Cond-mat Update

Tue, 24 February 2026 from PRL (26 papers)
Topological Devil’s Staircase in a Constrained Kagome Ising Antiferromagnet
1 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 4 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; topolo; ferromagnet; antiferromagnet) | Afonso Rufino, Samuel Nyckees, Jeanne Colbois, and Frédéric Mila
Theory of Stimulated and Spontaneous Axion Scattering
2 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 4 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; axion) | M. Smith, Kartiek Agarwal, and Ivar Martin
Interfacial Spin-Orbit Coupling Induced Room Temperature Ferromagnetic Insulator
3 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 4 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; ferromagnet) | Yuhao Hong, Shilin Hu, Ziyue Shen, Chao Deng, Xiaodong Zhang, Lei Wang, Long Wei, Qinghua Zhang, Lingfei Wang, Liang Si, Yulin Gan, Kai Chen, and Zhaoliang Liao
Critical Majorana Fermion at a Topological Quantum Hall Bilayer Transition
4 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 3 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; topolo) | Cristian Voinea, Wei Zhu, Nicolas Regnault, and Zlatko Papić
Vacancy Induced Expansion of Spin-Liquid Regime in the ${J}_{1}\text{−}{J}_{2}$ Heisenberg Model
5 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 3 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; ferromagnet; antiferromagnet) | Soumyaranjan Dash, Anish Koley, and Sanjeev Kumar
Pseudocriticality in Antiferromagnetic Spin Chains
6 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 3 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; ferromagnet; antiferromagnet) | Sankalp Kumar, Sumiran Pujari, and Jonathan D’Emidio
Anyonic Membranes and Pontryagin Statistics
7 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 2 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; topolo) | Yitao Feng (冯逸韬), Hanyu Xue (薛寒玉), Yuyang Li (李雨阳), Meng Cheng (程蒙), Ryohei Kobayashi (小林良平), Po-Shen Hsin (辛柏伸), and Yu-An Chen (陳昱安)
Coexisting Electronic Smectic Liquid Crystal and Superconductivity in a Si Square-Net Semimetal
8 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 2 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; semimetal) | Christopher J. Butler, Toshiya Ikenobe, Ming-Chun Jiang, Daigorou Hirai, Takahiro Yamada, Guang-Yu Guo, Ryotaro Arita, Tetsuo Hanaguri, and Zenji Hiroi
Extremely High Excitonic $g$ Factors in 2D Crystals by Alloy-Induced Admixing of Band States
9 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 2 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; dichalcogenide) | Katarzyna Olkowska-Pucko <em>et al.</em>
Diverse Polymorphism in Ruddlesden-Popper Chalcogenides
10 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Prakriti Kayastha, Erik Fransson, Paul Erhart, and Lucy Whalley
Spatially Resolved Optical Responses of a Superconducting Nanowire Microwave Resonator
11 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Rento Hirotsuru, Hodaka Kurokawa, Kazuyo Takaki, Hirotaka Terai, and Hideo Kosaka
(Ir)Relevance of Disorder for Superconductivity in Cuprates
12 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | R. Caruso, X. He, A. T. Bollinger, and I. Božović
Nanoscale Observation and Control of Quasiparticle Induced Magnetic Noise in a Superconducting Resonator
13 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Senlei Li, Shane P. Kelly, Jingcheng Zhou, Hanyi Lu, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Hailong Wang, and Chunhui Rita Du
Interplay of Cohesive, Griffith, and Geometric Scales in the Nucleation of Friction
14 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Songlin Shi and Jay Fineberg
Deep Variational Free Energy Calculation of Hydrogen Hugoniot
15 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Zihang Li, Hao Xie, Xinyang Dong, and Lei Wang
Conformal Operator Flows of the Deconfined Quantum Criticality from $\mathrm{SO}(5)$ to $\mathrm{O}(4)$
16 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Shuai Yang, Liang-dong Hu, Chao Han, W. Zhu, and Yan Chen
Questioning the Cuprate Paradigm: Absence of Superfluid Density Loss in Several Overdoped Cuprates I
17 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | J. L. Tallon, J. G. Storey, J. W. Loram, Jianlin Luo, C. Bernhard, I. Kokanović, and J. R. Cooper
Quintuplet Condensation in the Skyrmionic Insulator ${\mathrm{Cu}}_{2}{\mathrm{OSeO}}_{3}$ at Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields
18 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | T. Nomura, I. Rousochatzakis, O. Janson, M. Gen, X.-G. Zhou, Y. Ishii, S. Seki, Y. Kohama, and Y. H. Matsuda
Instantaneous Optical Selection Rule for Independent Control of Valley Currents
19 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Wanzhu He, Xiaosong Zhu, Liang Li, Di Wu, Xiaotong Zhu, Pengfei Lan, and Peixiang Lu
Nonmonotonic Roughness Evolution in Film Growth on Weakly Interacting Substrates
20 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Dmitry Lapkin, Ismael S. S. Carrasco, Catherine Cruz Luukkonen, Oleg Konovalov, Alexander Hinderhofer, Frank Schreiber, Fábio D. A. Aarão Reis, and Martin Oettel
Quantum Statistics and Self-Interference in Extended Colliders
21 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Sai Satyam Samal, Smitha Vishveshwara, Yuval Gefen, and Jukka I. Väyrynen
Oxygen Isotope Fingerprints of Electron-Phonon Coupling in ${\mathrm{SrVO}}_{3}$ Films
22 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Gyanendra Singh, Xiaochun Huang, Mathieu Mirjolet, Salvador Pané, Thomas Lippert, Christof W. Schneider, and Josep Fontcuberta
Bootstrapping Flatband Superconductors: Rigorous Lower Bounds on Superfluid Stiffness
23 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Qiang Gao, Zhaoyu Han, and Eslam Khalaf
Violation of Local Reciprocity in Charge-Orbital Interconversion
24 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Hisanobu Kashiki, Hiroki Hayashi, Dongwook Go, Yuriy Mokrousov, and Kazuya Ando
At Extreme Strain Rates, Pure Metals Thermally Harden while Alloys Thermally Soften
25 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Ian Dowding and Christopher A. Schuh
Observation of Robust Macroscale Structural Superlubricity
26 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Minhao Han, Deli Peng, Dinglin Yang, Jin Wang, Yi Zheng, Guofeng Hu, Yifan Shao, Jiaying Li, Feng Ding, Zhiping Xu, Michael Urbakh, and Quanshui Zheng