Volume 114, Issue 5 (partial)

November 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum randomness certification with untrusted measurements and few probe states

Makoto Ishihara, Carles Roch i Carceller, Kieran Neil Wilkinson, Casper Ahl Breum, Tobias Gehring, and Jonatan Bohr Brask

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052413 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

The authors present a semi-device-independent protocol for certifying quantum randomness from an uncharacterized measurement device by probing it with a small set of trusted states and lower-bounding the output entropy via semidefinite programming. They experimentally demonstrate the approach using optical homodyne detection of the vacuum probed by coherent states, showing that randomness can be certified in the presence of measurement noise, analog-to-digital converter imperfections, and finite-size effects.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonreciprocal universal photon blockade in a chiral cavity system based on the two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model

Mingyang Cheng, Haiwen Jiang, Yang Ding, Xiangying Hao, and Chunling Ding

Phys. Rev. A 114, 053714 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

The authors propose a method of achieving a directional, or nonreciprocal, photon blockade using a chiral coupled-cavity system governed by a two-photon Jaynes-Cummings interaction. By engineering destructive quantum interference that occurs only under forward driving, they can generate high-purity single photons in one direction while eliminating the blockade in reverse, providing a route towards quantum optical isolators and single-photon sources.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Experimental realization of a rotating radio-frequency ion trap for precision metrology

Sun Yool Park, Anzhou Wang, Kia Boon Ng, Patricia Hector Hernandez, Addison Hartman, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Rohan Kompella, Michail Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, Jun Ye, and Eric A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. A 114, L050801 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

The authors experimentally realize the rotating radio-frequency (rrf) ion trap proposed by Hasegawa and Bollinger two decades ago. Unlike a conventional rf trap, whose potential oscillates back and forth, the rotating potential of the rrf trap averages over angular nonuniformities caused by realistic electrode geometry, yielding more uniform confinement and reduced ion loss at the same central trap strength—properties advantageous for precision measurements.

LETTERS

Fundamental concepts

LETTER

Tunable discrete-time quasicrystal from a single drive

Xu Feng, Shuo Liu, Shu Chen, and Shi-Xin Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 114, L050201 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

The authors show that a single periodic drive can generate discrete-time quasicrystalline oscillations in a dissipative collective-spin system. Varying the drive strength continuously tunes the oscillation frequency, with distinct regions where the dominant response locks to rational fractions of the driving frequency.

Quantum information science

LETTER

Unified toolbox for multipartite entanglement certification

Ye-Chao Liu, Jannis Halbey, Sebastian Pokutta, and Sébastien Designolle

Phys. Rev. A 114, L050401 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

The authors develop a conditional-gradient framework that combines rapid detection of multipartite entanglement with rigorous certification accounting for numerical errors. They demonstrate entanglement detection in systems of up to 10 qubits and use the framework to narrow the gap between entanglement and separability bounds for bound-entangled states and assess robustness under different quantum noise channels.

LETTER

Tunable families of multiqubit elegant joint measurements

Jef Pauwels and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. A 114, L050402 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

The authors establish an explicit closed-form construction for $n$ -qubit elegant joint measurements using single-phase polynomials, showing that the measurement unitary lies at level $n + 1$ of the Clifford hierarchy. For any even number of qubits, they also present a one-parameter family of iso-entangled, regular tetrahedral bases that smoothly connect these measurements to a 1-uniform basis.

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics; high-precision experiments; chemical physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Experimental realization of a rotating radio-frequency ion trap for precision metrology

Sun Yool Park, Anzhou Wang, Kia Boon Ng, Patricia Hector Hernandez, Addison Hartman, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Rohan Kompella, Michail Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, Jun Ye, and Eric A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. A 114, L050801 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

LETTER

Enhanced coherence of rare-earth nuclear spins in a crystal

Bassam Nima, Yuiki Takahashi, and Amar Vutha

Phys. Rev. A 114, L050802 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

The spin coherence time of rare-earth nuclei in crystals is limited by magnetic field noise from the host crystal’s nuclear spins. In this Letter, the authors resonantly drive environmental spins to scramble their magnetic fields and extend the coherence time of europium nuclei in a crystal. Spin coherence times can be extended in this way without compromising the usability of rare-earth nuclei in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.

LETTER

Reducing NMR shielding uncertainty to the QED scale: Nuclear magnetic dipole moments of ${}^{203}{Tl}$ and ${}^{205}{Tl}$ from hydrated ${Tl}^{+}$

Martin Žňava, Andrej Hurajt, Dariusz Kędziera, Martin Šulka, Pavel Neogrády, and Andrej Antušek

Phys. Rev. A 114, L050803 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

The authors combine molecular dynamics simulations with relativistic NMR shielding calculations to reduce shielding uncertainties to the scale of QED and nuclear magnetization effects, resolving a long-standing systematic bias in the recommended nuclear magnetic moments of stable thallium nuclei. This advance could accelerate the refinement of theoretical models of QED and nuclear magnetization contributions.

