Tong Zhao, Shulin Zhong, Yuxin Sun, Defan Wu, Zhidan Zeng, Yilun Wang, Chunyi Zhang, Rui Shi, Hao Chen, Qunlin Nie, Zhenyi Ni, Xiaodong Pi, Xiangyang Ma, Yunhao Lu, Deren Yang
{"title":"High Hole Doping Redirects Pressure-Induced Phase Transformation of Silicon.","authors":"Tong Zhao, Shulin Zhong, Yuxin Sun, Defan Wu, Zhidan Zeng, Yilun Wang, Chunyi Zhang, Rui Shi, Hao Chen, Qunlin Nie, Zhenyi Ni, Xiaodong Pi, Xiangyang Ma, Yunhao Lu, Deren Yang","doi":"10.1103/v636-pcxy","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/v636-pcxy","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The pressure-induced phase transformation of semiconductors, particularly silicon (Si), has long been a fundamental problem in condensed matter physics. Decades of research have predominantly focused on external factors such as temperature, load, and unloading rate, leaving the role of inherent electronic properties fundamentally unresolved. This Letter addresses this gap by demonstrating that hole doping (i.e., hole concentration) is a critical governing factor in the pressure-induced phase transformation. We experimentally establish, for the first time, that high hole-doping redirects the phase transformation by facilitating the amorphization of Si. Our simulations powered by carrier-dependent interatomic potentials reveal that the three-coordinated Si atoms are dynamically stabilized by the localized holes during the decompression from β-tin (Si-II) phase, irreversibly driving the collapse of long-range order in Si to facilitate amorphization. Furthermore, we experimentally observe the hole-facilitated amorphization in Ge and SiC, while GaAs shows a somewhat weaker yet consistent trend. Our Letter unveils the hidden role of holes from mere charge carriers to fundamental mediators of structural stability under high pressure, establishing a new perspective on the interplay between electronic and structural properties in semiconductors.</p>","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"137 14","pages":"146101"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Similarity of fractional Chern insulators to fractional quantum Hall states: Moire-enhanced gaps and excitation-spectrum correspondence","authors":"Anonymous","doi":"10.1103/l6sm-yzbn","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/l6sm-yzbn","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149091843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Atsushi Ueda, Tokiro Numasawa, Boris De Vos, Masataka Watanabe
{"title":"Emergent Andreev Reflection from a Lattice Duality Defect.","authors":"Atsushi Ueda, Tokiro Numasawa, Boris De Vos, Masataka Watanabe","doi":"10.1103/h1rv-bv9y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/h1rv-bv9y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Andreev reflection converts an incoming fermion into an outgoing hole and is usually tied to a superconducting interface. We show that an analogous charge-conjugating boundary condition emerges from a purely lattice duality defect. Starting from a Majorana representation of the transverse-field Ising chain, we construct a folded lattice model in which a boundary Majorana impurity implements a one-site translation of a staggered Majorana chain. In the continuum, this translation becomes a chiral fermion-parity defect: it flips the sign of the only left-moving Majorana mode while leaving the right-moving mode unchanged. When the two Majorana modes are recombined into a complex fermion in the folded geometry, this sign flip becomes the Andreev-like boundary condition. Our lattice formulation gives a microscopic interpretation of the Emery-Kivelson boundary of the two-channel Kondo problem and of Maldacena-Ludwig monopole scattering, while identifying the boundary as the interface between a Kitaev-chain symmetry-protected topological phase and a gapless chain. The same Majorana translation defect also provides a lattice realization of an axial U(1)_{A}-symmetric charge-flip boundary.</p>","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"137 14","pages":"146504"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum: Temperature Dependence of ρ- and a_{1}-Meson Masses and Mixing of Vector and Axial-Vector Correlators [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 042002 (2002)].","authors":"Michael Urban, Michael Buballa, Jochen Wambach","doi":"10.1103/6rnw-w6t1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/6rnw-w6t1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.042002.</p>","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"137 14","pages":"149901"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sergi G Leyva, Ahis Shrestha, Monica Olvera de la Cruz
