Volume 134, Issue 13

4 April 2025

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Sketch of the Taylor-Couette cell used in a laboratory study of the standard magnetorotational instability, the expected cause of fast accretion in astronomical disks. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Observation of Nonaxisymmetric Standard Magnetorotational Instability Induced by a Free-Shear Layer
Yin Wang, Fatima Ebrahimi, Hongke Lu, Jeremy Goodman, Erik P. Gilson, and Hantao Ji
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 135101 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Why Charged Drops Do Not Splash

Fanfei Yu, Aaron D. Ratschow, Ran Tao, Xiaomei Li, Yuankai Jin, Jinpei Wang, and Zuankai Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 134001 (2025) - Published 1 April, 2025

The messy breakup of a liquid droplet that occurs when it hits a surface can be suppressed by giving the droplet an electrical charge.

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Synergistic Signatures of Group Mechanisms in Higher-Order Systems

Thomas Robiglio, Matteo Neri, Davide Coppes, Cosimo Agostinelli, Federico Battiston, Maxime Lucas, and Giovanni Petri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 137401 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

A new study of complex systems supports a growing trend that focuses more on analyzing a system’s collective behavior rather than on trying to uncover the underlying interaction mechanisms.

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High Reconstructability of Degree-Heterogeneous Networks

Jia-Jie Qin and Gang Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 137402 (2025) - Published 1 April, 2025

The fidelity of a complex system’s representation as a network model depends on the diversity of its interconnections.

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Low-Energy Excitations in Bosonic Quantum Quasicrystals

A. Mendoza-Coto, M. Bonifacio, and F. Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136003 (2025) - Published 2 April, 2025

A new theory unveils the exotic low-energy excitations of quasicrystals formed of quantum particles

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Low-Depth Unitary Quantum Circuits for Dualities in One-Dimensional Quantum Lattice Models

Laurens Lootens, Clement Delcamp, Dominic Williamson, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 130403 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025

Dualities in one-dimensional quantum lattice models can be written as low depth quantum circuits.

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Parisi-Sourlas Supertranslation and Scale Invariance without Conformal Symmetry

Yu Nakayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 131602 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025

A field theory with a quartic potential has not only one, but eight fixed points that are scale-invariant but not conformally invariant.

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Noise Constraints for Nonlinear Exceptional Point Sensing

Xu Zheng and Y. D. Chong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133801 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

A rigorous analysis of noise–nonlinearity interplay at exceptional points reveals new challenges for non-Hermitian sensing.

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Observation of Nonaxisymmetric Standard Magnetorotational Instability Induced by a Free-Shear Layer

Yin Wang, Fatima Ebrahimi, Hongke Lu, Jeremy Goodman, Erik P. Gilson, and Hantao Ji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 135101 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Theoretical and numerical results reveal that a free-shear layer in a hydrodynamically stable base flow can introduce nonaxisymmetric standard magnetorotational instability at magnetic Reynolds numbers larger than one, confirming recent experiments.

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Coulomb Drag in Altermagnets

Hao-Jie Lin, Song-Bo Zhang, Hai-Zhou Lu, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136301 (2025) - Published 2 April, 2025

Coulomb drag resistivity is highly sensitive to the orientation of the altermagnetically induced Fermi surface splitting making it an effective method to probe altermagnetic phases.

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Orbital-Excitation-Dominated Magnetization Dissipation and Quantum Oscillation of Gilbert Damping in Fe Films

Yue Chen, Haoran Chen, Xi Shen, Weizhao Chen, Yi Liu, Yizheng Wu, and Zhe Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136701 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

A strong thickness-dependent Gilbert damping oscillation in ultrathin Fe films suggests an effective way of tuning bands by doping or gating.

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Domain Wall Reactions in Multiple-Order Parameter Ferroelectrics

Songsong Zhou, Shihan Qin, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136802 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

Ferroelectric polarization switching resembles a chemical reaction where domain walls undergo synthesis, decomposition, and exchange reactions.

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Electromagnetic Raman Enhancement Beyond Gap Limit

Qi-hang Zhang, Kai Liu, Kang Qin, Shao-jie Fu, Jun Du, Yan-qing Lu, Yong-yuan Zhu, Yan-feng Chen, and Xue-jin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136902 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

A new electromagnetic enhancement mechanism of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) provides larger values of the SERS enhancement factor and also makes possible the measurement of large molecules, such as biological macromolecules.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Large Collective Power Enhancement in Dissipative Charging of a Quantum Battery

Sagar Pokhrel and Julio Gea-Banacloche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 130401 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Correspondence Principle, Ergodicity, and Finite-Time Dynamics

Zhen-Qi Chen, Rui-Hua Ni, Yalei Song, Liang Huang, Jiao Wang, and Giulio Casati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 130402 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

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Low-Depth Unitary Quantum Circuits for Dualities in One-Dimensional Quantum Lattice Models

Laurens Lootens, Clement Delcamp, Dominic Williamson, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 130403 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025

Dualities in one-dimensional quantum lattice models can be written as low depth quantum circuits.

