Volume 134, Issue 14

11 April 2025

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Basin of attraction of a cluster of synchronized Kuramoto rotors.

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Crisis in Time-Dependent Dynamical Systems
Simona Olmi and Antonio Politi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 147202 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of $t \bar{t}$ Production in Pb+Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 142301 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

Top quarks and antiquarks have been detected in heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, showing that all six quark flavors were present in the Universe’s first moments.

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Characteristic E-Region Plasma Signature of Magnetospheric Wave-Particle Interactions

Magnus F. Ivarsen, Yukinaga Miyashita, Jean-Pierre St-Maurice, Glenn C. Hussey, Brian Pitzel, Draven Galeschuk, Saif Marei, Richard B. Horne, Yoshiya Kasahara, Shoya Matsuda, Satoshi Kasahara, Kunihiro Keika, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Atsuki Shinbori, Devin R. Huyghebaert, Ayako Matsuoka, Shoichiro Yokota, and Fuminori Tsuchiya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 145201 (2025) - Published 11 April, 2025

Observations link turbulence in the ionosphere—a region essential for communications—with far-away disturbances associated with Earth’s magnetic field.

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Adatom Engineering Magnetic Order in Superconductors: Applications to Altermagnetic Superconductivity

Lucas V. Pupim and Mathias S. Scheurer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146001 (2025) - Published 8 April, 2025

Arranging nonmagnetic atoms on the surface of an unconventional superconductor could induce a novel phenomenon called altermagnetic superconductivity.

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Control of Andreev Reflection via a Single-Molecule Orbital

Lorenz Meyer, Jose L. Lado, Nicolas Néel, and Jörg Kröger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146201 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

A single molecule provides a controllable connection between a normal metal and a superconductor.

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Hierarchy of Chaotic Dynamics in Random Modular Networks

Łukasz Kuśmierz, Ulises Pereira-Obilinovic, Zhixin Lu, Dana Mastrovito, and Stefan Mihalas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 148402 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

The interplay between microscopic and macroscopic dynamics in a brain-like network enhances the robustness of a state that optimizes the network’s performance.

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Dimming Starlight with Dark Compact Objects

Joseph Bramante, Melissa D. Diamond, and J. Leo Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 141001 (2025) - Published 8 April, 2025

Compact objects formed from dark matter could be detected by examining the dimming of background light when the dark objects pass across the line of sight with Earth.

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Imaging the Progression of Radiolytic Damage in Molecular Crystals with Scanning Nanobeam Electron Diffraction

Ambarneil Saha, Matthew Mecklenburg, Alexander J. Pattison, Aaron S. Brewster, Jose A. Rodriguez, and Peter Ercius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146101 (2025) - Published 11 April, 2025

The internal rearrangement of coherently diffracting domains and delocalized propagation of radiolytic damage from singular dwell points has been demonstrated using scanning nanobeam electron diffraction.

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Finite Correlation Length Scaling of Disorder Parameter at Quantum Criticality

Wen-Tao Xu and Rui-Zhen Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146503 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Infinite projected entangled pair states can be used to evaluate nonlocal disorder parameters capable of detecting various symmetric phases, including symmetry-protected and enriched topological phases.

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Photonic Chiral State Transfer near the Liouvillian Exceptional Point

Huixia Gao, Konghao Sun, Dengke Qu, Kunkun Wang, Lei Xiao, Wei Yi, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146602 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

The first experimental confirmation of transient chiral dynamics near a Liouvillian exceptional point reveals a scaling law for chirality, suggesting a general experimental scheme to study dissipative quantum systems.

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Statistical Mechanics of Frustrated Assemblies and Incompatible Graphs

José M. Ortiz-Tavárez, Zhen Yang, Nicholas Kotov, and Xiaoming Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 147401 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

A graph theory framework for the statistical mechanics of geometrically frustrated assemblies offers a concise mathematical relation between frustration and structure.

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Real-Time Visualization of Single Polymer Conformational Change in the Bulk State during Mechanical Deformation

Ruiqi Xiao, Subhadeep Pal, Christopher P. Rademacher, Jie Chen, Qifeng Wang, Wei Chen, Kenneth R. Shull, Sinan Keten, and Muzhou Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 148101 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Single-molecule localization microscopy and fluorescent labeling are employed to observe the conformation and orientation of single polymers within a bulk material, surpassing the diffraction limit of traditional optical microscopy.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Universal Stochastic Equations of Monitored Quantum Dynamics

Zhenyu Xiao, Tomi Ohtsuki, and Kohei Kawabata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 140401 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

Quantum Trails and Memory Effects in the Phase Space of Chaotic Quantum Systems

Andrea Pizzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 140402 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

