Volume 114, Issue 23 (partial)

15 October 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Time-dependent terahertz dielectric function of ZnTe under two-photon optical excitation at 800 nm wavelength

Farell Keiser, Wentao Zhang, Dominik Johannesmann, Nicolas S. Beermann, Yuhao Meng, Hassan A. Hafez, Savio Fabretti, and Dmitry Turchinovich

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235205 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Zinc telluride (ZnTe) is widely used to generate and detect terahertz radiation with 800-nm laser pulses, yet its dielectric response at typical THz generation intensities remains unclear. Here, the authors show that two-photon absorption creates a transient free-carrier plasma strongly coupled to the lattice, modifying the THz dielectric function and markedly enhancing the 1.55-THz phonon resonance. These findings refine the physical description of THz generation in ZnTe and identify excitation-induced constraints on efficiency and bandwidth.

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Dynamic pressure induced phase transition in ${Cu}_{4} {TiSe}_{4}$ : Lower lattice thermal conductivity from a shallow potential well

Hui Zhang, Zhihao Li, Maheen Kanwal, Panpan Peng, Jianhong Hu, Jinze Zhai, and Hongchao Wang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235207 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Multiple structures of Cu $_{4}$ TiSe $_{4}$ have been predicted theoretically, but how they are related experimentally remains unclear. Here, the authors synthesize the rhombohedral phase and show that dynamic pressure during ball milling induces a transition to the cubic phase, with both phases stable at ambient conditions. Counterintuitively, the higher-symmetry cubic phase exhibits lower lattice thermal conductivity, which they attribute to Cu atoms in shallow potential wells that enhance atomic displacement and thereby reduce phonon group velocities and shorten phonon lifetimes.

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Discerning Hall and non-Hall transverse currents in linear and nonlinear regimes

Yu-Fei Liu, Jinchen Liu, Tiema Qian, Hou Chen Li, Tianye Huang, Jian-Xiang Qiu, Xiaoyu Zeng, Peng Guo, Jian Tang, Thao Dinh, Qiong Ma, Xufan Li, Ni Ni, Anyuan Gao, and Su-Yang Xu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235407 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

Rapid advances in nonlinear Hall transport provide new probes of quantum geometry, but transverse signals generally mix Hall and non-Hall contributions that are difficult to disentangle. Here, the authors introduce a unified experimental protocol that exchanges current and voltage directions to identify antisymmetric Hall and symmetric non-Hall responses. Measurements across representative quantum materials validate the method in both linear and nonlinear regimes.

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Gyrotropy from extrinsic geometry in twisted materials

Spenser Talkington and Eugene J. Mele

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235408 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Two-dimensional moiré materials feature widely tunable electronic structures. When these materials are illuminated by light, they exhibit optical gyrotropy in the form of circular dichroism and birefringence. Here, the authors show that this gyrotropy naturally decomposes into an intrinsic contribution due to interlayer electronic coupling and an extrinsic contribution due to the twisted embedding of the material in physical space. The authors conduct a general symmetry analysis applicable to moiré materials and identify regimes in which the intrinsic, and in which the extrinsic contributions dominate the gyrotropy. Finally, they apply the analysis to twisted bilayer graphene and twisted MoTe $_{2}$ .

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LETTER

Many-body Euler topology

Axel Fünfhaus, Titus Neupert, Thilo Kopp, and Roser Valentí

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231104 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

The authors introduce here many-body Euler numbers as a counterpart to many-body Chern numbers to diagnose the spontaneous breaking of time reversal symmetry in (fractional) Chern insulators. In addition, a classification scheme to realize different topological phases in interacting systems using symmetry indicators is laid out.

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Highly uniaxial stress-tunable orbital-driven magnetism in CrAs

Kousuke Ishida, Hsiao-Yi Chen, Shumpei Seto, Hisashi Kotegawa, Ryoga Takahara, Yoichi Nii, Eiichi Matsuoka, Yusuke Wakabayashi, Clifford W. Hicks, Yusuke Nomura, and Yoshinori Onose

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231105 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

CrAs undergoes a first-order helimagnetic transition accompanied by a huge lattice distortion whose microscopic mechanism remains unresolved. Here, the authors demonstrate through stress-strain measurements that the helimagnetic transition in CrAs is substantially more sensitive to uniaxial stress than to hydrostatic pressure. First-principles calculations reveal that this strong response originates from an entanglement between anisotropic strain and orbital-dependent correlations, showing that local correlations can drive nonlinear elastic responses in strongly correlated systems.

