Volume 134, Issue 24

20 June 2025

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Experimental setup for muon acceleration showing accelerating cavity (left) and cooling chamber (right). Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Acceleration of Positive Muons by a Radio-Frequency Cavity
S. Aritome et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 245001 (2025)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: Emergent Holographic Spacetime from Quantum Information

Tadashi Takayanagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240001 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

In a new forward-looking PRL Essay, Tadashi Takayanagi explores the intersection of quantum information theory with quantum gravity within the framework of holographic duality, and its potential to help us understand how time emerged during the Universe’s creation.

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultrafast High-Fidelity State Readout of Single Neutral Atom

Jian Wang, Dong-Yu Huang, Xiao-Long Zhou, Ze-Min Shen, Si-Jian He, Qi-Yang Huang, Yi-Jia Liu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240802 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

An atom’s quantum state can be determined quickly and accurately thanks to a strategy for making the atom brighter.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlinear Non-Hermitian Skin Effect and Skin Solitons in Temporal Photonic Feedforward Lattices

Shulin Wang, Bing Wang, Chenyu Liu, Chengzhi Qin, Lange Zhao, Weiwei Liu, Stefano Longhi, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243805 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

A concept based on an exotic effect in periodic structures may be useful for developing future photonic devices.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Acceleration of Positive Muons by a Radio-Frequency Cavity

S. Aritome et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 245001 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Researchers have demonstrated the slowing and subsequent reacceleration of a muon beam, increasing the potential of muon beams as a research tool.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Entangled States from Sparsely Coupled Spins for Metrology with Neutral Atoms

Sridevi Kuriyattil, Pablo M. Poggi, Jonathan D. Pritchard, Johannes Kombe, and Andrew J. Daley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240801 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

The generation of resource states for quantum-enhanced metrology from sparse coupling graphs is accomplished using fewer resources than known before.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Constraints on Cosmic Ray-Boosted Dark Matter from the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment

J. Aalbers et al. (LZ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 241801 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

World-leading constraints are placed on dark-matter particles with mass between 100 keV and 1 GeV which have been boosted to relativistic energies via collisions with cosmic rays.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Few-Electron Highly Charged Muonic Ar Atoms Verified by Electronic $K$ X Rays

T. Okumura et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243001 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Precision x-ray spectroscopy reveals the formation of highly charged muonic argon ions, which are exotic few-body systems composed of a muon, a few electrons, and a nucleus.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Robust Purcell Effect of ${CsPbI}_{3}$ Quantum Dots Using Nonlocal Plasmonic Metasurfaces

Yu Yuan, Chenjiang Qian, Longlong Yang, Xue-Chen Ru, Yaolong Li, Jingnan Yang, Bowen Fu, Sai Yan, Hancong Li, Zhanchun Zuo, Can Wang, Xiaoyong Hu, Hong-Bin Yao, Kuijuan Jin, Qihuang Gong, and Xiulai Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243804 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

A hybrid plasmonic–photonic metasurface supports nonlocal topological modes, offering stable light–matter interaction for quantum photonics.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Full-Gap Superconductivity in BaAs/Ferropnictide Heterostructures

Ming-Qiang Ren, Qiang-Jun Cheng, Hui-Hui He, Ze-Xian Deng, Fang-Jun Cheng, Yong-Wei Wang, Cong-Cong Lou, Qinghua Zhang, Lin Gu, Kai Liu, Xu-Cun Ma, Qi-Kun Xue, and Can-Li Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246203 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Robust full-gap superconductivity with the transition temperature reaching 26 K, exhibiting mean-field behavior and Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon bound states within magnetic vortices, has been observed in high-crystalline ferropnictide heterostructures.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electrically Controlled Nonlinear Magnon-Magnon Coupling in a Synthetic Antiferromagnet

A. Sud, K. Yamamoto, S. Iihama, K. Ishibashi, S. Fukami, H. Kurebayashi, and S. Mizukami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246704 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Applying a strong enough radio frequency current to a synthetic antiferromagnet leads to nonlinear magnon-magnon coupling and Rabi-like splitting of the signal while preserving the symmetries of the system.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Kinetic Theory of Decentralized Learning for Smart Active Matter