Hidden Time Reversal in Driven $X X Z$ Spin Chains: Exact Solutions and New Dissipative Phase Transitions

Mingxing Yao, Andrew Lingenfelter, Ron Belyansky, David Roberts, and Aashish A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 130404 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025

Variational Ground-State Quantum Adiabatic Theorem

Bojan Žunkovič, Pietro Torta, Giovanni Pecci, Guglielmo Lami, and Mario Collura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 130601 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Playing Nonlocal Games across a Topological Phase Transition on a Quantum Computer

Oliver Hart, David T. Stephen, Dominic J. Williamson, Michael Foss-Feig, and Rahul Nandkishore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 130602 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Mechanical Multiplexer of Nuclear Spin States

Hiroyuki Chudo, Naoto Yokoi, Mamoru Matsuo, Kazuya Harii, Jun Suzuki, Masaki Imai, Masahiro Sato, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Eiji Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 130603 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

Fast and Accurate Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Encoding Using All-to-All Interactions

Chao Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 130604 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025

Parallel Accelerated Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Using Diamond Sensors

Zhehua Huang, Zhengze Zhao, Fei Kong, Zhecheng Wang, Pengju Zhao, Xiangtian Gong, Xiangyu Ye, Ya Wang, Fazhan Shi, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 130801 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Hidden Multidimensional Modulation Side Channels in Quantum Protocols

Amita Gnanapandithan, Li Qian, and Hoi-Kwong Lo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 130802 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Measuring Cosmic Expansion with Diffractive Gravitational Scintillation of Nanohertz Gravitational Waves

Dylan L. Jow and Ue-Li Pen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 131001 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025

Particles and Fields

Geometric Interpretation of Timelike Entanglement Entropy

Michal P. Heller, Fabio Ori, and Alexandre Serantes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 131601 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

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Parisi-Sourlas Supertranslation and Scale Invariance without Conformal Symmetry

Yu Nakayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 131602 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025

A field theory with a quartic potential has not only one, but eight fixed points that are scale-invariant but not conformally invariant.

Measurements of Pion and Muon Nuclear Capture at Rest on Argon in the LArIAT Experiment

M. A. Hernandez-Morquecho, R. Acciarri, J. Asaadi, M. Backfish, W. Badgett, V. Basque, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, W. Foreman, R. A. Gomes, E. Gramellini, J. Ho, E. Kearns, E. Kemp, T. Kobilarcik, M. King, B. R. Littlejohn, X. Luo, A. Marchionni, C. A. Moura, J. L. Raaf, D. W. Schmitz, M. Soderberg, J. M. St. John, A. M. Szelc, and T. Yang (LArIAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 131801 (2025) - Published 1 April, 2025

Search for Fractionally Charged Particles in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 131802 (2025) - Published 2 April, 2025

Four-Loop Anomalous Dimension of Flavor Nonsinglet Twist-Two Operator of General Lorentz Spin in QCD: $ζ (3)$ Term

B. A. Kniehl and V. N. Velizhanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 131901 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Quark and Gluon Momentum Fractions in the Pion and in the Kaon

Constantia Alexandrou, Simone Bacchio, Martha Constantinou, Joseph Delmar, Jacob Finkenrath, Bartosz Kostrzewa, Marcus Petschlies, Luis Alberto Rodriguez Chacon, Gregoris Spanoudes, Fernanda Steffens, Carsten Urbach, and Urs Wenger (Extended Twisted Mass Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 131902 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Evidence for Two Excited $Ω^{-}$ Hyperons

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 131903 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Autoionization-Enhanced Rydberg Dressing by Fast Contaminant Removal

Alec Cao, Theodor Lukin Yelin, William J. Eckner, Nelson Darkwah Oppong, and Adam M. Kaufman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133201 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Individual Assembly of Two-Species Rydberg Molecules Using Optical Tweezers

Alexander Guttridge, Tom R. Hepworth, Daniel K. Ruttley, Aileen A. T. Durst, Matthew T. Eiles, and Simon L. Cornish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133401 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

Dynamical Excitation Control and Multimode Emission of an Atom-Photon Bound State

