Volume 134, Issue 18

9 May 2025

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Images of an atomic Fermi gas (left) and two atomic Bose gases (center and right). Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics Magazine and for Editors’ Suggestions.
(All three Letters are under “Highlighted Articles”.)

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In Situ Imaging of the Thermal de Broglie Wavelength in an Ultracold Bose Gas
Jinggang Xiang, Enid Cruz-Colón, Candice C. Chua, William R. Milner, Julius de Hond, Jacob F. Fricke, and Wolfgang Ketterle
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183401 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Active Optical Intensity Interferometry

Lu-Chuan Liu, Cheng Wu, Wei Li, Yu-Ao Chen, Xiao-Peng Shao, Frank Wilczek, Feihu Xu, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 180201 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

A high-resolution imaging system captures distant objects by shining laser light on them and detecting the reflected light.

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In Situ Imaging of the Thermal de Broglie Wavelength in an Ultracold Bose Gas

Jinggang Xiang, Enid Cruz-Colón, Candice C. Chua, William R. Milner, Julius de Hond, Jacob F. Fricke, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183401 (2025) - Published 5 May, 2025

An innovative way to image atoms in cold gases could provide deeper insights into the atoms’ quantum correlations.

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Measuring Pair Correlations in Bose and Fermi Gases via Atom-Resolved Microscopy

Ruixiao Yao, Sungjae Chi, Mingxuan Wang, Richard J. Fletcher, and Martin Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183402 (2025) - Published 5 May, 2025

An innovative way to image atoms in cold gases could provide deeper insights into the atoms’ quantum correlations.

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Quantum Gas Microscopy of Fermions in the Continuum

Tim de Jongh, Joris Verstraten, Maxime Dixmerias, Cyprien Daix, Bruno Peaudecerf, and Tarik Yefsah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183403 (2025) - Published 5 May, 2025

An innovative way to image atoms in cold gases could provide deeper insights into the atoms’ quantum correlations.

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Active-Hydraulic Flows Solve the Six-Vertex Model (and Vice Versa)

Camille Jorge and Denis Bartolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 188302 (2025) - Published 7 May, 2025

Researchers demonstrate an active-fluid system whose behaviors map directly to predictions of the six-vertex model—an exactly solvable model that was originally developed to explain the behavior of ice.

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$X$ -Point Target Radiator Regime in Tokamak Divertor Plasmas

K. Lee, C. Theiler, M. Carpita, O. Février, A. Perek, M. Zurita, D. Brida, R. Ducker, G. Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, B. P. Duval, S. Gorno, D. Hamm, D. S. Oliveira, F. Pastore, M. Pedrini, H. Reimerdes, L. Simons, E. Tonello, K. Verhaegh, Y. Wang, and C. Wüthrich (the TCV Team and the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 185102 (2025) - Published 7 May, 2025

Fusion reactor experiments in Switzerland have demonstrated a new way to remove unwanted heat from a magnetically confined plasma.

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Dynamical Formation of Regular Black Holes

Pablo Bueno, Pablo A. Cano, Robie A. Hennigar, and Ángel J. Murcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 181401 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Nonsingular black hole solutions are generically possible in modified theories of gravity in dimensions D $\geq$ 5.

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Cavity-Enhanced Solid-State Nuclear Spin Gyroscope

Hanfeng Wang, Shuang Wu, Kurt Jacobs, Yuqin Duan, Dirk R. Englund, and Matthew E. Trusheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183603 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

A hybrid system composed of a nuclear spin in a nitrogen-vacancy center coupled to a cavity exhibits enhanced sensitivity at different operating regimes.

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Plasmonic Time Crystals

Joshua Feinberg, David E. Fernandes, Boris Shapiro, and Mário G. Silveirinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183801 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Photonic time-crystals when extended to plasmonic media can support collective resonance of longitudinal plasmons that can significantly enhance parametric gain.

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Transitional Supersolidity in Ion Doped Helium Droplets

Juan Carlos Acosta Matos, P. Giannakeas, Matteo Ciardi, Thomas Pohl, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 186001 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

A hybrid semiclassical approach shows that a helium droplet doped by an atomic ion can host density modulated supersolidity.

