Volume 134, Issue 20

23 May 2025

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Cheese flower with characteristic wavy edge scraped from a wheel of Tête de Moine cheese. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Morphogenesis of Cheese Flowers through Scraping
J. Zhang, A. Ibarra, B. Roman, and M. Ciccotti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 208201 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Properties of Cosmic Lithium Isotopes Measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201001 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

A precision measurement of cosmic rays at the International Space Station finds that lithium-7 is produced by the fragmentation of heavier nuclei.

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First Measurement of Near-Threshold and Subthreshold $J / ψ$ Photoproduction off Nuclei

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201903 (2025) - Published 22 May, 2025

The internal structure of protons bound in nuclei has been probed by studying short-lived particles created when high-energy photons strike nuclei.

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QCD Equation of State with $N_{f} = 3$ Flavors up to the Electroweak Scale

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201904 (2025) - Published 23 May, 2025

A new model of quark–gluon plasma finds that the strong force was more potent in the early Universe than previously thought.

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Modular Variable Laser Cooling for Efficient Entropy Extraction

B. de Neeve, T.-L. Nguyen, A. Ferk, T. Behrle, F. Lancellotti, M. Simoni, S. Welte, and J. P. Home

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 203603 (2025) - Published 21 May, 2025

A new laser-based cooling scheme approaches the maximum efficiency that is theoretically achievable.

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Morphogenesis of Cheese Flowers through Scraping

J. Zhang, A. Ibarra, B. Roman, and M. Ciccotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 208201 (2025) - Published 21 May, 2025

Scraping the surface of a Tête de Moine cheese wheel produces frilly ribbons whose flower-like forms depend on the local friction.

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Universal Relationship between Linear Viscoelasticity and Nonlinear Yielding in Soft Materials

Daniel P. Keane, Elnaz Nikoumanesh, Krutarth M. Kamani, Simon A. Rogers, and Ryan Poling-Skutvik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 208202 (2025) - Published 23 May, 2025

For a wide range of complex fluids, the transition from solid-like at rest to liquid-like when pushed can be predicted from properties of the at-rest state.

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Long-Distance Window of the Hadronic Vacuum Polarization for the Muon $g - 2$

T. Blum, P. A. Boyle, M. Bruno, B. Chakraborty, F. Erben, V. Gülpers, A. Hackl, N. Hermansson-Truedsson, R. C. Hill, T. Izubuchi, L. Jin, C. Jung, C. Lehner, J. McKeon, A. S. Meyer, M. Tomii, J. T. Tsang, and X.-Y. Tuo (RBC and UKQCD Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201901 (2025) - Published 19 May, 2025

Using an isospin symmetric setup, a precise lattice QCD computation finds that the long-distance window contribution to the muon $g - 2$ deviates significantly from that of the data-driven approach.

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Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Hydrodynamics in Systems with Particle-Hole Symmetry

Adrien Reingruber, Kitinan Pongsangangan, Fakher Assaad, and Maksim Ulybyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 206303 (2025) - Published 23 May, 2025

A quantum Monte Carlo calculation shows that the hydrodynamic behavior of the charge current at graphene’s charge neutrality point can emerge despite the absence of momentum flow.

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Band-Selective Spin-Charge Separation across the Charge Density Wave Transition in Quasi-1D ${NbSe}_{3}$

Jounghoon Hyun, Yeonghoon Lee, Chan-young Lim, Gyubin Lee, Jaehun Cha, Yeojin Ahn, Mingi Jho, Seonggeon Gim, Minkyu Park, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, Yeongkwan Kim, and Sunghun Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 206402 (2025) - Published 23 May, 2025

In quasi-1D NbSe $_{3}$ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy reveals spin-charge separation, a representative feature of Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid, across a wide range of temperatures even below the charge density wave transition temperature.

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Unified Interface Model for Dissipative Transport of Bosons and Fermions

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 207102 (2025) - Published 21 May, 2025

Dissipative transport of both fermionic and bosonic particles in a one-dimensional lattice belongs to the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang universality class.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

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Martin Plávala, Otfried Gühne, and Marco Túlio Quintino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 200201 (2025) - Published 21 May, 2025

Experimental Implementation of Dimension-Dependent Contextuality Inequality

Emil Håkansson, Amelie Piveteau, Alban Seguinard, Sadiq Muhammad, Mohamed Bourennane, Otfried Gühne, and Martin Plávala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 200202 (2025) - Published 22 May, 2025

Quantum Processes as Thermodynamic Resources: The Role of Non-Markovianity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 200401 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

Run-and-Tumble Exact Work Statistics in a Lazy Quantum Measurement Engine: Stochastic Information Processing

