Cond-mat Update

Tue, 07 April 2026 from PRL (13 papers)
Fractional Quantum Multiferroics from Coupling of Fractional Quantum Ferroelectricity and Altermagnetism
1 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 5 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; magnetoelectric; altermagnet) | M. Q. Dong, B. Liu, Z. H. Dai, Zhi-Xin Guo, Hongjun Xiang, and Xin-Gao Gong
Quantum Critical Dynamics Induced by Topological Zero Modes
2 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 4 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; topolo) | Ilia Komissarov, Tobias Holder, and Raquel Queiroz
Nanoscale Imaging of Magnetotransport around a Circular $p\text{−}n$ Junction in Graphene
3 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 3 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; graphene) | Zachary J. Krebs, Wyatt A. Behn, Keenan J. Smith, Margaret A. Fortman, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Pathak S. Parashar, Michael M. Fogler, and Victor W. Brar
Electrically Driven Plasmon-Polaritonic Bistability in Dirac Electron Tunneling Transistors
4 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 2 pt (PRL:Cond-mat; Dirac) | Shuai Zhang, Yang Xu, Junhe Zhang, Dihao Sun, Yinan Dong, Matthew Fu, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Cory Dean, Monica Allen, Jeffery Allen, F. Javier García de Abajo, Antti J. Moilanen, Lukas Novotny, and D. N. Basov
Symmetry-Protected Acoustic “Ghost Tunnels”
5 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Changqing Xu, Zihao Su, Lingzhe Kong, Ze-Guo Chen, and Yun Lai
Angular Momentum Fluctuations in the Phonon Vacuum of Symmetric Crystals
6 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Rule Yi, Violet Williams, and Benedetta Flebus
Determining the Dielectric Constant of Solid-Liquid Interfaces
7 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Somaiyeh Dadashi, Narendra M. Adhikari, Hao Li, Stefan M. Piontek, Zheming Wang, Kevin M. Rosso, and Eric Borguet
Soft Phonon Charge-Density-Wave Formation in the Kagome Metal ${\mathrm{KV}}_{3}{\mathrm{Sb}}_{5}$
8 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Yifan Wang, Chenchao Xu, Zhimian Wu, Huachen Rao, Zhaoyang Shan, Yi Liu, Guanghan Cao, Michael Smidman, Ming Shi, Huiqiu Yuan, Tao Wu, Xianhui Chen, Chao Cao, and Yu Song
Spatial Inversion Kramers Degeneracy
9 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Jialu Mu, Biao Yang, and Qinghua Guo
High-Order Perfect Absorption in the Absence of Exceptional Point
10 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Huisheng Xu, Luojia Wang, Luqi Yuan, and Liang Jin
Near-Field Gain and Far-Field Control via a Plasmonic Time Crystal Slab
11 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Jaime E. Sustaeta-Osuna, Thomas F. Allard, Francisco J. García-Vidal, and Paloma A. Huidobro
Emergence of a Fluctuating Ground State in Y-Kapellasite under Pressure
12 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Dipranjan Chatterjee, Petr Doležal, Federico Abbruciati, Tobias Biesner, Katharina M. Zoch, Rustem Khasanov, Shams Sohel Islam, Guratinder Kaur, Seulki Roh, Francesco Capitani, Joao Elias F. S. Rodrigues, Gaston Garbarino, Cornelius Krellner, Philippe Mendels, Edwin Kermarrec, Martin Dressel, Björn Wehinger, Andrej Pustogow, Fabrice Bert, and Pascal Puphal
Charge-Density Ripples Modulated by Nuclear Quantum Effects in High-Harmonic Generation in Solids
13 | Phys. Rev. Lett. | 1 pt (PRL:Cond-mat) | Shi-Qi Hu, Qing Chen, and Sheng Meng