Operational Work Fluctuation Theorem for Open Quantum Systems

Konstantin Beyer and Walter T. Strunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 140403 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Full Eigenstate Thermalization via Free Cumulants in Quantum Lattice Systems

Silvia Pappalardi, Felix Fritzsch, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 140404 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Mixing Time of Open Quantum Systems via Hypocoercivity

Di Fang, Jianfeng Lu, and Yu Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 140405 (2025) - Published 11 April, 2025

Transition of Anticoncentration in Gaussian Boson Sampling

Adam Ehrenberg, Joseph T. Iosue, Abhinav Deshpande, Dominik Hangleiter, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 140601 (2025) - Published 8 April, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Dimming Starlight with Dark Compact Objects

Joseph Bramante, Melissa D. Diamond, and J. Leo Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 141001 (2025) - Published 8 April, 2025

Compact objects formed from dark matter could be detected by examining the dimming of background light when the dark objects pass across the line of sight with Earth.

Search for Light Dark Matter with NEWS-G at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane Using a Methane Target

M. M. Arora et al. (NEWS-G Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 141002 (2025) - Published 11 April, 2025

Resonant Excitation of Quasinormal Modes of Black Holes

Hayato Motohashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 141401 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Particles and Fields

Wilson Loops with Lagrangians: Large-Spin Operator Product Expansion and Cusp Anomalous Dimension Dictionary

Till Bargheer, Carlos Bercini, Bruno Fernandes, Vasco Gonçalves, and Jeremy Mann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 141601 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Novel Azimuthal Observables from Two-Photon Collision at $e^{+} e^{-}$ Colliders

Yu Jia, Jian Zhou, and Ya-jin Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 141901 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

Phases of Theories with $Z_{N}$ 1-Form Symmetry, and the Roles of Center Vortices and Magnetic Monopoles

Mendel Nguyen, Tin Sulejmanpasic, and Mithat Ünsal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 141902 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

Nuclear Physics

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Observation of $t \bar{t}$ Production in Pb+Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 142301 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

Top quarks and antiquarks have been detected in heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, showing that all six quark flavors were present in the Universe’s first moments.

First Proton-Induced Cross Sections on a Stored Rare Ion Beam: Measurement of ${}^{118}{Te} (p, γ)$ for Explosive Nucleosynthesis

S. F. Dellmann et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 142701 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Suppressing the Decoherence of Alkali-Metal Spins at Low Magnetic Fields

Mark Dikopoltsev, Avraham Berrebi, Uriel Levy, and Or Katz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 143201 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

Multi-Axis Inertial Sensing with 2D Matter-Wave Arrays

K. Stolzenberg, C. Struckmann, S. Bode, R. Li, A. Herbst, V. Vollenkemper, D. Thomas, A. Rajagopalan, E. M. Rasel, N. Gaaloul, and D. Schlippert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 143601 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Reconfigurable Chiral Edge States in Synthetic Dimensions on an Integrated Photonic Chip

Weiwei Liu, Xiaolong Su, Chijun Li, Cheng Zeng, Bing Wang, Yongjie Wang, Yufan Ding, Chengzhi Qin, Jinsong Xia, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 143801 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Characteristic E-Region Plasma Signature of Magnetospheric Wave-Particle Interactions

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 145201 (2025) - Published 11 April, 2025

Observations link turbulence in the ionosphere—a region essential for communications—with far-away disturbances associated with Earth’s magnetic field.

Two Mechanisms Limiting the Emitted Electron Current from a Cathode to an Anode

M. D. Campanell, C. Y. Wang, and K. L. Nguyen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 145301 (2025) - Published 10 April, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Adatom Engineering Magnetic Order in Superconductors: Applications to Altermagnetic Superconductivity

Lucas V. Pupim and Mathias S. Scheurer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146001 (2025) - Published 8 April, 2025

Arranging nonmagnetic atoms on the surface of an unconventional superconductor could induce a novel phenomenon called altermagnetic superconductivity.

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Imaging the Progression of Radiolytic Damage in Molecular Crystals with Scanning Nanobeam Electron Diffraction

Ambarneil Saha, Matthew Mecklenburg, Alexander J. Pattison, Aaron S. Brewster, Jose A. Rodriguez, and Peter Ercius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146101 (2025) - Published 11 April, 2025

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Control of Andreev Reflection via a Single-Molecule Orbital

Lorenz Meyer, Jose L. Lado, Nicolas Néel, and Jörg Kröger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146201 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

A single molecule provides a controllable connection between a normal metal and a superconductor.

