Volume 134, Issue 11

21 March 2025

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Flat Landau levels can be achieved in a 3D-printed acoustic lattice (right) of unit cells (left) with two square acoustic cavities. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Ideal Flat and Resolved SU(3) Landau Levels in Three Dimensions
Mian Peng, Qiang Wei, Jiale Yuan, Da-Wei Wang, Mou Yan, Han Cai, and Gang Chen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116601 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Discovery of the Origin of the Enormous ${}^{88}{Zr}$ Neutron-Capture Cross Section and Quantifying Its Impact on Applications

Athanasios Stamatopoulos, Paul E. Koehler, Brad DiGiovine, Veronika Mocko, Artem Matyskin, Christiaan Vermeulen, Aaron Couture, Andrew Cooper, Jonathan Morrell, and Ellen O’Brien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 112702 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Measuring how efficiently an isotope captures neutrons of various energies both confirms and refutes some surprising recent results.

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Temperature Sensitivity of a Thorium-229 Solid-State Nuclear Clock

Jacob S. Higgins, Tian Ooi, Jack F. Doyle, Chuankun Zhang, Jun Ye, Kjeld Beeks, Tomas Sikorsky, and Thorsten Schumm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113801 (2025) - Published 17 March, 2025

Researchers have characterized the temperature-induced frequency shifts of a thorium-229 nuclear transition—an important step in establishing thorium clocks as next-generation frequency standards.

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Chiral Resonant Modes Induced by Intrinsic Birefringence in Lithium Niobate Metasurfaces

Bo Wang, Tingyue Zhu, Yunan Liu, Haifang Yang, Ruhao Pan, and Junjie Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113802 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

An achiral metasurface selectively transmits two beams of opposite chirality.

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First Search for Light Dark Matter in the Neutrino Fog with XENONnT

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111802 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

Bounds on GeV-scale dark matter are placed for the first time in the range of parameter space effected by the neutrino fog.

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Entanglement as a Probe of Hadronization

Jaydeep Datta, Abhay Deshpande, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Charles Joseph Naïm, and Zhoudunming Tu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111902 (2025) - Published 19 March, 2025

The entropy of hadrons produced within highly energetic jets can be related to the fragmentation function if the initial quarks and gluons in the jets are maximally entangled.

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First Measurement of a Weak $r$ -Process Reaction on a Radioactive Nucleus

M. Williams et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 112701 (2025) - Published 17 March, 2025

The first measurement of a weak $r$ -process reaction on a radioactive nucleus was made possible by novel solid helium targets.

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Photonic Spin Hall Effect by Electro-optically Induced Pancharatnam-Berry Phases

Xingliang Xie, Hongdao Cheng, Huifeng Chen, Huadan Zheng, Yongchun Zhong, Jieyuan Tang, Jianhui Yu, Zhe Chen, and Wenguo Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113805 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

A new photonic spin Hall effect based on spatially varying Pancharatnam-Berry phases is demonstrated in a spatially homogeneous anisotropic crystal.

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Two Characteristic Contributions to the Superconducting State of $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$

A. Alshemi, E. M. Forgan, A. Hiess, R. Cubitt, J. S. White, K. Schmalzl, and E. Blackburn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116001 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Small angle neutron scattering measurements of the form factor of the magnetic field in the vortex lattice of NbSe $_{2}$ yield unambiguous evidence for two characteristic length scales for the vortex core-size, compatible with the existence of two bands with different superconducting gap values.

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Ideal Flat and Resolved SU(3) Landau Levels in Three Dimensions

Mian Peng, Qiang Wei, Jiale Yuan, Da-Wei Wang, Mou Yan, Han Cai, and Gang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116601 (2025) - Published 17 March, 2025

Inhomogeneous hoppings in an acoustic lattice introduce pseudomagnetic fields that generate three-dimensional Landau levels with three bosonic degrees of freedom at each Landau level.

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Acoustic Exceptional Line Semimetal

Yejian Hu, Jien Wu, Peidong Ye, Weiyin Deng, Jiuyang Lu, Xueqin Huang, Ziyu Wang, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116606 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

A three-dimensional non-Hermitian phononic crystal hosts an exceptional line semimetal with drumhead surface states and geometry-dependent skin effect protected by wavefunction and spectral topology, respectively.

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Backbone Exponent and Annulus Crossing Probability for Planar Percolation

Pierre Nolin, Wei Qian, Xin Sun, and Zijie Zhuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 117101 (2025) - Published 19 March, 2025

An exact derivation reveals that the the backbone exponent of 2D percolation is a transcendental number

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Locality Approach to the Bootstrap Percolation Paradox

Ivailo Hartarsky and Augusto Teixeira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 117102 (2025) - Published 19 March, 2025

A new algorithm to simulate bootstrap percolation achieves perfect agreement with theoretical prediction up to the third order.