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 200402 (2025) - Published 21 May, 2025

Optimally Generating $su (2^{N})$ Using Pauli Strings

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 200601 (2025) - Published 19 May, 2025

Optimality Condition for the Petz Map

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Experimental Verifiable Multiclient Blind Quantum Computing on a Qline Architecture

Beatrice Polacchi, Dominik Leichtle, Gonzalo Carvacho, Giorgio Milani, Nicolò Spagnolo, Marc Kaplan, Elham Kashefi, and Fabio Sciarrino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 200603 (2025) - Published 21 May, 2025

Linear-Optical Fusion Boosted by High-Dimensional Entanglement

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 200801 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Properties of Cosmic Lithium Isotopes Measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201001 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

A precision measurement of cosmic rays at the International Space Station finds that lithium-7 is produced by the fragmentation of heavier nuclei.

New Constraints on Axionlike Particles with the NEON Detector at a Nuclear Reactor

Byung Ju Park, Jae Jin Choi, Eunju Jeon, Jinyu Kim, Kyungwon Kim, Sung Hyun Kim, Sun Kee Kim, Yeongduk Kim, Young Ju Ko, Byoung-Cheol Koh, Chang Hyon Ha, Seo Hyun Lee, In Soo Lee, Hyunseok Lee, Hyun Su Lee, Jaison Lee, Yoomin Oh, Doojin Kim, Gordan Krnjaic, and Jacopo Nava (NEON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201002 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

Self-Excited Gravitational Instantons

Martin Krššák

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201501 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

Particles and Fields

Type II Superstring Amplitude at One-Loop and Transcendentality

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201601 (2025) - Published 21 May, 2025

One-Dimensional Ising Model with $1 / r^{1.99}$ Interaction

Dario Benedetti, Edoardo Lauria, Dalimil Mazáč, and Philine van Vliet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201602 (2025) - Published 22 May, 2025

Improved Evaluation of the Electroweak Contribution to Muon $g - 2$

Martin Hoferichter, Jan Lüdtke, Luca Naterop, Massimiliano Procura, and Peter Stoffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201801 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

Comprehensive Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum and Flux at Daya Bay

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201802 (2025) - Published 21 May, 2025

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Long-Distance Window of the Hadronic Vacuum Polarization for the Muon $g - 2$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201901 (2025) - Published 19 May, 2025

Using an isospin symmetric setup, a precise lattice QCD computation finds that the long-distance window contribution to the muon $g - 2$ deviates significantly from that of the data-driven approach.

Observation of the $W$ -Annihilation Process $D_{s}^{+} \to ω ρ^{+}$ and Measurement of $D_{s}^{+} \to ϕ ρ^{+}$ in $D_{s}^{+} \to π^{+} π^{+} π^{-} π^{0} π^{0}$ Decays

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201902 (2025) - Published 22 May, 2025

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First Measurement of Near-Threshold and Subthreshold $J / ψ$ Photoproduction off Nuclei

J. R. Pybus et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201903 (2025) - Published 22 May, 2025

The internal structure of protons bound in nuclei has been probed by studying short-lived particles created when high-energy photons strike nuclei.

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QCD Equation of State with $N_{f} = 3$ Flavors up to the Electroweak Scale

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 201904 (2025) - Published 23 May, 2025

A new model of quark–gluon plasma finds that the strong force was more potent in the early Universe than previously thought.

Nuclear Physics

${}^{16}O$ Electroweak Response Functions from First Principles

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Phase-Resolved Attoclock

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 203201 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

Quantum-State Controlled Formation of Cosmically Relevant Metallic Molecular Ions

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 203401 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

Conservation of Angular Momentum on a Single-Photon Level

L. Kopf, R. Barros, S. Prabhakar, E. Giese, and R. Fickler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 203601 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

Coherent Control of Photon Correlations in Trapped Ion Crystals

K. Singh, A. Cidrim, A. Kovalenko, T. M. Pham, O. Číp, L. Slodička, and R. Bachelard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 203602 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

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Modular Variable Laser Cooling for Efficient Entropy Extraction

B. de Neeve, T.-L. Nguyen, A. Ferk, T. Behrle, F. Lancellotti, M. Simoni, S. Welte, and J. P. Home

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 203603 (2025) - Published 21 May, 2025

A new laser-based cooling scheme approaches the maximum efficiency that is theoretically achievable.