{"title":"Active Ionic Fluxes Induce Symmetry Breaking in Charge-Patterned Nanochannels.","authors":"Sergi G Leyva, Ahis Shrestha, Monica Olvera de la Cruz","doi":"10.1103/k9sp-h4c3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/k9sp-h4c3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biological systems rely on autonomous modes of charge transport to transmit signals. Instead, conventional synthetic systems typically depend on external fields, such as voltage or pressure gradients, to induce transport, which limits their applicability. Here, we investigate nanochannels in which an electrolyte is confined by symmetric boundary patterns combining surface charge and active ionic fluxes. We show that the interplay between diffusion, electrostatics, and hydrodynamics in such nano-confined active-charged systems can trigger symmetry breaking above a critical active flux, leading to directed flow. Our results suggest that active-charged nanochannels can generate net flows of the order of hundreds of millimeters per second, opening pathways toward adaptable ionic devices and neuromorphic architectures.</p>","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"137 14","pages":"148202"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E Bell, A Zhakenuly, C Hnatovsky, K W Baldwin, L N Pfeiffer, K W West, S Studenikin, M A Zudov
{"title":"Radiowave-Induced Resistance Oscillations.","authors":"E Bell, A Zhakenuly, C Hnatovsky, K W Baldwin, L N Pfeiffer, K W West, S Studenikin, M A Zudov","doi":"10.1103/5h4n-1nzb","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/5h4n-1nzb","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Microwave-induced resistance oscillations (MIROs) occur when a two-dimensional electron gas is subjected to radiation of frequency ω=2πf and varying magnetic field B. MIROs are periodic in 1/B, with the period determined by the radiation frequency ω, and their amplitude scales with the radiation power. Stepping from single-photon transitions between Landau levels, MIROs are found on the low-field side of the cyclotron resonance, ω_{c}≲ω, where ω_{c} is the cyclotron frequency. Here, we report on another class of magneto resistance oscillations, which are induced by high-intensity radiation in the radio frequency range and occur at ω_{c}≫ω. These oscillations are independent of frequency ω, they can be either 1/B or 1/B^{2} periodic, and their period is controlled by the radiation electric field. We further show that by using a displacement model in the limit of short-range (\"sharp\") disorder we can extract the radiation field and the width of the cyclotron resonance.</p>","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"137 14","pages":"146303"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zaizhe Zhang, Xi Chen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zhida Song, Xiaobo Lu
{"title":"Flavor-Polarized Chern Insulator in the Half-Filled Rhombohedral Graphene Moiré Superlattice.","authors":"Zaizhe Zhang, Xi Chen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zhida Song, Xiaobo Lu","doi":"10.1103/h96k-q32d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/h96k-q32d","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Graphene-based moiré superlattices exhibit novel quantum phenomena driven by pronounced interactions, leading to topological correlated states like orbital Chern insulators exhibiting quantum anomalous Hall effects. Typically, intrinsic Chern insulators are stabilized at odd moiré fillings, as even fillings often result in valley-balanced, topologically trivial states at zero magnetic field. In this Letter, we report the observation of a Chern insulator with C=1 state at moiré filling ν=2 in the rhombohedral octalayer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride moiré superlattice. In the vicinity of this topological phase, we also observe a robust topologically trivial correlated insulator at the same filling, highlighting the intense competition between different ground states. Observing such a Chern insulator, in particular with C=1 at ν=2 is intriguing, as the lowest moiré band in each flavor is expected to host Chern number C=1 or -1. We further demonstrate that such a state could originate from the hybridization between the low-energy moiré flat bands and high-energy remote bands in a single flavor by self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculation. Our findings extend the known topological phase diagram of rhombohedral multilayer graphene moiré systems and establish this platform as highly promising for investigating strong electron correlations and multiband hybridized transport at fillings higher than ν=1.</p>","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"137 14","pages":"146505"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}