Volume 134, Issue 10

14 March 2025

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"Light excitation of germanium islands embedded in split ring resonators results in dissipation losses.” Selected for a Synopsis in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Loss-Enabled Chirality Inversion in Terahertz Metasurfaces
Weibao He, Shun Wan, Yunlan Zuo, Siyang Hu, Ziheng Ren, Zhongyi Yu, Dongsheng Yang, Xiang’ai Cheng, Keyu Xia, Yuze Hu, Hui Jing, and Tian Jiang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106901 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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First Evidence for Direct $C P$ Violation in Beauty to Charmonium Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101801 (2025) - Published 12 March, 2025

A symmetry violation has been observed in a particle-decay process that—together with five related decays—could shed light on the matter–antimatter imbalance in the Universe.

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Study of $Λ_{b}^{0}$ and $Ξ_{b}^{0}$ Decays to $Λ h^{+} h^{' -}$ and Evidence for $C P$ Violation in $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ K^{+} K^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101802 (2025) - Published 12 March, 2025

A symmetry violation has been observed in a particle-decay process that—together with five related decays—could shed light on the matter–antimatter imbalance in the Universe.

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Antiferroelectric Altermagnets: Antiferroelectricity Alters Magnets

Xunkai Duan, Jiayong Zhang, Ziye Zhu, Yuntian Liu, Zhenyu Zhang, Igor Žutić, and Tong Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106801 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Researchers have proposed methods to tune the properties of altermagnets, a step toward practical applications for this new form of magnet.

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Ferroelectric Switchable Altermagnetism

Mingqiang Gu, Yuntian Liu, Haiyuan Zhu, Kunihiro Yananose, Xiaobing Chen, Yongkang Hu, Alessandro Stroppa, and Qihang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106802 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Researchers have proposed methods to tune the properties of altermagnets, a step toward practical applications for this new form of magnet.

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Loss-Enabled Chirality Inversion in Terahertz Metasurfaces

Weibao He, Shun Wan, Yunlan Zuo, Siyang Hu, Ziheng Ren, Zhongyi Yu, Dongsheng Yang, Xiang’ai Cheng, Keyu Xia, Yuze Hu, Hui Jing, and Tian Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106901 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Illuminating a metasurface with a laser can enable the rapid modulation of the polarization of terahertz light transmitted through the metasurface.

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Observation of the Open-Charm Tetraquark Candidate $T_{c s 0}^{*} (2870)^{0}$ in the $B^{-} \to D^{-} D^{0} K_{S}^{0}$ Decay

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101901 (2025) - Published 11 March, 2025

An indication of isospin breaking is seen in certain decay modes of $T_{c s 0}^{*} (2870)$ and $T_{c s 1}^{*} (2900)$ , which might shed light on the nature of these tetraquark candidates.

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Dynamical Scaling and Planckian Dissipation Due to Heavy-Fermion Quantum Criticality

Andreas Gleis, Seung-Sup B. Lee, Gabriel Kotliar, and Jan von Delft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106501 (2025) - Published 10 March, 2025

A two-site cellular dynamical mean-field theory calculation suggests that the Kondo-breakdown quantum critical point is a novel disorder-free strange-metal fixed point.

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Higher Vortexability: Zero-Field Realization of Higher Landau Levels

Manato Fujimoto, Daniel E. Parker, Junkai Dong, Eslam Khalaf, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Patrick Ledwith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106502 (2025) - Published 10 March, 2025

Chern bands at zero magnetic field can have wave functions that share essential features with first Landau level, and are promising for realizing non-Abelian topological order.

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Topological Degeneracy Induced by Twisting

Han Peng, Qiang Wang, Meng Xiao, Xiayi Wang, Shining Zhu, and Hui Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106601 (2025) - Published 11 March, 2025

Twisting two metasurfaces breaks mirror symmetry to generate tunable topological degeneracies, producing mechanism for controlling dispersion and polarization in photonics.

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Field-Angle-Resolved Specific Heat in ${Na}_{2} {Co}_{2} Te O_{6}$ : Evidence against Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquid

Shengjie Fang, Kumpei Imamura, Yuta Mizukami, Ryuichi Namba, Kota Ishihara, Kenichiro Hashimoto, and Takasada Shibauchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106701 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Field-angle-resolved specific heat measurements provide thermodynamic evidence that Na $_{2}$ Co $_{2}$ TeO $_{6}$ is not a Kitaev spin liquid.