Light-induced processes in atomic-scale systems

LETTER

Magneto-optical trapping of neutral atoms in a light-induced effective magnetic field

Nicholas Sullivan, Shira Jackson, ByungChan Ha, and Boris Braverman

Phys. Rev. A 114, L051101 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

The authors propose an opto-optical trap that replaces the magnetic coils of a conventional magneto-optical trap with laser-induced effective magnetic fields. Simulations of $^{174}$ Yb show that this all-optical scheme matches standard trapping performance while enabling submicrosecond switching and avoiding magnetic field perturbations.

Photonics, nonlinear optics, and optomechanics

LETTER

Vortex leapfrogging and superfluid dissipation mechanisms in a fluid of light

Myrann Baker-Rasooli, Nathan du Toit, Nicolas Pavloff, and Quentin Glorieux

Phys. Rev. A 114, L051501 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

The authors experimentally demonstrate vortex leapfrogging in a fluid of light. Dissipation occurs either through discrete phase slip events or through continuous unwinding of the phase mediated by a dispersive shock wave. Precise phase-resolved imaging reveals that saddle points are implicated in the Anderson phase-slippage mechanism, as required by the conservation of the topological Poincaré index.

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Metric structures characterized by norm properties in non-Hermitian systems

Xin Wang, Hao-Di Liu, and Libin Fu

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052201 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Thermodynamics of a phaseonium-driven optomechanical Otto engine

Federico Amato, Gerardo Adesso, G. Massimo Palma, Salvatore Lorenzo, and Rosario Lo Franco

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052202 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Geometric mode steering of the quantum Mpemba effect

Yingying Hong, Longxing Xu, Weiwei Zhang, Jie Ren, and Jianhui Wang

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052203 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Quantifying multitime memory in sequential measurement statistics through violations of the quantum regression theorem

Paolo Luppi, Claudia Benedetti, and Andrea Smirne

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052204 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Quantum manifestations of converse symmetry breaking

Daniel P. Buser, Biswabibek Bandyopadhyay, and Adilson E. Motter

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052205 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Influence of the transverse field on accelerating vortex states in an axisymmetric electric field

Ziyang Ding, Ziqiang Huang, Qi Meng, Alexander J. Silenko, Pengming Zhang, and Liping Zou

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052206 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Liouvillian skin effect in the presence of a linear potential

C. M. Dai, J. C. Fu, and X. X. Yi

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052207 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Classical and quantum mechanics across representations: An operational reading of the Wigner-Weyl correspondence

Samuel Schlegel, Borivoje Dakić, and Flavio Del Santo

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052208 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Geometric modulation of transition and survival intensities in non-Hermitian systems

Ryu Frieson, Takashi Oka, and Hideaki Obuse

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052209 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Quantum speed limit for measurement probabilities

Agung Budiyono and Sebastian Deffner

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052210 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Coherence-induced hybrid control for mixed-state engineering in open quantum systems

W. Ma, Xue-song Xu, and S. L. Wu

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052211 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Electrical-circuit simulation of the Uhlmann phase

Yu-Huan Huang, Yu Wang, Jia-Chen Tang, Xu-Yang Hou, and Hao Guo

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052212 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

No-go theorem for maximally $ψ$ -epistemic models using two pure states of a qubit

Sagnik Ray, Anubhav Chaturvedi, and Debashis Saha

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052213 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Quantum information science

Saturating the Bayesian Nagaoka-Hayashi bound within numerical precision for the depolarization SU(2) rotation channel

Leo Bia and Christos N. Gagatsos

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052401 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Resource-efficient quantum noise spectroscopy with sequential weak measurements

Yuan-De Jin, Zheng-Fei Ye, and Wen-Long Ma

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052402 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Thermodynamics of linear open quantum walks

Pedro Linck and Nadja K. Bernardes

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052403 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Exact convex roof for Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger– $W$ mixtures for three qubits and beyond

Andreas Osterloh

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052404 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Walsh-structured uniformly controlled rotations for variational quantum state discrimination

Seunghoon Choi, Jun Suk Kim, and Chang Wook Ahn

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052405 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Quantum dynamical entropy and non-Markovianity: A collisional model perspective

Giovanni Nichele and Fabio Benatti

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052406 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Feedback-enhanced quantum parameter estimation in a thermally dissipative two-level system

Ganying Tu, Lituo Shen, and Zhenbiao Yang

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052407 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Suppressing noise in quantum random access codes via non-Hermitian operations

