Volume 114, Issue 20 (partial)

1 October 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effect of composition and pressure on diamond formation timescales from hydrocarbon demixing at icy planetary interior conditions

Mungo Frost et al.

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204101 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Under extreme conditions hydrocarbons are known to demix, forming diamond and a hydrogen-rich phase. Here, the authors probe the timescale of this process as a function of pressure and composition. Various hydrocarbon samples were compressed to between 20 and 80 GPa in diamond anvil cells prior to serial x-ray free electron laser heating and time-resolved diffraction. They find that carbon-rich precursors form diamond in 10s of microseconds over the whole pressure range, while hydrogen rich ones take longer. [Image credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory]

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anatomy of spin-orbit torques in monolayer ${Fe}_{3} {GeTe}_{2}$ and ${Fe}_{3} {GaTe}_{2}$ : Insights from atomistic and momentum-space decompositions

Gusthavo M. S. Brizolla, Stepan S. Tsirkin, Yaroslav Zhumagulov, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204424 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

Spin–orbit torque (SOT) enables electrical magnetization control in spintronic devices. Here, the authors calculate SOT in monolayer Fe $_{3}$ GeTe $_{2}$ and Fe $_{3}$ GaTe $_{2}$ , van der Waals ferromagnets with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and no reliance on heavy atoms for strong spin–orbit coupling. Horizontal mirror symmetry forbids conventional in-plane spin accumulation for out-of-plane magnetization, while tilting the magnetization enables a strongly angle-dependent response. Combining density functional theory, Wannier interpolation, and Kubo formalism, they map the torque across the magnetization sphere. They reveal hidden torques on mirror-related Fe atoms up to 30 times the net torque, whose cancellation could be lifted through van der Waals engineering.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Structural disorder and critical voltage scaling in ${Al / AlO}_{x} / Al$ Josephson junction arrays

Amanuel M. Berhane, Susan N. Coppersmith, Emma E. Mitchell, and Timothy L. Duty

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204503 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Disorder strongly modifies the collective electronic state of one-dimensional Josephson junction arrays. However, identifying types of disorder and understanding their link to collective behavior remain challenging. Here, the authors find three classes of fabrication-induced structural disorder and investigate their effects on critical-voltage scaling of arrays in the insulating state. While the scaling remains remarkably robust against some fabrication-induced variations, arrays containing nanoscale gaps exhibit significantly different behavior, demonstrating that the nature of disorder influences the collective state of the system.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconductivity near two-dimensional Van Hove singularities: A determinant quantum Monte Carlo study

Gustav Romare, Daniel Shaffer, Alex Levchenko, Edwin Huang, and Ilya Esterlis

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204506 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Using determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations, the authors compute here the superconducting transition temperature $T_{c}$ of the two-dimensional attractive Hubbard model near ordinary and higher-order Van Hove singularities. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the authors find that the maximal $T_{c}$ in the model occurs away from the Van Hove singularities, when the system is in the intermediate coupling regime.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Importance of nonlinear long-range electron-phonon interaction for the carrier mobility of anharmonic halide perovskites

Matthew Houtput, Ingvar Zappacosta, William Wenborn, Serghei Klimin, Samuel Poncé, Jacques Tempere, and Cesare Franchini

Phys. Rev. B 114, L200301 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

The carrier mobility in many materials is dominated by scattering of the carriers with phonons. It is often calculated using only linear, one-electron–one-phonon interaction. Here, the authors present a first-principles calculation of the mobility including the nonlinear, long-range electron-phonon interaction, for the representative halide perovskite CsPbI $_{3}$ . It is shown that the temperature dependence of the carrier mobility decreases by about 10% due to the one-electron–two-phonon interaction, which is attributed to the strong anharmonicity and low phonon frequencies present in halide perovskites.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Discriminating superconducting fluctuations from the pseudogap in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {Ca}_{n - 1} {Cu}_{n} O_{2 n + 4 + δ}$ ( $n$ = 2, 3): A magnetotransport study

