Volume 134, Issue 23

13 June 2025

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Schematics of a reconstruction process utilizing a phase retrieval algorithm in a 3D coherent x-ray diffraction imaging setup, where x-rays are scattered from a rotating sample to form patterns.

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Real-Time 3D Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Imaging
Fangzhou Ai, Oleg Shpyrko, and Vitaliy Lomakin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236202 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Physics of Edge-Core Coupling by Inward Turbulence Propagation

Mingyun Cao and P. H. Diamond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 235101 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

A model that includes propagating voids predicts the extent of plasma turbulence in a tokamak.

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Random Tree Model of Meaningful Memory

Weishun Zhong, Tankut Can, Antonis Georgiou, Ilya Shnayderman, Mikhail Katkov, and Misha Tsodyks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 237402 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

The memory of a story appears to have a tree-like structure, with abstract summaries branching out into more specific details.

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Nonlinear Calcium King Plot Constrains New Bosons and Nuclear Properties

Alexander Wilzewski et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 233002 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

A hypothetical fifth force could be detected by its effect on the optical transition frequencies of an element’s different isotopes.

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Entangling Two Rydberg Superatoms via Heralded Storage

Zi-Ye An, Bo-Wei Lu, Jun Li, Chao-Wei Yang, Li Li, Xiao-Hui Bao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 230803 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Using Rydberg superatoms, an experiment demonstrates the heralded photon storage and remote entanglement without the need for an intermediate node.

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Probing the Shell Effects on Fission: The New Superheavy Nucleus ${}^{257}{Sg}$

P. Mosat, J. Khuyagbaatar, J. Ballof, R. A. Cantemir, D. Dietzel, Ch. E. Düllmann, K. Hermainski, F. P. Heßberger, E. Jäger, B. Kindler, J. Krier, N. Kurz, B. Lommel, S. Löchner, M. Maiti, T. K. Sato, B. Schausten, J. Uusitalo, P. Wieczorek, and A. Yakushev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 232501 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

A new isotope $^{257}$ Sg, decaying by both spontaneous fission and α-particle emission, was discovered at GSI’s gas-filled recoil separator TASCA.

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Observation of Jones-Roberts Solitons in a Paraxial Quantum Fluid of Light

Myrann Baker-Rasooli, Tangui Aladjidi, Nils A. Krause, Ashton S. Bradley, and Quentin Glorieux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 233401 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

An experiment creating Jones-Roberts solitons in a smoothly inhomogeneous paraxial fluids of light verifies the prediction that bounded vortex-antivortex dipoles in superfluids transition to a rarefaction pulse.

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Nonreciprocal Transport in ${KTaO}_{3}$ -Based Interface Superconductors with Parity Mixing

Jinfeng Zhai, Taekoo Oh, Hao Liu, Chaoyu Pan, Naoto Nagaosa, Pan He, and Jian Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236303 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Vortex motion and parity mixing of spin-singlet and spin-triplet pairings dominate nonreciprocal transport in the superconducting fluctuation regime of KTaO $_{3}$ -based interface superconductors.

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Direct Evidence for Anisotropic Magnetic Interaction in $α − {RuCl}_{3}$ from Polarized Inelastic Neutron Scattering

Markus Braden, Xiao Wang, Alexandre Bertin, Paul Steffens, and Yixi Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236702 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Polarized inelastic neutron scattering reveals clear evidence for bond-directional anisotropy that fully modifies the anisotropic magnon dispersion in $α$ -RuCl $_{3}$ .

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Promoting Fluctuation Theorems into Covariant Forms

Ji-Hui Pei (裴继辉), Jin-Fu Chen (陈劲夫), and H. T. Quan (全海涛)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 237102 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

The principle of covariance and fluctuation theorems are combined into a coherent framework of relativistic thermodynamics, applicable to moving thermodynamic systems and moving heat baths.