Jun Sun and Yong-Nan Sun

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052408 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Local distinguishability of six bipartite orthogonal product states

Guang-Bao Xu, Hua-Kun Wang, Yu-Guang Yang, and Dong-Huan Jiang

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052409 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Efficient simulation of Szegedy quantum walk formulations and algorithms

Sergio A. Ortega and Daniel K. Park

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052410 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Enhanced weak-field sensing using detuned motional squeezing

Li-Wen Zhang, Yang Liu, Han-Jie Zhu, and Wei Qin

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052411 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Computational and physical complexity of synthesizing random multiqudit quantum states and unitary operators

Sahel Ashhab and Bora Basyildiz

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052412 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum randomness certification with untrusted measurements and few probe states

Makoto Ishihara, Carles Roch i Carceller, Kieran Neil Wilkinson, Casper Ahl Breum, Tobias Gehring, and Jonatan Bohr Brask

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052413 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Quantum steering and entanglement in a tritter: Hierarchy under loss

Jifeng Sun, Shumin Yang, Teng Zhao, Qingqian Kang, and Liyun Hu

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052414 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Orbit dimensions in linear and Gaussian quantum optics

Eliott Z. Mamon

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052415 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Adiabatic dressing of quantum-enhanced Markov chains

Wen Ting Hsieh, Alev Orfi, and Dries Sels

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052416 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Multiparameter quantum estimation with a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector

Shoukang Chang, Yashu Yang, Wei Ye, Yawen Tang, Hui Cao, Huan Zhang, Zunlue Zhu, Wuming Liu, Shao-Ming Fei, and Xingdong Zhao

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052417 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Harnessing intrinsic noise for quantum simulation of open quantum systems

Sameer Dambal, Akira Sone, and Yu Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052418 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Robustness of adiabatic reverse annealing to low-temperature decoherence

An Le and Christopher Baldwin

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052419 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Minimizing classical resources in variational measurement-based quantum computation for generative modeling

Arunava Majumder, Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup, and Hans J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052420 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Metrological channels induced by encrypted quantum cloning: Optimal-probe Fisher-information broadcasting and single-use operational recovery

Nalan Kandirmaz

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052421 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Classifying informative subsets in qudit-encrypted cloning via congruence systems

Chen-Ming Bai, Xin-Liang Zhou, and Yu Luo

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052422 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Hardy-type self-testing and exposedness of tripartite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger correlations

Smritikana Patra, Soumyajit Pal, and Ranendu Adhikary

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052423 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Floquet-engineered dissipative stabilizer pumping in neutral-atom arrays

F. Q. Guo, Shi-Lei Su, Weibin Li, and X. Q. Shao

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052424 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Continuous-time evolution via probabilistic angle interpolation and its applications

Tomoya Hayata and Yuta Kikuchi

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052425 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Exact quantum speed limits for quantum gates from space curve geometry

Hunter Nelson and Edwin Barnes

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052426 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Quantum technologies

Two-photon coupling via Josephson element. II. Interaction dressing, cross-Kerr coupling, and limits of the low-energy bosonic model

E. V. Stolyarov, V. L. Andriichuk, and A. M. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052601 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Realizing quantum energy storage and sensing with prethermal time crystals stabilized via power-law-graded Ising interactions

Ayan Sahoo and Debraj Rakshit

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052602 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Scalable subsystem-optimized robust control for parallel quantum gates

Xiaodong Yang, Ran Liu, and Jun Li

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052603 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Engineering quantum-enhanced transport by supertransfer

Adesh Kushwaha and Ivan Kassal

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052604 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Quantum-noise limits of the self-compensating alkali–noble-gas comagnetometer

Jiaxin Liu

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052605 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Electron qubit floating above a nonuniform solid neon layer

Toshiaki Kanai and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052606 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics; high-precision experiments; chemical physics

Single- and double-electron capture in intermediate-energy $O^{8 +} + He$ collisions

W. W. Zhang, J. J. Niu, Y. Y. Qi, C. C. Jia, H. S. Hou, and J. W. Gao

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052801 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Ultralow frequency magnetic comb using pulse modulated spin maser

Weiyu Wang, Qingchang Li, Erwei Li, Lan Wu, Qianjin Ma, Shougang Zhang, and Guobin Liu

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052802 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Spatially resolved thermometry and rf micromotion heating in ${}^{88}{Sr}^{+}$ Coulomb crystals

Lin Li

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052803 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Laser-cooling angle optimization across structural phase transitions in $^{88} {Sr}^{+}$ Coulomb crystals

Lin Li and Dezi Li

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052804 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Demonstration of a spherical Penning trap for single electrons

