Optimized Gutzwiller projected states for doped antiferromagnets in Fermi-Hubbard simulators

Christian Reinmoser, Muqing Xu, Lev Haldar Kendrick, Anant Kale, Youqi Gang, Martin Lebrat, Markus Greiner, Fabian Grusdt, and Annabelle Bohrdt

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065131 (2026) - Published 24 July, 2026

Classifying fusion rules of anyons or symmetry topological field theories: General algebraic formula for domain wall problems and quantum phase transitions

Yoshiki Fukusumi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065132 (2026) - Published 24 July, 2026

Wilson loop invariants and bulk-boundary correspondence in higher-order topological insulators with anticommuting mirror symmetries

Suman Aich and Babak Seradjeh

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065133 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Interaction-enhanced transport crossover temperature in a Luttinger liquid

Yen-Wen Lu and Michael Mulligan

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065134 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Conformal nature of quantum phase transitions via fuzzy three-sphere regularization

Xue Meng, Liangdong Hu, and W. Zhu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065135 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Electron-electron and electron-phonon collision cross sections in ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Charles Menil, Andrea Capa Salinas, Stephen D. Wilson, Benoît Fauqué, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065136 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Hybrid-order topology in two-dimensional nonsymmorphic antiferromagnets

Wei Xiong, Zi-Ming Wang, Xin-Mei Wei, Rui Wang, and Dong-Hui Xu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065137 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Field-induced electronic evolution in the correlated semimetal ${Eu}_{3} {In}_{2} {As}_{4}$

Xiuliang Yuan, Jingyu Yao, Xiaobo He, Ke Jia, Yupeng Li, Junze Deng, Ming Yang, Junfeng Wang, Zengwei Zhu, Cuixiang Wang, Dayu Yan, Hai L. Feng, Fang Hong, Jie Shen, Yongkang Luo, Zhijun Wang, and Youguo Shi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065138 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Quantum circuit algorithm for topological invariants of second-order topological many-body quantum magnets

Sebastián Domínguez-Calderón, Marcel Niedermeier, Jose L. Lado, and Pascal M. Vecsei

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065139 (2026) - Published 31 July, 2026

Semiconductors I: bulk

From symmetry to stability: Structural and electronic transformation in ${Cs}_{2} {KInI}_{6}$

Mohammad Bakhsh, Victor Trinquet, Rogério Almeida Gouvêa, Gian-Marco Rignanese, and Samuel Poncé

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065201 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Ultralow lattice thermal conductivity in Tl-based chalcogenides via rattling-driven phonon localization

Nidheesh Virakante, Rajan Kumar, and Ankit Jain

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065202 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

200 keV energy electron irradiation of single-crystal diamond: Quantification of vacancy and nitrogen-vacancy production

Chloe C. Newsom, Ben L. Green, Mark E. Newton, Lillian B. Hughes Wyatt, and Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065203 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

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

In situ formation of carbon ${s p}^{2}$ -on- $s p^{3}$ with manganese chemical vapor catalysis: Route to graphene-diamond heterostructure

Xin Fu, Wen Zhang, Peisheng Yang, Yajun Fu, Bing Wang, Jian Wang, Huiqiang Liu, Wanlin Yang, Zhaoxin Zhong, Jidong Deng, Haijiao Xie, and Ying Xiong

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065301 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Triggering of the manganese spin precession in (Cd,Mn)Te/(Cd,Mg)Te quantum wells by the inverse Faraday effect

E. A. Zhukov, V. N. Mantsevich, V. V. Nedelea, N. V. Kozyrev, B. R. Namozov, Yu. G. Kusrayev, I. A. Akimov, D. R. Yakovlev, G. Karczewski, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065302 (2026) - Published 8 July, 2026

Spin-valley matching mechanisms in high-performance multiferroic tunnel junctions

Zhi Yang, Bao-Fu Ruan, Min Li, Bing-Xin Liu, Chuan-Kui Wang, Zong-Liang Li, and Shuai Qiu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065303 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Emergent anomalous Hall effect from surface states in altermagnetic MnTe thin films

Yufei Zhao, Saswata Mandal, Chao-Xing Liu, and Binghai Yan

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065304 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Direct identification of $V_{N}$ -H defects in $p$ -GaN under electrical bias and elevated temperature

Xuan Liu, E Zhou, Xue-Lin Yang, Tai-Qiao Liu, Ying-Ming Song, Han Yang, Ke-Xin Zhang, Zhao-Hua Shen, Zheng-Hao Chen, Hong-Cai Yang, Ze-Ming Qi, Guang-Xu Ju, Zhi-Jian Yang, Fu-Jun Xu, Ning Tang, Xin-Qiang Wang, Zhao-Fu Zhang, and Bo Shen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065305 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Light-induced parity anomaly and topological phase transitions in the antiferromagnetic topological insulator ${MnBi}_{2} {Te}_{4}$

Jiayan Zhang, Yu Wang, and Yanxia Xing

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065306 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Coupling effects between widely separated layers of self-assembled quantum dots

