Volume 134, Issue 12

28 March 2025

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In coarse-graining of two-dimensional active liquid crystals, orientational order is significant at small scales except near topological defects (topmost image), while becoming smoother and diminished at larger scales.

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Quasi-Long-Ranged Order in Two-Dimensional Active Liquid Crystals
Livio Nicola Carenza, Josep-Maria Armengol-Collado, Dimitrios Krommydas, and Luca Giomi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 128304 (2025)

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Microwave-Controlled Cold Chemistry

Fernanda B. V. Martins, Hansjürg Schmutz, Josef A. Agner, Valentina Zhelyazkova, and Frédéric Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123401 (2025) - Published 24 March, 2025

The heating effect of microwaves has long been used to accelerate reactions. A new experiment shows that microwaves can also excite molecules into a less reactive state.

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Protein Structure Classification Based on X-Ray-Laser-Induced Coulomb Explosion

Tomas André, Ibrahim Dawod, Sebastian Cardoch, Emiliano De Santis, Nicuşor Tîmneanu, and Carl Caleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 128403 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

An intense x-ray pulse from a free-electron laser sends a protein’s atoms flying off in directions that reveal the protein’s structure.

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Which Is Which? Identification of the Two Compact Objects in Gravitational-Wave Binaries

Davide Gerosa, Viola De Renzis, Federica Tettoni, Matthew Mould, Alberto Vecchio, and Costantino Pacilio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 121402 (2025) - Published 28 March, 2025

A semisupervised machine-learning approach based on constrained clustering could improve black-hole spin measurements from gravitational waves by 50%, and correct data features like multimodalities and nongaussianities.

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$g$ Factor of Boronlike Tin

J. Morgner, B. Tu, M. Moretti, C. M. König, F. Heiße, T. Sailer, V. A. Yerokhin, B. Sikora, N. S. Oreshkina, Z. Harman, C. H. Keitel, S. Sturm, and K. Blaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123201 (2025) - Published 24 March, 2025

The $g$ factor of highly ionized tin is measured with a 0.5 parts-per-billion precision.

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Free-Space Optical Modulation of Free Electrons in the Continuous-Wave Regime

Cruz I. Velasco and F. Javier García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123804 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Stimulated Compton scattering uses light beams to compress free-electron pulses, an approach that bypasses the need for nanostructures.

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Biermann-Battery-Driven Magnetized Collisionless Shock Precursors in Laser-Produced Plasmas

T. M. Johnson, G. D. Sutcliffe, J. A. Pearcy, A. Birkel, G. Rigon, N. V. Kabadi, B. Lahmann, P. J. Adrian, B. L. Reichelt, J. H. Kunimune, S. G. Dannhoff, M. Cufari, C. K. Li, F. Tsung, H. Chen, J. Katz, and V. T. Tikhonchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 125101 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

State of the art experiments show that Biermann-battery magnetic fields in laser-driven plasmas can produce a magnetized collisionless shock precursor, mimicking the scenario of Venus bow-shock formation.

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Unusual Energy Spectra of Matrix Product States

J. Maxwell Silvester, Giuseppe Carleo, and Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126503 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

High-energy contributions to the spectra of approximate ground states are a universal feature of matrix product states.

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Topological Phenomena in Artificial Quantum Materials Revealed by Local Chern Markers

Catalin D. Spataru, Wei Pan, and Alexander Cerjan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126601 (2025) - Published 24 March, 2025

The spectral localizer, a framework for calculating local topological markers, efficiently predicts topology in experimentally realizable materials regardless of whether they are disordered, aperiodic, or metallic.

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Anomalous Hall Effect due to Magnetic Fluctuations in a Ferromagnetic Weyl Semimetal

Ola Kenji Forslund, Xiaoxiong Liu, Soohyeon Shin, Chun Lin, Masafumi Horio, Qisi Wang, Kevin Kramer, Saumya Mukherjee, Timur Kim, Cephise Cacho, Chennan Wang, Tian Shang, Victor Ukleev, Jonathan S. White, Pascal Puphal, Yasmine Sassa, Ekaterina Pomjakushina, Titus Neupert, and Johan Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126602 (2025) - Published 24 March, 2025

A signal similar to that produced by the anomalous Hall effect arises in topological materials, but without also exhibiting spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking.

