Volume 114, Issue 16

15 September 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polarization-resolved photon statistics of cavity quantum materials

Benjamin Kass, Spenser Talkington, and Martin Claassen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165130 (2026) - Published 22 September, 2026

Cavity engineering holds promise for manipulating material properties, but measuring induced changes and attributing them to light-matter interactions remains challenging. Here, the authors show that polarization-dependent photon counting measurements of transmitted photons provide a symmetry-sensitive probe of many-body correlations in cavity-embedded systems. Additionally, deviations from Poissonian photon statistics reveal the magnitude of light-induced material changes. The authors demonstrate this approach for the Kitaev-Heisenberg family of two-dimensional magnets, identifying stripy and antiferromagnetic phases and their phase boundary.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Corbino-enhanced supersonic acoustic-emission threshold in a GaAs two-dimensional electron system

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

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165303 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

Here, the authors show that the Corbino geometry strongly enhances alocal threshold for supersonic acoustic-phonon emission in ahigh-mobility GaAs two-dimensional electron system. Radial currentconcentration drives the electron velocity above the sound velocitynear the inner contact, producing a pronounced nonlinear resistanceanomaly. Its polarity dependence is linked to contact Peltier heatingand cooling, highlighting Corbino devices as sensitive probes andpotential localized sources of nonequilibrium acoustic phonons.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orthogonal excitation polarization dictated by site symmetry in upconversion luminescence of $β − {NaYF}_{4} : {Er}^{3 +}$ microrods

Liji Wang, Yan Liu, Siyu Guo, Long Zhang, Zhanghai Chen, Guanying Chen, and Ai-Hua Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165403 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Here, the authors build a symmetry-based framework for rare-earth upconversion luminescence via deterministic polarization correlations among sequential absorption steps, previously assumed to be uncorrelated. Using polarization-resolved spectroscopy and crystal field modeling, they assign full Stark levels and irreducible representations for Er $^{3 +}$ in β-NaYF $_{4}$ microrods and identify an approximate $C_{3}$ site symmetry. Since excited-state absorption inherits ground-state polarization constraints, both downshifting and upconversion luminescence exhibit excitation-wavelength-tunable, region-selective orthogonal excitation polarization responses.

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

Algebra of free fermions: Classifying spaces, Hamiltonians, and computation

Tian Yuan and Yang Qi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165101 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Symplectic symmetry of quadratic-band-touching Hamiltonians in two dimensions

Igor F. Herbut and Samson C. H. Ling

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165102 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Orbital-selective Mott and antiferromagnetic phases in diagonally compressed kagome lattice

Jiewei Ding, Ho-Kin Tang, and Wing Chi Yu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165103 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Correlation-driven origin of shallow electron pocket in ${Co}_{1 / 3} {TaS}_{2}$ revealed by ARPES and cluster perturbation theory

Wojciech Sas, Yuki Utsumi Boucher, Seyed Ashkan Moghadam Ziabari, Gaurav Pransu, Trpimir Ivšić, Ivana Vobornik, Jun Fujii, Naveen Singh Dhami, Bruno Gudac, Mario Novak, László Forró, Neven Barišić, Ivo Batistić, and Petar Popčević

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165104 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Quantum anomalous layer-resolved Hall effect with high Chern number in ${MnBi}_{2} {Te}_{4}$

Minghao Li, Yang Li, Fanhao Jia, Ruixue Li, Gaofeng Xu, Wu-Ming Liu, and Yuan Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165105 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Competition and coexistence of superconductivity and nematic order in a two-dimensional electron gas with quadrupolar interactions

Nei Lopes, Guilherme da Silva do Vale, and Daniel G. Barci

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165106 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Superconductivity of magnonic Cooper pairs in the infinite- $U$ triangular lattice

Hantian Zhu, Yixin Zhang, Shang-Shun Zhang, Yang Zhang, and Cristian D. Batista

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165107 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Evolution of magnetoconductance across the topological-to-trivial phase transition in ${In}_{x} {({Bi}_{0.3} {Sb}_{0.7})}_{2 - x} {Te}_{3}$ thin films

Sambhu G Nath, Subhadip Manna, Kanav Sharma, Souvick Chakraborty, Amar Verma, Ritam Banerjee, R K Gopal, Satyabrata Raj, and Chiranjib Mitra

