Volume 134, Issue 21

30 May 2025

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Experimental setup for single-photon quantum key distribution using a quantum dot photon source. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Experimental Single-Photon Quantum Key Distribution Surpassing the Fundamental Weak Coherent-State Rate Limit
Yang Zhang, Xing Ding, Yang Li, Likang Zhang, Yong-Peng Guo, Gao-Qiang Wang, Zhen Ning, Mo-Chi Xu, Run-Ze Liu, Jun-Yi Zhao, Geng-Yan Zou, Hui Wang, Yuan Cao, Yu-Ming He, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Yong-Heng Huo, Sheng-Kai Liao, Chao-Yang Lu, Feihu Xu, and Jian-Wei Pan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210801 (2025)

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Experimental Single-Photon Quantum Key Distribution Surpassing the Fundamental Weak Coherent-State Rate Limit

Yang Zhang, Xing Ding, Yang Li, Likang Zhang, Yong-Peng Guo, Gao-Qiang Wang, Zhen Ning, Mo-Chi Xu, Run-Ze Liu, Jun-Yi Zhao, Geng-Yan Zou, Hui Wang, Yuan Cao, Yu-Ming He, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Yong-Heng Huo, Sheng-Kai Liao, Chao-Yang Lu, Feihu Xu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210801 (2025) - Published 29 May, 2025

Single-photon-source-based quantum key distribution surpasses the fundamental secret key rate limit imposed by weak coherent states.

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Jet Size Prediction in Compound Multiphase Bubble Bursting

Zhengyu Yang, Yang Liu, and Jie Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 214001 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

An immiscible coating on bubbles bursting at a gas-liquid interface can influence the characteristics of a resulting jet, and thus could also influence the aerosolizing of contaminants and other species at the surface of a fluid.

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Electron Heating by Parallel Electric Fields in Magnetotail Reconnection

Louis Richard, Yuri V. Khotyaintsev, Cecilia Norgren, Konrad Steinvall, Daniel B. Graham, Jan Egedal, Andris Vaivads, and Rumi Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 215201 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

An analysis using unprecedented satellite observations reveals important information about how electrons get heated throughout the Universe.

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Large Tunable Kinetic Inductance in a Twisted Graphene Superconductor

Rounak Jha, Martin Endres, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mitali Banerjee, Christian Schönenberger, and Paritosh Karnatak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 216001 (2025) - Published 27 May, 2025

The graphene multilayer’s kinetic inductance is both high and tunable, making it a promising material for quantum technologies.

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Critical Demand in a Stochastic Model of Flows in Supply Networks

Yannick Feld and Marc Barthelemy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 217401 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

When demand increases significantly, the better performing supply networks are those that allow for storage of excess materials and that contain multiple redundant pathways.

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Quadratic Mode Couplings in Rotating Black Holes and Their Detectability

Neev Khera, Sizheng Ma, and Huan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211404 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

New second-order quasinormal mode interactions in Kerr black holes reveal potential detectable signals for next-generation gravitational wave detectors.

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Efficient Transverse Multiwave Interactions up to Six-Wave Mixing in a High-Q Lithium Niobate Microresonator

Chuntao Li, Ni Yao, Huakang Yu, Jintian Lin, Renhong Gao, Jiale Deng, Jianglin Guan, Lingling Qiao, and Ya Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 213801 (2025) - Published 27 May, 2025

Self-organized subwavelength photorefractive gratings formed in high-Q lithium niobate microresonators lead to the first demonstration of efficient transverse nonlinear interactions up to six-wave mixing under single continuous-wave laser pumping.

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Three-Dimensional Valley Hall Phases in Phononic Crystals

Riyi Zheng, Jialuo Liang, Junpeng Wu, Jiuyang Lu, Weiyin Deng, Xueqin Huang, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 216601 (2025) - Published 29 May, 2025

Three dimensional valley Hall phases form in phononic crystals, revealed as topological surface states protected by 3-tuple valley Chern numbers.