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Locomotion of Active Polymerlike Worms in Porous Media

R. Sinaasappel, M. Fazelzadeh, T. Hooijschuur, Q. Di, S. Jabbari-Farouji, and A. Deblais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 128303 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

$T .$ $T u b i f e x$ worms display active polymerlike behavior as they navigate complex environments.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Phase-Space Measurements, Decoherence, and Classicality

Dorje C. Brody, Eva-Maria Graefe, and Rishindra Melanathuru

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 120201 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Dual-Capability Machine Learning Models for Quantum Hamiltonian Parameter Estimation and Dynamics Prediction

Zheng An, Jiahui Wu, Zidong Lin, Xiaobo Yang, Keren Li, and Bei Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 120202 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

Bound Entangled States Are Useful in Prepare-and-Measure Scenarios

Carles Roch i Carceller and Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 120203 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

Experimental Demonstration of Scalable Cross-Entropy Benchmarking to Detect Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions on a Superconducting Quantum Processor

Hirsh Kamakari, Jiace Sun, Yaodong Li, Jonathan J. Thio, Tanvi P. Gujarati, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Mario Motta, and Austin J. Minnich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 120401 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

Fast Flux-Activated Leakage Reduction for Superconducting Quantum Circuits

Nathan Lacroix, Luca Hofele, Ants Remm, Othmane Benhayoune-Khadraoui, Alexander McDonald, Ross Shillito, Stefania Lazar, Christoph Hellings, François Swiadek, Dante Colao-Zanuz, Alexander Flasby, Mohsen Bahrami Panah, Michael Kerschbaum, Graham J. Norris, Alexandre Blais, Andreas Wallraff, and Sebastian Krinner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 120601 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

Site-Selective Cavity Readout and Classical Error Correction of a 5-Bit Atomic Register

Beili Hu, Josiah Sinclair, Edita Bytyqi, Michelle Chong, Alyssa Rudelis, Joshua Ramette, Zachary Vendeiro, and Vladan Vuletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 120801 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

Robust Noise Suppression and Quantum Sensing by Continuous Phased Dynamical Decoupling

Daniel Louzon, Genko T. Genov, Nicolas Staudenmaier, Florian Frank, Johannes Lang, Matthew L. Markham, Alex Retzker, and Fedor Jelezko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 120802 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Toward Heisenberg Limit without Critical Slowing Down via Quantum Reinforcement Learning

Hang Xu, Tailong Xiao, Jingzheng Huang, Ming He, Jianping Fan, and Guihua Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 120803 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

New Physics Decaying into Metastable Particles: Impact on Cosmic Neutrinos

Kensuke Akita, Gideon Baur, Maksym Ovchynnikov, Thomas Schwetz, and Vsevolod Syvolap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 121001 (2025) - Published 24 March, 2025

Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments Are Sensitive to the Millicharged Background

Ella Iles, Saniya Heeba, and Katelin Schutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 121002 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

Search for the Anomalous Events Detected by ANITA Using the Pierre Auger Observatory

A. Abdul Halim et al. (Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 121003 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

Masking the Equation-of-State Effects in Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Antonios Tsokaros, Jamie Bamber, Milton Ruiz, and Stuart L. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 121401 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

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Which Is Which? Identification of the Two Compact Objects in Gravitational-Wave Binaries

Davide Gerosa, Viola De Renzis, Federica Tettoni, Matthew Mould, Alberto Vecchio, and Costantino Pacilio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 121402 (2025) - Published 28 March, 2025

Quantum Mechanics of a Spherically Symmetric Causal Diamond in Minkowski Spacetime

Mathew W. Bub, Temple He, Prahar Mitra, Yiwen Zhang, and Kathryn M. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 121501 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