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Unbuckling Mechanics of Epithelial Monolayers under Compression

Chandraniva Guha Ray and Pierre A. Haas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 118402 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

At sufficiently large compression, buckling amplitude in cell sheets decreases with increasing compression.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Levitated Ferromagnetic Magnetometer with Energy Resolution Well Below $ℏ$

Felix Ahrens, Wei Ji, Dmitry Budker, Chris Timberlake, Hendrik Ulbricht, and Andrea Vinante

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 110801 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Krylov Shadow Tomography: Efficient Estimation of Quantum Fisher Information

Da-Jian Zhang and D. M. Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 110802 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Constraints on Velocity and Spin Dependent Exotic Interaction at the Millimeter Scale with a Diamagnetic-Levitated Force Sensor

Kenan Tian, Yuanji Sheng, Rui Li, Lei Wang, Peiran Yin, Shaochun Lin, Dingjiang Long, Chang-Kui Duan, Xi Kong, Pu Huang, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111001 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

ADMX Axion Dark Matter Bounds around $3.3 μ eV$ with Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitsky Discovery Ability

C. Goodman et al. (ADMX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111002 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

New Method for the Astrometric Direct Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter

Jeff A. Dror and Sarunas Verner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111003 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

Particles and Fields

Higher Fermions in Supergravity

Julian Kupka, Charles Strickland-Constable, and Fridrich Valach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111601 (2025) - Published 19 March, 2025

One-Loop $N$ -Point Correlators in Pure Gravity

Humberto Gomez, Renann Lipinski Jusinskas, Cristhiam Lopez-Arcos, and Alexander Quintero Vélez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111602 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

Observation of $D^{+} \to η^{'} μ^{+} ν_{μ}$ and First Experimental Study of $D^{+} \to η^{'} ℓ^{+} ν_{ℓ}$ Decay Dynamics

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111801 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

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First Search for Light Dark Matter in the Neutrino Fog with XENONnT

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111802 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

Bounds on GeV-scale dark matter are placed for the first time in the range of parameter space effected by the neutrino fog.

Hybrid SO(10) Axion Model without Quality Problem

K. S. Babu, Bhaskar Dutta, and Rabindra N. Mohapatra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111803 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

Topological Portal to the Dark Sector

Joe Davighi, Admir Greljo, and Nudžeim Selimović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111804 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

Light and Strange Vector Resonances from Lattice QCD at Physical Quark Masses

Peter Boyle, Felix Erben, Vera Gülpers, Maxwell T. Hansen, Fabian Joswig, Michael Marshall, Nelson Pitanga Lachini, and Antonin Portelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111901 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

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Entanglement as a Probe of Hadronization

Jaydeep Datta, Abhay Deshpande, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Charles Joseph Naïm, and Zhoudunming Tu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111902 (2025) - Published 19 March, 2025

The entropy of hadrons produced within highly energetic jets can be related to the fragmentation function if the initial quarks and gluons in the jets are maximally entangled.

Search for Nuclear Modifications of $B^{+}$ Meson Production in $p$ -Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 8.16 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111903 (2025) - Published 19 March, 2025

Extreme Softening of QCD Phase Transition under Weak Acceleration: First-Principles Monte Carlo Results for Gluon Plasma

M. N. Chernodub, V. A. Goy, A. V. Molochkov, D. V. Stepanov, and A. S. Pochinok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 111904 (2025) - Published 19 March, 2025

Nuclear Physics

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First Measurement of a Weak $r$ -Process Reaction on a Radioactive Nucleus

M. Williams et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 112701 (2025) - Published 17 March, 2025

The first measurement of a weak $r$ -process reaction on a radioactive nucleus was made possible by novel solid helium targets.

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Discovery of the Origin of the Enormous ${}^{88}{Zr}$ Neutron-Capture Cross Section and Quantifying Its Impact on Applications

Athanasios Stamatopoulos, Paul E. Koehler, Brad DiGiovine, Veronika Mocko, Artem Matyskin, Christiaan Vermeulen, Aaron Couture, Andrew Cooper, Jonathan Morrell, and Ellen O’Brien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 112702 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Measuring how efficiently an isotope captures neutrons of various energies both confirms and refutes some surprising recent results.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Quantum Logic Control of a Transition Metal Ion

Till Rehmert, Maximilian J. Zawierucha, Kai Dietze, Piet O. Schmidt, and Fabian Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113201 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Observation of Ergodicity Breaking and Quantum Many-Body Scars in Spinor Gases