Zirui Fang and Xing Fan

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052805 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Ultracold three-body recombination in homonuclear lithium and sodium systems

Hiroya Suno

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052806 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Association between projectile and target excitation in slow ${Ar}^{q +} - {CO}_{2}$ collisions

Akash Srivastav, Sumit Srivastav, Vishnu P, and Bhas Bapat

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052807 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Precise energy determination of Ni $K α$ and Fe $K β$ in high ionization states using a microcalorimeter

Marc Botz, Luciano Gottardi, Martin de Wit, Chintan Shah, Liyi Gu, François Pajot, Thomas Pfeifer, and José R. Crespo López-Urrutia

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052808 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Electron emission from molecules of radiobiological interest by proton and antiproton impact

M. A. Quinto, J. M. Monti, and R. D. Rivarola

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052809 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Fully relativistic calculation of thermal shifts in the spectra of the hydrogen molecular ion

M. A. Reiter, A. A. Anikin, A. A. Kotov, D. A. Glazov, T. A. Zalialiutdinov, and D. A. Solovyev

Phys. Rev. A 114, 052810 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Light-induced processes in atomic-scale systems

Effects of electronic excited states on the electron-nuclear energy sharing

Zhenfang Tang, Shilin Hu, Junping Wang, Song-Feng Zhao, and Jing Chen

Phys. Rev. A 114, 053101 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Minimal model for chirp-induced nonadiabatic coupling in Autler-Townes splitting

Bingshuang Zhang, Liguang Jiao, Chuan-Cun Shu, and Aihua Liu

Phys. Rev. A 114, 053102 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Effects of molecule rotation in $N_{2}^{+}$ air-lasing generation

Wenli Yang, Ping Li, Luzhen Yang, Jianfeng Guo, Pengji Ding, Shan Xue, and Hongchuan Du

Phys. Rev. A 114, 053103 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Preparation and control of electronic wave packets in neutral molecules via attosecond x-ray processes

Emanuele Rossi, Stasis Chuchurka, Kaushik D. Nanda, Anna I. Krylov, Nina Rohringer, and Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. A 114, 053104 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Atomic thermometry in optical lattice clocks: Model discrepancies and their impact on lattice light shifts

Irene Goti, Tommaso Petrucciani, Stefano Condio, Filippo Levi, Davide Calonico, and Marco Pizzocaro

Phys. Rev. A 114, 053105 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Quantum-classical correspondence in ultrafast Kapitza-Dirac diffraction

Zhaoyang Peng, Pan Song, Zengxiu Zhao, and Jianmin Yuan

Phys. Rev. A 114, 053106 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Kelvin-Helmholtz and counter-superflow instabilities driven by differential effective rotation in a three-component Bose-Einstein condensate

Susovan Giri, Arpana Saboo, Hari Sadhan Ghosh, Vipin, and Sonjoy Majumder

Phys. Rev. A 114, 053306 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Quantum droplets and condensates in an optical lattice coupled to a dissipative cavity: Collective excitations and nonequilibrium dynamics

G. Vivek, Sudip Sinha, and Subhasis Sinha

Phys. Rev. A 114, 053313 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Programmable dipolar interaction geometry selecting stripe-family order in a molecular lattice quantum simulator

Chao Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 114, 053314 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Floquet-tuned superfluid-checkerboard competition in dipolar bosons

Jin Yang, Yaghmorassene Hebib, and Chao Zhang

Phys. Rev. A 114, 053315 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Knotted spacetime electromagnetic vortex unlinking and unknotting with vector and scalar reconnections and field twist compensation

Jordan M. Adams

Phys. Rev. A 114, 053507 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Noise-tolerant macroscopic magnon-phonon quantum entanglement and nonreciprocity via Duffing nonlinearity and the Barnett effect

Xin Wang, Kai-Wei Huang, Zhi-Hong He, Yi Ren, Zhenshan Yang, and Hao Xiong

Phys. Rev. A 114, 053709 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

ERRATA

Erratum: Certification of genuine multipartite entanglement in spin ensembles with measurements of total angular momentum [Phys. Rev. A 109, 042402 (2024)]

Khoi-Nguyen Huynh-Vu, Lin Htoo Zaw, and Valerio Scarani

Phys. Rev. A 114, 059901 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Volume 114, Issue 5 (partial)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

Fundamental concepts

Quantum information science

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics; high-precision experiments; chemical physics

Light-induced processes in atomic-scale systems

Photonics, nonlinear optics, and optomechanics

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

Quantum information science

Quantum technologies

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics; high-precision experiments; chemical physics

Light-induced processes in atomic-scale systems

Ultracold systems and matter waves

Photonics, nonlinear optics, and optomechanics

Quantum optics

ERRATA