Physical Review Letters

Researchers demonstrate a new quantum memory device that will enable faraway nodes in a network to coordinate in time, a key ingredient for a future quantum Internet.

Contrary to expectations, the magnetization dynamics of a ferromagnet can be accelerated by increasing temperature, laser excitation, or magnetic field—a behavior that holds promise for high-speed spintronics.

Berry curvature in twisted molybdenum ditelluride drives the oppositely charged particles in an exciton in opposite transverse directions, producing a dipole moment of approximately 150 Debye.

Oxygen defects suppress superconductivity in the bilayer nickelate La${}_3$Ni${}_2$O${}_{7+\delta }$ via a dual mechanism, revealed through density functional theory, dynamical mean-field theory, and functional renormalization group analysis.

The observation of a binary pulsar system characterized by low neutron star masses with short orbital period enables tests of relativity, and may enable a measurement of Lens-Thirring precession with future observations.

In this new PRL foward-looking Essay, Pascale Senellart presents her vision of a new generation of devices that combine the precision of atomic physics with the scalability of semiconductor technology, with transformative potential for quantum technologies, quantum sensing, and the exploration of fundamental quantum phenomena.

A new model shows how cells could optimize biochemical sensing by balancing information gained against energy spent.

Optical second harmonic generation detects ferroic octupolar order in altermagnetic CoF${}_2$, establishing nonlinear interactions as signatures of altermagnetism in experiments.

A coplanar superconducting resonator makes possible the direct observation of the real-time entry of individual Abrikosov vortices.

A minimal model of population dynamics provides an organic pathway to hyperuniformity that relies on natural competition rather than fine-tuned dynamics and rigid conservation laws.

A nanomechanical resonator provides a simple way to directly measure the torque generated by electron vortices.

The circular photogalvanic effect in topological heterostructures offers a controllable route to enhanced, field-free terahertz emission, distinct from conventional spin-to-charge conversion.

A universal scaling exponent $\kappa \approx 0.42$ corresponds to a dynamic exponent $z=1$ in the integer quantum Hall regime in a bilayer GaAs quantum well device.

Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy measurements on twisted bilayer and double-bilayer MoTe₂, combined with theory, reveal remote electronic bands that follow twist-induced lattice relaxation, establishing a direct link between atomic reconstruction and electronic structure in moiré semiconductors.

Two intermingled species of active matter can exhibit coherent rotation or disorderly scrambling depending on their mutual interactions.

The electronic properties of materials exhibiting giant thermopower with a thermopower that exceeds 2000 μV/K, such as EuCd${}_2$P${}_2$, are strongly temperature dependent.

The first search for production of a Higgs boson along with a pair of vector bosons yields constraints on Higgs self-coupling constants.

A direct spectroscopic probe of the 4$f$ states across a pressure-induced phase transition in EuO reveals the absence of spectral changes, confirming the stability of the Eu valence in agreement with the DFT calculations.

Strain-gradient engineering provides a doping-free route to modulate broadband optical emission in microfabricated diamond.

Tuning the electronic structure of the excitonic insulator candidate Ta${}_2$NiSe${}_5$ via sulfur substitution reveals that its highly directional phonon transport anomaly is directly driven by electronic fluctuations, suggesting that electronic interactions and lattice effects cooperatively contribute to its phase transition.

Exact diagonalization provides strong numerical evidence that the Higgs transition between a Kalmeyer-Laughlin chiral spin liquid and a trivially gapped phase is continuous and governed by a conformal field theory.

Matching the cavity resonance lifetime to the driving laser pulse yields significantly greater near-field enhancement in ultrafast nanophotonics than maximizing the cavity quality factor alone.

Within the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation, the orbital magnetization for interacting electrons takes a form similar to the noninteracting case, while the orbital magnetic susceptibility acquires an additional interaction-dependent term.

Nonlinear stability in magnetically confined plasmas is governed not only by local linear growth, but is fundamentally a connectivity property of the flux surface, governed by a topological percolation threshold.

Counter examples to the commonly accepted proof that collinear magnets always have an inversion symmetric band structure along with a symmetry analysis when the proof breaks down challenges the existing classification of collinear magnets.

In dense colloidal suspensions composed of particles sensitive to Brownian motion, a gravitational Peclet number governs an intermediate angle of repose where gravity and thermal agitation strike a balance.

A study of the counter-Nagaoka problem of a single hole in an infinite-$U$ Hubbard model on the kagome lattice reveals a new type of polaron, a resonating-valence-bond polaron that morphs into semiclassical order as polarization is reduced.

The LZ collaboration reports strong evidence (4.5$\sigma$) for coherent elastic scattering of ${}^8$B solar neutrinos.

The ground state of CsV${}_3$Sb${}_5$ is not a single superconducting state but two degenerate states.

A perturbative framework for anomalous scaling in turbulence, built on the statistics of Kolmogorov multipliers rather than correlation-function hierarchies, establishes a new analytical route to intermittency that complements traditional zero-mode methods.