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Unravelling the Surface Local Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Nanoparticles by Means of NMR Relaxometry

M. Basini, M. Mariani, Q. L. Vuong, Y. Gossuin, S. Slimani, G. Singh, D. Peddis, and A. Lascialfari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 216703 (2025) - Published 29 May, 2025

NMR relaxometry reveals the surface spin dynamics in a magnetic hollow nanosphere showing that the technique can single out different correlation times in a system composed of more than one electronic spin reservoir.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Experimental Realization of Genuine Three-Copy Collective Measurements for Optimal Information Extraction

Kai Zhou, Changhao Yi, Wen-Zhe Yan, Zhibo Hou, Huangjun Zhu, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210201 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Experimental Certification of High-Dimensional Entanglement with Randomized Measurements

Ohad Lib, Shuheng Liu, Ronen Shekel, Qiongyi He, Marcus Huber, Yaron Bromberg, and Giuseppe Vitagliano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210202 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Device-Independent Full Network Nonlocality for Arbitrary-Party and Unbounded-Input Scenario

Sneha Munshi and A. K. Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210203 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

Quantum Decoherence from Complex Saddle Points

Jun Nishimura and Hiromasa Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210401 (2025) - Published 27 May, 2025

Entanglement Oscillations from Many-Body Quantum Scars

Nicholas O’Dea and Adithya Sriram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210402 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Exact Volume-Law Entangled Zero-Energy Eigenstates in a Large Class of Spin Models

Sashikanta Mohapatra, Sanjay Moudgalya, and Ajit C. Balram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210403 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

Quantum Random Access Memory with Transmon-Controlled Phonon Routing

Zhaoyou Wang, Hong Qiao, Andrew N. Cleland, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210601 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

How Much Entanglement Is Needed for Quantum Error Correction?

Sergey Bravyi, Dongjin Lee, Zhi Li, and Beni Yoshida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210602 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

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Experimental Single-Photon Quantum Key Distribution Surpassing the Fundamental Weak Coherent-State Rate Limit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210801 (2025) - Published 29 May, 2025

Single-photon-source-based quantum key distribution surpasses the fundamental secret key rate limit imposed by weak coherent states.

Quantum Entanglement Enables Single-Shot Trajectory Sensing for Weakly Interacting Particles

Zachary E. Chin, David R. Leibrandt, and Isaac L. Chuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210802 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Spin Grouping in Ring Cavity and Its Protection on Entangled States Transfer

Chang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 210803 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Pole Inflation from Broken Noncompact Isometry in Weyl Gravity

Hyun Min Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211001 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Detectable and Defect-Free Dark Photon Dark Matter

David Cyncynates and Zachary J. Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211002 (2025) - Published 29 May, 2025

Collective Flavor Conversions Are Interactions of Neutrinos with Quantized Flavor Waves

Damiano F. G. Fiorillo and Georg G. Raffelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211003 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

Data Driven Approach for Extracting Tidal Information from Neutron Star Binary Mergers Observed with the Einstein Telescope

Adrian Abac, Anna Puecher, Jonathan Gair, and Tim Dietrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211401 (2025) - Published 27 May, 2025

Dynamical Lensing Tomography of Black Hole Ringdowns

Zhen Zhong, Vitor Cardoso, and Yifan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211402 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Environmental Effects in Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals: Perturbations to the Environment in Kerr Spacetimes

Conor Dyson, Thomas F. M. Spieksma, Richard Brito, Maarten van de Meent, and Sam Dolan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211403 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

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Quadratic Mode Couplings in Rotating Black Holes and Their Detectability

Neev Khera, Sizheng Ma, and Huan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211404 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

New second-order quasinormal mode interactions in Kerr black holes reveal potential detectable signals for next-generation gravitational wave detectors.

Charged Static AdS Black Hole Binaries

William D. Biggs and Jorge E. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211405 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

Thermal Origin of the Attractor-to-General-Relativity in Scalar-Tensor Gravity

Valerio Faraoni and Andrea Giusti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211406 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

Jet from Binary Neutron Star Merger with Prompt Black Hole Formation

Kota Hayashi, Kenta Kiuchi, Koutarou Kyutoku, Yuichiro Sekiguchi, and Masaru Shibata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211407 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

Particles and Fields

Inequivalence between the Euclidean and Lorentzian Versions of the Type IIB Matrix Model from Lefschetz Thimble Calculations