Particles and Fields

Conformal Perturbation Theory from Open String Field Theory

Jaroslav Scheinpflug and Martin Schnabl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 121601 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Dark Higgs Boson in the $b \bar{b}$ Final State Using $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 121801 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

New Limits on the Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Elastic Scattering Cross Section at the Kuo-Sheng Reactor-Neutrino Laboratory

S. Karmakar et al. (TEXONO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 121802 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

Test of Lepton Flavor Universality with $B_{s}^{0} \to ϕ ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 121803 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

Exploring the Three-Dimensional Momentum Distribution of Longitudinally Polarized Quarks in the Proton

Alessandro Bacchetta, Alessia Bongallino, Matteo Cerutti, Marco Radici, and Lorenzo Rossi (MAP Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 121901 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

First Extraction of Transverse-Momentum Dependent Helicity Distributions

Ke Yang, Tianbo Liu, Peng Sun, Yuxiang Zhao, and Bo-Qiang Ma (Transverse Nucleon Tomography Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 121902 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Improved Bound-Electron $g$ -Factor Theory through Complete Two-Loop QED Calculations

B. Sikora, V. A. Yerokhin, C. H. Keitel, and Z. Harman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123001 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

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$g$ Factor of Boronlike Tin

J. Morgner, B. Tu, M. Moretti, C. M. König, F. Heiße, T. Sailer, V. A. Yerokhin, B. Sikora, N. S. Oreshkina, Z. Harman, C. H. Keitel, S. Sturm, and K. Blaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123201 (2025) - Published 24 March, 2025

The $g$ factor of highly ionized tin is measured with a 0.5 parts-per-billion precision.

Atomic Double Ionization with Quantum Light

Haoyu Liu, Hanxu Zhang, Xu Wang, and Jianmin Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123202 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Resolving Recapture Dynamics of Rydberg Electrons via Laser-Driven Frustrated Tunneling Ionization

Sainan Peng, Yudong Chen, Yang Li, Guangyu Fan, Xinhua Xie, Feng He, and Zhensheng Tao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123203 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Complete Characterizations of Intermediate and Final State Wave Functions with Photoionization of Polarized Rb

Huanyu Ma, Linxuan Zhang, Xincheng Wang, Zhihan Zou, Rujin Lv, Zhenjie Shen, Ahai Chen, Matthias Weidemüller, Kiyoshi Ueda, Difa Ye, and Yuhai Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123204 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

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Microwave-Controlled Cold Chemistry

Fernanda B. V. Martins, Hansjürg Schmutz, Josef A. Agner, Valentina Zhelyazkova, and Frédéric Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123401 (2025) - Published 24 March, 2025

The heating effect of microwaves has long been used to accelerate reactions. A new experiment shows that microwaves can also excite molecules into a less reactive state.

Generic Transverse Stability of Kink Structures in Atomic and Optical Nonlinear Media with Competing Attractive and Repulsive Interactions

S. I. Mistakidis, G. Bougas, G. C. Katsimiga, and P. G. Kevrekidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123402 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Direct Observation of Time-Dependent Coherent Chiral Tunneling Dynamics

Wenhao Sun, Denis S. Tikhonov, and Melanie Schnell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123403 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Enhancement of Rydberg Blockade via Microwave Dressing

Deniz Kurdak, Patrick R. Banner, Yaxin Li, Sean R. Muleady, Alexey V. Gorshkov, S. L. Rolston, and J. V. Porto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123404 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

Emergence of Topological States in Relaxation Dynamics of Interacting Bosons

Wang Huang, Xu-Chen Yang, Rui Cao, Ying-Hai Wu, Jianmin Yuan, and Yongqiang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123405 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

What Is the Spectral Density of the Reservoir for a Lossy Quantized Cavity?

