Cond-mat Update

Fri, 06 March 2026 from PRX (29 papers)
Interaction-Driven Quantum Phase Transitions between Topological and Crystalline Orders of Electrons
1 | Phys. Rev. X | 4 pt (allPRX; topolo; graphene) | André Haug, Ravi Kumar, Tomer Firon, Misha Yutushui, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, David F. Mross, and Yuval Ronen
Entropic Tug of War: Topological Constraints Spontaneously Rectify the Dynamics of a Polymer with Heterogeneous Fluctuations
2 | Phys. Rev. X | 3 pt (allPRX; topolo) | Adam H. T. P. Höfler, Iurii Chubak, Christos N. Likos, and Jan Smrek
Quantum Theory of Fractional Topological Pumping of Lattice Solitons
3 | Phys. Rev. X | 3 pt (allPRX; topolo) | Julius Bohm, Hugo Gerlitz, Christina Jörg, and Michael Fleischhauer
Quantum Coherent Transport of 1D Ballistic States in Second-Order Topological Insulator ${\mathrm{Bi}}_{4}{\mathrm{Br}}_{4}$
4 | Phys. Rev. X | 3 pt (allPRX; topolo) | Jules Lefeuvre, Masaru Kobayashi, Gilles Patriarche, Nathaniel Findling, David Troadec, Meydi Ferrier, Sophie Guéron, Hélène Bouchiat, Takao Sasagawa, and Richard Deblock
Exactly Solvable Models for Fermionic Symmetry-Enriched Topological Phases and Fermionic ’t Hooft Anomaly
5 | Phys. Rev. X | 3 pt (allPRX; topolo) | Jing-Ren Zhou and Zheng-Cheng Gu
Erratum: Strongly Interacting, Two-Dimensional, Dipolar Spin Ensembles in (111)-Oriented Diamond [Phys. Rev. X <b>15</b>, 021035 (2025)]
6 | Phys. Rev. X | 2 pt (allPRX; two-dimensional) | Lillian B. Hughes, Simon A. Meynell, Weijie Wu, Shreyas Parthasarathy, Lingjie Chen, Zhiran Zhang, Zilin Wang, Emily J. Davis, Kunal Mukherjee, Norman Y. Yao, and Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich
Exploring Light-Induced Phases of 2D Materials in a Modulated 1D Quasicrystal
7 | Phys. Rev. X | 2 pt (allPRX; two-dimensional) | Yifei Bai, Anna R. Dardia, Toshihiko Shimasaki, and David M. Weld
Emulating 2D Materials with Magnons
8 | Phys. Rev. X | 2 pt (allPRX; topolo) | Bobby Kaman, Jinho Lim, Yingkai Liu, and Axel Hoffmann
Atomic-Scale Chemical Inhomogeneity as a Determinant of Thermoelectric Transport in ${\text{Bi}}_{2}{\text{Te}}_{3}$-Based Materials
9 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Wu Wang, Juan Cui, Zhongbin Wang, Jianrui Wang, Mingyuan Hu, Lin Xie, Lin Gan, and Jiaqing He
Algorithmic Thresholds in Combinatorial Optimization Depend on the Time Scaling
10 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | M. C. Angelini, M. Avila-González, F. D’Amico, D. Machado, R. Mulet, and F. Ricci-Tersenghi
Hyperuniformity of Weighted Particle Systems
11 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Salvatore Torquato, Jaeuk Kim, Michael A. Klatt, Roberto Car, and Paul J. Steinhardt
Anderson Localization: A Density Matrix Approach
12 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Ziyue Qi, Yi Zhang, Mingpu Qin, Hongming Weng, and Kun Jiang
Thermalization in Open Many-Body Systems and KMS Detailed Balance
13 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Matteo Scandi and �lvaro M. Alhambra
Floquet Thermalization via Instantons near Dynamical Freezing
14 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Rohit Mukherjee, Haoyu Guo, and Debanjan Chowdhury
Stabilizer Rényi Entropy and Conformal Field Theory
15 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Masahiro Hoshino, Masaki Oshikawa, and Yuto Ashida
Molecular Motion at the Experimental Glass Transition