J. O. Austin-Harris, I. Rana, S. E. Begg, C. Binegar, T. Bilitewski, and Y. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113401 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Coherence of Symmetry-Protected Rotational Qubits in Cold Polyatomic Molecules

Maximilian Löw, Martin Ibrügger, Gerhard Rempe, and Martin Zeppenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113402 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

Many-Body Gap Protection against Motional Dephasing of an Optical Clock Transition

Zhijing Niu, Vera M. Schäfer, Haoqing Zhang, Cameron Wagner, Nathan R. Taylor, Dylan J. Young, Eric Yilun Song, Anjun Chu, Ana Maria Rey, and James K. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113403 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

Self-Trapping Phenomenon, Multistability and Chaos in Open Anisotropic Dicke Dimer

G. Vivek, Debabrata Mondal, Subhadeep Chakraborty, and S. Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113404 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

Cross-Polarized Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Lithium Niobate Waveguides

Caique C. Rodrigues, Nick J. Schilder, Roberto O. Zurita, Letícia S. Magalhães, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Felipe J. L. dos Santos, Otávio M. Paiano, Thiago P. M. Alegre, Marko Lončar, and Gustavo S. Wiederhecker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113601 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

Engineering Dipole-Dipole Couplings for Enhanced Cooperative Light-Matter Interactions

Adam Burgess, Madeline C. Waller, Erik M. Gauger, and Robert Bennett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113602 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

Nonchiral Non-Bloch Invariants and Topological Phase Diagram in Nonunitary Quantum Dynamics without Chiral Symmetry

Yue Zhang, Shuai Li, Yingchao Xu, Rui Tian, Miao Zhang, Hongrong Li, Hong Gao, M. Suhail Zubairy, Fuli Li, and Bo Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113603 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

Thermal Radiation Force and Torque on Moving Nanostructures with Anisotropic Optical Response

Juan R. Deop-Ruano and Alejandro Manjavacas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113604 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

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Temperature Sensitivity of a Thorium-229 Solid-State Nuclear Clock

Jacob S. Higgins, Tian Ooi, Jack F. Doyle, Chuankun Zhang, Jun Ye, Kjeld Beeks, Tomas Sikorsky, and Thorsten Schumm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113801 (2025) - Published 17 March, 2025

Researchers have characterized the temperature-induced frequency shifts of a thorium-229 nuclear transition—an important step in establishing thorium clocks as next-generation frequency standards.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Chiral Resonant Modes Induced by Intrinsic Birefringence in Lithium Niobate Metasurfaces

Bo Wang, Tingyue Zhu, Yunan Liu, Haifang Yang, Ruhao Pan, and Junjie Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113802 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

An achiral metasurface selectively transmits two beams of opposite chirality.

Observation of Light Localization at the Edges of Quasicrystal Waveguide Arrays

S. K. Ivanov, S. A. Zhuravitskii, N. S. Kostyuchenko, N. N. Skryabin, I. V. Dyakonov, A. A. Kalinkin, S. P. Kulik, V. O. Kompanets, S. V. Chekalin, S. Alyatkin, A. Ferrando, Y. V. Kartashov, and V. N. Zadkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113803 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

Inverse Spin Thermal Hall Effect in Nonreciprocal Photonic Systems

P. Ben-Abdallah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113804 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

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Photonic Spin Hall Effect by Electro-optically Induced Pancharatnam-Berry Phases

Xingliang Xie, Hongdao Cheng, Huifeng Chen, Huadan Zheng, Yongchun Zhong, Jieyuan Tang, Jianhui Yu, Zhe Chen, and Wenguo Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113805 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

A new photonic spin Hall effect based on spatially varying Pancharatnam-Berry phases is demonstrated in a spatially homogeneous anisotropic crystal.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Spectrotemporal Shaping of Attosecond X-Ray Pulses with a Fresh-Slice Free-Electron Laser

River R. Robles, Kirk A. Larsen, David Cesar, Taran Driver, Joseph Duris, Paris Franz, Douglas Garratt, Veronica Guo, Gabriel Just, Randy Lemons, Ming-Fu Lin, Razib Obaid, Nicholas Sudar, Jun Wang, Zhen Zhang, James Cryan, and Agostino Marinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 115001 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

Detection of Large Guide Field Electron-Only Reconnection in a Filamentary Current Sheet Immersed in a Large-Scale Magnetopause Reconnection Exhaust

P. S. Pyakurel, T. D. Phan, M. Øieroset, J. F. Drake, M. A. Shay, A. Mallet, J. Stawarz, S. Wang, M. Oka, K. J. Genestreti, N. Ahmadi, J. L. Burch, R. B. Torbert, R. E. Ergun, D. J. Gershman, B. L. Giles, and R. J. Strangeway

