Cond-mat Update

Tue, 06 January 2026 from PRL (13 papers)
Tailoring Néel Orders in Layered Topological Antiferromagnet ${\mathrm{MnBi}}_{2}{\mathrm{Te}}_{4}$
1 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 12 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; topolo; van der waals; two-dimensional; ferromagnet; antiferromagnet) | Xiaotian Yang, Yongqian Wang, Chang Lu, Yongchao Wang, Zichen Lian, Zhongkai Liu, Yulin Chen, Jinsong Zhang, Yayu Wang, Chang Liu, and Wenbo Wang
Theory of Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Altermagnets and Its Applications
2 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 8 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; spintronics; ferromagnet; antiferromagnet; altermagnet) | Xian-Peng Zhang, Wanxiang Feng, Run-Wu Zhang, Xiaolong Fan, Xiangrong Wang, and Yugui Yao
Critical Fluctuations and Conserved Dynamics in a Strange Ferromagnetic Metal
3 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 4 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; ferromagnet; antiferromagnet) | Jin Zhan, Yongjun Zhang, Jiawen Zhang, Yu Liu, Zhiyong Nie, Yuxin Chen, Lin Jiao, Yashar Komijani, Michael Smidman, Frank Steglich, Piers Coleman, and Huiqiu Yuan
Half-Quantized Chiral Edge Current in a $C=1/2$ Parity Anomaly State
4 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 3 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; topolo; Dirac) | Deyi Zhuo, Bomin Zhang, Humian Zhou, Han Tay, Xiaoda Liu, Zhiyuan Xi, Chui-Zhen Chen, and Cui-Zu Chang
Switching of an Antiferromagnet Controlled by Spin Canting in a Laser-Induced Hidden Phase
5 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 3 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; ferromagnet; antiferromagnet) | A. V. Kuzikova, N. A. Liubachko, S. N. Barilo, A. V. Sadovnikov, R. V. Pisarev, and A. M. Kalashnikova
Common Sublattice-Pure Van Hove Singularities in the Kagome Superconductors $A{\mathrm{V}}_{3}{\mathrm{Sb}}_{5}$ ($A=\mathrm{K}$, Rb, Cs)
6 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 2 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; topolo) | Yujie Lan, Yuhao Lei, Congcong Le, Brenden R. Ortiz, Nicholas C. Plumb, Milan Radovic, Xianxin Wu, Ming Shi, Stephen D. Wilson, and Yong Hu
Optical Signatures of Quantum Skyrmions
7 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 2 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; topolo) | Sanchar Sharma and Christina Psaroudaki
Quantum Vortices Leave a Macroscopic Signature in the Thermal Background
8 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Luca Galantucci, Giorgio Krstulovic, and Carlo F. Barenghi
Quantum Chemistry for Solids Made Simple on the Clifford Torus
9 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Amer Alrakik, Gian Luigi Bendazzoli, Stefano Evangelisti, and J. Arjan Berger
Stripe-Nematic Phase of Composite Fermions
10 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Chengyu Wang, S. K. Singh, C. T. Tai, A. Gupta, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan
Orbital Inverse Faraday and Cotton-Mouton Effects in Hall Fluids
11 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Gabriel Cardoso, Erlend Syljuåsen, and Alexander V. Balatsky
Giant Reversible Piezoelectricity from Symmetry-Governed Stochastic Dipole Hopping
12 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Denan Li, Haofei Ni, Yi Zhang, and Shi Liu
Chiral Superconductivity from Spin Polarized Chern Band in Twisted ${\mathrm{MoTe}}_{2}$
13 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Cheng Xu, Nianlong Zou, Nikolai Peshcherenko, Ammar Jahin, Tingxin Li, Shi-Zeng Lin, and Yang Zhang