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Thermomajorization Mpemba Effect

Tan Van Vu and Hisao Hayakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 107101 (2025) - Published 10 March, 2025

The thermomajorization Mpemba effect implies the occurrence of the Mpemba effect within a bounded time for any monotone distance measure, utilized to quantify the anomalous relaxation speed.

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Metadensity Functional Theory for Classical Fluids: Extracting the Pair Potential

Stefanie M. Kampa, Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt, and Robert Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 107301 (2025) - Published 11 March, 2025

Combining classical density functional theory and machine learning gives access to a generalized universal functional for truncated, pairwise interacting model fluids.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Optimally Fast Qubit Reset

Yue Liu, Chenlong Huang, Xingyu Zhang, and Dahai He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 100401 (2025) - Published 11 March, 2025

Benchmarking the Readout of a Superconducting Qubit for Repeated Measurements

S. Hazra, W. Dai, T. Connolly, P. D. Kurilovich, Z. Wang, L. Frunzio, and M. H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 100601 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Linear-Optical Quantum Computation with Arbitrary Error-Correcting Codes

Blayney W. Walshe, Ben Q. Baragiola, Hugo Ferretti, José Gefaell, Michael Vasmer, Ryohei Weil, Takaya Matsuura, Thomas Jaeken, Giacomo Pantaleoni, Zhihua Han, Timo Hillmann, Nicolas C. Menicucci, Ilan Tzitrin, and Rafael N. Alexander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 100602 (2025) - Published 14 March, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Anomalous Ionization in the Central Molecular Zone by Sub-GeV Dark Matter

Pedro De la Torre Luque, Shyam Balaji, and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101001 (2025) - Published 10 March, 2025

New Method to Determine the Hubble Parameter from Cosmological Energy-Density Measurements

Alex Krolewski, Will J. Percival, and Alex Woodfinden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101002 (2025) - Published 12 March, 2025

Primordial Neutrinos and New Physics: Novel Approach to Solving the Neutrino Boltzmann Equation

Maksym Ovchynnikov and Vsevolod Syvolap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101003 (2025) - Published 12 March, 2025

Cosmological Spatial Curvature with the Alcock-Paczyński Effect

Luca Amendola, Marco Marinucci, and Miguel Quartin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101004 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Stochastic Dark Matter from Curvature Perturbations

Raghuveer Garani, Michele Redi, and Andrea Tesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101005 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Black Hole Singularity Resolution in Unimodular Gravity from Unitarity

Steffen Gielen and Lucía Menéndez-Pidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101501 (2025) - Published 11 March, 2025

Particles and Fields

T Duality and $T \bar{T}$ -like Deformations of Sigma Models

Daniele Bielli, Christian Ferko, Liam Smith, and Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101601 (2025) - Published 11 March, 2025

Conservative Spin-Magnitude Change in Orbital Evolution in General Relativity

Mark Alaverdian, Zvi Bern, Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, Andres Luna, Radu Roiban, Trevor Scheopner, and Fei Teng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101602 (2025) - Published 14 March, 2025

$T \bar{T}$ -like Flows of Yang-Mills Theories

Christian Ferko, Jue Hou, Tommaso Morone, Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli, and Roberto Tateo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101603 (2025) - Published 14 March, 2025

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Evidence for Direct $C P$ Violation in Beauty to Charmonium Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101801 (2025) - Published 12 March, 2025

A symmetry violation has been observed in a particle-decay process that—together with five related decays—could shed light on the matter–antimatter imbalance in the Universe.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Study of $Λ_{b}^{0}$ and $Ξ_{b}^{0}$ Decays to $Λ h^{+} h^{' -}$ and Evidence for $C P$ Violation in $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ K^{+} K^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101802 (2025) - Published 12 March, 2025

A symmetry violation has been observed in a particle-decay process that—together with five related decays—could shed light on the matter–antimatter imbalance in the Universe.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of the Open-Charm Tetraquark Candidate $T_{c s 0}^{*} (2870)^{0}$ in the $B^{-} \to D^{-} D^{0} K_{S}^{0}$ Decay

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101901 (2025) - Published 11 March, 2025