LETTERS

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

LETTER

NMR evidence of pressure-induced structural transition and enhanced spin fluctuations up to 14 GPa in ${SrCu}_{2} {({BO}_{3})}_{2}$

Zhanlong Wu, Kefan Du, Shuo Li, Tong Shi, Ying Chen, Qingxin Dong, Rui Zhou, Rong Yu, Juanjuan Liu, Bosen Wang, Jinguang Cheng, Weiqiang Yu, and Yi Cui

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231101 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

LETTER

Origin of superconductivity in bilayer nickelates: A quantum Monte Carlo study for a sign-problem-free effective model

Xu Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231102 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Many-body Euler topology

Axel Fünfhaus, Titus Neupert, Thilo Kopp, and Roser Valentí

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231104 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Highly uniaxial stress-tunable orbital-driven magnetism in CrAs

Kousuke Ishida, Hsiao-Yi Chen, Shumpei Seto, Hisashi Kotegawa, Ryoga Takahara, Yoichi Nii, Eiichi Matsuoka, Yusuke Wakabayashi, Clifford W. Hicks, Yusuke Nomura, and Yoshinori Onose

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231105 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

LETTER

Nonthermal nonlinear many-body excitonic dynamics in high-purity silicon

Patrick Pilch, Siyu Duan, Yang Liu, Manfred Bayer, Marc Assmann, and Zhe Wang

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231106 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

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Trion liquid and its photoemission signatures

Noam Ophir and Anna Keselman

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231107 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

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Majorana physics in a Luttinger liquid with attractive interactions

Francesco Debortoli, Nitya Cuzzuol, Luca Barbiero, and Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231108 (2026) - Published 20 October, 2026

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Correlation-driven metal-insulator transition in a $d$ -wave altermagnet

Santhosh Kannan, Jainam Savla, and Madhuparna Karmakar

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231109 (2026) - Published 21 October, 2026

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YCl electride as a multiorbital correlated topological dice lattice system

Jianqi Zhong, Songyuan Geng, Teng-Fei Ying, Haoxiang Li, and Benjamin T. Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231110 (2026) - Published 21 October, 2026

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Emergent relativistic symmetry from interacting fermions on the honeycomb bilayer

Zi Hong Liu and Lukas Janssen

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231111 (2026) - Published 23 October, 2026

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Lee-Yang zeros and pseudocritical drift in J-Q Néel antiferromagnet–valence-bond solid transitions

Chunhao Guo, Zhe Wang, Danhe Wang, Zenan Liu, Haiyuan Zou, and Zheng Yan

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231112 (2026) - Published 23 October, 2026

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

LETTER

Higgs gap modes in quantized superconducting circuits

Yun-Chih Liao, Benjamin J. Powell, and Thomas M. Stace

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231301 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

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Fingerprints of excitonic collective modes in the two-dimensional electron gas

Jakob Wolff, Silvana Botti, Lucia Reining, and Matteo Gatti

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231302 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

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Melting phase diagram of the two-dimensional electron solid in a perpendicular magnetic field

M. Yu. Melnikov, D. G. Smirnov, A. A. Shashkin, S.-H. Huang, C. W. Liu, and S. V. Kravchenko

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231303 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

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Hidden chirality and half-vortex formation in polariton condensates

A. N. Osipov, I. Y. Chestnov, P. G. Lagoudakis, and A. V. Yulin

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231304 (2026) - Published 23 October, 2026

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

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Linear dichroic soft x-ray microscopy of ferroelectric stripe domains in epitaxial $K_{0.6} {Na}_{0.4} {NbO}_{3}$

M. Schneider, T. A. Butcher, S. Wagner, D. Metternich, C. Klose, E. Malm, R. Battistelli, V. Deinhart, J. Fuchs, S. Wittrock, T. Karaman, K. Puzhekadavil Joy, M. Patra, F. Büttner, S. Wintz, M. Weigand, C. M. Günther, D. Engel, P. Gaal, J. Schwarzkopf, B. Pfau, and S. Eisebitt

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231401 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

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Spin quantum Hall transition on random networks: Exact critical exponents via quantum gravity

Esteban Macías, Ilya Gruzberg, and Eldad Bettelheim

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231402 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

LETTER

Electron state tomography from quasiparticle interference maps

A. Razanajatovo, J. Cayssol, and C. Dutreix

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231403 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

LETTER

Ballistic electron beams in ${PdCoO}_{2}$

Abu Alex Aravindnath, Pavlo V. Pyshkin, Markus König, Seunghyun Khim, Johannes Kleinlein, Hartmut Buhmann, and Laurens W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231404 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