Claudia Castillo-Moreno, Kazi Rafsanjani Amin, Ingrid Strandberg, Mikael Kervinen, Amr Osman, and Simone Gasparinetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133601 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Fluctuation-Induced Bistability of Fermionic Atoms Coupled to a Dissipative Cavity

Luisa Tolle, Ameneh Sheikhan, Thierry Giamarchi, Corinna Kollath, and Catalin-Mihai Halati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133602 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Bright and Dark States of Light: The Quantum Origin of Classical Interference

Celso J. Villas-Boas, Carlos E. Máximo, Paulo J. Paulino, Romain P. Bachelard, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133603 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

Quantum-Enhanced Weak Absorption Estimation with Correlated Photons

Zhucheng Zhang, Xue Zhang, Jing Liu, and Hui Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133604 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025

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Noise Constraints for Nonlinear Exceptional Point Sensing

Xu Zheng and Y. D. Chong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133801 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

A rigorous analysis of noise–nonlinearity interplay at exceptional points reveals new challenges for non-Hermitian sensing.

Inherent Spin-Orbit Locking in Topological Lasing via Bound State in the Continuum

Jiajun Wang, Xinhao Wang, Zhaochen Wu, Xingqi Zhao, Shunben Wu, Lei Shi, Yuri Kivshar, and Jian Zi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133802 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Why Charged Drops Do Not Splash

Fanfei Yu, Aaron D. Ratschow, Ran Tao, Xiaomei Li, Yuankai Jin, Jinpei Wang, and Zuankai Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 134001 (2025) - Published 1 April, 2025

The messy breakup of a liquid droplet that occurs when it hits a surface can be suppressed by giving the droplet an electrical charge.

Universal Scaling Laws for a Generic Swimmer Model

Bruno Ventéjou, Thibaut Métivet, Aurélie Dupont, and Philippe Peyla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 134002 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

Shear and Bulk Viscosities of Water up to 1.6 GPa and Anomaly in the Structural Relaxation Time

Jan Eichler, Johannes Stefanski, José Martin Roca, Isabelle Daniel, Bruno Issenmann, Chantal Valeriani, and Frédéric Caupin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 134101 (2025) - Published 1 April, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Kinetic Structure of Strong-Field QED Showers in Crossed Electromagnetic Fields

M. Pouyez, T. Grismayer, M. Grech, and C. Riconda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 135001 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025

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Observation of Nonaxisymmetric Standard Magnetorotational Instability Induced by a Free-Shear Layer

Yin Wang, Fatima Ebrahimi, Hongke Lu, Jeremy Goodman, Erik P. Gilson, and Hantao Ji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 135101 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Chiral Superfluid Helium-3 in the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Limit

Petri J. Heikkinen, Lev V. Levitin, Xavier Rojas, Angadjit Singh, Nathan Eng, Andrew Casey, John Saunders, Anton Vorontsov, Nikolay Zhelev, Abhilash Thanniyil Sebastian, and Jeevak M. Parpia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136001 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Cooperation between Electron-Phonon Coupling and Electronic Interaction in Bilayer Nickelates ${La}_{3} {Ni}_{2} O_{7}$

Jun Zhan, Yuhao Gu, Xianxin Wu, and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136002 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

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Low-Energy Excitations in Bosonic Quantum Quasicrystals

A. Mendoza-Coto, M. Bonifacio, and F. Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136003 (2025) - Published 2 April, 2025

A new theory unveils the exotic low-energy excitations of quasicrystals formed of quantum particles

Melting, Bubblelike Expansion, and Explosion of Superheated Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Simon Dold et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136101 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

Extrinsic Orbital Hall Effect: Orbital Skew Scattering and Crossover between Diffusive and Intrinsic Orbital Transport

Alessandro Veneri, Tatiana G. Rappoport, and Aires Ferreira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136201 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025

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Coulomb Drag in Altermagnets

Hao-Jie Lin, Song-Bo Zhang, Hai-Zhou Lu, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136301 (2025) - Published 2 April, 2025

Coulomb drag resistivity is highly sensitive to the orientation of the altermagnetically induced Fermi surface splitting making it an effective method to probe altermagnetic phases.

