Volume 134, Issue 17

2 May 2025

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A large critical cluster (orange) within two competing phases (violet and green) of a twisted nematic liquid crystal displays fractal geometry. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Critical Clusters in Liquid Crystals: Fractal Geometry and Conformal Invariance
Renan A. L. Almeida and Jeferson J. Arenzon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 178101 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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In Situ Measurements of Dark Photon Dark Matter Using Parker Solar Probe: Going beyond the Radio Window

Haipeng An, Shuailiang Ge, Jia Liu, and Mingzhe Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171001 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025

Researchers have turned NASA’s Parker Solar Probe into a dark-matter detector, taking advantage of its close encounters with the Sun to search for dark-photon signals.

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Leading Axion-Photon Sensitivity with NuSTAR Observations of M82 and M87

Orion Ning and Benjamin R. Safdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171003 (2025) - Published 1 May, 2025

Two independent teams have searched for axions using x-ray observations of entire galaxies, setting some of the strictest constraints to date on the properties of these dark matter candidates.

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Extended TeV Halos May Commonly Exist around Middle-Aged Pulsars

A. Albert et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171005 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

The results of a survey of middle-aged pulsars suggest that a feature previously seen around a handful of pulsars might be ubiquitous.

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Current-Driven Collective Control of Helical Spin Texture in van der Waals Antiferromagnet

Kai-Xuan Zhang, Suik Cheon, Hyuncheol Kim, Pyeongjae Park, Yeochan An, Suhan Son, Jingyuan Cui, Jihoon Keum, Joonyoung Choi, Younjung Jo, Hwiin Ju, Jong-Seok Lee, Youjin Lee, Maxim Avdeev, Armin Kleibert, Hyun-Woo Lee, and Je-Geun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176701 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025

The demonstration that helical spin arrangements can be manipulated using electric currents holds promise for spin-based electronics.

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NuSTAR Bounds on Radiatively Decaying Particles from M82

Francisco R. Candón, Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Giuseppe Lucente, Edoardo Vitagliano, and Julia K. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171004 (2025) - Published 1 May, 2025

Two independent teams have searched for axions using x-ray observations of entire galaxies, setting some of the strictest constraints to date on the properties of these dark matter candidates.

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Surface Kinematics and the Canonical Yang-Mills All-Loop Integrand

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Qu Cao (曹趣), Jin Dong (董晋), Carolina Figueiredo, and Song He (何颂)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171601 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025

A formulation of gluon scattering amplitudes in terms of curves on surfaces leads to new recursion relations for loop integrands in the Yang-Mills theory without supersymmetry.

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Inverse Design of Kirigami through Shape Programming of Rotating Units

Chuan Qiao, Shijun Chen, Yu Chen, Zhihong Zhou, Wentao Jiang, Qingyuan Wang, Xiaobao Tian, and Damiano Pasini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176103 (2025) - Published 2 May, 2025

A purely geometric method for inverse design of shape-morphing kirigami reveals how rotating unit shapes control global deformation, making possible intuitive, calculation-free control of both the folded and unfolded forms.

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Describing Landau Level Mixing in Fractional Quantum Hall States with Deep Learning

Yubing Qian, Tongzhou Zhao, Jianxiao Zhang, Tao Xiang, Xiang Li, and Ji Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176503 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

A novel framework using real-space neural networks simultaneously captures electron correlations and Landau level mixing with high precision.

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Attosecond Control of Solid-State High Harmonic Generation Using $ω − 3 ω$ Fields

Adam Gindl, Pawan Suthar, František Trojánek, Petr Malý, Thibault J.-Y. Derrien, and Martin Kozák

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176903 (2025) - Published 2 May, 2025

A combination of coherent two-color control and a phase-resolved detection scheme with attosecond resolution reveals the connection between electron tunneling and high harmonic emission processes in solids.

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Statistical Mechanics of Transfer Learning in Fully Connected Networks in the Proportional Limit

Alessandro Ingrosso, Rosalba Pacelli, Pietro Rotondo, and Federica Gerace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 177301 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

Tools from spin glass theory such as the replica method help explain the efficacy of transfer learning.