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Double Splay Nematic Order in Confined Polar Fluids

Zhongjie Ma, Miao Jiang, Aile Sun, Shengzhu Yi, Jidan Yang, Mingjun Huang, Satoshi Aya, and Qi-Huo Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 238101 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

A double splay nematic phase is observed experimentally for the first time in the ferroelectric liquid crystal RM734 under cationic polymer coated planar confinement.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Emergence of Navier-Stokes Hydrodynamics in Chaotic Quantum Circuits

Hansveer Singh, Ewan McCulloch, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, and Romain Vasseur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 230401 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Entanglement Patterns of Quantum Chaotic Hamiltonians with a Scalar U(1) Charge

Christopher M. Langlett and Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 230402 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Space-Time Correlations in Monitored Kinetically Constrained Discrete-Time Quantum Dynamics

Marcel Cech, María Cea, Mari Carmen Bañuls, Igor Lesanovsky, and Federico Carollo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 230403 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Emergent Equilibrium in All-Optical Single Quantum-Trajectory Ising Machines

Jacopo Tosca, Marcello Calvanese Strinati, Claudio Conti, and Cristiano Ciuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 230404 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Single-Qubit Gates with Errors at the $10^{- 7}$ Level

M. C. Smith, A. D. Leu, K. Miyanishi, M. F. Gely, and D. M. Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 230601 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Ultrabright Entanglement Based Quantum Key Distribution over a 404 km Optical Fiber

Shi-Chang Zhuang, Bo Li, Ming-Yang Zheng, Yi-Xi Zeng, Hui-Nan Wu, Guang-Bing Li, Quan Yao, Xiu-Ping Xie, Yu-Huai Li, Hao Qin, Li-Xing You, Feihu Xu, Juan Yin, Yuan Cao, Qiang Zhang, Cheng-Zhi Peng, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 230801 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025

Enhancing Quantum Metrology by Quantum Resonance Dynamics

Zhixing Zou, Jiangbin Gong, and Weitao Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 230802 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

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Entangling Two Rydberg Superatoms via Heralded Storage

Zi-Ye An, Bo-Wei Lu, Jun Li, Chao-Wei Yang, Li Li, Xiao-Hui Bao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 230803 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Using Rydberg superatoms, an experiment demonstrates the heralded photon storage and remote entanglement without the need for an intermediate node.

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Magnets are Weber Bar Gravitational Wave Detectors

Valerie Domcke, Sebastian A. R. Ellis, and Nicholas L. Rodd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 231401 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Low Energy Limit of Banks-Fischler-Shenker-Susskind Quantum Mechanics

Óscar J. C. Dias and Jorge E. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 231402 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Impediment to Torsion from Spectral Geometry

Arkadiusz Bochniak, Ludwik Dąbrowski, Andrzej Sitarz, and Paweł Zalecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 231501 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Particles and Fields

Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with COHERENT’s Germanium Array

S. Adamski et al. (The COHERENT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 231801 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025

Observation of Collider Neutrinos without Final State Muons with the SND@LHC Experiment

D. Abbaneo et al. (SND@LHC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 231802 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Suppression of Spin Transfer to $Λ$ Hyperon in Deep-Inelastic Scattering

Xiaoyan Zhao, Zuo-tang Liang, Tianbo Liu, and Ya-jin Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 231901 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

New Angles on Energy Correlators

Samuel Alipour-fard, Ankita Budhraja, Jesse Thaler, and Wouter J. Waalewijn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 231902 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Using the $W$ Boson as a Standard Candle to Reach the Top: Calibrating Energy-Correlator-Based Top Mass Measurements

Jack Holguin, Ian Moult, Aditya Pathak, Massimiliano Procura, Robert Schöfbeck, and Dennis Schwarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 231903 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of In-Medium Jet Modification Using Direct $Photon + Jet$ and $π^{0} + Jet$ Correlations in $p + p$ and Central $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

B. E. Aboona et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 232301 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

Effective Action for Relativistic Hydrodynamics from the Crooks Fluctuation Theorem

Nicki Mullins, Mauricio Hippert, and Jorge Noronha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 232302 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

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Probing the Shell Effects on Fission: The New Superheavy Nucleus ${}^{257}{Sg}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 232501 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

A new isotope $^{257}$ Sg, decaying by both spontaneous fission and α-particle emission, was discovered at GSI’s gas-filled recoil separator TASCA.

Seniority Structure in Neutron-Rich Nucleus ${}^{128}{Ag}$ : Evidence for Robustness of $N = 82$ Shell Closure in Silver Isotopes

D. W. Luo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 232502 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Precision Mass Measurements Reveal Low Neutron Pairing in Tin beyond $N = 82$ and Its Impact on Stellar Nucleosynthesis

A. Mollaebrahimi et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 232701 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Nonlinear Calcium King Plot Constrains New Bosons and Nuclear Properties

Alexander Wilzewski et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 233002 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

A hypothetical fifth force could be detected by its effect on the optical transition frequencies of an element’s different isotopes.