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Formation of Topological Bigels in Mixtures of Colloidal Rings and Polymers

Andrea Bonato, Davide Marenduzzo, and Enzo Orlandini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 188203 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

In mixtures of polymer chains and colloidal rings, the chains interact with the rings by threading through them, leading to gel-like behavior in confined geometries.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

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Active Optical Intensity Interferometry

Lu-Chuan Liu, Cheng Wu, Wei Li, Yu-Ao Chen, Xiao-Peng Shao, Frank Wilczek, Feihu Xu, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 180201 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

A high-resolution imaging system captures distant objects by shining laser light on them and detecting the reflected light.

Topological Quantum Batteries

Zhi-Guang Lu, Guoqing Tian, Xin-You Lü, and Cheng Shang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 180401 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Strict Area Law Entanglement versus Chirality

Xiang Li, Ting-Chun Lin, John McGreevy, and Bowen Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 180402 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Optimal Conversion from Classical to Quantum Randomness via Quantum Chaos

Wai-Keong Mok, Tobias Haug, Adam L. Shaw, Manuel Endres, and John Preskill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 180403 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Unitary Designs of Symmetric Local Random Circuits

Yosuke Mitsuhashi, Ryotaro Suzuki, Tomohiro Soejima, and Nobuyuki Yoshioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 180404 (2025) - Published 7 May, 2025

Unveiling Eigenstate Thermalization for Non-Hermitian systems

Sudipto Singha Roy, Soumik Bandyopadhyay, Ricardo Costa de Almeida, and Philipp Hauke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 180405 (2025) - Published 8 May, 2025

Energy Barrier of Hypergraph Product Codes

Guangqi Zhao, Andrew C. Doherty, and Isaac H. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 180601 (2025) - Published 5 May, 2025

Quantum Dynamic Programming

Jeongrak Son, Marek Gluza, Ryuji Takagi, and Nelly H. Y. Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 180602 (2025) - Published 7 May, 2025

Genuine Quantum Non-Gaussianity and Metrological Sensitivity of Fock States Prepared in a Mechanical Resonator

Q. Rumman Rahman, Igor Kladarić, Max-Emanuel Kern, Lukáš Lachman, Yiwen Chu, Radim Filip, and Matteo Fadel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 180801 (2025) - Published 5 May, 2025

Robust Approach for Time-Bin-Encoded Photonic Quantum Information Protocols

Simon J. U. White, Emanuele Polino, Farzad Ghafari, Dominick J. Joch, Luis Villegas-Aguilar, Lynden K. Shalm, Varun B. Verma, Marcus Huber, and Nora Tischler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 180802 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Enabling Strong Neutrino Self-Interaction with an Unparticle Mediator

Saeid Foroughi-Abari, Kevin J. Kelly, Mudit Rai, and Yue Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 181001 (2025) - Published 8 May, 2025

Hints of Nonminimally Coupled Gravity in DESI 2024 Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Measurements

Gen Ye, Matteo Martinelli, Bin Hu, and Alessandra Silvestri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 181002 (2025) - Published 8 May, 2025

Detectable MeV Neutrino Signals from Neutron-Star Common-Envelope Systems

Ivan Esteban, John F. Beacom, and Joachim Kopp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 181003 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamical Formation of Regular Black Holes

Pablo Bueno, Pablo A. Cano, Robie A. Hennigar, and Ángel J. Murcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 181401 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Nonsingular black hole solutions are generically possible in modified theories of gravity in dimensions D $\geq$ 5.