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165108 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Exact results on spin and charge transport in the Hubbard model on bipartite lattices

J. M. P. Carmelo and J. E. C. Carmelo

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165109 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Machine learning modeling of charge-density-wave recovery after laser melting

Sankha Subhra Bakshi, Yunhao Fan, and Gia-Wei Chern

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165110 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Dielectric formalism of the two-dimensional uniform electron gas at finite temperatures

Fotios Kalkavouras, Tobias Dornheim, Paul Hamann, and Panagiotis Tolias

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165111 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Pseudopotentials for meta-GGA calculations

Emmi Gareis, Ingo Schelter, and Stephan Kümmel

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165112 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Symmetry-protected coexistence of a nodal surface and multiple types of Weyl fermions in ${CBT-B}_{30}$

Xiao-Jing Gao, Yanfeng Ge, and Yan Gao

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165113 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Plasmon excitations in half-filled graphene: A comparative study between quantum Monte Carlo and random phase approximation

Adrien Reingruber, Maksim Ulybyshev, and Kitinan Pongsangangan

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165114 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Perpendicular electric field induced competing $s^{\pm}$ -wave and $d$ -wave superconducting pairings in ${La}_{3} {Ni}_{2} O_{7}$ thin films

Yongping Wei, Xun Liu, Fan Yang, and Mi Jiang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165115 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Quantized transport in Floquet topological insulators

Rekha Kumari, Manas Kulkarni, and Abhishek Dhar

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165116 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Valley- and spin-dependent electronic and transport properties of two-dimensional altermagnetic titanium-based chalcogenide halides

Ruo-Yu Ning, Zhi-Hua Yan, Jin-Yang Li, Yong-Kun Wang, and Si Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165117 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Effective electron coupling to phonon mechanical angular momentum in helical systems

Akihito Kato, Nobuhiko Yokoshi, and Jun-ichiro Kishine

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165118 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Suppression of local magnetic moment formation and paramagnetic exchange interactions in monolayer ${Fe}_{3} {GeTe}_{2}$

A. A. Katanin, A. N. Rudenko, D. I. Badrtdinov, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165119 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Dirac electrons in ac-magnetic fields: $π$ -Landau levels and chiral-anomaly-induced homodyne effect

Sota Kitamura and Takashi Oka

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165120 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Bulk and surface electronic structure of MoAlB(010)

Gianmarco Gatti, Amalie H. Svaneborg, Wu Bing, Gesa-R. Siemann, Anders S. Mortensen, Naina Kushwaha, Jennifer Rigden, Jakob K. Svaneborg, Matthew D. Watson, Timur K. Kim, Charlotte E. Sanders, Kristian S. Thygesen, Zdenek Sofer, and Philip Hofmann

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165121 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Finite-basis method for full-potential Green's functions in density functional theory

H. B. Tran Tan, J. R. White, Z. A. Johnson, R. J. Fish, C. J. Fontes, and C. E. Starrett

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165122 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Finite-momentum bound pairs of two electrons in an altermagnetic metal

Hui Hu, Zhao Liu, Jia Wang, and Xia-Ji Liu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165124 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Symmetric mass generation in a bilayer honeycomb lattice with $SU (2) \times SU (2) \times SU (2) / Z_{2}$ symmetry

Cheng-Hao He, Yi-Zhuang You, and Xiao Yan Xu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165125 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Coherent dipole units and ferroelectric correlations in asymmetric atomic-layer superlattices

Andrew J. Hamm, James N. Eckstein, Michael B. Weissman, and Maitri P. Warusawithana

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165126 (2026) - Published 17 September, 2026

Flat bands and enhanced optomechanical interactions in moiré nanowaveguide

Said El-Jallal, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Yun Jing, Badreddine Assouar, Aimad Belboukhari, Yan Pennec, Gaëtan Lévêque, and Mourad Oudich

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165127 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

Engineering tunable kagome moiré superlattices in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides

Adrian Fedorko, Chao-Xing Liu, and Zhen Bi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165128 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

Finite-frequency conductivity of a nonlinear Luttinger liquid in a smooth random potential

A. A. Dontsov, D. N. Aristov, and A. P. Dmitriev

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165129 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polarization-resolved photon statistics of cavity quantum materials

Benjamin Kass, Spenser Talkington, and Martin Claassen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165130 (2026) - Published 22 September, 2026