Energy Transport in Superionic Crystals

Wenxiang Liu and Yanguang Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146301 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Ultrahigh Thermal Conductance across Superlubric Interfaces in Twisted Graphite

Fuwei Yang, Wenjiang Zhou, Zhibin Zhang, Xuanyu Huang, Jingwen Zhang, Nianjie Liang, Wujuan Yan, Yuxi Wang, Mingchao Ding, Quanlin Guo, Yu Han, Te-Huan Liu, Kaihui Liu, Quanshui Zheng, and Bai Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146302 (2025) - Published 11 April, 2025

Light-Field Dressing of Transient Photoexcited States above the Fermi Energy

Fei Wang, Wanying Chen, Changhua Bao, Tianyun Lin, Haoyuan Zhong, Hongyun Zhang, and Shuyun Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146401 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

Doping Dependence of 2-Spinon Excitations in the Doped 1D Cuprate ${Ba}_{2} {CuO}_{3 + δ}$

Jiarui Li, Daniel Jost, Ta Tang, Ruohan Wang, Yong Zhong, Zhuoyu Chen, Mirian Garcia-Fernandez, Jonathan Pelliciari, Valentina Bisogni, Brian Moritz, Kejin Zhou, Yao Wang, Thomas P. Devereaux, Wei-Sheng Lee, and Zhi-Xun Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146501 (2025) - Published 8 April, 2025

Anomalous Quantum Oscillations from Boson-Mediated Interband Scattering

Léo Mangeolle and Johannes Knolle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146502 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

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Finite Correlation Length Scaling of Disorder Parameter at Quantum Criticality

Wen-Tao Xu and Rui-Zhen Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146503 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Higher Berry Curvature from the Wave Function. I. Schmidt Decomposition and Matrix Product States

Ophelia Evelyn Sommer, Xueda Wen, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146601 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

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Photonic Chiral State Transfer near the Liouvillian Exceptional Point

Huixia Gao, Konghao Sun, Dengke Qu, Kunkun Wang, Lei Xiao, Wei Yi, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146602 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

Quantum Geometry and Bounds on Dissipation in Slowly Driven Quantum Systems

Iliya Esin, Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise, Frederik Nathan, and Gil Refael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146603 (2025) - Published 11 April, 2025

Nonlinear Longitudinal and Transverse Magnetoresistances due to Current-Induced Magnon Creation-Annihilation Processes

Paul Noël, Richard Schlitz, Emir Karadža, Charles-Henri Lambert, Luca Nessi, Federico Binda, and Pietro Gambardella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146701 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Giant Nuclear-Electronic Spin Pumping in the Heisenberg Antiferromagnet ${RbMnF}_{3}$

J. D. M. de Lima, D. S. Maior, E. C. Souza, D. R. Ratkovski, F. L. A. Machado, R. L. Rodríguez-Suárez, and S. M. Rezende

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146702 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Emergent Surface Multiferroicity

Sayantika Bhowal, Andrea Urru, Sophie F. Weber, and Nicola A. Spaldin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146703 (2025) - Published 10 April, 2025

Nanoscale Casimir Force Softening Originated from Quantum Surface Responses

Hewan Zhang and Kun Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146901 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Generalized Einstein Relation for Markovian Friction Coefficients from Molecular Trajectories

J. M. Hall and M. G. Guenza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 147101 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

Dissipation-Driven Emergence of a Soliton Condensate in a Nonlinear Electrical Transmission Line

Loic Fache, Hervé Damart, François Copie, Thibault Bonnemain, Thibault Congy, Giacomo Roberti, Pierre Suret, Gennady El, and Stéphane Randoux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 147201 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

Crisis in Time-Dependent Dynamical Systems

Simona Olmi and Antonio Politi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 147202 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

Superuniversal Statistics of Complex Time Delays in Non-Hermitian Scattering Systems

Nadav Shaibe, Jared M. Erb, and Steven M. Anlage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 147203 (2025) - Published 11 April, 2025

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Statistical Mechanics of Frustrated Assemblies and Incompatible Graphs

José M. Ortiz-Tavárez, Zhen Yang, Nicholas Kotov, and Xiaoming Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 147401 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025

A graph theory framework for the statistical mechanics of geometrically frustrated assemblies offers a concise mathematical relation between frustration and structure.

Physical Networks Become What They Learn

Menachem Stern, Marcelo Guzman, Felipe Martins, Andrea J. Liu, and Vijay Balasubramanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 147402 (2025) - Published 11 April, 2025

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Learning Classical Density Functionals for Ionic Fluids

Anna T. Bui and Stephen J. Cox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 148001 (2025) - Published 11 April, 2025

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Hierarchy of Chaotic Dynamics in Random Modular Networks

Łukasz Kuśmierz, Ulises Pereira-Obilinovic, Zhixin Lu, Dana Mastrovito, and Stefan Mihalas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 148402 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025

The interplay between microscopic and macroscopic dynamics in a brain-like network enhances the robustness of a state that optimizes the network’s performance.