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Critical Clusters in Liquid Crystals: Fractal Geometry and Conformal Invariance

Renan A. L. Almeida and Jeferson J. Arenzon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 178101 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025

During phase ordering, twisted nematic liquid crystals self-generate critical clusters in the percolation universality class.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Gibbs-Preserving Operations Requiring Infinite Amount of Quantum Coherence

Hiroyasu Tajima and Ryuji Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 170201 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025

Variational LOCC-Assisted Quantum Circuits for Long-Range Entangled States

Yuxuan Yan, Muzhou Ma, You Zhou, and Xiongfeng Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 170601 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

Simulating Sparse Hamiltonians on 2D Lattices

Harriet Apel and Nouédyn Baspin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 170602 (2025) - Published 1 May, 2025

Random Distillation Protocols in Long Baseline Telescopy

Yunkai Wang and Eric Chitambar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 170801 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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In Situ Measurements of Dark Photon Dark Matter Using Parker Solar Probe: Going beyond the Radio Window

Haipeng An, Shuailiang Ge, Jia Liu, and Mingzhe Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171001 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025

Researchers have turned NASA’s Parker Solar Probe into a dark-matter detector, taking advantage of its close encounters with the Sun to search for dark-photon signals.

First Axionlike Particle Results from a Broadband Search for Wavelike Dark Matter in the 44 to $52 μ eV$ Range with a Coaxial Dish Antenna

Gabe Hoshino, Stefan Knirck, Mohamed H. Awida, Gustavo I. Cancelo, Simon Corrodi, Martin Di Federico, Benjamin Knepper, Alex Lapuente, Mira Littmann, David W. Miller, Donald V. Mitchell, Derrick Rodriguez, Mark K. Ruschman, Chiara P. Salemi, Matthew A. Sawtell, Leandro Stefanazzi, Andrew Sonnenschein, Gary W. Teafoe, and Peter Winter (GigaBREAD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171002 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

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Leading Axion-Photon Sensitivity with NuSTAR Observations of M82 and M87

Orion Ning and Benjamin R. Safdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171003 (2025) - Published 1 May, 2025

Two independent teams have searched for axions using x-ray observations of entire galaxies, setting some of the strictest constraints to date on the properties of these dark matter candidates.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

NuSTAR Bounds on Radiatively Decaying Particles from M82

Francisco R. Candón, Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Giuseppe Lucente, Edoardo Vitagliano, and Julia K. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171004 (2025) - Published 1 May, 2025

Two independent teams have searched for axions using x-ray observations of entire galaxies, setting some of the strictest constraints to date on the properties of these dark matter candidates.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Extended TeV Halos May Commonly Exist around Middle-Aged Pulsars

A. Albert et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171005 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

The results of a survey of middle-aged pulsars suggest that a feature previously seen around a handful of pulsars might be ubiquitous.

Analytic Solution for the Motion of Spinning Particles in Kerr Spacetime

Viktor Skoupý and Vojtěch Witzany

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171401 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025

Particles and Fields

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Surface Kinematics and the Canonical Yang-Mills All-Loop Integrand

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Qu Cao (曹趣), Jin Dong (董晋), Carolina Figueiredo, and Song He (何颂)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171601 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025

A formulation of gluon scattering amplitudes in terms of curves on surfaces leads to new recursion relations for loop integrands in the Yang-Mills theory without supersymmetry.

Precise Predictions for Event Shapes in Diphoton Production at the LHC

Federico Buccioni, Xuan Chen, Wei-Jie Feng, Thomas Gehrmann, Alexander Huss, and Matteo Marcoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171901 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025

Precision Evaluation of the $η$ - and $η^{'}$ -Pole Contributions to Hadronic Light-by-Light Scattering in the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon

Simon Holz, Martin Hoferichter, Bai-Long Hoid, and Bastian Kubis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171902 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025

Berry Curvature and Spin-One Color Superconductivity

Noriyuki Sogabe and Yi Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171903 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025

Lattice QCD Study of Pion Electroproduction and Weak Production from a Nucleon

Yu-Sheng Gao, Zhao-Long Zhang, Xu Feng, Lu-Chang Jin, Chuan Liu, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171904 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Heavy-Flavor Angular Correlations as a Direct Probe of the Glasma

Dana Avramescu, Vincenzo Greco, Tuomas Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari, and David Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 172301 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025

Ultralow $Q_{β}$ Value for the Allowed Decay of ${}^{110}{Ag}^{m}$ Confirmed via Mass Measurements

