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Surface Acoustic Wave Driven Acoustic Spin Splitter in d-Wave Altermagnetic Thin Films
P. M. Gunnink, J. Sinova, and A. Mook
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116706 (2026)

Spin-wave emission with current-controlled frequency by a PMA-based spin-Hall oscillator
M. Bechberger, D. Breitbach, A. Koujok, B. Heinz, C. Dubs, A. Hamadeh, and P. Pirro
APL Mater. 14, 031102 (2026)

Spin-wave phase modulation using magnetic domain walls in dipolarly coupled structures for non-volatile magnonic computation
H. Mortada, P. Pirro, and A. Hamadeh
Appl. Phys. Lett. 128, 232401 (2026)

Role of photonic interference in exciton-mediated magneto-optic responses
G. Budak, C. Riedel, A. Kamra, P. Rinke, C. Back, M. Stosiek, and F. Dirnberger
Phys. Rev. B 114, 094405 (2026)

Unquenched orbital angular momentum as the origin of spin inertia
T. Moussa, D. N. Basu, R. Mondal, and A. Kamra
Phys. Rev. B 114, 024424 (2026)

Emergence of a spin Hall topological Hall effect in the noncollinear phase of the ferrimagnetic insulator terbium-iron garnet
M. Loyal, A. Akashdeep, E. Mangini, E. Galíndez-Ruales, M. Eich, N. Wang, Q.Q. Lan, L. Jin, R. Dunin-Borkowski, T. Kuschel, M. Kläui, G. Jakob
Physical Review Materials 10, 054417 (2026)

Energy-efficient field-free switching by orbital torque and spin-reorientation
B. Jamshed, S. Das, P. K. Mishra, W. L. W. Mah, M. Kläui, S. N. Piramanayagam
Nature Communications 17, 6203 (2026)

Persistent homology as efficient phase descriptor for 2D skyrmion lattices
M. Taniwaki, T. B. Winkler, J. Rothörl, R. Gruber, C. Mitsumata, M. Kotsugi, M. Kläui
Apl Machine Learning 4, 026111 (2026)

Time-resolved magnetic force microscopy of all-optical magnetization switching
D. Khusyainov, R. Liefferink, F. Kammerbauer, R. Frömter, M. Kläui, D. Kozodaev, J. H. Mentink, D. Afanasiev, T. Rasing, A. Kimel
Apl Materials 14, 061109 (2026)

Real-Time Modeling of Skyrmion Dynamics in Arbitrary 2D Spatially Dependent Pinning Potential Landscapes
S. M. Fröhlich, T. Sparmann, M. A. Brems, J. Rothörl, F. Kammerbauer, K. Raab, S. Krishnia, M. Kläui, P. Virnau
Communications Physics 9, 243 (2026)

All-optical magnetometric characterization of the exchange-coupled antiferromagnet/ferromagnet system Mn2Au|Ni80Fe20 by terahertz spin-orbit torques
Y. Behovits, A. L. Chekhov, B. R. Serrano, A. Ruge, S. Reimers, Y. Lytvynenko, M. Kläui, M. Jourdan, T. Kampfrath
Physical Review B 113, 214408 (2026)

Hot exciton dissociation in graphene nanoribbons
G. Z. Wen, F. G. Xu, A. Tries, W. H. Zheng, L. D. Virgilio, S. Fu, X. Y. Chen, L. Yang, Z. J. Xiao, M. Kläui, S. Osella, J. Ma, X. Wang, X. L. Feng, Y. Y. Mai, M. Bonn, H. I. Wang
Nature Communications 17, 5260 (2026)

Roadmap for warm dense matter physics
J. Vorberger, F. Graziani, D. Riley, A. D. Baczewski, I. Baraffe, M. Bethkenhagen, S. Blouin, M. P. Böhme, M. Bomitz, M. Bussmann, A. Casner, W. Cayzac, P. Celliers, G. Charbrier, N. Chamel, D. Chamel, D. Chapman, M. Chen, J. Clérouin, G. Collins, F. Coppari, T. Döppner, T. Dornheim, L. B. Fletcher, D. O. Gericke, S. Glenzer, A. F. Goncharov, G. Gregori, S. Hamel, S. B. Hansen, N. J. Hartley, S. Hu, O. A. Hurricane, V. V. Karasiev, J. J. Kas, B. Kettle, T. Kluge, M. D. Knudson, A. Kononov, Z. Konôpková, D. Kraus, A. Kritcher, S. Malko, G. Massacrier, B. Militzer, Z. A. Moldabekov, M. S. Murillo, B. Nagler, N. Nettelmann, P. Neumayer, B. K. Ofori-Okai, I. I. Oleynik, M. Preising, A. Pribram-Jones, T. Ramazanov, A. Ravasio, R. Redmer, B. Rethfeld, A. P. L .Robinson, G. Röpke, F. Soubiran, C. E. Starrett, G. Steinle-Neumann, P. A. Sterne, S. Tanaka, A. P. Thompson, S. B. Trickey, T. Vinci, S. M. Vinko, L. Wang, A. J. White, T. G. White, U. Zastrau, E. Zurek and P. Tolias
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion, 68, 073501 (2026)