Bose-Einstein Condensates of Microwave-Shielded Polar Molecules

Wei-Jian Jin, Fulin Deng, Su Yi, and Tao Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 233003 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

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Observation of Jones-Roberts Solitons in a Paraxial Quantum Fluid of Light

Myrann Baker-Rasooli, Tangui Aladjidi, Nils A. Krause, Ashton S. Bradley, and Quentin Glorieux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 233401 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Conditional Entanglement Amplification via Non-Hermitian Superradiant Dynamics

Christoph Hotter, Arkadiusz Kosior, Helmut Ritsch, and Karol Gietka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 233601 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

Chiral Dissociation of Bound Photon Pairs for a Non-Hermitian Skin Effect

Jiaming Shi and Alexander N. Poddubny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 233602 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

Narrow Optical Linewidths in Stoichiometric Layered Rare-Earth Crystals

Donny R. Pearson, Jr., Ashwith Prabhu, Selvin Tobar, Jack D’Amelio, Amy Tram, Zachary W. Riedel, Daniel P. Shoemaker, and Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 233603 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Hierarchical Verification of Non-Gaussian Coherence in Bosonic Quantum States

Beate E. Asenbeck, Lukáš Lachman, Ambroise Boyer, Priyanka Giri, Alban Urvoy, Radim Filip, and Julien Laurat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 233604 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

Causality and Instability in Wave Propagation in Random Time-Varying Media

R. Pierrat, J. Rocha, and R. Carminati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 233801 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Physics of Edge-Core Coupling by Inward Turbulence Propagation

Mingyun Cao and P. H. Diamond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 235101 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

A model that includes propagating voids predicts the extent of plasma turbulence in a tokamak.

Spatiotemporal Energy Cascade in Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Giuseppe Arrò, Hui Li, and William H. Matthaeus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 235201 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Dual View of the $Z_{2}$ -Gauged XY Model in 3D

Piers Coleman, Anatoly Kuklov, and Alexei Tsvelik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236001 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025

Structure and Strain Field of Surface Dislocations on Gold Determined by Surface X-Ray Diffraction

Vincent Repain, Julien Durinck, Yves Garreau, Alessandro Coati, Yann Girard, Sylvie Rousset, Christophe Coupeau, and Amandine Bellec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236201 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025

Real-Time 3D Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Imaging

Fangzhou Ai, Oleg Shpyrko, and Vitaliy Lomakin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236202 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Site-Resolved Near-Surface Cation Diffusion in Magnetite

Steffen Tober, Jan-Christian Schober, Marcus Creutzburg, Esko Erik Beck, Guilherme Dalla Lana Semione, Simon Chung, Leon Jacobse, Björn Arndt, Alina Vlad, René Steinbrügge, Hans-Christian Wille, Ilya Sergueev, Heshmat Noei, Kai Schlage, Olaf Leupold, Vedran Vonk, and Andreas Stierle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236203 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Warping Effect-Induced Spin Current Absorption at Various Timescales in $Fe / {Bi}_{2} {Te}_{3}$ Heterostructures

Jia-nan Liu, Hao-Pu Xue, Zhuo Deng, Qing-Lin Yang, Xiao-Min Li, Xue-Dong Bai, Xu Yang, Peng-Tao Yang, Yu-Han Gao, Wei He, Xiang-Qun Zhang, and Zhao-Hua Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236204 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Nanoscale Conducting and Insulating Domains on ${YbB}_{6}$

Aaron Coe, Zhi-Huai Zhu, Yang He, Dae-Jeong Kim, Zachary Fisk, Jason D. Hoffman, and Jennifer E. Hoffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236205 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Layer Hall Effect without External Electric Field

Yulei Han, Yunpeng Guo, Zeyu Li, and Zhenhua Qiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236206 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Quasi-1D Coulomb Drag in the Nonlinear Regime

Mingyang Zheng, Rebika Makaju, Rasul Gazizulin, Alex Levchenko, Sadhvikas J. Addamane, and Dominique Laroche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236301 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Macroscopic Quantum States and Universal Correlations in a Disorder-Order Interface Propagating over a 1D Ground State

Vanja Marić, Florent Ferro, and Maurizio Fagotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236302 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

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Nonreciprocal Transport in ${KTaO}_{3}$ -Based Interface Superconductors with Parity Mixing

Jinfeng Zhai, Taekoo Oh, Hao Liu, Chaoyu Pan, Naoto Nagaosa, Pan He, and Jian Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236303 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Vortex motion and parity mixing of spin-singlet and spin-triplet pairings dominate nonreciprocal transport in the superconducting fluctuation regime of KTaO $_{3}$ -based interface superconductors.