J. Ruotsalainen, M. Stryjczyk, M. Ramalho, T. Eronen, Z. Ge, A. Kankainen, M. Mougeot, and J. Suhonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 172501 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025

Impact of Newly Measured $β$ -Delayed Neutron Emitters around ${}^{78}{Ni}$ on Light Element Nucleosynthesis in the Neutrino Wind Following a Neutron Star Merger

A. Tolosa-Delgado et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 172701 (2025) - Published 1 May, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Evidence for Electron Spin-Torsion Coupling in the Rotational Spectrum of the ${CH}_{3} CO$ Radical

Laurent H. Coudert, Olivier Pirali, Marie-Aline Martin-Drumel, Rosemonde Chahbazian, Luyao Zou, Roman A. Motiyenko, and Laurent Margulès

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 173001 (2025) - Published 2 May, 2025

Effects of Retardation on Many-Body Superradiance in Chiral Waveguide QED

Bennet Windt, Miguel Bello, Daniel Malz, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 173601 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Anomalous Radiation Reaction in a Circularly Polarized Field

O. V. Kibis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 175001 (2025) - Published 1 May, 2025

Nonperturbative Guiding Center Model for Magnetized Plasmas

J. W. Burby, I. A. Maldonado, M. Ruth, D. A. Messenger, and L. Carbajal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 175101 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Quantum Geometric Kohn-Luttinger Superconductivity

Gal Shavit and Jason Alicea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176001 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025

Transverse Josephson Diode Effect in Tilted Dirac Systems

W. Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176002 (2025) - Published 2 May, 2025

Strongly Hybridized Phonons in One-Dimensional van der Waals Crystals

Shaoqi Sun, Qingyun Lin, Yihuan Li, Daichi Kozawa, Huizhen Wu, Shigeo Maruyama, Pilkyung Moon, Toshikaze Kariyado, Ryo Kitaura, and Sihan Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176101 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025

Isostructural Phase Transition of ${Fe}_{2} O_{3}$ under Laser Shock Compression

A. Amouretti et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176102 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

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Inverse Design of Kirigami through Shape Programming of Rotating Units

Chuan Qiao, Shijun Chen, Yu Chen, Zhihong Zhou, Wentao Jiang, Qingyuan Wang, Xiaobao Tian, and Damiano Pasini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176103 (2025) - Published 2 May, 2025

Site-Selective Polar Compensation of Mott Electrons in a Double-Perovskite Heterointerface

Nandana Bhattacharya, Arpita Sen, Ke Qu, Arijit Sinha, Ranjan Kumar Patel, Siddharth Kumar, Jianwei Zhang, Prithwijit Mandal, Suresh Chandra Joshi, Shashank Kumar Ojha, Jyotirmay Maity, Zhan Zhang, Hua Zhou, Fanny Rodolakis, Padraic Shafer, Christoph Klewe, John William Freeland, Zhenzhong Yang, Umesh Waghmare, and Srimanta Middey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176201 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025

Decrease of Static Friction Coefficient with Interface Growth from Single to Multiasperity Contact

Liang Peng, Thibault Roch, Daniel Bonn, and Bart Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176202 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025

Substrate Polarization Alters the Jahn-Teller Effect in a Single Molecule

Moritz Frankerl, Laerte L. Patera, Felix Giselbrecht, Thomas Frederiksen, Jascha Repp, and Andrea Donarini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176203 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025

Interplay between Interface Diffusion and Boundary Slip Underlying Graphite-Lubricated Metal Nanoforming

Jun-Xiang Xiang, Yuanpeng Yao, Hui Fang, Cai Lu, and Ze Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176204 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

Unified One-Parameter Scaling Function for Anderson Localization Transitions in Nonreciprocal Non-Hermitian Systems

C. Wang, Wenxue He, X. R. Wang, and Hechen Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176301 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025

Half-Integer Quantum Hall States in Two-Dimensional Graphite

Nicholas Mazzucca, Bishoy M. Kousa, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Allan H. MacDonald, and Marc W. Bockrath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176302 (2025) - Published 1 May, 2025

Spin-Transfer Torque in Altermagnets with Magnetic Textures

Hamed Vakili, Edward Schwartz, and Alexey A. Kovalev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176401 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025

Compressible Quantum Liquid with Vanishing Drude Weight

Ahmed Abouelkomsan, Nisarga Paul, Ady Stern, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176501 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025

Taming Spin Susceptibilities in Frustrated Quantum Magnets: Mean-Field Form and Approximate Nature of the Quantum-to-Classical Correspondence

Benedikt Schneider and Björn Sbierski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176502 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025

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Describing Landau Level Mixing in Fractional Quantum Hall States with Deep Learning

Yubing Qian, Tongzhou Zhao, Jianxiao Zhang, Tao Xiang, Xiang Li, and Ji Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176503 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

A novel framework using real-space neural networks simultaneously captures electron correlations and Landau level mixing with high precision.