Chris Gustin, Juanjuan Ren, and Stephen Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123601 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Long-Range Interactions in Weyl-Dense Atomic Arrays Protected from Dissipation and Disorder

Iñaki García-Elcano, Paloma A. Huidobro, Jorge Bravo-Abad, and Alejandro González-Tudela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123602 (2025) - Published 28 March, 2025

Nonlinear Dynamics of Coupled-Resonator Kerr Combs

Swarnava Sanyal, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Yun Zhao, Bok Young Kim, Karl J. McNulty, Michal Lipson, and Alexander L. Gaeta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123801 (2025) - Published 24 March, 2025

Nonlinear Optical Bistability in Microring Resonators for Enhanced Phase Sensing

Patrick Tritschler, Christian Schweikert, Rouven H. Klenk, Simon Abdani, Onur Sözen, Wolfgang Vogel, Georg Rademacher, Torsten Ohms, André Zimmermann, and Peter Degenfeld-Schonburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123802 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

Pseudospin Transverse Localization of Light in an Optical Disordered Spin-Glass Phase

Shani Izhak, Aviv Karnieli, Ofir Yesharim, Shai Tsesses, and Ady Arie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123803 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

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Free-Space Optical Modulation of Free Electrons in the Continuous-Wave Regime

Cruz I. Velasco and F. Javier García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123804 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Stimulated Compton scattering uses light beams to compress free-electron pulses, an approach that bypasses the need for nanostructures.

4D Topological Textures in Light

David Marco and Miguel A. Alonso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 123805 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Biermann-Battery-Driven Magnetized Collisionless Shock Precursors in Laser-Produced Plasmas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 125101 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Electronic Structure of the Alternating Monolayer-Trilayer Phase of ${La}_{3} {Ni}_{2} O_{7}$

Sebastien Abadi, Ke-Jun Xu, Eder G. Lomeli, Pascal Puphal, Masahiko Isobe, Yong Zhong, Alexei V. Fedorov, Sung-Kwan Mo, Makoto Hashimoto, Dong-Hui Lu, Brian Moritz, Bernhard Keimer, Thomas P. Devereaux, Matthias Hepting, and Zhi-Xun Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126001 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

Crystallization Instead of Amorphization in Collision Cascades in Gallium Oxide

Junlei Zhao, Javier García Fernández, Alexander Azarov, Ru He, Øystein Prytz, Kai Nordlund, Mengyuan Hua, Flyura Djurabekova, and Andrej Kuznetsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126101 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

Giant Negative Linear Compressibility in Orthorhombic Copper Cyanide

Swayam Kesari, Alka B. Garg, Nilesh P. Salke, and Rekha Rao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126102 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Disorder-Induced Delocalization in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Pedro Alcázar Guerrero, Viet-Hung Nguyen, Jorge Martínez Romeral, Aron W. Cummings, José-Hugo Garcia, Jean-Christophe Charlier, and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126301 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Negative Transit Time in Nontunneling Electron Transmission through Graphene Multilayers

E. E. Krasovskii and R. O. Kuzian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126302 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

Electronic Structure Dimensionality of the Quantum-Critical Ferromagnet ${YbNi}_{4} P_{2}$

J. Dai, A. Antezak, W. Broad, M. Thees, V. Zatko, R. L. Bouwmeester, F. Fortuna, P. Le Fèvre, J. E. Rault, K. Horiba, D. V. Vyalikh, H. Kumigashira, K. Kliemt, S. Friedemann, C. Krellner, E. Frantzeskakis, and A. F. Santander-Syro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126401 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

Quasiparticle Interference in Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquids

Ammar Jahin, Hao Zhang, Gábor B. Halász, and Shi-Zeng Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126501 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

Tuning Transport in Solid-State Bose-Fermi Mixtures by Feshbach Resonances

Caterina Zerba, Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Léo Mangeolle, and Michael Knap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126502 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

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Unusual Energy Spectra of Matrix Product States

J. Maxwell Silvester, Giuseppe Carleo, and Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126503 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

High-energy contributions to the spectra of approximate ground states are a universal feature of matrix product states.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Phenomena in Artificial Quantum Materials Revealed by Local Chern Markers

Catalin D. Spataru, Wei Pan, and Alexander Cerjan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126601 (2025) - Published 24 March, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Hall Effect due to Magnetic Fluctuations in a Ferromagnetic Weyl Semimetal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126602 (2025) - Published 24 March, 2025

A signal similar to that produced by the anomalous Hall effect arises in topological materials, but without also exhibiting spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking.