Spatial Mapping of Intrinsic and Readout Nonlinearities in a Strongly Driven Micromechanical Membrane

Timo Sommer, Agnes Zinth, Aditya, and Menno Poot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 203604 (2025) - Published 23 May, 2025

Encoding Arbitrary Ising Hamiltonians on Spatial Photonic Ising Machines

Jason Sakellariou, Alexis Askitopoulos, Georgios Pastras, and Symeon I. Tsintzos

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Light-Based Chromatic Aberration Correction of Ultrafast Electron Microscopes

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 203802 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

One-Way Valley-Robust Transport in Edge-Tailored Photonic Crystals

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 203803 (2025) - Published 22 May, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Out-of-Equilibrium Fluxes Shape the Self-Organization of Locally Interacting Turbulence

Anton Svirsky and Anna Frishman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 204001 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

Structural Heterogeneity of ${MgSiO}_{3}$ Liquid and Its Connection with Dynamical Properties

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 204101 (2025) - Published 22 May, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Intense X-Ray Vortices Generation via Wavefront Shaping in High-Gain Free-Electron Lasers

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 205001 (2025) - Published 22 May, 2025

Drift-Energy Replacement Effect in Multi-ion Magnetized Plasma

M. E. Mlodik, E. J. Kolmes, and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 205101 (2025) - Published 21 May, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Superconductivity and Charge Density Wave in the Holstein Model on the Penrose Lattice

Lu Liu, Zi-Xiang Li, and Fan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 206001 (2025) - Published 22 May, 2025

Universal Charge Conductance at Abelian–Non-Abelian Quantum Hall Interfaces

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 206301 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

Caroli–de Gennes–Matricon Analogs in Full-Shell Hybrid Nanowires

M. T. Deng, Carlos Payá, Pablo San-Jose, Elsa Prada, C. M. Marcus, and S. Vaitiekėnas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 206302 (2025) - Published 22 May, 2025

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Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Hydrodynamics in Systems with Particle-Hole Symmetry

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 206303 (2025) - Published 23 May, 2025

A quantum Monte Carlo calculation shows that the hydrodynamic behavior of the charge current at graphene’s charge neutrality point can emerge despite the absence of momentum flow.

Advancing Natural Orbital Functional Calculations through Deep Learning-Inspired Techniques for Large-Scale Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

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Band-Selective Spin-Charge Separation across the Charge Density Wave Transition in Quasi-1D ${NbSe}_{3}$

Jounghoon Hyun, Yeonghoon Lee, Chan-young Lim, Gyubin Lee, Jaehun Cha, Yeojin Ahn, Mingi Jho, Seonggeon Gim, Minkyu Park, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, Yeongkwan Kim, and Sunghun Kim

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Observation of Extreme Anisotropic Sensitivity at Topological Bound States in the Continuum

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Fractionalized Superconductivity Mediated by Majorana Fermions in the Kitaev-Kondo Lattice

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Unconventional Topological Edge States In One-Dimensional Non-Hermitian Gapless Systems Stemming from Nonisolated Hypersurface Singularities

Hongwei Jia, Jing Hu, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Yixin Xiao, Dongyang Wang, Mudi Wang, Shaojie Ma, Xiaoping Ouyang, Yifei Zhu, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 206603 (2025) - Published 22 May, 2025

Nonreciprocal Phonons in $P T$ -Symmetric Antiferromagnets

Yafei Ren, Daniyar Saparov, and Qian Niu

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Picocavity-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Physisorbed $H_{2}$ and $D_{2}$ Molecules

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 206901 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Hydrodynamically Consistent Many-Body Harada-Sasa Relation

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 207101 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

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Unified Interface Model for Dissipative Transport of Bosons and Fermions

Y. Minoguchi, J. Huber, L. Garbe, A. Gambassi, and P. Rabl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 207102 (2025) - Published 21 May, 2025

Dissipative transport of both fermionic and bosonic particles in a one-dimensional lattice belongs to the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang universality class.

Ensemble Inequivalence and Phase Transitions in Unlabeled Networks

Oleg Evnin and Dmitri Krioukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 207401 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Morphogenesis of Cheese Flowers through Scraping

J. Zhang, A. Ibarra, B. Roman, and M. Ciccotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 208201 (2025) - Published 21 May, 2025

Scraping the surface of a Tête de Moine cheese wheel produces frilly ribbons whose flower-like forms depend on the local friction.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Relationship between Linear Viscoelasticity and Nonlinear Yielding in Soft Materials

Daniel P. Keane, Elnaz Nikoumanesh, Krutarth M. Kamani, Simon A. Rogers, and Ryan Poling-Skutvik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 208202 (2025) - Published 23 May, 2025

For a wide range of complex fluids, the transition from solid-like at rest to liquid-like when pushed can be predicted from properties of the at-rest state.