From quantum dimers to the $π$ -flux toric code via deconfined multicriticality

Ankush Chaubey, Sergej Moroz, and Subhro Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165131 (2026) - Published 22 September, 2026

Hysteretic coherence collapse across the first-order charge density wave transition in $1 T − {TaS}_{2}$

Turgut Yilmaz, Anil Rajapitamahuni, Asish K. Kundu, Menka Jain, and Elio Vescovo

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165132 (2026) - Published 23 September, 2026

Selective bulk-boundary correspondence in higher-order topological insulators with anticommuting mirror and chiral symmetries

Suman Aich and Babak Seradjeh

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165133 (2026) - Published 23 September, 2026

Neural network impurity solver for real-frequency dynamical mean-field theory

Fenglin Deng, Yi Lu, Xiaodong Cao, and Zhicheng Zhong

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165134 (2026) - Published 23 September, 2026

Experimental access to the bulk band inversion in a topological metamaterial

Simon Widmann, Johannes Düreth, Siddhartha Dam, Christian G. Mayer, David Laibacher, Monika Emmerling, Martin Kamp, Friedrich Reinert, Maximilian Ünzelmann, Simon Betzold, Sven Höfling, and Sebastian Klembt

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165135 (2026) - Published 24 September, 2026

Quantum coherence in a maximally hot Hubbard chain

Cătălin Paşcu Moca, Ovidiu I. Pâţu, Balázs Dóra, and Gergely Zaránd

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165136 (2026) - Published 24 September, 2026

Edge-controlled non-Hermitian skin effect in the modified Haldane model

Nobuhiro Ito and Shun Uchino

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165137 (2026) - Published 24 September, 2026

Floquet product mode and eigenphase order

Felix Möckel, Harald Schmid, and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165138 (2026) - Published 24 September, 2026

Magnetic anisotropy driven electronic properties and magneto-optical response of a MnBi monolayer

S. Davoudi Tanha, Y. Mogulkoc, A. Mogulkoc, and M. Modarresi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165139 (2026) - Published 24 September, 2026

Low-temperature magnetism and spin dynamics in the disordered triangular-lattice ${Yb}^{3 +}$ compound ${LiCaYb}_{5} ({BO}_{3})_{6}$

Monika Jawale, Saikat Nandi, Prashanta K. Mukharjee, Philipp Gegenwart, and A. V. Mahajan

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165140 (2026) - Published 25 September, 2026

Revisiting magnetoelectric response in collinear antiferromagnetic zigzag chains: A downfolding approach beyond conventional low-energy models

Shuhei Kanda and Satoru Hayami

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165141 (2026) - Published 25 September, 2026

Two-body solution and instabilities along Středa lines in moiré flat bands

Guopeng Xu and Chunli Huang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165142 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Finite-temperature enhancement of magnetic interactions from first principles

Ravi Kaushik, Ryota Ono, and Sergey Artyukhin

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165143 (2026) - Published 30 September, 2026

Spin dynamics from the Niu-Kleinman adiabatic approach and slave-boson mean-field theory

Xuan Yang, Tianyang Xie, Shaohang Shi, Kun Jiang, and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165144 (2026) - Published 30 September, 2026

Semiconductors I: bulk

Lattice dynamics and thermoelectric transport in $M Ag C h_{2}$ ( $M = Sc$ , Y; $C h = S$ , Se, Te): Role of anharmonic phonons and Ag-sublattice vibrations

Shanza Tariq, Hao-Jen You, Rovi Angelo Beloya Villaos, Ina Marie R. Verzola, Zhi-Quan Huang, Junsoo Park, Hsin Lin, and Feng-Chuan Chuang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165201 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

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

Photovoltaic readout of ferroelectric polarization direction by conductive atomic force microscopy

K. Marin, A. Bagard, X. Henning, S. Colis, A. Dinia, and M. V. Rastei

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165301 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Transition metal dichalcogenide excitons in periodic electrostatic potentials: Center-of-mass models

Jose M. Torres-López, S. Kundu, Felipe H. da Jornada, Tony Heinz, and Allan H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165302 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Corbino-enhanced supersonic acoustic-emission threshold in a GaAs two-dimensional electron system

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

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165303 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

Room-temperature exciton-trion interconversion via multistrain domains in monolayer ${MoSe}_{2}$