Superconducting Levitated Detector of Gravitational Waves

Daniel Carney, Gerard Higgins, Giacomo Marocco, and Michael Wentzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 181402 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Particles and Fields

Class $S$ Superconformal Indices from Maximal Supergravity

Ritabrata Bhattacharya, Abhay Katyal, and Oscar Varela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 181601 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Constraints on Axion Mediated Dipole-Dipole Interactions

Zitong Xu, Xing Heng, Guoqing Tian, Di Gong, Lei Cong, Wei Ji, Dmitry Budker, and Kai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 181801 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Discovering Electroweak Interacting Dark Matter at Muon Colliders Using Soft Tracks

Rodolfo Capdevilla, Federico Meloni, and Jose Zurita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 181802 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Test of Lepton Flavor Universality with $B^{+} \to K^{+} π^{+} π^{-} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 181803 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

Observation of the Charmonium Decay $η_{c} \to γ γ$ in $J / ψ \to γ η_{c}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 181901 (2025) - Published 5 May, 2025

Domain-Wall Skyrmion Phase in Dense QCD at Strong Magnetic Fields Using Leading-Order Chiral Perturbation Theory

Minoru Eto, Kentaro Nishimura, and Muneto Nitta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 181902 (2025) - Published 7 May, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Charge Radii of Neutron-Rich Scandium Isotopes and the Seniority Symmetry in the $0 f_{7 / 2}$ Shell

S. W. Bai et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 182501 (2025) - Published 7 May, 2025

Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for Finite Systems at Zero Temperature

Stefano Brolli, Carlo Barbieri, and Enrico Vigezzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 182502 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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In Situ Imaging of the Thermal de Broglie Wavelength in an Ultracold Bose Gas

Jinggang Xiang, Enid Cruz-Colón, Candice C. Chua, William R. Milner, Julius de Hond, Jacob F. Fricke, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183401 (2025) - Published 5 May, 2025

An innovative way to image atoms in cold gases could provide deeper insights into the atoms’ quantum correlations.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measuring Pair Correlations in Bose and Fermi Gases via Atom-Resolved Microscopy

Ruixiao Yao, Sungjae Chi, Mingxuan Wang, Richard J. Fletcher, and Martin Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183402 (2025) - Published 5 May, 2025

An innovative way to image atoms in cold gases could provide deeper insights into the atoms’ quantum correlations.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Gas Microscopy of Fermions in the Continuum

Tim de Jongh, Joris Verstraten, Maxime Dixmerias, Cyprien Daix, Bruno Peaudecerf, and Tarik Yefsah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183403 (2025) - Published 5 May, 2025

An innovative way to image atoms in cold gases could provide deeper insights into the atoms’ quantum correlations.

Time-Resolved Spectral Gap Spectroscopy in a Quantum Simulator of Fermionic Superfluidity inside an Optical Cavity

Dylan J. Young, Eric Yilun Song, Anjun Chu, Diego Barberena, Zhijing Niu, Vera M. Schäfer, Robert J. Lewis-Swan, Ana Maria Rey, and James K. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183404 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Self-Organized Cavity Bosons beyond the Adiabatic Elimination Approximation

Giuliano Orso, Jakub Zakrzewski, and Piotr Deuar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183405 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Thermodynamics of Spin-Imbalanced Fermi Gases with $S U (N)$ -Symmetric Interaction

Chengdong He, Xin-Yuan Gao, Ka Kwan Pak, Yu-Jun Liu, Peng Ren, Mengbo Guo, Entong Zhao, Yangqian Yan, and Gyu-Boong Jo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183406 (2025) - Published 7 May, 2025

Detecting Phase Coherence of 2D Bose Gases via Noise Correlations

Shinichi Sunami, Vijay P. Singh, Erik Rydow, Abel Beregi, En Chang, Ludwig Mathey, and Christopher J. Foot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183407 (2025) - Published 8 May, 2025

Universal Photon Blockade

Yan-Hui Zhou, Tong Liu, Qi-Ping Su, Xing-Yuan Zhang, Qi-Cheng Wu, Dong-Xu Chen, Zhi-Cheng Shi, H. Z. Shen, and Chui-Ping Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183601 (2025) - Published 5 May, 2025

Continuous-Variable Square-Ladder Cluster States in a Microwave Frequency Comb

Fabio Lingua, J. C. Rivera Hernández, Michele Cortinovis, and David B. Haviland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183602 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cavity-Enhanced Solid-State Nuclear Spin Gyroscope

Hanfeng Wang, Shuang Wu, Kurt Jacobs, Yuqin Duan, Dirk R. Englund, and Matthew E. Trusheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183603 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

A hybrid system composed of a nuclear spin in a nitrogen-vacancy center coupled to a cavity exhibits enhanced sensitivity at different operating regimes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Plasmonic Time Crystals

Joshua Feinberg, David E. Fernandes, Boris Shapiro, and Mário G. Silveirinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183801 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Photonic time-crystals when extended to plasmonic media can support collective resonance of longitudinal plasmons that can significantly enhance parametric gain.