LETTER

Intrinsic orbital Hall effect in degenerate spin- $\frac{3}{2}$ systems driven by the quantum metric

Rhonald Burgos Atencia

Phys. Rev. B 114, L231405 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

ARTICLES

Electronic structure and strongly correlated systems

First-principles study of Weyl nodal loops and multiple Weyl points in trigonal ${PtBi}_{2}$

Lin-Lin Wang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235101 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Projector-based coherent potential approximation with pseudopotential Hamiltonian within the framework of the density functional theory

Akihiro Koide

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235102 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Exploring Grassmann manifolds in topological systems via quantum distance

Shin-Ming Huang and Dimitrios Giataganas

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235103 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Gauss-Bonnet theorem for quantum states: Gauss curvature and topology in the projective Hilbert space

Shin-Ming Huang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235104 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Fluctuation-enhanced electron-phonon coupling in FeSe

Jovan Blagojević, Ana Milosavljević, Tea Belojica, Bojana Višić, Marko Opačić, Andrijana Šolajić, Jelena Pešić, Enrico Di Lucente, Novica Paunović, Milorad V. Milošević, Emil S. Bozin, Aifeng Wang, Cedomir Petrovic, Zoran V. Popović, Rudi Hackl, and Nenad Lazarević

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235105 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Magnetic fluctuations driven by quantum geometry

Makoto Shimizu, Chang-guen Oh, and Youichi Yanase

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235106 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Systematic study of 36 multipoles in $t_{2 g}$ systems: Physical significance and field-induced effects

Yi Fan, Jinyu Zou, Weijia Du, Xi Dai, and Gang Xu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235107 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Band unfolding via the quadratic pseudospectrum

Christopher A. Bairnsfather, Ralph M. Kaufmann, Terry A. Loring, and Alexander Cerjan

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235108 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Influence of ligand field and correlation on the electronic structure of NiO and CoO from DFT+DMFT calculations

Daniel Mutter, Frank Lechermann, Daniel F. Urban, and Christian Elsässer

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235109 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

Site-selective renormalization and competing magnetic instabilities in paramagnetic $Y_{3} {Cu}_{2} {Sb}_{3} O_{14}$

Yanpeng Zhou and Gang Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235110 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

Unified interfacial and intrinsic topology in a large-gap epitaxial two-dimensional insulator

Heng Jin, Xiaoyin Li, Kyung-Hwan Jin, Bing Huang, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235111 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Strong quantum interaction between excitons bound by cavity photon exchange

Miguel S. Oliveira and Cristiano Ciuti

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235112 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Quantum-critical mediation of magnetic order by a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid

Hironori Yamaguchi, Sota Monju, Akira Matsuo, Shunsuke C. Furuya, Nicolas Suaud, Koji Araki, Takanori Kida, Masayuki Hagiwara, and Koichi Kindo

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235113 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Enhancing entanglement asymmetry in fragmented quantum systems

Lorenzo Gotta, Filiberto Ares, and Sara Murciano

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235114 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Metallic mean quasicrystals and their topological invariants

Anuradha Jagannathan

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235115 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Quasi-one-dimensional planar magnetic topological heterostructure

Z. Z. Alisultanov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235116 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Cotunneling theory and multiplet excitations: Emergence of asymmetric line shape in inelastic scanning tunneling spectroscopy of correlated molecules on surfaces

Marco Lozano, Manish Kumar, Pavel Jelínek, and Diego Soler-Polo

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235117 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Quantum Cramér-Rao bound on quantum metric as a single-observable uncertainty relation

Wei Chen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235118 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Theory of a strange metal in a quantum superconductor to metal transition

Jaewon Kim, Erez Berg, and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235119 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Reinterpretation of surface lattice resonance via singular-value decomposition

Xiaoya Sun, Xuefen Kan, Cheng Yin, Minglei Shan, Mengyuan He, Jian Wu, and Zhuangqi Cao

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235120 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Two-dimensional transport in an in-plane magnetic field

Aryaman Babbar and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235121 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Investigation of the role of $π − d$ interactions in $λ$ -type salts using pressure-temperature phase diagram

Rikumaru Saito, Takuya Kobayashi, Hiromi Taniguchi, Noriaki Matsunaga, Shuhei Fukuoka, and Atsushi Kawamoto

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235122 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Electrical detection of the spin-flip transition in a $metal / {Na}_{5} {Co}_{15.5} {Te}_{6} O_{36}$ heterostructure

Hirotsugu Tagami, Takuya Kawada, and Yuki Shiomi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235123 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Quantum phase transitions generated by order from quantum disorder