Shunpei Yamaguchi, Nae Sasaki, Shintaro Adachi, Keiichi Harada, Yuki Teramoto, Shintaro Matsuda, Tomohiro Usui, Takenori Fujii, Takashi Noji, Itsuhiro Kakeya, Haruka Taniguchi, Michiaki Matsukawa, Atsushi Miyake, Hajime Ishikawa, Koichi Kindo, and Takao Watanabe

Phys. Rev. B 114, L200501 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Elucidating the origin of the pseudogap remains a central challenge in copper oxide high‑ $T_{c}$ superconductors. By investigating the magnetotransport properties of Bi‑2212 and Bi‑2223 single crystals, the authors demonstrate here that the pseudogap and superconducting fluctuations are distinct phenomena. Their results strongly suggest that the pseudogap arises from preformed Cooper pairing in the BCS–BEC crossover regime, imposing stringent constraints on theoretical descriptions of high‑ $T_{c}$ cuprates beyond the conventional BCS paradigm.

LETTERS

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Importance of nonlinear long-range electron-phonon interaction for the carrier mobility of anharmonic halide perovskites

Matthew Houtput, Ingvar Zappacosta, William Wenborn, Serghei Klimin, Samuel Poncé, Jacques Tempere, and Cesare Franchini

Phys. Rev. B 114, L200301 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

Magnetism

LETTER

Exchange frustration and topological magnetism in electrostatically doped ${SrRuO}_{3}$

Naafis Ahnaf Shahed, Himanshu Mavani, Zhonglin He, Kai Huang, Mohamed Elekhtiar, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. B 114, L200401 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

LETTER

Deeply nonlinear magnon-photon hybrid excitation

Dinesh Wagle, Anish Rai, and M. Benjamin Jungfleisch

Phys. Rev. B 114, L200402 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

LETTER

High-harmonic spin-current signatures of altermagnetic spin-group symmetry

Koki Mizuno

Phys. Rev. B 114, L200403 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

LETTER

Intrinsic (non)-Gilbert damping in magnetic insulators calculated from a minimal model and ab initio spin Hamiltonians

Andrei Shumilin, Diego López-Alcalá, Nassima Benchtaber, Alberto M. Ruiz, and José J. Baldoví

Phys. Rev. B 114, L200404 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Superfluidity and superconductivity

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Discriminating superconducting fluctuations from the pseudogap in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {Ca}_{n - 1} {Cu}_{n} O_{2 n + 4 + δ}$ ( $n$ = 2, 3): A magnetotransport study

Phys. Rev. B 114, L200501 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

LETTER

Supercurrent-driven Néel torque in superconductor/altermagnet hybrids

Hamed Vakili, Moaz Ali, Igor Žutić, and Alexey A. Kovalev

Phys. Rev. B 114, L200502 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

LETTER

Eddy currents and current reversal in curved magnetic-thin-film Josephson junctions

Einar Skoglund, Maxim A. Tjøtta, and Sol H. Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. B 114, L200503 (2026) - Published 20 October, 2026

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effect of composition and pressure on diamond formation timescales from hydrocarbon demixing at icy planetary interior conditions

Mungo Frost et al.

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204101 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Limitation of supervised machine learning in identifying non-Hermitian topological feature

Yifan Shao, Xiumei Wang, and Xingping Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204102 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Damping-dependent thermalization of neighboring nanomechanical resonators below 1 mK

Amir Youssefi, Mahdi Chegnizadeh, Francis Bettsworth, Richard Pedurand, Eddy Collin, Tobias J. Kippenberg, and Andrew Fefferman

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204103 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Impact of chemical short-range order on planar-fault and dislocation properties in NiCoV alloys

Dalia M. Sayed Ahmed, Yongwen Sun, Yang Yang, and Miaomiao Jin

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204104 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

