Cond-mat Update

Tue, 13 January 2026 from PRL (20 papers)
Altermagnet-Driven Magnon Spin Splitting Nernst Effect
1 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 8 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; Nernst effect; spintronics; ferromagnet; antiferromagnet; altermagnet) | Yuben Yang, Di Wang, Bin Yang, Peng Wang, Yuxuan Mu, Yuanzhe Tian, Bowen Zheng, Weijie Qin, Kaiyuan Wang, Biying Huang, Baigeng Wang, Xiangang Wan, and Di Wu
Magnetoelectric Torque in Polar Magnetic Bilayers
2 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 6 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; spin-orbit torque; spin-transfer torque; spintronics; magnetoelectric) | Zhong Shen, Jun Chen, Xiaoyan Yao, and Shuai Dong
Large Spontaneous Nonreciprocal Charge Transport in a Zero-Magnetization Antiferromagnet
3 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 6 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; spintronics; ferromagnet; antiferromagnet) | Kenta Sudo, Yuki Yanagi, Mitsuru Akaki, Hiroshi Tanida, and Motoi Kimata
Ising Superconductivity in Noncentrosymmetric Bulk ${\mathrm{NbSe}}_{2}$
4 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 3 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; dichalcogenide; two-dimensional) | Dominik Volavka, Jozef Kačmarčík, Timon Moško, Zuzana Pribulová, Branislav Stropkai, Jozef Bednarčík, Yingzheng Gao, Owen Moulding, Marie-Aude Méasson, Christophe Marcenat, Thierry Klein, Shunsuke Sasaki, Laurent Cario, Martin Gmitra, Peter Samuely, and Tomas Samuely
Lindbladian versus Postselected non-Hermitian Topology
5 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 3 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; topolo) | Alexandre Chaduteau, Derek K. K. Lee, and Frank Schindler
Odd-Chern-Number Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect at Even Filling in Moire Rhombohedral Heptalayer Graphene
6 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 3 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; graphene) | Qianling Liu, Zhiyu Wang, Xiangyan Han, Zhuoxian Li, Bohao Li, Sicheng Zhou, Lihong Hu, Zhuangzhuang Qu, Chunrui Han, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zheng Vitto Han, Bingbing Tong, Guangtong Liu, Li Lu, Fengcheng Wu, and Jianming Lu
Electrical Generation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Plasmonic Heterostructures
7 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 2 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; two-dimensional) | Maxim Trushin
Monte Carlo Simulations of Crystal Defects in Open Ensembles
8 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Flynn Walsh, Babak Sadigh, Joseph T. McKeown, and Timofey Frolov
Foundations of the Ionization Potential Condition for Localized Electron Removal in Density Functional Theory
9 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Guy Ohad, María Camarasa-Gómez, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Ashwin Ramasubramaniam, Tim Gould, and Leeor Kronik
Inferring Charge-Noise Source Locations from Correlations in Spin Qubits
10 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | J. S. Rojas-Arias, A. Noiri, J. Yoneda, P. Stano, T. Nakajima, K. Takeda, T. Kobayashi, G. Scappucci, S. Tarucha, and D. Loss
Smaller Grains Are Not Stronger: Microcrystalline Metals at Ultrahigh Strain Rates
11 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Laura Wu, Yuan Yao, Luyan Li, Qi Tang, and Mostafa Hassani
Real-Time Out-of-Equilibrium Quantum Dynamics in Disordered Materials
12 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Luis M. Canonico, Stephan Roche, and Aron W. Cummings
Physical Spin Torques from Exactly Constrained Exchange-Correlation Torques
13 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Jacques K. Desmarais, Kamel Bencheikh, Giovanni Vignale, and Stefano Pittalis
From Triangular Correlated Paramagnet to Multi-$q$ Noncoplanar Spin State in Spinel ${\mathrm{GeFe}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{4}$
14 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | L. Chaix, J. Robert, E. Chan, E. Ressouche, S. Petit, C. V. Colin, R. Ballou, J. Ollivier, L.-P. Regnault, E. Lhotel, V. Cathelin, S. Lenne, C. Cavenel, F. Damay, E. Suard, P. Strobel, C. Darie, S. deBrion, and V. Simonet
Formation of Voids or Stacking-Fault Tetrahedra Induced by Local Chemical Variations in Face-Centered-Cubic Complex Concentrated Alloys
15 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Yeping Lin, Chenyang Lu, Tengfei Yang, Zhengxiong Su, Yixin Deng, Wangyu Hu, Huiqiu Deng, Guanghong Lu, and Fei Gao
<i>Ab Initio</i> Superionic-Liquid Phase Diagram of ${\mathrm{Fe}}_{1\text{−}x}{\mathrm{O}}_{x}$ under Earth’s Inner Core Conditions
16 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Zepeng Wu, Chen Gao, Feng Zhang, Shunqing Wu, Kai-Ming Ho, Renata M. Wentzcovitch, and Yang Sun
Spatial Correlations of Charge Density Wave Order across the Transition in $2\mathrm{H}\text{−}{\mathrm{NbSe}}_{2}$
17 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Seokjo Hong, Jaewhan Oh, Jemin Park, Woohyun Cho, Soyoung Lee, Colin Ophus, Yeongkwan Kim, Heejun Yang, SungBin Lee, and Yongsoo Yang
Tracking the Photoinduced Dynamics of a Dark Excitonic State in Single-Layer ${\mathrm{WS}}_{2}$ via Resonant Autler-Townes Splitting
18 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Angela Montanaro, Francesco Valiera, Francesca Giusti, Francesca Fassioli, Chiara Trovatello, Giacomo Jarc, Enrico Maria Rigoni, Fang Liu, Xiaoyang Zhu, Stefano Dal Conte, Giulio Cerullo, Martin Eckstein, and Daniele Fausti
Observation of $\mathrm{Δ}J=0$ Rotational Excitation in Dense Hydrogens
19 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Jie Feng, Xiao-Di Liu, Haian Xu, Pu Wang, Graeme J. Ackland, and Eugene Gregoryanz
Complex Phonon Behaviors Dictate Anisotropic and Nonmonotonic Thermal Transport in Ice Polymorphs
20 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Rong Qiu, Qiyu Zeng, Bo Chen, Jinsen Han, Jiahao Chen, Qunchao Tong, Kaiguo Chen, Dongdong Kang, Xiaoxiang Yu, Han Wang, and Jiayu Dai