Volume 134, Issue 16

25 April 2025

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Knot formation, migration, and dissolution in polar active diblock copolymers. The knot (red) always forms in the active block (yellow) and then migrates and dissolves in the passive block (blue). Selected for a Synopsis in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Upsurge of Spontaneous Knotting in Polar Diblock Active Polymers
Marin Vatin, Enzo Orlandini, and Emanuele Locatelli
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 168301 (2025)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: A Path for the Construction of a Muon Collider

Diktys Stratakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 160001 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

In this forward-looking PRL Essay, Diktys Stratakis outlines the essential steps, investigations, and R&D efforts needed to bring a Muon Collider to life. This collider, which could achieve TeV energies while maintaining precision, has the potential to significantly enrich our understanding of the Universe.

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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First Measurement of $A = 4$ Hypernuclei and Antihypernuclei at the LHC

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 162301 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have revealed a previously unseen nucleus known as antihyperhelium-4.

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Upsurge of Spontaneous Knotting in Polar Diblock Active Polymers

Marin Vatin, Enzo Orlandini, and Emanuele Locatelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 168301 (2025) - Published 24 April, 2025

Simulations show that polymers that include inert and self-propelled components are more likely to form and retain knots, with possible applications in materials engineering.

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Differential Elasticity Affects Lineage Segregation of Embryonic Stem Cells

Christine M. Ritter, Tianxiang Ma, Natascha Leijnse, Younes Farhangi Barooji, William Hamilton, Joshua M. Brickman, Amin Doostmohammadi, and Lene B. Oddershede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 168401 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

The segregation of two cell types at the earliest stages of embryo development may be enabled by differences in their stiffness.

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Discovering Dark Matter with the MUonE Experiment

Gordan Krnjaic, Duncan Rocha, and Isaac R. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161801 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025

The planned MUonE experiment could—in addition to studying the muon’s magnetic moment—search for dark matter particles.

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Search for Light Dark Matter in Low-Energy Ionization Signals from XENONnT

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161004 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

The first blinded search by the XENON-nT Collaboration using low-energy ionization signals places new constraints on hypothetical sub-keV dark matter.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fully Nonlinear Gravitational Wave Simulations from Past to Future Null Infinity

Jörg Frauendiener, Chris Stevens, and Sebenele Thwala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161401 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

For the first time, a gravitational wave impinging onto a static black hole has been numerically simulated by including nonlinearity and with a computational domain from past to future null-infinity.

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$B \to ρ ℓ \bar{ν}$ Resonance Form Factors from $B \to π π ℓ \bar{ν}$ in Lattice QCD

Luka Leskovec, Stefan Meinel, Marcus Petschlies, John Negele, Srijit Paul, and Andrew Pochinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161901 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

The first lattice QCD investigation of the weak decay $B \to π π ℓ \bar{ν}$ that takes the resonant nature of $ρ$ meson into account might help elucidate the exclusive-inclusive discrepancy in the experimental measurement of $| V_{u b} |$ .

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Locating Critical Points Using Ratios of Lee-Yang Zeros

Tatsuya Wada, Masakiyo Kitazawa, and Kazuyuki Kanaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 162302 (2025) - Published 24 April, 2025

A computational method using ratios of Lee-Yang zeros can locate precisely the critical points in general systems by suppressing finite-size effects, with potential applications ranging from QCD to spin models.

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Nondestructive Control of the Rovibrational Ground State of a Single Molecular Hydrogen Ion in a Penning Trap

Charlotte M. König, Fabian Heiße, Jonathan Morgner, Tim Sailer, Bingsheng Tu, Dimitar Bakalov, Klaus Blaum, Stephan Schiller, and Sven Sturm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 163001 (2025) - Published 24 April, 2025

Using a Penning trap to store HD $^{+}$ molecular ions avoids the problems associated with using radiofrequency traps and leads to months-long confinement, which can enable tests of $C P T$ involving the H $_{2}^{+}$ ion and its antimatter counterpart.