Temperature and x-ray diffraction measurements of shock-released tantalum

D. N. Polsin, Z. Liu, J. R. Rygg, M. K. Ginnane, X. Gong, C. J. Wu, G. W. Collins, and M. C. Marshall

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204105 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Suppression of electron-phonon coupling and emergence of spin-phonon coupling in orthorhombic ${CsCr}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Bingru Lu, Yi Liu, Keyi Li, Jing Kang, Hao Li, Xiang Li, Wenbo Sang, Anmin Zhang, Jianting Ji, Guanghan Cao, Feng Jin, and Qingming Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204106 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Revealing charge transfer in defect-engineered $4 H_{b} − {TaS}_{2}$

Siavash Karbasizadeh, Wooin Yang, Wonhee Ko, Haidong Zhou, An-Ping Li, Tom Berlijn, and Sai Mu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204107 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Electron transport in disordered borophene nanoribbons with hexagonal vacancies

Pei-Jia Hu, Jia-Le Yu, Irfan Hussain Bhat, Tie-Feng Fang, Ai-Min Guo, and Qing-Feng Sun

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204201 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Probing critical phases in quasiperiodic systems via subsystem information capacity

Huaijin Dong and Long Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204202 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Random matrix spectra from Boltzmann-weighted lattice ensembles

Yaprak Önder, Abbas Ali Saberi, and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204203 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

Hierarchical approach to quantum many-body systems in non-Markovian environments

Kai Müller, Kimmo Luoma, and Christian Schäfer

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204301 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

Upward deviation from the Wiedemann-Franz law and phonon-dominated thermal transport in the topological semimetal ${NbP}_{2}$

Jie Yang, Luyao Zhong, and Xiaolong Yang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204302 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Lattice thermal transport from phonon spectra beyond perturbation theory

Zezhu Zeng, Michele Simoncelli, and David E. Manolopoulos

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204303 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Effects of point defects and tensile strain on the lattice thermal conductivity of $θ − TaN$ : A machine-learned molecular dynamics study

Chenyang Cao, Yifei Ning, Yongbo Shi, Yu Bao, Hongfei Li, Panpan Gao, Shuo Cao, and Ping Qian

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204304 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Microscopic resonant-shell mechanism for slow Liouvillian sectors in an open correlated lattice

X. Z. Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204305 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Why finite-size non-Hermitian eigenvalues can miss asymptotic eigenstates in topological physics

Lucien Jezequel, Loïc Herviou, and Jens H. Bardarson

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204306 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

State matrix representations for the unified treatment of non-Hermitian photonic multilayer systems

Anna A. Varvari, Nicholas S. Nye, Dimitrios I. Karatzidis, and Nikolaos V. Kantartzis

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204307 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Raman scattering spectroscopic observation of a ferroelastic crossover in bond-frustrated ${PrCd}_{3} P_{3}$

Jackson Davis, Jesse Liebman, Dibyata Rout, S. J. Gomez Alvarado, Stephen D. Wilson, and Natalia Drichko

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204308 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Entanglement entropy across the dynamical phase transition in the quantum $O (N)$ model

Frederick Del Pozo, Tangi Morvan, Irénée Frérot, and Nicolas Cherroret

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204309 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Quantum quenches that resemble operator growth

Xiangyu Cao

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204310 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Spatiotemporal dynamics of heat-pulse propagation in graphite via phonon Boltzmann transport equation

Yan Huang, Wanying Liu, Yangyu Guo, and Hong-Liang Yi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204311 (2026) - Published 23 October, 2026

Magnetism

Exchange anisotropy-driven noncollinear magnetism and magnetic transitions in ${MnTiO}_{3}$ ilmenite

Srimal Rathnayaka, Luke Daemen, and Despina Louca

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204401 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Reevaluating quantum geometric criteria for itinerant magnetic instabilities

Min-Fong Yang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204402 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Phonon-renormalized noncollinear RKKY interaction in Rashba altermagnets

Bui D. Hoi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204403 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Giant magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy in Fe-Co alloy under uniaxial compression: A first-principles prediction