An indication of isospin breaking is seen in certain decay modes of $T_{c s 0}^{*} (2870)$ and $T_{c s 1}^{*} (2900)$ , which might shed light on the nature of these tetraquark candidates.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Amplified Collective Auger Decay of Double Inner-Shell Vacancy in Xe

Yasumasa Hikosaka and Stephan Fritzsche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 103001 (2025) - Published 10 March, 2025

Zero-Energy Photoelectric Effect

Sajad Azizi, Ulf Saalmann, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 103201 (2025) - Published 11 March, 2025

Observation of Photonic Chiral Flatbands

Minho Choi, Andrea Alù, and Arka Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 103801 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Exceptional Bound States in the Continuum

Adrià Canós Valero, Zoltan Sztranyovszky, Egor A. Muljarov, Andrey Bogdanov, and Thomas Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 103802 (2025) - Published 14 March, 2025

Reconfigurable Self-Phase Modulation Enabled by Cascaded Nonlinear Backaction in Integrated Photonics

Chaohan Cui, Liang Zhang, and Linran Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 103803 (2025) - Published 14 March, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Rayleigh-Bénard Convection with Phase Change Close to the Critical Point

Valentin Mouet, Guillaume Michel, François Pétrélis, and Stephan Fauve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 104001 (2025) - Published 10 March, 2025

Irreversible Charging Caused by Energy Dissipation from Depinning of Droplets on Polymer Surfaces

Shuaijia Chen, Ronald T. Leon, Rahmat Qambari, Yan Yan, Menghan Chen, Peter C. Sherrell, Amanda V. Ellis, and Joseph D. Berry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 104002 (2025) - Published 11 March, 2025

Unifying Theory of Scaling in Drop Impact: Forces and Maximum Spreading Diameter

Vatsal Sanjay and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 104003 (2025) - Published 11 March, 2025

3D Periodic Orbiting of a Photothermal Bubble

Man Hu, Feng Wang, Yuqi Li, Li Chen, Wenna Wu, Peng Huo, and Daosheng Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 104004 (2025) - Published 14 March, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Fermiology and Band Structure of Oxygen-Terminated ${Ti}_{3} C_{2} T_{x}$ MXene

Martin Magnuson, Per Eklund, and Craig Polley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106201 (2025) - Published 11 March, 2025

Giant Gate-Controlled Odd-Parity Magnetoresistance in Magnetized Bilayer Graphene at Room Temperature

Divya Sahani, Sunit Das, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Amit Agarwal, and Aveek Bid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106301 (2025) - Published 14 March, 2025

Diverse Manifestations of Electron-Phonon Coupling in a Kagome Superconductor

Jing-Yang You, Chih-En Hsu, Mauro Del Ben, and Zhenglu Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106401 (2025) - Published 10 March, 2025

Meta-Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Magnetic

Jacques K. Desmarais, Alessandro Erba, Giovanni Vignale, and Stefano Pittalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106402 (2025) - Published 10 March, 2025

Framework to Measure Quantum Metric from Step Response

Nishchhal Verma and Raquel Queiroz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106403 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

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Dynamical Scaling and Planckian Dissipation Due to Heavy-Fermion Quantum Criticality

Andreas Gleis, Seung-Sup B. Lee, Gabriel Kotliar, and Jan von Delft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106501 (2025) - Published 10 March, 2025

A two-site cellular dynamical mean-field theory calculation suggests that the Kondo-breakdown quantum critical point is a novel disorder-free strange-metal fixed point.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Higher Vortexability: Zero-Field Realization of Higher Landau Levels

Manato Fujimoto, Daniel E. Parker, Junkai Dong, Eslam Khalaf, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Patrick Ledwith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106502 (2025) - Published 10 March, 2025

Chern bands at zero magnetic field can have wave functions that share essential features with first Landau level, and are promising for realizing non-Abelian topological order.