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Corrugation-Dominated Mechanical Softening of Defect-Engineered Graphene

Wael Joudi, Rika Saskia Windisch, Alberto Trentino, Diana Propst, Jacob Madsen, Toma Susi, Clemens Mangler, Kimmo Mustonen, Florian Libisch, and Jani Kotakoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 166102 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

Microscopy and molecular dynamics suggest that the decrease in the two-dimensional elastic modulus of graphene with engineered defects is primarily due to corrugations from local strain at vacancies with two or more missing atoms, while single vacancies have a negligible effect.

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Design of Altermagnetic Models from Spin Clusters

Xingchuan Zhu, Xingmin Huo, Shiping Feng, Song-Bo Zhang, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Huaiming Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 166701 (2025) - Published 24 April, 2025

Using spin clusters as the basis of a lattice model, altermagnetic interactions emerge as a combination of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic correlations.

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Quadrupolar and Dipolar Excitons in Bilayer $2 H − {MoSe}_{2}$

Shun Feng, Aidan J. Campbell, Bibi Mary Francis, Hyeonjun Baek, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Iann C. Gerber, Brian D. Gerardot, and Mauro Brotons-Gisbert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 166901 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

Quadrupolar exciton states are shown experimentally to be present in the reflectance contrast spectrum of 2 $H$ -stacked bilayer MoSe $_{2}$ .

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Quantum Many-Body Scars beyond the PXP Model in Rydberg Simulators

Aron Kerschbaumer, Marko Ljubotina, Maksym Serbyn, and Jean-Yves Desaules

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 160401 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025

Quantum Thermodynamics with Coherence: Covariant Gibbs-Preserving Operation Is Characterized by the Free Energy

Naoto Shiraishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 160402 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025

Single-Particle Universality of the Many-Body Spectral Form Factor

Michael O. Flynn, Lev Vidmar, and Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 160403 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

Quantum Thermodynamic Integrability for Canonical and Noncanonical Statistics

R. X. Zhai (翟若迅) and C. P. Sun (孙昌璞)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 160404 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

Scaling Advantage in Approximate Optimization with Quantum Annealing

Humberto Munoz-Bauza and Daniel Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 160601 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

Qudit Shadow Estimation Based on the Clifford Group and the Power of a Single Magic Gate

Chengsi Mao, Changhao Yi, and Huangjun Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 160801 (2025) - Published 21 April, 2025

Faithful Quantum Teleportation via a Nanophotonic Nonlinear Bell State Analyzer

Joshua Akin, Yunlei Zhao, Paul G. Kwiat, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, and Kejie Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 160802 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025

Repeater-Based Quantum Communication Protocol: Maximizing Teleportation Fidelity with Minimal Entanglement

Arkaprabha Ghosal, Jatin Ghai, Tanmay Saha, Sibasish Ghosh, and Mir Alimuddin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 160803 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

New Probe of Cosmic Birefringence Using Galaxy Polarization and Shapes

Weichen Winston Yin (尹維晨), Liang Dai (戴亮), Junwu Huang (黄俊午), Lingyuan Ji (吉聆远), and Simone Ferraro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161001 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025

SENSEI at SNOLAB: Single-Electron Event Rate and Implications for Dark Matter

Itay M. Bloch et al. (SENSEI Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161002 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

Search for Solar Boosted Dark Matter Particles at the PandaX-4T Experiment

Guofang Shen et al. (PandaX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161003 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Light Dark Matter in Low-Energy Ionization Signals from XENONnT

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161004 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

The first blinded search by the XENON-nT Collaboration using low-energy ionization signals places new constraints on hypothetical sub-keV dark matter.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fully Nonlinear Gravitational Wave Simulations from Past to Future Null Infinity

Jörg Frauendiener, Chris Stevens, and Sebenele Thwala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161401 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

For the first time, a gravitational wave impinging onto a static black hole has been numerically simulated by including nonlinearity and with a computational domain from past to future null-infinity.

Diagonal Approximation for Holographic Rényi Entropies

Geoff Penington and Pratik Rath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161501 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

Particles and Fields

All Five-Point Kaluza-Klein Correlators and Hidden 8D Symmetry in ${AdS}_{5} \times S^{3}$

Zhongjie Huang (黄中杰), Bo Wang (王波), Ellis Ye Yuan (袁野), and Jiarong Zhang (张家荣)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161601 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

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Discovering Dark Matter with the MUonE Experiment

Gordan Krnjaic, Duncan Rocha, and Isaac R. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161801 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025

The planned MUonE experiment could—in addition to studying the muon’s magnetic moment—search for dark matter particles.

