Optical control of the crystal structure in the bilayer nickelate superconductor La3_3Ni2_2O7_7 via nonlinear phononics

This study theoretically proposes that resonant optical excitation of infrared-active lattice vibrations can induce nonlinear phononics to straighten the interlayer Ni-O-Ni bond angle in the bilayer nickelate La3_3Ni2_2O7_7, offering a light-based alternative to pressure for controlling its crystal structure toward superconductivity.

Shu Kamiyama, Tatsuya Kaneko, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Masayuki OchiFri, 13 Ma🔬 physics.optics

Dimensionality tuning of heavy-fermion states in ultrathin CeSi2 films

By combining molecular beam epitaxy, in-situ ARPES, and transport measurements, this study demonstrates that reducing the dimensionality of CeSi₂ films from three to two dimensions suppresses crystal electric field excitations and lowers the magnetic resistivity peak temperature while preserving the Kondo ground state, thereby revealing how quantum confinement tunes heavy-fermion electronic states.

Yi Wu, Weifan Zhu, Teng Hua, Yuan Fang, Yanan Zhang, Jiawen Zhang, Yanen Huang, Hao Zheng, Shanyin Fu, Xinying Zheng, Zhengtai Liu, Mao Ye, Ye Chen, Tulai Sun, Michael Smidman, Johann Kroha, Chao Cao, Huiqiu Yuan, Frank Steglich, Hai-Qing Lin, Yang LiuFri, 13 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Crossover to Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev criticality in an infinite-range quantum Heisenberg spin glass

This paper investigates an infinite-range quantum Heisenberg spin glass model to demonstrate how varying the number of fermionic flavors drives a dynamical crossover from a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev critical phase with scale-invariant spectral densities to a low-energy spin-glass ordered phase characterized by universal sub-Ohmic susceptibility.

Hossein Hosseinabadi, Subir Sachdev, Jamir MarinoFri, 13 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Exact Anomalous Current Fluctuations in Quantum Many-Body Dynamics

This paper presents the first exact microscopic derivation of the M-Wright function characterizing anomalous integrated spin current fluctuations in a one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model with infinitely strong repulsive interactions, thereby extending the understanding of universal transport behaviors from classical to quantum many-body systems.

Kazuya Fujimoto, Taiki Ishiyama, Taiga Kurose, Takato Yoshimura, Tomohiro SasamotoFri, 13 Ma🌀 nlin

Can electronic quantum criticality drive phonon-induced linear-in-temperature resistivity?

This paper investigates whether electronic quantum criticality can enable optical phonons to drive linear-in-temperature resistivity at low temperatures by softening their energy gap, ultimately concluding that while criticality enhances phonon softening, the resulting dynamics typically lie at the marginal boundary or are weakened by feedback, limiting the robustness of this mechanism for explaining strange-metal transport.

Haoyu Guo, Debanjan ChowdhuryFri, 13 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Hall conductance in a weakly time-reversal invariant open system

This paper demonstrates that a non-equilibrium open system with weak time-reversal symmetry can exhibit non-quantized Hall conductance without an external magnetic field, as interactions with bosonic degrees of freedom and an external reservoir induce a time-reversal-breaking self-energy in the fermionic subsystem, a phenomenon that requires wave-function renormalization effects beyond a simple mass term.

Alexander Fagerlund, Christopher Ekman, Rodrigo AroucaFri, 13 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Moiré in Γ\Gamma-valley square lattice: Copper- and iron-based superconductor simulation in a single device

This paper proposes a universal theoretical framework using twisted homobilayers of Γ\Gamma-valley square-lattice systems, specifically identifying ZnF2_2 as a promising candidate to simulate the effective models of high-temperature superconductors like cuprates and iron-based materials by realizing single-orbital and multi-orbital Hubbard models within their moiré bands.

Toshikaze Kariyado, Yusuf Wicaksono, Ashvin Vishwanath, Pavel Volkov, Zhu-Xi LuoFri, 13 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Imaging flat band electron hydrodynamics in biased bilayer graphene

Using a scanning superconducting magnetic sensor to image local current flow in dual-gated bilayer graphene, researchers identified distinct ballistic, hydrodynamic, and diffusive transport regimes, demonstrating that the flat band regime with its large effective mass enables ultra-short electron-electron scattering lengths (~50 nm) and strong nonlinearities, thereby paving the way for miniaturized electronic devices based on electron hydrodynamics.

Canxun Zhang, Evgeny Redekop, Hari Stoyanov, Jack H. Farrell, Sunghoon Kim, Ludwig Holleis, David Gong, Aidan Keough, Youngjoon Choi, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Martin E. Huber, Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich, Andrew Lucas, Andrea F. YoungFri, 13 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Selective braiding of different anyons in the even-denominator fractional quantum Hall effect

This paper demonstrates a gate-tunable Fabry-Pérot interferometer that enables the selective control and measurement of distinct statistical phases (π\pi and π/2\pi/2) for different anyon types in even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states, thereby resolving individual anyon tunneling events and addressing a key challenge in observing non-Abelian braiding.

Jehyun Kim, Amit Shaer, Ravi Kumar, Alexey Ilin, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ady Stern, David F. Mross, Yuval RonenFri, 13 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Canted ferromagnetic order in a distorted triangular-lattice magnet Na2_2SrCo(VO4_4)2_2

This study reports that the distorted triangular-lattice cobalt vanadate Na2_2SrCo(VO4_4)2_2 exhibits a low-temperature canted ferromagnetic order, highlighting how the specific tetrahedral anion (TTO4_4) critically tunes exchange interactions to produce distinct magnetic ground states compared to its trigonal sister compounds.

Tengfei Peng, Xiaobai Ma, Xinyang Liu + 5 more2026-03-10🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Dual holography as functional renormalization group

This paper establishes a unified framework linking the functional renormalization group and dual holography by reformulating the RG flow of a probability distribution via a Fokker-Planck equation into a path integral representation, which yields a Hamilton-Jacobi equation for an effective action that explicitly incorporates RG β\beta-functions into the bulk dynamics.

Ki-Seok Kim, Arpita Mitra, Debangshu Mukherjee + 1 more2026-03-10⚛️ hep-th

Persistence of charge ordering instability to Coulomb engineering in the excitonic insulator candidate TiSe2_2

By utilizing Coulomb engineering to tune dielectric screening in ultra-clean TiSe2_2 heterostructures, the study demonstrates that while the band gap is renormalized, the charge-density-wave transition remains unaffected, thereby ruling out excitonic insulator physics as the primary driver of the phase transition in TiSe2_2.

Sebastian Buchberger, Yann in 't Veld, Akhil Rajan + 11 more2026-03-10🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Generic deformation channels for critical Fermi surfaces including the impact of collisions

This paper extends the analysis of critical Fermi surface deformations at an Ising-nematic quantum critical point by employing quantum Boltzmann equations that include collision effects, revealing that while bosonic dynamics do not alter the solutions, the system supports a robust zero-sound mode and an infinite family of discrete higher-order harmonic modes alongside a continuous particle-hole band.

Kazi Ranjibul Islam, Aditya Savanur, Ipsita Mandal2026-03-10⚛️ hep-th