Wojciech Marciniak, José Ángel Castellanos-Reyes, Joanna Marciniak, and Mirosław Werwiński

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204404 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Anisotropy-driven spin reconfigurations in the van der Waals magnet $F e_{4 + δ} GeT e_{2}$

Xu Bai, Tianyang Yao, Yunfei Ke, WL Qubie, Desheng Xue, Xiaolong Fan, and Junli Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204405 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Quantum skyrmions in the antiferromagnetic triangular lattice

Inés Corte, Federico Holik, Lorena Rebón, and Flavia A. Gómez Albarracín

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204406 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Ground-state preparation via nonlinear quantum dissipation

Alireza Ataei, Olle Eriksson, and Vahid Azimi-Mousolou

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204407 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Phonon-mediated spin-spin interactions

J. Fransson

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204408 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Spin dynamics in a complex multisublattice antiferromagnet ${Ni}_{3} {({BO}_{3})}_{2}$

M. A. Prosnikov, A. D. Molchanova, V. Yu. Davydov, A. N. Smirnov, K. N. Boldyrev, R. V. Pisarev, and M. N. Popova

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204409 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Ultrafast critical slowing of spin dynamics and emergent nonequilibrium Fano interference in ${Fe}_{3} {GeTe}_{2}$

Anupama Chauhan, Sidhanta Sahu, Satyabrata Bera, Tuhin Debnath, Mintu Mondal, Anamitra Mukherjee, Siddhartha Lal, and N. Kamaraju

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204410 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Ferroelectric-controllable spin-orbit torque in two-dimensional multiferroic heterostructure

Weiyi Pan, Gusthavo M. S. Brizolla, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204411 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Optimal skyrmion stability in antisymmetric ultrathin ferromagnetic bilayers

Anne Bernand-Mantel, Valeriy V. Slastikov, and Cyrill B. Muratov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204412 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Probing spin configurations in exchange-coupled magnetic bilayers with orthogonal anisotropies via anomalous Hall and Nernst effects

Sebin Jung, Hiroki Koizumi, Hiroaki Sukegawa, and Hideto Yanagihara

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204413 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Concomitant manipulation of effective demagnetization field and magnetic damping in ${Mn}_{2} Au / CoFeB$ heterostructures by ultrafast laser excitation

Donghang Xie, Shuai Zhang, Haozhe Wang, Zhuoyi Li, Jiarui Chen, Jiahua Lu, Bo Liu, Jun Du, Jing Wu, Ronghua Liu, Rong Zhang, Yongbing Xu, and Xuezhong Ruan

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204414 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Evolution of magnetism in ${Ce}_{4} {Ge}_{7}$ under magnetic field and pressure

Kaixin Ye, Qihe Yu, Yongjian Li, Yanan Zhang, Ye Chen, Rui Li, Lin Jiao, M. Smidman, Yongjun Zhang, Yu Liu, and Huiqiu Yuan

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204415 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Properties of the skyrmion crystal in the Heisenberg triangular lattice with scalar chirality

H. Bocquet, C. J. Ganahl, M. S. Scheurer, P. M. Derlet, and A. M. Läuchli

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204416 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Local magnetic order in the vacancy-disrupted spin ice ${Ho}_{2} {TiO}_{5}$

Raju Baral, Haidong Zhou, Qiang Zhang, Benjamin A. Frandsen, and Stuart Calder

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204417 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Spin order and excitations in the collinear kagome antiferromagnet $Y_{0.5} {Fe}_{3} {Sn}_{3}$

Jin Ding, Yang Liu, Feihao Pan, Yinghao Zhu, Yixi Su, Stanislav E. Nikitin, Ursula B. Hansen, Mechthild Enderle, Zhilun Lu, Linxuan Song, Yong-Chang Lau, Xiaoyan Ma, Enke Liu, and Huiqian Luo

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204418 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Probing the intrinsic linear magnetoelectric effect in the honeycomb antiferromagnet ${Co}_{4} {Nb}_{2} O_{9}$ using high magnetic fields