16 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Romain Simon, Jean-Louis Barrat, and Ludovic Berthier
Dissipating Quartets of Excitations in a Superconducting Circuit
17 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | A. Vanselow, B. Beauseigneur, L. Lattier, M. Villiers, A. Denis, P. Morfin, Z. Leghtas, and P. Campagne-Ibarcq
Emergent Random Matrix Universality in Quantum Operator Dynamics
18 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Oliver Lunt, Thomas Kriecherbauer, Kenneth T-R McLaughlin, and Curt von Keyserlingk
Characterizing Physical and Logical Errors in a Transversal CNOT Gate via Cycle Error Reconstruction
19 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Nicholas Fazio, Robert Freund, Debankan Sannamoth, Alex Steiner, Christian D. Marciniak, Manuel Rispler, Robin Harper, Thomas Monz, Joseph Emerson, and Stephen D. Bartlett
Reshaping the Quantum Arrow of Time
20 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Luis Pedro García-Pintos, Yi-Kai Liu, and Alexey V. Gorshkov
Bosonic Phases across the Superconductor-Insulator Transitions in Infinite-Layer Samarium Nickelate
21 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Menghan Liao, Heng Wang, Mingwei Yang, Chuanwu Cao, Jiayin Tang, Wenjing Xu, Xianfeng Wu, Guangdi Zhou, Haoliang Huang, Kaiwei Chen, Yuying Zhu, Peng Deng, Jianhao Chen, Zhuoyu Chen, Danfeng Li, Kai Chang, and Qi-Kun Xue
Anomalies of Global Symmetries on the Lattice
22 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Yi-Ting Tu, David M. Long, and Dominic V. Else
Microscopic Fingerprint of Chiral Superconductivity
23 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Xuefeng Wu, Xuan Hao, Zhuo Chen, Yuchang Cai, Minghao Wu, Congrun Chen, Kedong Wang, Fangfei Ming, Steven Johnston, Rui-Xing Zhang, and Hanno H. Weitering
Real-Time Adaptive Tracking of Fluctuating Relaxation Rates in Superconducting Qubits
24 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Fabrizio Berritta, Jacob Benestad, Jan A. Krzywda, Oswin Krause, Malthe A. Marciniak, Svend Krøjer, Christopher W. Warren, Emil Hogedal, Andreas Nylander, Irshad Ahmad, Amr Osman, Janka Biznárová, Marcus Rommel, Anita Fadavi Roudsari, Jonas Bylander, Giovanna Tancredi, Jeroen Danon, Jacob Hastrup, Ferdinand Kuemmeth, and Morten Kjaergaard
Monitored Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
25 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Ewan McCulloch, and Romain Vasseur
Unifying Same- and Different-Material Particle Charging through Stochastic Scaling
26 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Holger Grosshans, Gizem Ozler, Vyshnavi Veeravalli, and Simon Janta�
Yang-Lee Quantum Criticality in Various Dimensions
27 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Erick Arguello Cruz, Igor R. Klebanov, Grigory Tarnopolsky, and Yuan Xin
Inducing Ferroquadrupolar Order with Applied Magnetic Field in ${\mathrm{TbPO}}_{4}$
28 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | Paola Caterina Forino, Jens Jensen, Jian Rui Soh, Sonia Francoual, Oksana Zaharko, Steffen Sloth, Alexandra Turrini, Ralf Feyerherm, Karel Prokes, Sofie Holm-Janas, Ivica Zivkovic, Yong Liu, Arnaud Magrez, Niels Bech Christensen, Henrik M. Rønnow, and Rasmus Toft-Petersen
Quantized Hall Drift in a Frequency-Encoded Photonic Chern Insulator
29 | Phys. Rev. X | 1 pt (allPRX) | A. Chénier, B. d’Aligny, F. Pellerin, P.-É. Blanchard, T. Ozawa, I. Carusotto, and P. St-Jean