L. Berg, J. Lange, L. Schnorr, F. Bartels, C. Rothfuchs-Engels, N. Bart, S. Krüger, A. Ludwig, A. D. Wieck, and T. Heinzel

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065307 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Enhanced detection of circularly polarized photons with topological materials

Hamideh Sharifpour, Avik W. Ghosh, and George J. de Coster

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065308 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Recharging-induced spin depolarization and repolarization in electron-rich nitrogen-vacancy ensembles

Xian-Qi Dong, Cheng-Liang Yue, Jia-Qi Li, Xun Zhu, Xiao-gang Wei, Yan Liu, and Ren-Fu Yang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065401 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Emergent mirror symmetry in the optimization of the central-spin quantum battery

Hui-Yu Yang, Kun Zhang, Xiao-Hui Wang, and Hai-Long Shi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065402 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Quantum thermal rectification under non-Markovian dynamics

Anuradhi Rajapaksha, Sarath D. Gunapala, and Malin Premaratne

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065403 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Topologically nontrivial multicritical points

Ranjith R. Kumar and Pasquale Marra

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065404 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Cluster Ising quantum batteries can mimic superextensive charging power

Anna Pavone, Federico Luigi Cavagnaro, Matteo Carrega, Riccardo Grazi, Dario Ferraro, and Niccolò Traverso Ziani

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065405 (2026) - Published 6 July, 2026

Anomalous disappearance of dark trions due to Auger recombination in hole-doped ${WSe}_{2}$ monolayers

Junghwan Kim, Dinh Van Tuan, Sébastien Roux, Tilly Guyot, Xavier Marie, Cedric Robert, and Hanan Dery

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065406 (2026) - Published 7 July, 2026

Charge carrier dynamics and electronic and photocatalytic properties of pristine and twisted Janus PtSSe/BeP heterostructures for water splitting

Nidhi Verma and Ashok Kumar

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065407 (2026) - Published 9 July, 2026

Multiple Majorana zero modes induced by geometric spin-orbit coupling in helical nanoribbon-superconductor hybrids

Kai-Yuan Zhang, Shu-Zheng Zhou, Xi Sun, and Hua-Hua Fu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065408 (2026) - Published 9 July, 2026

Correlated phases of moat-band excitons in two dimensions

L. Maisel Licerán, S. H. Boeve, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065409 (2026) - Published 10 July, 2026

Stationary two-qubit entanglement mediated by one-dimensional plasmonic nanoarrays

Luke C. Ugwuoke, Tjaart P. J. Krüger, and Mark S. Tame

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065410 (2026) - Published 9 July, 2026

Tunable topology, Hall response, and spin textures in bicircularly polarized light illuminated altermagnets

Maitri Ganguli, Aneek Jana, and Awadhesh Narayan

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065411 (2026) - Published 9 July, 2026

Unconventional spin valve based on normal metal/chiral molecule/altermagnet junctions

Tian-Yi Zhang, Peng-Yi Liu, Yu-Fei Sun, Ai-Min Guo, and Qing-Feng Sun

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065412 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Weak localization and antilocalization corrections to nonlinear transport: A semiclassical Boltzmann treatment

Dmitry V. Chichinadze

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065413 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Nanobubble superstructure: A tuneable grid of molecule clusters in twisted bilayer graphene

Liye Fu, Yuerui Lu, and Juan F. Torres

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065414 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Quantum disorder engineering in superconducting Ti(O,N) thin films

Fengmiao Li, Solveig Aamlid, Oliver A. Dicks, Myung-Geun Han, Giorgio Levy, Ronny Sutarto, Zhihao Chen, Chong Liu, Hsiang-Hsi Kung, Simon Godin, Bruce A. Davidson, Zhi Gang Cheng, Andrea Damascelli, Yimei Zhu, Christoph Heil, Ilya Elfimov, George A. Sawatzky, and Ke Zou

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065415 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Modeling the dynamics of trapped electrons in quantum dots

R. Carmina Monreal

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065416 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Effective long-range attraction of moiré excitons under the influence of atomic reconstructions and anisotropic screening

Nils-Erik Schütte, Carl Emil Mørch Nielsen, Niclas Götting, Alexander Steinhoff, Gabriel Bester, and Christopher Gies

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065417 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Disorder information from conductance in quantum mesoscopic transport: A statistical approach to the quantum inverse problem and the scope of optimal solutions

Haojia Wu, Qiao Chen, Li Song, Jianhong He, Huazhong Guo, and Jie Gao

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065431 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Quantum well thickness dependent two-color terahertz emission and nonlinear optical conductivity evolution in two-dimensional perovskites

Xiao Liang, Yixuan Zhou, Yayan Xi, Xueqin Cao, Yuanyuan Huang, and Xinlong Xu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065432 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Photonic Dirac-like conical dispersion via scattering-engineered particles

Muxuan Yang, Xiaofeng Xu, Alexander S. Shalin, Lei Gao, and Jie Luo

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065433 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Time-dependent magnetic fields and the quantum Hall effect

T. R. Govindarajan and V. P. Nair

Phys. Rev. B 114, 065434 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026