Thermalization of optically excited Fermi systems: Electron–electron collisions in solid metals
S. Roden, C. Seibel, T. Held, M. Uehlein, S. T. Weber and B. Rethfeld
Phys. Plasmas 33, 053906

Probing laser-driven surface and subsurface dynamics via grazing-incidence XFEL scattering and diffraction
L. Randolph, Ö. Öztürk, D. Ksenzov, L. Huang, T. Kluge, S. V. Rahul, V. Bouffetier, T. Held, S. T. Weber, C. Baehtz, M. Banjafar, E. Brambrink, F. Brieuc, B. I. Cho, S. Göde, H. Höppner, G. Jakob, M. Kläui, Z. Konôpková, C. Lee, G. Lee, M. Makita, M. Mishchenko, M. Mo, P. D. Ndione, F. Paschke-Bruehl, M. Paulus, A. Pelka, T. R. Preston, C. Rödel, M. Ŝmíd, L. Wang, L. Wollenweber, B. Rethfeld, J. Schwinkdorf, C. Gutt and M. Nakatsutsumi
IUCrJ  13, 249259

Multimode Objective Lens for Momentum Microscopy and X-ray photoemission electron microscopy: Experiments
O. Tkach, S. Fragkos, D. Biswas, J. Liu, O. Fedchenko, Y. Lytvynenko, S. Babenkov, D. Zimmer, Q. Nguyen, S. Chernov, D. Kutnyakhov, M. Scholz, N. Wind, A. Gloskowskii, F. Pressacco, J. Dilling, L. Bruckmeier, M. Heber, L. Wenthaus, G. Brenner, D. Puntel, P. E. Majchrzak, D. Liu, F. Scholz, J. A. Sobota, J. D. Koralek, G. Dakovski, A. Mehta, N. Sirica, M. Hoesch, C. Schlueter, L. V. Odnodvorets, Y. Mairesse, T.-L. Lee, A. Kunin, K. Rossnagel, Z. X. Shen, H.-J. Elmers, S. Beaulieu, and G. Schönhense
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 97, 033703 (2026)

Orbital Magnetoresistance in the Antiferromagnet CoO Driven by Dynamic Orbital Angular Momentum
C. Schmitt, S. Krishnia, M. Zeer, E. Galíndez-Ruales, M. Loyal, J. Köhler, L. Micus, T. Kikkawa, H. Arisawa, T. Denneulin, A. Kovács, R. Xu, F. Kronast, D. Go, L. V. Pourovskii, D. Tran, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, T. Kuschel, M. Ležaić, J. Sinova, E. Saitoh, G. Jakob, O. Gomonay, Y. Mokrousov, M. Kläui
Science 393, 76–79 (2026)

Optically stimulated spin dynamics in a multi-domain CoO/Pt bilayer
C. Sait, M. Dąbrowski, T. Wu, J. Xu, Y.Fan, P. Keatley, O. Gomonay, Y. Wu, and R. Hicken
Appl. Phys. Lett. 129, 032405 (2026)

Harnessing Plasmonic Heating For Switching In Antiferromagnets
H. Y. Yuan, Y. Wu, and O. Gomonay
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206702 (2026) Editor’s suggestion

Interlayer Sliding Modulation of Spin Hall and Spin Nernst Effects in Two-Dimensional Altermagnets
S. Liu, L. Bai, X. Wang, L. Šmejkal, J. Sinova, Y. Mokrousov, G.-B. Liu, W. Feng
Frontiers of Physics 21, 115203 (2026)

Interlayer Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya Interaction Tuned Magnetic Ground States in Rectangular Spin-Lattice Heterojunctions
L. Xia, Y. Gao, L. Zhang, C. Lv, Y. Chen, Y. Mokrousov, L. Zhang
Applied Physics Letters 128, 251909 (2026)