Chien-Yu Chou, Jun Nishimura, and Ashutosh Tripathi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211601 (2025) - Published 27 May, 2025

Batalin-Vilkovisky Formulation of $N = 1$ Supergravity in Ten Dimensions

Julian Kupka, Charles Strickland-Constable, and Fridrich Valach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211602 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Hydrodynamic and Rayleigh-Plateau Instabilities of $Q$ Strings

Qian Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211603 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

Thermal Bootstrap for the Critical $O (N)$ Model

Julien Barrat, Enrico Marchetto, Alessio Miscioscia, and Elli Pomoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211604 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

First Measurement of the Muon Neutrino Interaction Cross Section and Flux as a Function of Energy at the LHC with FASER

Roshan Mammen Abraham et al. (FASER Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211801 (2025) - Published 27 May, 2025

Resonant Forbidden $CP$ Asymmetry from Soft Leptons

Shinya Kanemura and Shao-Ping Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 211802 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Experimental Test of the Ratio Method for Nuclear-Reaction Analysis

S. Ota, P. Capel, G. Christian, V. Durant, K. Hagel, E. Harris, R. C. Johnson, Z. Luo, F. M. Nunes, M. Roosa, A. Saastamoinen, and D. P. Scriven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 212501 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Unveiling Under-the-Barrier Electron Dynamics in Strong Field Tunneling

Tsendsuren Khurelbaatar, Michael Klaiber, Suren Sukiasyan, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, Christoph H. Keitel, and Dong Eon Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 213201 (2025) - Published 27 May, 2025

Deterministic Quantum State Generators and Stabilizers from Nonlinear Photonic Filter Cavities

Sean Chen, Nicholas Rivera, Jamison Sloan, and Marin Soljačić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 213601 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Leveraging Collective Effects for Thermometry in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics

Aleksei Sharafiev, Mathieu Juan, Marco Cattaneo, and Gerhard Kirchmair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 213602 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Deterministic Generation of Photonic Entangled States Using Decoherence-Free Subspaces

Oriol Rubies-Bigorda, Stuart J. Masson, Susanne F. Yelin, and Ana Asenjo-Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 213603 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Local vs Nonlocal Dynamics in Cavity-Coupled Rydberg Atom Arrays

Zeno Bacciconi, Hernan B. Xavier, Matteo Marinelli, Devendra Singh Bhakuni, and Marcello Dalmonte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 213604 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

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Efficient Transverse Multiwave Interactions up to Six-Wave Mixing in a High-Q Lithium Niobate Microresonator

Chuntao Li, Ni Yao, Huakang Yu, Jintian Lin, Renhong Gao, Jiale Deng, Jianglin Guan, Lingling Qiao, and Ya Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 213801 (2025) - Published 27 May, 2025

Tunable Coherence Laser Interferometry: Demonstrating 40 dB of Stray Light Suppression and Compatibility with Resonant Optical Cavities

Daniel Voigt, Leonie Eggers, Katharina-Sophie Isleif, Sina M. Koehlenbeck, Melanie Ast, and Oliver Gerberding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 213802 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Polarization Symmetry Breaking of GHz Dissipative Solitons

Yang Yang, Xuewen Chen, Wei Lin, Xu Hu, Haijiao Xu, Yuncong Ma, Zhaoheng Liang, Lin Ling, Zhijin Xiong, Yuankai Guo, Tao Liu, Xiaoming Wei, and Zhongmin Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 213803 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Simple yet Accurate Stochastic Approach to the Quantum Phase Noise of Nanolasers

Matias Bundgaard-Nielsen, Marco Saldutti, Benjamin Falkenberg Gøtzsche, Emil Grovn, and Jesper Mørk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 213804 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Jet Size Prediction in Compound Multiphase Bubble Bursting

Zhengyu Yang, Yang Liu, and Jie Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 214001 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Precursors of Thin Film Rupture: Similarity Solution of Surfactant-Driven, Inertial Capillary Waves

Jun Eshima, Howard A. Stone, and Luc Deike

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 214002 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Electron Heating by Parallel Electric Fields in Magnetotail Reconnection

Louis Richard, Yuri V. Khotyaintsev, Cecilia Norgren, Konrad Steinvall, Daniel B. Graham, Jan Egedal, Andris Vaivads, and Rumi Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 215201 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

An analysis using unprecedented satellite observations reveals important information about how electrons get heated throughout the Universe.