Emergent Chiral Metal near a Kondo Breakdown Quantum Phase Transition

Tom Drechsler and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106503 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Exploring a New Regime of Molecular Orbital Physics in $4 d$ Cluster Magnets with Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

Bo Yuan, Beom Hyun Kim, Qiang Chen, Daniel Dobrowolski, Monika Azmanska, G. M. Luke, Shiyu Fan, Valentina Bisogni, Jonathan Pelliciari, and J. P. Clancy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106504 (2025) - Published 14 March, 2025

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Topological Degeneracy Induced by Twisting

Han Peng, Qiang Wang, Meng Xiao, Xiayi Wang, Shining Zhu, and Hui Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106601 (2025) - Published 11 March, 2025

Twisting two metasurfaces breaks mirror symmetry to generate tunable topological degeneracies, producing mechanism for controlling dispersion and polarization in photonics.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Field-Angle-Resolved Specific Heat in ${Na}_{2} {Co}_{2} Te O_{6}$ : Evidence against Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquid

Shengjie Fang, Kumpei Imamura, Yuta Mizukami, Ryuichi Namba, Kota Ishihara, Kenichiro Hashimoto, and Takasada Shibauchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106701 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Field-angle-resolved specific heat measurements provide thermodynamic evidence that Na $_{2}$ Co $_{2}$ TeO $_{6}$ is not a Kitaev spin liquid.

Fluctuations in Spin Dynamics Excited by Pulsed Light

Tetsuya Sato, Shinichi Watanabe, Mamoru Matsuo, and Takeo Kato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106702 (2025) - Published 12 March, 2025

Revealing Quadrupolar Excitations with Nonlinear Spectroscopy

Yoshito Watanabe, Simon Trebst, and Ciarán Hickey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106703 (2025) - Published 14 March, 2025

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Antiferroelectric Altermagnets: Antiferroelectricity Alters Magnets

Xunkai Duan, Jiayong Zhang, Ziye Zhu, Yuntian Liu, Zhenyu Zhang, Igor Žutić, and Tong Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106801 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Researchers have proposed methods to tune the properties of altermagnets, a step toward practical applications for this new form of magnet.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ferroelectric Switchable Altermagnetism

Mingqiang Gu, Yuntian Liu, Haiyuan Zhu, Kunihiro Yananose, Xiaobing Chen, Yongkang Hu, Alessandro Stroppa, and Qihang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106802 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Researchers have proposed methods to tune the properties of altermagnets, a step toward practical applications for this new form of magnet.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Loss-Enabled Chirality Inversion in Terahertz Metasurfaces

Weibao He, Shun Wan, Yunlan Zuo, Siyang Hu, Ziheng Ren, Zhongyi Yu, Dongsheng Yang, Xiang’ai Cheng, Keyu Xia, Yuze Hu, Hui Jing, and Tian Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106901 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Illuminating a metasurface with a laser can enable the rapid modulation of the polarization of terahertz light transmitted through the metasurface.

Using Light to Polarize and Detect Electron Spins in Silicon

Xavier Marie, Delphine Lagarde, Andrea Balocchi, Cédric Robert, Laurent Lombez, Pierre Renucci, Thierry Amand, and Fabian Cadiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106902 (2025) - Published 14 March, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermomajorization Mpemba Effect

Tan Van Vu and Hisao Hayakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 107101 (2025) - Published 10 March, 2025

The thermomajorization Mpemba effect implies the occurrence of the Mpemba effect within a bounded time for any monotone distance measure, utilized to quantify the anomalous relaxation speed.

Phase Locking and Fractional Shapiro Steps in Collective Dynamics of Microparticles

Seemant Mishra, Artem Ryabov, and Philipp Maass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 107102 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

Self-Injection Locked and Phase Offset-Free Micromechanical Frequency Combs

Jiahao Wu, Penghui Song, Shuke Zang, Zian Mao, Wenming Zhang, and Lei Shao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 107201 (2025) - Published 14 March, 2025

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Metadensity Functional Theory for Classical Fluids: Extracting the Pair Potential

Stefanie M. Kampa, Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt, and Robert Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 107301 (2025) - Published 11 March, 2025

Combining classical density functional theory and machine learning gives access to a generalized universal functional for truncated, pairwise interacting model fluids.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Defects Enhance Stability in 12-fold Symmetric Soft-Matter Quasicrystals

Alptuğ Ulugöl, Robert J. Hardeman, Frank Smallenburg, and Laura Filion

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 108201 (2025) - Published 12 March, 2025

Biased Lévy Walk Enables Light Gradient Sensing in Euglena gracilis

Yu’an Li, Yongfeng Zhao, Siyuan Yang, Min Tang, and H. P. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 108301 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025

ERRATA

Erratum: Non-Hermitian Random Matrices and the Calogero-Sutherland Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 194102 (2001)]

Pragya Shukla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 109901 (2025) - Published 13 March, 2025