Fadi Sun, Jinwu Ye, and Wu-Ming Liu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235124 (2026) - Published 23 October, 2026

Semiconductors I: bulk

Validity of the scattering exponent approximation for materials with a complex electronic structure

Yuji Go, Rajeev Dutt, Bhawna Sahni, and Neophytos Neophytou

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235201 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Relation between the areal rate of Zitterbewegung and Berry curvature in two-band systems

Sonja Predin

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235202 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

Dual character of Zn impurity in SnTe: Tuning thermoelectric and topological properties

Kacper Pryga and Bartlomiej Wiendlocha

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235203 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

Framework for atom-resolved decomposition of second-harmonic generation in nonlinear optical crystals

YingXing Cheng, Congwei Xie, Zhihua Yang, and Shilie Pan

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235204 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Time-dependent terahertz dielectric function of ZnTe under two-photon optical excitation at 800 nm wavelength

Farell Keiser, Wentao Zhang, Dominik Johannesmann, Nicolas S. Beermann, Yuhao Meng, Hassan A. Hafez, Savio Fabretti, and Dmitry Turchinovich

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235205 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Stacking-dependent thermoelectric transport in layered ${Sc}_{2} {Si}_{2} {Te}_{6}$ from first principles

Zhongjuan Han, Wu Xiong, Zhonghao Xia, Weitong Huang, and Jiangang He

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235206 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

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Dynamic pressure induced phase transition in ${Cu}_{4} {TiSe}_{4}$ : Lower lattice thermal conductivity from a shallow potential well

Hui Zhang, Zhihao Li, Maheen Kanwal, Panpan Peng, Jianhong Hu, Jinze Zhai, and Hongchao Wang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235207 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

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

Anisotropic functional for two-dimensional material systems

Michael Lorke

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235301 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Charge transport in two-dimensional conductors with hybrid three-component plasma

A. D. Levin, V. A. Chitta, Z. D. Kvon, N. N. Mikhailov, and G. M. Gusev

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235302 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

Local symmetry and mode-selective electron-phonon coupling of oxygen-related defects in AlN

Erfei Zhang, Ning Tang, Yiming Tan, Lei Fu, Tianyu Zhang, Han Yang, Lin Shi, Ping Wang, Jiaming Wang, Guowei Lv, Xuelin Yang, Fujun Xu, Tongjun Yu, Xinqiang Wang, Weikun Ge, and Bo Shen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235303 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

Electrically tunable radiative coupling in permittivity-asymmetric quasibound states in the continuum via periodically poled lithium niobate metasurfaces

Haoyu Wang, Zhancheng Li, Shiwang Yu, Yanchun Wang, Hui Liu, Wenwei Liu, Hua Cheng, and Shuqi Chen

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235304 (2026) - Published 20 October, 2026

Si-O network connectivity as a structural signature of self-passivation of $β − {FeSi}_{2}$ surfaces

Jun Chai, Hangjia Shen, Mingping He, Yulin Zhou, and Pan Liu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235305 (2026) - Published 23 October, 2026

Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems

Transducer width dependent stiffening of gigahertz surface acoustic waves in silicon

Arun Babu, Mukund Kumar, Himanshu Singhal, Ajmal Ansari, Juzer Ali Chakera, and Dipanshu Bansal

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235401 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Vacancy-driven reversal of layer-dependent friction in two-dimensional ${MoSe}_{2}$

Haoyu Deng, Xin Wang, Tongtong Yu, Xinjian He, Shuang Li, Pengfei Liu, Changhe Du, and Daoai Wang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235402 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Geometry-induced skin effect in electron hydrodynamics

Jarosław Pawłowski, Piotr Surówka, and Konstantin Zarembo

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235403 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Exact analytical edge states in the extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model

P. A. Grizzi, A. A. Aligia, and P. Roura-Bas

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235404 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Magnetic enhancement and Hall conductivity of excitonic insulators in a Gross-Neveu type model

William R. Tavares, Rudnei O. Ramos, and Nei Lopes

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235405 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Hysteresis-driven radiative Mpemba effect in phase-change nanostructures

F. Herz

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235406 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Discerning Hall and non-Hall transverse currents in linear and nonlinear regimes

Yu-Fei Liu, Jinchen Liu, Tiema Qian, Hou Chen Li, Tianye Huang, Jian-Xiang Qiu, Xiaoyu Zeng, Peng Guo, Jian Tang, Thao Dinh, Qiong Ma, Xufan Li, Ni Ni, Anyuan Gao, and Su-Yang Xu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 235407 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

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