Observation of Floquet-Bloch Braids in Non-Hermitian Spatiotemporal Lattices

Shuaishuai Tong, Qicheng Zhang, Liangjun Qi, Gaohan Li, Xiling Feng, and Chunyin Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126603 (2025) - Published 28 March, 2025

Orbital Pumping in Ferrimagnetic Insulators

Hanchen Wang, Min-Gu Kang, Davit Petrosyan, Shilei Ding, Richard Schlitz, Lauren J. Riddiford, William Legrand, and Pietro Gambardella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126701 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Dynamically Tunable Magnon-Magnon Coupling in a Perpendicular Anisotropy Magnetic Garnet-Ferromagnet Bilayer

Yabin Fan, Takian Fakhrul, Justin T. Hou, Chung-Tao Chou, Bharat Khurana, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Luqiao Liu, and Caroline A. Ross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126702 (2025) - Published 28 March, 2025

Superradiance of Strongly Interacting Dipolar Excitons in Moiré Quantum Materials

Jan Kumlin, Ajit Srivastava, and Thomas Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126901 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Direct Measurement of the Lifetime and Coherence Time of ${Cu}_{2} O$ Rydberg Excitons

Poulab Chakrabarti, Kerwan Morin, Delphine Lagarde, Xavier Marie, and Thomas Boulier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126902 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

First Passage Times in Compact Domains Exhibit Biscaling

Talia Baravi, David A. Kessler, and Eli Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 127101 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Universal and Nonuniversal Signatures in the Scaling Functions of Critical Variables

Gianluca Teza and Attilio L. Stella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 127102 (2025) - Published 28 March, 2025

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Generating Ultrastable Glasses by Homogenizing the Local Virial Stress

Fabio Leoni, John Russo, Francesco Sciortino, and Taiki Yanagishima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 128201 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

Active Saffman-Taylor Viscous Fingering

Akash Ganesh, Carine Douarche, and Harold Auradou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 128301 (2025) - Published 25 March, 2025

Cooperativity of Confined Nematic Microswimmers: From One to Many

Shubhadeep Mandal, Thomas J. Mason, Anthony C. Croft, and Marco G. Mazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 128302 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

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Locomotion of Active Polymerlike Worms in Porous Media

R. Sinaasappel, M. Fazelzadeh, T. Hooijschuur, Q. Di, S. Jabbari-Farouji, and A. Deblais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 128303 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

$T .$ $T u b i f e x$ worms display active polymerlike behavior as they navigate complex environments.

Quasi-Long-Ranged Order in Two-Dimensional Active Liquid Crystals

Livio Nicola Carenza, Josep-Maria Armengol-Collado, Dimitrios Krommydas, and Luca Giomi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 128304 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

Active Loop Extrusion Guides DNA-Protein Condensation

Ryota Takaki, Yahor Savich, Jan Brugués, and Frank Jülicher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 128401 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

Self-Organized Coexistence of Phage and a Population of Host Colonies

Anjali Yadav, Namiko Mitarai, and Kim Sneppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 128402 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025

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Protein Structure Classification Based on X-Ray-Laser-Induced Coulomb Explosion

Tomas André, Ibrahim Dawod, Sebastian Cardoch, Emiliano De Santis, Nicuşor Tîmneanu, and Carl Caleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 128403 (2025) - Published 27 March, 2025

An intense x-ray pulse from a free-electron laser sends a protein’s atoms flying off in directions that reveal the protein’s structure.

ERRATA

Erratum: Minimum Scaling Model and Exact Exponents for the Nambu-Goldstone Modes in the Vicsek Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 258301 (2024)]

Harukuni Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 129901 (2025) - Published 26 March, 2025