Cond-mat Update

Fri, 20 February 2026 from arXiv (12 papers)

Transition between one- and two-dimensional topology in a Chern insulator of finite width

1 | arXiv cond-mat.mes-hall | 12 pt (topolo; two-dimensional) | Frode Balling-Ansø, Adipta Pal, Ashley M. Cook, Anne E. B. Nielsen

Enhanced Graphene-Water Thermal Transport via Edge Functionalization without Compromising In-Plane Thermal Conductivity

2 | arXiv cond-mat.mes-hall | 8 pt (graphene) | John Crosby (1), Haoran Cui (1), Mehrab Lotfpour (1), Yan Wang (1), Lei Cao (1) ((1) Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno)

Confinement Epitaxy of Large-Area Two-Dimensional Sn at the Graphene/SiC Interface

3 | arXiv cond-mat.mtrl-sci | 7 pt (graphene; two-dimensional) | Zamin Mamiyev, Niclas Tilgner, Narmina O. Balayeva, Dietrich R.T. Zahn, Thomas Seyller, Christoph Tegenkamp

Stripe antiferromagnetism in van der Waals metal HoTe3 decoupled from charge density wave order

4 | arXiv cond-mat.mtrl-sci | 7 pt (van der waals; ferromagnet; antiferromagnet) | Weiyi Yun, Ryota Nakano, Ryo Misawa, Rinsuke Yamada, Shun Akatsuka, Yoshichika Onuki, Priya Ranjan Baral, Hiraku Saitoh, Ryoji Kiyanagi, Takashi Ohhara, Taro Nakajima, Taka-hisa Arima, Max Hirschberger

5 | arXiv cond-mat.mes-hall | 6 pt (graphene) | Xinyu Cai, Fengfan Ren, Qiao Li, Yanran Shi, Yifan Wang, Yifan Zhang, Zhenghang Zhi, Jiawei Luo, Yulin Chen, Jianpeng Liu, Xufeng Kou, Zhongkai Liu

Exceptional horns in $n$-root graphene and Lieb photonic ring lattices

6 | arXiv cond-mat.mes-hall | 6 pt (Dirac; graphene; two-dimensional) | A. M. Marques, D. Viedma, V. Ahufinger, R. G. Dias

Ligand Mediated Magnetoelectronic Coupling Across Metamagnetic Transitions in CrPS4

7 | arXiv cond-mat.mtrl-sci | 5 pt (ferromagnet; antiferromagnet) | Giuseppe Buccoliero, Rachel Nickel, Roberto Sant, Marli dos Reis Cantarino, Andrei Rogalev, Nathan J. Yutronkie, Tristan Riccardi, Daniel A. Chaney, Kurt Kummer, Johann Coraux, Nicholas B. Brookes

Stochastic Modeling of Anisotropic Strength Surfaces from Atomistic Simulations

8 | arXiv cond-mat.mtrl-sci | 3 pt (graphene; two-dimensional) | Alexander Bonacci, John Dolbow, Johann Guilleminot

$p$-wave magnet driven field-free Josephson diode effect

9 | arXiv cond-mat.mes-hall | 1 pt (altermagnet) | Lovy Sharma, Bimal Ghimire, Manisha Thakurathi

Unveiling and quantifying the topology-dependent pre-melting of nanoparticles

10 | arXiv cond-mat.mtrl-sci | 1 pt (topolo) | Marthe Bideault, Arnaud Allera, Ryoji Asahi, Jérôme Creuze, Erich Wimmer

Hidden universality in dislocation-loops mediated three-dimensional crystal melting

11 | arXiv cond-mat.mtrl-sci | 1 pt (topolo) | Alessio Zaccone, Konrad Samwer

The rise and fall of an oxide: insights into the phase diagram of bismuth oxide on Au(111)

12 | arXiv cond-mat.mtrl-sci | 1 pt (two-dimensional) | Alberto Turoldo (1), Marco Bianchi (2), Alessandro Baraldi (1 and 2), Silvano Lizzit (2) ((1) Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy, (2) Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Basovizza, Italy)