Anatomy of the Modern Theory of Orbital Magnetism from First Principles: Term-by-Term Analysis in the Gauge-Covariant Formalism
H. Lee, I. Baek, M. Sastges, Y. Mokrousov, H.-W. Lee, D. Go
Physical Review B 113, 214449 (2026)

Nodal-Loop Engineering of the Second-Order Magneto-Optical Effect in Two-Dimensional Topological Altermagnets
X. Wang, P. Yang, G.-B. Liu, Y. Mokrousov, W. Feng
Nano Letters 26, 7043–7049 (2026)

Light-Induced Magnetization Dynamics in the Chiral Magnet MnSi
A. Barua, S. Knapp, J. Gayles, T. Weber, T. Adamantopoulos, Y. Mokrousov, S. A. McGill, S. Mozaffari, M. Cothrine, D. Mandrus, D. Karaiskaj
Physical Review B 113, 184424 (2026)

PT-Symmetric Antiferromagnets as Building Blocks for Anomalous Transport
L. Bai, S. Liu, X. Wang, L. Šmejkal, J. Sinova, Y. Mokrousov, Y. Yao, W. Feng
Nano Letters 26, 3934–3939 (2026)

Violation of Local Reciprocity in Charge-Orbital Interconversion
H. Kashiki, H. Hayashi, D. Go, Y. Mokrousov, K. Ando
Physical Review Letters 136, 076702 (2026)

Detection and Control of Electronic Orbital Magnetism by Spin Waves in Honeycomb Ferromagnets
L. Zhang, L. Zhang, D. Go, C. Niu, W. Wulfhekel, P. Li, Y. Chen, Y. Mokrousov, L. Zhang
Nano Letters 26, 1254–1260 (2026)

Emergence of phase coherence in a magnon Bose–Einstein condensate
Malte Koster, Matthias R. Schweizer, Timo Noack, Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka, Dmytro A. Bozhko, Burkard Hillebrands, Mathias Weiler, Alexander A. Serga, and Georg von Freymann
Nature Physics (2026) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-026-03373-6
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Twist-tuned exchange and hysteresis in a bilayer van der Waals magnet
P. Mondal, S. Verma, W. Lan, L. Krelle, L. Hopf, R. Tan, R. von Klitzing, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, K. Mosina, Z. Sofer, A. Kamra, and B. Urbaszek
Nature Communications 17, 5984 (2026)

Excitons in van der Waals magnetic materials
P. C. Adak, F. Dirnberger, S. Acharya, A. Kamra, X. Xu, and V. M. Menon
Nature Materials (2026) (Review article)

Exciton transport driven by spin excitations in an antiferromagnet
F. Dirnberger, S. Terres, Z. A. Iakovlev, K. Mosina, Z. Sofer, A. Kamra, M. M. Glazov, and A. Chernikov
Nature Nanotechnology 21, 65 (2026)

Roadmap on nanoscale superconductivity for quantum technologies
Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy^*, Hermann Suderow, Francesco Tafuri, Annica M Black-Schaffer, Jose L Lado, Asle Sudbø, Daniela Stornaioulo, Chuan Li, Anna E Böhmer, Lan Maria Tran, Andrzej J Zaleski, Adrian Crisan, Massimiliano Polichetti, Armando Galluzzi, Ali Gencer, Bernd Aichner, Neven Barišić, Wolfgang Lang, Tomas Samuely, Martin Gmitra, Tristan Cren, Mateo Calandra, Peter Samuely, Jeroen Custers, Rosa Córdoba, Vladimir M Fomin, Nicola Poccia, Pavol Szabó, Fabrizio Porrati, Gleb Kakazei, Jan Aarts, Jason Robinson, Javier E Villegas, Matthias Althammer, Hans Huebl, Akashdeep Kamra, Mathias Weiler, J Hugo Dil, Daniil Evtushinsky, Beena Kalisky, Yonathan Anahory, Simon Bending, Peter Liljeroth, Abdou Hassanien, Isabel Guillamón, Edwin Herrera, Alejandro V Silhanek, Joris Van de Vondel, Anna Palau, Ilya Charaev, Maria Sidorova, Floriana Lombardi, Thilo Bauch, Cheryl Feuillet-Palma, Vasily Stolyarov, Dimitri Roditchev, Vladimir M Krasnov, Benedikt Hampel, María José Martínez-Pérez, Javier Sesé, Dieter Koelle, Stefano Poletto, Alessandro Bruno and Davide Massarotti
Superconductor Science and Technology 39, 023502 (2026)