First Double-Differential Cross Section Measurement of Neutral-Current $π^{0}$ Production in Neutrino-Argon Scattering in the MicroBooNE Detector

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161802 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

$B \to ρ ℓ \bar{ν}$ Resonance Form Factors from $B \to π π ℓ \bar{ν}$ in Lattice QCD

Luka Leskovec, Stefan Meinel, Marcus Petschlies, John Negele, Srijit Paul, and Andrew Pochinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 161901 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

Nuclear Physics

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First Measurement of $A = 4$ Hypernuclei and Antihypernuclei at the LHC

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 162301 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have revealed a previously unseen nucleus known as antihyperhelium-4.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Locating Critical Points Using Ratios of Lee-Yang Zeros

Tatsuya Wada, Masakiyo Kitazawa, and Kazuyuki Kanaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 162302 (2025) - Published 24 April, 2025

Measurement of ${}^{6}H$ Ground State Energy in an Electron Scattering Experiment at MAMI-A1

Tianhao Shao et al. (A1 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 162501 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025

Isospin Symmetry Breaking in the ${}^{71}{Kr}$ and ${}^{71}{Br}$ Mirror System

A. Algora et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 162502 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

Ab Initio Study of the Beryllium Isotopes ${}^{7}{Be}$ to ${}^{12}{Be}$

Shihang Shen, Serdar Elhatisari, Dean Lee, Ulf-G. Meißner, and Zhengxue Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 162503 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

Probing Exotic Cross-Shell Interactions at $N = 28$ with Single-Neutron Transfer on ${}^{47}K$

C. J. Paxman et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 162504 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nondestructive Control of the Rovibrational Ground State of a Single Molecular Hydrogen Ion in a Penning Trap

Charlotte M. König, Fabian Heiße, Jonathan Morgner, Tim Sailer, Bingsheng Tu, Dimitar Bakalov, Klaus Blaum, Stephan Schiller, and Sven Sturm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 163001 (2025) - Published 24 April, 2025

Photoelectron Spin Texture in Tunneling Ionization Induced by a Linearly Polarized Laser Pulse

Pei-Lun He, Zhao-Han Zhang, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 163201 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

Unveiling Supersolid Order via Vortex Trajectory Correlations

Subrata Das and Vito W. Scarola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 163401 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025

Dynamically Enhanced Two-Photon Spectroscopy

Sebastian C. Carrasco, Sean Lourette, Ignacio Sola, and Vladimir S. Malinovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 163601 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

Probing Bulk Band Topology from Time Boundary Effect in Synthetic Dimension

Huisheng Xu, Zhaohui Dong, Luqi Yuan, and Liang Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 163801 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025

Construction of Various Time-Varying Hamiltonians on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Chip

Rui Ye, Guangzhen Li, Shuai Wan, Xiaotian Xue, Pi-Yu Wang, Xin Qiao, Luojia Wang, Hao Li, Shijie Liu, Jiayu Wang, Rui Ma, Fang Bo, Yuanlin Zheng, Chun-Hua Dong, Luqi Yuan, and Xianfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 163802 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

Synthetic Non-Abelian Electric Fields and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Photonic Synthetic Dimensions

Bengy Tsz Tsun Wong, Shu Yang, Zehai Pang, and Yi Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 163803 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Direct Evidence of Multispecies Hydrodynamics in Ignition-Scale Hohlraums

Drew P. Higginson, N. Izumi, M. D. Rosen, P. Volegov, T. Chapman, D. N. Fittinghoff, K. D. Hahn, B. M. Haines, J. Jeet, A. J. Kemp, S. Kerr, O. L. Landen, S. MacLaren, A. J. MacKinnon, J. D. Moody, A. S. Moore, B. L. Reichelt, W. M. Riedel, D. J. Schlossberg, D. J. Strozzi, A. E. Youmans, G. Zimmerman, W. A. Farmer, J. S. Ross, and D. E. Hinkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 165101 (2025) - Published 21 April, 2025