Magnetic Signatures of Pressure-Induced Multicomponent Superconductivity in ${UTe}_{2}$

Zheyu Wu, Jiasheng Chen, Theodore I. Weinberger, Andrej Cabala, Vladimír Sechovský, Michal Vališka, Patricia L. Alireza, Alexander G. Eaton, and F. Malte Grosche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236501 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Non-Fermi Liquids from Subsystem Symmetry Breaking in van der Waals Multilayers

Archisman Panigrahi and Ajesh Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236502 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

Tunable $t - t^{'} - U$ Hubbard Models in Twisted Square Homobilayers

P. Myles Eugenio, Zhu-Xi Luo, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Pavel A. Volkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236503 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Nature of Spinons in 1D Spin Chains

Teresa Kulka, Miłosz Panfil, Mona Berciu, and Krzysztof Wohlfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236504 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Bulk-Boundary Correspondence of Fractonic Field Theories

Bhandaru Phani Parasar, Yuval Gefen, and Vijay B. Shenoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236601 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Instanton-Induced Supersymmetry Breaking in Topological Semimetals

W. B. Rui, Y. X. Zhao, and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236602 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Magnetic Switching of Phonon Angular Momentum in a Ferrimagnetic Insulator

Fangliang Wu, Jing Zhou, Song Bao, Liangyue Li, Jinsheng Wen, Yuan Wan, and Qi Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236701 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

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Direct Evidence for Anisotropic Magnetic Interaction in $α − {RuCl}_{3}$ from Polarized Inelastic Neutron Scattering

Markus Braden, Xiao Wang, Alexandre Bertin, Paul Steffens, and Yixi Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236702 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Polarized inelastic neutron scattering reveals clear evidence for bond-directional anisotropy that fully modifies the anisotropic magnon dispersion in $α$ -RuCl $_{3}$ .

Field-Free Superconducting Diode Effect in Layered Superconductor FeSe

Utane Nagata, Motomi Aoki, Akito Daido, Shigeru Kasahara, Yuichi Kasahara, Ryo Ohshima, Yuichiro Ando, Youichi Yanase, Yuji Matsuda, and Masashi Shiraishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236703 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Coherent Interaction of $2 s$ and $1 s$ Exciton States in Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers

Max Wegerhoff, Moritz Scharfstädt, Stefan Linden, and Andrea Bergschneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236901 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Causal-Constraint Broadband Sound Absorption under Isothermal Process

Chuanhao Ge, Nengyin Wang, Xu Wang, and Yong Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 237001 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Ballast Charges for Semiconductor Spin Qubits

Yujun Choi, John M. Nichol, and Edwin Barnes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 237002 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Moments of Entropy Production in Dissipative Devices

Jean-Charles Delvenne and Léopold Van Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 237101 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025

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Promoting Fluctuation Theorems into Covariant Forms

Ji-Hui Pei (裴继辉), Jin-Fu Chen (陈劲夫), and H. T. Quan (全海涛)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 237102 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

The principle of covariance and fluctuation theorems are combined into a coherent framework of relativistic thermodynamics, applicable to moving thermodynamic systems and moving heat baths.

Matrix-Weighted Networks for Modeling Multidimensional Dynamics: Theoretical Foundations and Applications to Network Coherence

Yu Tian, Sadamori Kojaku, Hiroki Sayama, and Renaud Lambiotte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 237401 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

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Random Tree Model of Meaningful Memory

Weishun Zhong, Tankut Can, Antonis Georgiou, Ilya Shnayderman, Mikhail Katkov, and Misha Tsodyks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 237402 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

The memory of a story appears to have a tree-like structure, with abstract summaries branching out into more specific details.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Double Splay Nematic Order in Confined Polar Fluids

Zhongjie Ma, Miao Jiang, Aile Sun, Shengzhu Yi, Jidan Yang, Mingjun Huang, Satoshi Aya, and Qi-Huo Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 238101 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

A double splay nematic phase is observed experimentally for the first time in the ferroelectric liquid crystal RM734 under cationic polymer coated planar confinement.

Fully Independent Response in Disordered Solids

Mengjie Zu, Aayush Desai, and Carl P. Goodrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 238201 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025

Nonlinear Spontaneous Flow Instability in Active Nematics

Ido Lavi, Ricard Alert, Jean-François Joanny, and Jaume Casademunt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 238301 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025