Signatures of bulk g-wave altermagnetism in optically excited 𝛼−MnTe
Luca Felipe Haag, Marius Weber, Kai Leckron, Libor Šmejkal, Jairo Sinova, and Hans Christian Schneider
Phys. Rev. Materials 10, 074413 (2026)

Revealing charge anisotropies in metal compounds via high-purity x-ray polarimetry
Lena Scherthan, Juliusz A. Wolny, Isabelle Faus, Olaf Leupold, Kai S. Schulze, Sebastian Höfer, Robert Loetzsch, Berit Marx-Glowna, Christopher E. Anson, Annie K. Powell, Ingo Uschmann, Hans-Christian Wille, Gerhard G. Paulus, Volker Schünemann, and Ralf Röhlsberger
Phys. Rev. Research 8, 023297 (2026)

Exploring the third dimension in quantum confinement of surface electrons
Lu Lyu, Tobias Eul, Wei Yao, Jin Xiao, Mostafa Ashoush, Zakaria M. Abd El-Fattah, Ignacio Piquero-Zulaica, Johannes V. Barth, Martin Aeschlimann, and Benjamin Stadtmüller
Sci. Adv. 12, eaed3926 (2026)
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Challenges and opportunities in orbitronics
Shunsuke Fukami, Kyung-Jin Lee, and Mathias Kläui
Nature Physics (2026) doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-03143-w

Higher-order Hall response arises from octupole order and scalar spin chirality in a noncollinear antiferromagnet
Adithya Rajan, Tom G. Saunderson, Fabian R. Lux, Rocío Yanes Díaz, Hasan M. Abdullah, Arnab Bose, Beatrice Bednarz, Jun-Young Kim, Dongwook Go, Tetsuya Hajiri, Gokaran Shukla, Olena Gomonay, Yugui Yao, Wanxiang Feng, Hidefumi Asano, Udo Schwingenschlögl, Luis López-Díaz, Jairo Sinova, Gerhard Jakob, Yuriy Mokrousov, Aurélien Manchon, and Mathias Kläui
Communications Materials 7, 73 (2026)

Surface-localized magnetic order in RuO₂ thin films revealed by low-energy muon probes
Akashdeep Akashdeep, Sachin Krishnia, Jae-Hyun Ha, Siyeon An, Maik Gaerner, Thomas Prokscha, Andreas Suter, Gianluca Janka, Günter Reiss, Timo Kuschel, Dong-Soo Han, Angelo Di Bernardo, Zaher Salman, Gerhard Jakob, and Mathias Kläui
Applied Physics Letters 128, 022406 (2026)

A novel family of heteroleptic 1D chain spin-crossover complexes and its DFT modelling. How the formation of polynuclear chains modifies the ligand-field effects on spin transition
Vladyslav Maliuzhenko, Marek Weselski, Maria Książek, Tim Hochdörffer, Juliusz A. Wolny, Volker Schünemann, Joachim Kusz, Robert Bronisz
Dalton Transactions doi.org/10.1039/D6DT00320F

Depth Profiling of Oxygen Migration in Ta/HfO₂ Stacks during Ionic Liquid Gating
Beatrice Bednarz, Martin Wortmann Olga Kuschel, Fabian Kammerbauer, Mathias Kläui, Andreas Hütten, Joachim Wollschläger, Gerhard Jakob, and Timo Kuschel
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 18 (2026)

Texture-dependent all-optical switching in ferromagnetic films via stochastic nucleation of nanoscale domains
Dinar Khusyainov, Rein Liefferink, MengXing Na, Fabian Kammerbauer, Robert Frömter, Mathias Kläui, Dmitry Kozodaev, Nikolay Vovk, Rostislav V. Mikhaylovskiy, Dmytro Afanasiev, Alexey V. Kimel, Johan H. Mentink & Theo Rasing
Nature Materials (2026) doi.org/10.1038/s41563-026-02515-8

Predicting the future with magnons: Forecasting chaotic time series with reservoir computing
Zeling Xiong (熊则灵), Christopher Heins, Thibaut Devolder, Fabian Kammerbauer, Mathias Kläui, Jürgen Fassbender, Helmut Schultheiss , and Katrin Schultheiss 
Physical Review Applied 25, 044047 (2026)