Ion Acoustic Instability Resulting from Suprathermal Electrons Generated by Stimulated Raman Scattering in Laser-Plasma Interactions

C. Rousseaux, S. D. Baton, K. Glize, L. Lancia, D. Bénisti, G. Sary, and L. Gremillet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 165102 (2025) - Published 21 April, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Refractive Contribution to the Mass of an Elementary Excitation in a Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensate

S. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 166001 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025

Negative Gradient Energy Facilitates Charged Domain Walls in ${HfO}_{2}$

Pawan Kumar, Dipti Gupta, and Jun Hee Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 166101 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Corrugation-Dominated Mechanical Softening of Defect-Engineered Graphene

Wael Joudi, Rika Saskia Windisch, Alberto Trentino, Diana Propst, Jacob Madsen, Toma Susi, Clemens Mangler, Kimmo Mustonen, Florian Libisch, and Jani Kotakoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 166102 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

Full-Scaling Friction and Wear Laws of Nanotwinned Metals

Yan Lin, Ziyue Zhang, Fenghui Duan, Fangming Wang, Fei Liang, Qicheng Zhang, Yong Li, Jie Pan, Keke Chang, Yonghao Zhao, Yuntian Zhu, and Xiang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 166201 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025

Sensing Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations with Non-Gaussian Electronic Noise

Clovis Farley, Edouard Pinsolle, and Bertrand Reulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 166301 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

Moiré Kramers-Weyl Fermions with Ideal Radial Spin Texture from Structural Chirality

D. J. P. de Sousa, Seungjun Lee, and Tony Low

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 166401 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Design of Altermagnetic Models from Spin Clusters

Xingchuan Zhu, Xingmin Huo, Shiping Feng, Song-Bo Zhang, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Huaiming Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 166701 (2025) - Published 24 April, 2025

Using spin clusters as the basis of a lattice model, altermagnetic interactions emerge as a combination of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic correlations.

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Quadrupolar and Dipolar Excitons in Bilayer $2 H − {MoSe}_{2}$

Shun Feng, Aidan J. Campbell, Bibi Mary Francis, Hyeonjun Baek, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Iann C. Gerber, Brian D. Gerardot, and Mauro Brotons-Gisbert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 166901 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

Quadrupolar exciton states are shown experimentally to be present in the reflectance contrast spectrum of 2 $H$ -stacked bilayer MoSe $_{2}$ .

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Nonreciprocal Interactions Reshape Topological Defect Annihilation

Ylann Rouzaire, Daniel J. G. Pearce, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, and Demian Levis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 167101 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025

Robust Chaos in a Totally Symmetric Network of Four Phase Oscillators

Efrosiniia Karatetskaia, Alexey Kazakov, Klim Safonov, and Dmitry Turaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 167201 (2025) - Published 21 April, 2025

Waveform Proportionality and Taylor’s Law Induced by Synchronization of Periodic and Chaotic Oscillators

Yuzuru Mitsui and Hiroshi Kori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 167202 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Surfactant Exchanges between Deformed Soap Films

Théo Lenavetier, Emmanuel Schaub, and Isabelle Cantat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 168201 (2025) - Published 21 April, 2025

Hindered Stokesian Settling of Discs and Rods

Yating Zhang and Narayanan Menon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 168202 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Upsurge of Spontaneous Knotting in Polar Diblock Active Polymers

Marin Vatin, Enzo Orlandini, and Emanuele Locatelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 168301 (2025) - Published 24 April, 2025

Simulations show that polymers that include inert and self-propelled components are more likely to form and retain knots, with possible applications in materials engineering.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Differential Elasticity Affects Lineage Segregation of Embryonic Stem Cells

Christine M. Ritter, Tianxiang Ma, Natascha Leijnse, Younes Farhangi Barooji, William Hamilton, Joshua M. Brickman, Amin Doostmohammadi, and Lene B. Oddershede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 168401 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025

The segregation of two cell types at the earliest stages of embryo development may be enabled by differences in their stiffness.

ERRATA

Erratum: Dynamical Signatures of Quasiparticle Interactions in Quantum Spin Chains [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 187201 (2020)]

Anna Keselman, Leon Balents, and Oleg A. Starykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 169901 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025