Detecting and Focusing on a Nonlinear Target in a Complex Medium

Antton Goïcoechea, Jakob Hüpfl, Stefan Rotter, François Sarrazin, and Matthieu Davy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 183802 (2025) - Published 8 May, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Nonmonotonic Motion of Sliding Droplets on Strained Soft Solids

Youchuang Chao, Hansol Jeon, and Stefan Karpitschka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 184001 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Reduced Model of Ionization Lag in Intense Laser-Produced Plasmas

M. S. Cho, A. L. Milder, W. Rozmus, H. P. Le, H. A. Scott, D. T. Bishel, D. Turnbull, S. B. Libby, and M. E. Foord

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 185101 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

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$X$ -Point Target Radiator Regime in Tokamak Divertor Plasmas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 185102 (2025) - Published 7 May, 2025

Fusion reactor experiments in Switzerland have demonstrated a new way to remove unwanted heat from a magnetically confined plasma.

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Transitional Supersolidity in Ion Doped Helium Droplets

Juan Carlos Acosta Matos, P. Giannakeas, Matteo Ciardi, Thomas Pohl, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 186001 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

A hybrid semiclassical approach shows that a helium droplet doped by an atomic ion can host density modulated supersolidity.

Scattering Theory of Thermal and Bipolar Thermoelectric Diodes

José Balduque and Rafael Sánchez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 186301 (2025) - Published 7 May, 2025

Interfacial Heat Transport via Evanescent Radiation by Hot Electrons

William D. Hutchins, Saman Zare, Mehran Habibzadeh, Sheila Edalatpour, and Patrick E. Hopkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 186302 (2025) - Published 8 May, 2025

Nonperturbative Self-Consistent Electron-Phonon Spectral Functions and Transport

Jae-Mo Lihm and Samuel Poncé

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 186401 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Anomalous Electrical Transport in the Kagome Magnet ${YbFe}_{6} {Ge}_{6}$

Weiliang Yao, Supeng Liu, Hodaka Kikuchi, Hajime Ishikawa, Øystein S. Fjellvåg, David W. Tam, Feng Ye, Douglas L. Abernathy, George D. A. Wood, Devashibhai Adroja, Chun-Ming Wu, Chien-Lung Huang, Bin Gao, Yaofeng Xie, Yuxiang Gao, Karthik Rao, Emilia Morosan, Koichi Kindo, Takatsugu Masuda, Kenichiro Hashimoto, Takasada Shibauchi, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 186501 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Formation of Topological Bigels in Mixtures of Colloidal Rings and Polymers

Andrea Bonato, Davide Marenduzzo, and Enzo Orlandini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 188203 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

In mixtures of polymer chains and colloidal rings, the chains interact with the rings by threading through them, leading to gel-like behavior in confined geometries.

Soft Condensation

Ambre Bouillant, Christopher Henkel, Uwe Thiele, Bruno Andreotti, and Jacco H. Snoeijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 188204 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

Activity Leads to Topological Phase Transition in 2D Populations of Heterogeneous Oscillators

Ylann Rouzaire, Parisa Rahmani, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Fernando Peruani, and Demian Levis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 188301 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025

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Active-Hydraulic Flows Solve the Six-Vertex Model (and Vice Versa)

Camille Jorge and Denis Bartolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 188302 (2025) - Published 7 May, 2025

Universal Law for the Dispersal of Motile Microorganisms in Porous Media

T. Pietrangeli, R. Foffi, R. Stocker, C. Ybert, C. Cottin-Bizonne, and F. Detcheverry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 188303 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025

ERRATA

Erratum: Boundary Critical Behavior of the Three-Dimensional Heisenberg Universality Class [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 135701 (2021)]

Francesco Parisen Toldin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 189901 (2025) - Published 8 May, 2025