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Large Tunable Kinetic Inductance in a Twisted Graphene Superconductor

Rounak Jha, Martin Endres, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mitali Banerjee, Christian Schönenberger, and Paritosh Karnatak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 216001 (2025) - Published 27 May, 2025

The graphene multilayer’s kinetic inductance is both high and tunable, making it a promising material for quantum technologies.

Universal Scaling Relations in Electron-Phonon Superconductors

Joshuah T. Heath and Rufus Boyack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 216002 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Discovering High-Entropy Oxides with a Machine-Learning Interatomic Potential

Jacob T. Sivak, Saeed S. I. Almishal, Mary Kathleen Caucci, Yueze Tan, Dhiya Srikanth, Joseph Petruska, Matthew Furst, Long-Qing Chen, Christina M. Rost, Jon-Paul Maria, and Susan B. Sinnott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 216101 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Machine Learning Small Polaron Dynamics

Viktor C. Birschitzky, Luca Leoni, Michele Reticcioli, and Cesare Franchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 216301 (2025) - Published 27 May, 2025

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Three-Dimensional Valley Hall Phases in Phononic Crystals

Riyi Zheng, Jialuo Liang, Junpeng Wu, Jiuyang Lu, Weiyin Deng, Xueqin Huang, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 216601 (2025) - Published 29 May, 2025

Three dimensional valley Hall phases form in phononic crystals, revealed as topological surface states protected by 3-tuple valley Chern numbers.

Atacamite ${Cu}_{2} Cl {(OH)}_{3}$ in High Magnetic Fields: Quantum Criticality and Dimensional Reduction of a Sawtooth-Chain Compound

L. Heinze, T. Kotte, R. Rausch, A. Demuer, S. Luther, R. Feyerherm, E. L. Q. N. Ammerlaan, U. Zeitler, D. I. Gorbunov, M. Uhlarz, K. C. Rule, A. U. B. Wolter, H. Kühne, J. Wosnitza, C. Karrasch, and S. Süllow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 216701 (2025) - Published 27 May, 2025

Magnetoelectric Decoupling in Bismuth Ferrite

Thien Thanh Dang, Juliana Heiniger-Schell, Astita Dubey, João Nuno Gonçalves, Marianela Escobar Castillo, Daniil Lewin, Ian Chang Jie Yap, Adeleh Mokhles Gerami, Sobhan Mohammadi Fathabad, Dmitry Zyabkin, and Doru Constantin Lupascu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 216702 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

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Unravelling the Surface Local Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Nanoparticles by Means of NMR Relaxometry

M. Basini, M. Mariani, Q. L. Vuong, Y. Gossuin, S. Slimani, G. Singh, D. Peddis, and A. Lascialfari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 216703 (2025) - Published 29 May, 2025

Landau Theory Description of Autferroicity

Jun-Jie Zhang, Boris I. Yakobson, and Shuai Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 216801 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Critical Demand in a Stochastic Model of Flows in Supply Networks

Yannick Feld and Marc Barthelemy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 217401 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025

When demand increases significantly, the better performing supply networks are those that allow for storage of excess materials and that contain multiple redundant pathways.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Two Distinct Oxidation Dispersion Mechanisms in ${Pd − CeO}_{2}$ Mediated by Thermodynamic and Kinetic Behaviors of Highly Dispersed Pd Species

Chen Zou, Wen Liu, Shiyuan Chen, Yuanjie Xu, Yu Tang, Songda Li, Fangwen Yang, Linjiang Yu, Chaobin Zeng, Yue-Yu Zhang, Xiaojuan Hu, Liang Wang, Zhong-Kang Han, Ying Jiang, Wentao Yuan, Hangsheng Yang, and Yong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 218001 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025

ERRATA

Erratum: Three-Dimensional Reconfigurable Optical Singularities in Bilayer Photonic Crystals [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073804 (2024)]

Xueqi Ni, Yuan Liu, Beicheng Lou, Mingjie Zhang, Evelyn L. Hu, Shanhui Fan, Eric Mazur, and Haoning Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 219901 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025