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 115201 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Two Characteristic Contributions to the Superconducting State of $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$

A. Alshemi, E. M. Forgan, A. Hiess, R. Cubitt, J. S. White, K. Schmalzl, and E. Blackburn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116001 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Atomic Manipulation on a Highly Corrugated Topological Insulator

Emma Grasser, Adrian Weindl, Alfred J. Weymouth, and Franz J. Giessibl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116201 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

Intrinsic Gyrotropic Magnetic Current from Zeeman Quantum Geometry

Longjun Xiang, Jinxiong Jia, Fuming Xu, Zhenhua Qiao, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116301 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Intraband Collective Excitations and Spatial Correlations in Fractional Chern Insulators

Tobias Wolf, Yung-Chun Chao, Allan H. MacDonald, and Jung-Jung Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116501 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Frustration-Induced Superconductivity in the $t − t^{'}$ Hubbard Model

Changkai Zhang (张昌凯), Jheng-Wei Li, Dimitra Nikolaidou, and Jan von Delft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116502 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Quantum Thermalization via Travelling Waves

Antonio Picano, Giulio Biroli, and Marco Schirò

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116503 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

Spin Waves in Dirac Semimetal ${Ca}_{0.6} {Sr}_{0.4} {MnSb}_{2}$ Investigated with Neutrons by the Diffraction Method

Xiao Hu, Yan Wu, Matthias D. Frontzek, Zhixiang Hu, Cedomir Petrovic, John M. Tranquada, and Igor A. Zaliznyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116504 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ideal Flat and Resolved SU(3) Landau Levels in Three Dimensions

Mian Peng, Qiang Wei, Jiale Yuan, Da-Wei Wang, Mou Yan, Han Cai, and Gang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116601 (2025) - Published 17 March, 2025

Inhomogeneous hoppings in an acoustic lattice introduce pseudomagnetic fields that generate three-dimensional Landau levels with three bosonic degrees of freedom at each Landau level.

Topological Quantum Criticality from Multiplicative Topological Phases

R. Flores-Calderón, Elio J. König, and Ashley M. Cook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116602 (2025) - Published 17 March, 2025

Chern Number Tunable Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Compensated Antiferromagnets

Wenhao Liang, Zeyu Li, Jiaqi An, Yafei Ren, Zhenhua Qiao, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116603 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Observation of Oriented Landau Levels and Helical Zero Modes in Berry Dipole Acoustic Crystals

Qingyang Mo, Riyi Zheng, Cuicui Lu, Xueqin Huang, Zhengyou Liu, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116604 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Topological Zero Modes and Correlation Pumping in an Engineered Kondo Lattice

Zina Lippo, Elizabeth Louis Pereira, Jose L. Lado, and Guangze Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116605 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

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Acoustic Exceptional Line Semimetal

Yejian Hu, Jien Wu, Peidong Ye, Weiyin Deng, Jiuyang Lu, Xueqin Huang, Ziyu Wang, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116606 (2025) - Published 21 March, 2025

Symmetry-Related Large-Area Corner Mode with a Tunable Mode Area and Stable Frequency

Zhongfu Li, Shiqi Li, Bei Yan, Hsun-Chi Chan, Jing Li, Jun Guan, Wengang Bi, Yuanjiang Xiang, Zhen Gao, Shuang Zhang, Peng Zhan, Zhenlin Wang, and Biye Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116607 (2025) - Published 20 March, 2025

Curvature-Induced Magnetization of Altermagnetic Films

Kostiantyn V. Yershov, Olena Gomonay, Jairo Sinova, Jeroen van den Brink, and Volodymyr P. Kravchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116701 (2025) - Published 17 March, 2025

Exotic Temperature Dependence of Uniaxial Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy in a Two-Dimensional Ferromagnet

Jiawei Liu, Jiawei Jiang, Liming Wang, Liang Zhou, Rui Liang, Shuilin Li, Ziying Li, Kai Chang, Hongxin Yang, and Nujiang Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116702 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Two-Dimensional Fully Compensated Ferrimagnetism

Yichen Liu, San-Dong Guo, Yongpan Li, and Cheng-Cheng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116703 (2025) - Published 18 March, 2025

Emergent Ferromagnetic Ladder Excitations in Heavy Fermion Superconductor ${CeSb}_{2}$

Zhaoyang Shan, Yangjie Jiao, Jiayu Guo, Yifan Wang, Jinyu Wu, Jiawen Zhang, Yanan Zhang, Dajun Su, Devashibhai T. Adroja, Christian Balz, Matthias Gutmann, Yu Liu, Huiqiu Yuan, Zhentao Wang, Yu Song, and Michael Smidman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 116704 (2025) - Published 19 March, 2025