Qi Zheng, Sabir Hussain, Le Lei, Chi Zhang, Mengmeng Zhang, Senhong Yang, Taishen Wu, Xuying Zhong, Rui Xu, Zhihai Cheng, Dongsheng Tang, and Weichang Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165304 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Exciton-polariton hybrid skin-topological states

Ruiqi Bao, R. Banerjee, S. Mandal, Huawen Xu, Shiji Li, Junfeng Gao, and Timothy C. H. Liew

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165305 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Interfacial C=C bond engineering promotes S-scheme-like charge-transfer dynamics in ${hBNC / SnS}_{2}$ van der Waals heterojunctions

Li Shi, Wangping Xu, Haoran Wei, Yuanhao Duan, Xu Li, Jing Fan, Rui Wang, and Xiaozhi Wu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165306 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Solving the Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation with matrix product states

Sangyeop Lee, Hirad Alipanah, and Juan José Mendoza-Arenas

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165401 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Polar unidirectional magnetotransport in $p$ -type tellurene from quantum geometry

Claudio Iacovelli, Pierpaolo Fontana, Victor Velasco, Chang Niu, Peide D. Ye, Marcus V. O. Moutinho, Caio Lewenkopf, and Marcello B. Silva Neto

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165402 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orthogonal excitation polarization dictated by site symmetry in upconversion luminescence of $β − {NaYF}_{4} : {Er}^{3 +}$ microrods

Liji Wang, Yan Liu, Siyu Guo, Long Zhang, Zhanghai Chen, Guanying Chen, and Ai-Hua Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165403 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Twist-induced optical transmission and cross-polarization effects in black-phosphorene–calcite heterostructures

C. H. Yang, M. V. Milošević, F. M. Peeters, and Icaro R. Lavor

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165404 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Variational method for interacting surfaces with higher-form global symmetries

Kiyoharu Kawana

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165405 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Spin polarization selective anomalous Hall responses in type-III ferrovalley heterostructures

Jiali Yang, Xi Wu, Zhijie Wang, and Jia Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165406 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Dual Hall effects in the altermagnet ${Ta}_{2} {Te}_{2} O$ with strain-induced valley switching effect

Hanbo Sun, Chao Wu, Pengqiang Dong, Yanchao She, and Ping Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165407 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Direct observation of the electronic structure of even-layer puckered SnTe monolayer films on graphene

Satoru Ichinokura, Shunsuke Tsuda, Kiyohisa Tanaka, and Koichiro Yaji

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165408 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Polarity-controlled excitons and long carrier lifetime in the Janus ${OMoSiN}_{2}$ monolayer

Yanli Chang, Pucun Bai, Xueping Zhao, and Xiaoming Cui

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165409 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Effects of tilting direction on the optical conductivities in two-dimensional tilted semi-Dirac bands

Xin Chen, Jian-Tong Hou, Jian-Hua Luo, Long Liang, Jie Lu, Hong Guo, Chang-Xu Yan, and Hao-Ran Chang (张浩然)

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165410 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Imaging the transition from diffusive to Landauer resistivity dipoles

Serhii Kovalchuk, David Kämpfer, Jonathan K. Hofmann, Timofey Balashov, Vasily Cherepanov, Bert Voigtländer, Ireneusz Morawski, F. Stefan Tautz, and Felix Lüpke

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165411 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Geometric oscillations of local Hall and Nernst effects in ballistic graphene at weak magnetic fields

Z. Z. Alisultanov and A. V. Kavokin

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165412 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Magneto-optical response of five-septuple-layer ${MnBi}_{2} {Te}_{4}$ in spin-flip states

Shahid Sattar, Roman Stepanov, A. H. MacDonald, and C. M. Canali

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165413 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Topologically robust flat-band zero-index terahertz metasurfaces with polarization-vortex-protected bound states in the continuum

Guangcheng Sun (孙广成), Yongming Zhang (张永明), Bo Gao (高博), Jiayong Han (韩佳勇), Yue Wang (王玥), Wenshuo Chen (陈文烁), Gengyu Bai (白耕瑜), Rui Wu (吴睿), Yaohe Li (李曜合), Zijian Cui (崔子健), and Xiaoguang Zhao (赵晓光)

Phys. Rev. B 114, 165414 (2026) - Published 17 September, 2026