Impact of Cooperativity on the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of the Light-Induced Spin-State Switching of the Fe(phen)₂(SCN)₂ Spin-Crossover Complex
Chetana Badala Viswanatha, Johannes Stöckl, Benito Arnoldi, Johannes Knippertz, Florian Haag, Hauke Paulsen, Juliusz A. Wolny, Martin Aeschlimann, Volker Schünemann, and Benjamin Stadtmüller
J. Phys. Chem. C, doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6c01676

Ultralong-living magnons in the quantum limit
R.O. Serha, K.H. McAllister, F. Majcen, S. Knauer, T. Reimann, C. Dubs, G.A. Melkov, A.A. Serga, V.S. Tyberkevych, A.V. Chumak, and D.A. Bozhko
Science Advances 12, eaee2344 (2026)

FRET between NV Centers in Diamond and Chlorophyll Molecules: A Novel Resource for Multimodal Sensing and Imaging in Plant Cells
Sebastian Westrich, Nimba Oshnik, Nina Thiele, Nina Burmeister, Yanis Abdedou, Nikhita Khera, Stefanie J. Müller-Schüssele, Elke Neu
Adv. Optical Mater., 2026; 0:e00003

[2+2] photocycloaddition induces 114 K high-temperature shift of spin crossover transition - the role of the cycloaddition induced strain
Marcin Kaźmierczak, Vladyslav Maliuzhenko, Aleksandra Tołoczko, Marek Weselski, Miłosz Siczek, Juliusz A. Wolny, Volker Schünemann, Robert Bronisza
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2026, 13, 4084-4096

Interplay of electron-magnon scattering and spin-orbit induced electronic spin-flip scattering in a two-band Stoner model
Felix Dusabirane, Kai Leckron, Baerbel Rethfeld, and Hans Christian Schneider
Phys. Rev. B 113, 104403 (2026)

Nuclear inelastic scattering shows lattice softening induced by Zn(II) dilution of a Fe(II) spin crossover material 
Juliusz A. Wolny, Tim Hochdörffer, Konstantin Gröpl, Lukas Knauer, Maren Hoock, Marco A. M. Tummeley, Alexandr I. Chumakov, Dimitrios Bessas, Volker Schünemann
Interactions (2026) 247:32

Influence of Platinum Thin Films on the Photophysical and Quantum Properties of Near-Surface NV Centers 
Joachim P. Leibold, Lina M. Todenhagen, Matthias Althammer, Nikhita Khera, Sergej Levashov, Elke Neu, Martin S. Brandt, Hans Huebl, and Dominik B. Bucher
Adv. Optical Mater. 2026, e03544

Magnetic circular dichroism in core-level x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of altermagnetic RuO₂ films
Y. Lytvynenko, A. Akashdeep, T. P. Vo, O. Tkach, S. V. Chernov, A. Gloskovskii, C. Schlueter,  C. Luo, V. Ukleev, F. Radu, F. Kronast, T. Hiroto, A. Winkelmann, J. Minár, M. Kläui, G. Schönhense, G. Jakob, H. J. Elmers, and O. Fedchenko
Phys. Rev. B 113, 014403 (2026)

Investigating the Structural Factors Influencing the Magnetic Interaction between Individual Copper Spins in the CuCu4 Metallacrown Complex, from Its Bulk Form to Its Adsorption on Au(111)
Ariyan Tavakoli, Stefan Lach, Frederik Pütz, Dominic Stephan, Anne Lüpke, Dominik Laible, Siegfried Kaidisch, Andreas Windischbacher, Eva Rentschler, Peter Puschnig, Hans-Christian Schneider, Christiane Ziegler
Adv. Mater. 2026; 13:e00906  

Enhancement of magnon flux towards a Bose-Einstein condensate
F. Kühn, M. R. Schweizer, T. Azevedo, V. I. Vasyuchka, G. von Freymann, V. S. L'vov, B. Hillebrands, and A. Serga
Phys. Rev. B 113, 014409 (2026)

On demand laser-induced frequency tuning of coherent magnons in a nanometer-thick magnet at room temperature
Volker Wiechert, Hanchen Wang, William Legrand, Pietro Gambardella, David Breitbach, Philipp Pirro, Michaela Lammel, Andrea Meo, Giovanni Finocchio, and Davide Bossini
Nat. Commun. 17, 145 (2026)