Yuting Chang, Huakun Zuo, Junfeng Wang, and Chengliang Lu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204419 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Ground-state properties of the $S = \frac{3}{2}$ anisotropic triangular lattice antiferromagnet ${Na}_{3} Cr {({PO}_{4})}_{2}$

A. Magar, Sebin J. Sebastian, Q.-P. Ding, Y. Skourski, A. A. Tsirlin, Y. Furukawa, and R. Nath

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204420 (2026) - Published 20 October, 2026

Néel-vector-dependent magneto-optical and spin Hall responses in altermagnetic CrSb

Zongying Wang and Weiyi Pan

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204421 (2026) - Published 20 October, 2026

Anomalous Hall enhancement in fully compensated noncollinear antiferromagnetic Cr-doped ${Mn}_{3} Sn$

Ying Zhang, Xin Chen, Hang Xie, Ziyan Luo, Yihong Wu, and Lei Shen (沈雷)

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204422 (2026) - Published 21 October, 2026

GHz nonreciprocal optical conductivity in hematite $α − {Fe}_{2} O_{3}$

Peng Rao, Johannes Gröbmeyer, P. Peter Stavropoulos, Alexander Mook, Matthias Althammer, Hans Huebl, Alexander Holleitner, and Johannes Knolle

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204423 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anatomy of spin-orbit torques in monolayer ${Fe}_{3} {GeTe}_{2}$ and ${Fe}_{3} {GaTe}_{2}$ : Insights from atomistic and momentum-space decompositions

Gusthavo M. S. Brizolla, Stepan S. Tsirkin, Yaroslav Zhumagulov, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204424 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

Spin relaxation in $X$ -wave magnets ( $X = p, d, f, g, i$ )

Lijie Liu, Mingbo Dou, Xu Chen, Xianjie Wang, M. Ye. Zhuravlev, A. V. Nikolaev, and L. L. Tao

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204425 (2026) - Published 23 October, 2026

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Signatures of topological superconductivity and Josephson diode effect on the magnetocurrent-phase relation of planar Josephson junctions

B. Pekerten, A. Chilampankunnel Prasannan, and A. Matos-Abiague

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204501 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Direction-selective triplet pairing and spin-edge locking in altermagnetic metals

Lie Yuan, Junkang Huang, Yu-Xuan Li, and Tao Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204502 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Structural disorder and critical voltage scaling in ${Al / AlO}_{x} / Al$ Josephson junction arrays

Amanuel M. Berhane, Susan N. Coppersmith, Emma E. Mitchell, and Timothy L. Duty

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204503 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Crystallographic imperfections and exotic superconductivity of ${UBe}_{13}$

Andreas Leithe-Jasper, Markus König, Yusei Shimizu, Konstantin Semeniuk, Primož Koželj, Mitja Krnel, Paul Simon, Wilder Carrillo-Cabrera, Nazar Zaremba, Marcel Naumann, Ulrich Burkhardt, Thomas Doert, Yurii Prots, Alfred Amon, Elena Gati, Matthias Vojta, Yuri Grin, Elena Hassinger, and Eteri Svanidze

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204504 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Theory of planar quasiballistic Josephson junctions

G. A. Bobkov, I. V. Bobkova, A. M. Bobkov, K. B. Polevoy, and V. S. Stolyarov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204505 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconductivity near two-dimensional Van Hove singularities: A determinant quantum Monte Carlo study

Gustav Romare, Daniel Shaffer, Alex Levchenko, Edwin Huang, and Ilya Esterlis

Phys. Rev. B 114, 204506 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

COMMENTS

Comment on “Scaling and universality at noisy quench dynamical quantum phase transitions”

Jesko Sirker

Phys. Rev. B 114, 206301 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Reply to “Comment on ‘Scaling and universality at noisy quench dynamical quantum phase transitions’ ”

S. Ansari, R. Jafari, A. Akbari, and M. Abdi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 206302 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026