Closed Band-Projected Density Algebra Must Be Girvin-MacDonald-Platzman

Ziwei Wang and Steven H. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136502 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Superconductivity in Twisted ${WSe}_{2}$ from Topology-Induced Quantum Fluctuations

Fang Xie, Lei Chen, Shouvik Sur, Yuan Fang, Jennifer Cano, and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136503 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Anomalous Acoustocurrent within Quantum Hall Plateaus

Renfei Wang, Xiao Liu, Mengmeng Wu, Yoon Jang Chung, Adbhut Gupta, Kirk W. Baldwin, Mansour Shayegan, Loren Pfeiffer, Xi Lin, and Yang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136504 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

Fractionalized Kohn-Sham Scheme for Strongly Correlated Electrons

Bo Zhao, Jing-Yu Zhao, Zheng Zhu, Jian Wu, and Zheng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136505 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025

Direct Measurement of Topological Invariants through Temporal Adiabatic Evolution of Bulk States in the Synthetic Brillouin Zone

Zhao-Xian Chen, Yuan-Hong Zhang, Xiao-Chen Sun, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Jiang-Shan Tang, Xin Yang, Xue-Feng Zhu, and Yan-Qing Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136601 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbital-Excitation-Dominated Magnetization Dissipation and Quantum Oscillation of Gilbert Damping in Fe Films

Yue Chen, Haoran Chen, Xi Shen, Weizhao Chen, Yi Liu, Yizheng Wu, and Zhe Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136701 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

A strong thickness-dependent Gilbert damping oscillation in ultrathin Fe films suggests an effective way of tuning bands by doping or gating.

Impact of Planar Defects on the Reversal Time of Single Magnetic Domain Nanoparticles

Hugo Bocquet, Armin Kleibert, and Peter M. Derlet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136702 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

Zeeman Split Kramers Doublets in Spin-Supersolid Candidate ${Na}_{2} BaCo ({PO}_{4})_{2}$

T. I. Popescu, N. Gora, F. Demmel, Z. Xu, R. Zhong, T. J. Williams, R. J. Cava, G. Xu, and C. Stock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136703 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

Topological Defect Mediated Helical Phase Reorientation by Uniaxial Stress

Tae-Hoon Kim, Haijun Zhao, Brandt A. Jensen, Liqin Ke, and Lin Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136704 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

Prediction of Room Temperature Electric Field Reversal of Magnetization in the Family of $A_{4} B_{3} O_{9}$ Layered Oxides

Urmimala Dey, Emma E. McCabe, Jorge Íñiguez-González, and Nicholas C. Bristowe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136801 (2025) - Published 1 April, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Domain Wall Reactions in Multiple-Order Parameter Ferroelectrics

Songsong Zhou, Shihan Qin, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136802 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

Ferroelectric polarization switching resembles a chemical reaction where domain walls undergo synthesis, decomposition, and exchange reactions.

Bound States to Bands in the Continuum in Cylindrical Granular Crystals

Yeongtae Jang, Seokwoo Kim, Dongwoo Lee, Eunho Kim, and Junsuk Rho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136901 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electromagnetic Raman Enhancement Beyond Gap Limit

Qi-hang Zhang, Kai Liu, Kang Qin, Shao-jie Fu, Jun Du, Yan-qing Lu, Yong-yuan Zhu, Yan-feng Chen, and Xue-jin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 136902 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025

Synthesized Acoustic Vortex-Frequency Comb via Rotational Doppler Effect

Yurou Jia, Xuan Zhang, Suying Zhang, Guoqiang Xu, Taoyu Chen, Hongtao Zhou, Yechao Bai, Ying Cheng, Dajian Wu, Xiaojun Liu, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 137001 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Synergistic Signatures of Group Mechanisms in Higher-Order Systems

Thomas Robiglio, Matteo Neri, Davide Coppes, Cosimo Agostinelli, Federico Battiston, Maxime Lucas, and Giovanni Petri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 137401 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

A new study of complex systems supports a growing trend that focuses more on analyzing a system’s collective behavior rather than on trying to uncover the underlying interaction mechanisms.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High Reconstructability of Degree-Heterogeneous Networks

Jia-Jie Qin and Gang Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 137402 (2025) - Published 1 April, 2025

The fidelity of a complex system’s representation as a network model depends on the diversity of its interconnections.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Beam Energy Dependence of Fifth- and Sixth-Order Net-Proton Number Fluctuations in $Au + Au$ Collisions at RHIC [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 082301 (2023)]

B. E. Aboona et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 139901 (2025) - Published 1 April, 2025

Erratum: Nonmonotonic Energy Dependence of Net-Proton Number Fluctuations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 092301 (2021)]

J. Adam et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 139902 (2025) - Published 31 March, 2025

Erratum: Measurement of the Sixth-Order Cumulant of Net-Proton Multiplicity Distributions in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 27$ , 54.4, and 200 GeV at RHIC [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 262301 (2021)]

M. S. Abdallah et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 139903 (2025) - Published 1 April, 2025