Hybrid-Order Skin Effect from Loss-Induced Nonreciprocity

Jien Wu, Yejian Hu, Zhaojian He, Ke Deng, Xueqin Huang, Manzhu Ke, Weiyin Deng, Jiuyang Lu, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176601 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025

Emergence of Ferroelectric Topological Insulator as Verified by Quantum Hall Effect of Surface States in (Sn,Pb,In)Te Films

Ryutaro Yoshimi, Ryosuke Kurihara, Yoshihiro Okamura, Hikaru Handa, Naoki Ogawa, Minoru Kawamura, Atsushi Tsukazaki, Kei S. Takahashi, Masashi Kawasaki, Youtarou Takahashi, Masashi Tokunaga, and Yoshinori Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176602 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Current-Driven Collective Control of Helical Spin Texture in van der Waals Antiferromagnet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176701 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025

The demonstration that helical spin arrangements can be manipulated using electric currents holds promise for spin-based electronics.

Adiabatic Pumping of Orbital Magnetization by Spin Precession

Yafei Ren, Wenqin Chen, Chong Wang, Ting Cao, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176702 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

Entangling Color Centers via Magnon-Antimagnon Pair Creation

Eric Kleinherbers, Shane P. Kelly, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176703 (2025) - Published 1 May, 2025

Experimental Observation of Vortex Gyration Excited by Surface Acoustic Waves

R. Lopes Seeger, F. Millo, G. Soares, J.-V. Kim, A. Solignac, G. de Loubens, and T. Devolder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176704 (2025) - Published 1 May, 2025

Collective Optical Properties of Moiré Excitons

Tsung-Sheng Huang, Yu-Xin Wang (王语馨), Yan-Qi Wang, Darrick Chang, Mohammad Hafezi, and Andrey Grankin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176901 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

Contrasting Light-Induced Spin Torque in Antiferromagnetic and Altermagnetic Systems

Jian Zhou and Chunmei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176902 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

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Attosecond Control of Solid-State High Harmonic Generation Using $ω − 3 ω$ Fields

Adam Gindl, Pawan Suthar, František Trojánek, Petr Malý, Thibault J.-Y. Derrien, and Martin Kozák

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 176903 (2025) - Published 2 May, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Ergodicity Breaking and Scaling Relations for Finite-Time First-Order Phase Transition

Yu-Xin Wu, Jin-Fu Chen, and H. T. Quan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 177101 (2025) - Published 2 May, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Statistical Mechanics of Transfer Learning in Fully Connected Networks in the Proportional Limit

Alessandro Ingrosso, Rosalba Pacelli, Pietro Rotondo, and Federica Gerace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 177301 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

Tools from spin glass theory such as the replica method help explain the efficacy of transfer learning.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Quantum Delocalization Enables Water Dissociation on Ru(0001)

Yu Cao, Jiantao Wang, Mingfeng Liu, Yan Liu, Hui Ma, Cesare Franchini, Yan Sun, Georg Kresse, Xing-Qiu Chen, and Peitao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 178001 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Critical Clusters in Liquid Crystals: Fractal Geometry and Conformal Invariance

Renan A. L. Almeida and Jeferson J. Arenzon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 178101 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025

During phase ordering, twisted nematic liquid crystals self-generate critical clusters in the percolation universality class.

ERRATA

Erratum: Evidence for $C P$ Violation in $B^{+} \to p \bar{p} K^{+}$ Decays [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 141801 (2014)]

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 179901 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025

Erratum: Measurement of the Cross Sections of $Ξ_{c}^{0}$ and $Ξ_{c}^{+}$ Baryons and of the Branching-Fraction Ratio $BR (Ξ_{c}^{0} \to Ξ^{-} e^{+} ν_{e}) / BR (Ξ_{c}^{0} \to Ξ^{-} π^{+})$ in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 272001 (2021)]

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 179902 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025