Gerhard Jung, Misaki Ozawa, and Eric Bertin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 248302 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

A kinetic theory framework identifies key interaction parameters to study decentralized learning processes in smart active matter.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Quantum-Classical Correspondence of Non-Hermitian Symmetry Breaking

Zhuo-Ting Cai, Hai-Dong Li, and Wei Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240201 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Zero Curvature Condition for Quantum Criticality

Chaoming Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240202 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Topology and Spectrum in Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions

Hisanori Oshima, Ken Mochizuki, Ryusuke Hamazaki, and Yohei Fuji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240401 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Roughening Dynamics of Interfaces in the Two-Dimensional Quantum Ising Model

Wladislaw Krinitsin, Niklas Tausendpfund, Matteo Rizzi, Markus Heyl, and Markus Schmitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240402 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Genuine Quantum Advantage in Anharmonic Bosonic Quantum Batteries

Gian Marcello Andolina, Vittoria Stanzione, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Marco Polini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240403 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Self-Similar Phase Diagram of the Fibonacci-Driven Quantum Ising Model

Harald Schmid, Yang Peng, Gil Refael, and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240404 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Classification of Qubit Cellular Automata on Hypercubic Lattices

Andrea Pizzamiglio, Alessandro Bisio, and Paolo Perinotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240601 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Entangled States from Sparsely Coupled Spins for Metrology with Neutral Atoms

Sridevi Kuriyattil, Pablo M. Poggi, Jonathan D. Pritchard, Johannes Kombe, and Andrew J. Daley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240801 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

The generation of resource states for quantum-enhanced metrology from sparse coupling graphs is accomplished using fewer resources than known before.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultrafast High-Fidelity State Readout of Single Neutral Atom

Jian Wang, Dong-Yu Huang, Xiao-Long Zhou, Ze-Min Shen, Si-Jian He, Qi-Yang Huang, Yi-Jia Liu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240802 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

An atom’s quantum state can be determined quickly and accurately thanks to a strategy for making the atom brighter.

Deterministic Generation of Frequency-Bin-Encoded Microwave Photons

Jiaying Yang, Maryam Khanahmadi, Ingrid Strandberg, Akshay Gaikwad, Claudia Castillo-Moreno, Anton Frisk Kockum, Muhammad Asad Ullah, Göran Johansson, Axel Martin Eriksson, and Simone Gasparinetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240803 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Searching for Axionlike Particles with X-Ray Observations of Alpha Centauri

Yu-Xuan Chen, Lei Lei, Zi-Qing Xia, Ziwei Wang, Yue-Lin Sming Tsai, and Yi-Zhong Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 241001 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Nonconservation of Lepton Numbers in the Neutrino Sector Could Change the Prospects for Core Collapse Supernova Explosions

Anna M. Suliga, Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong (張志杰), Julien Froustey, George M. Fuller, Lukáš Gráf, Kyle Kehrer, Oliver Scholer, and Shashank Shalgar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 241002 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Axion Mass Prediction from Adaptive Mesh Refinement Cosmological Lattice Simulations

Joshua N. Benabou, Malte Buschmann, Joshua W. Foster, and Benjamin R. Safdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 241003 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Bound States of the Schwarzschild Black Hole

Sebastian H. Völkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 241401 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Constraints on Cosmic Ray-Boosted Dark Matter from the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment

J. Aalbers et al. (LZ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 241801 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

World-leading constraints are placed on dark-matter particles with mass between 100 keV and 1 GeV which have been boosted to relativistic energies via collisions with cosmic rays.

First Constraint on Atmospheric Millicharged Particles with the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment

J. Aalbers et al. (The LZ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 241802 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Cosmological Selection of a Small Weak Scale from Large Vacuum Energy: A Minimal Approach

Susobhan Chattopadhyay, Dibya S. Chattopadhyay, and Rick S. Gupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 241803 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Lanczos Algorithm, the Transfer Matrix, and the Signal-to-Noise Problem

Michael L. Wagman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 241901 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Observation of Charmonium $h_{c}$ Radiative Decays to Multiple Light Hadrons and the Tensor State $f_{2} (1270)$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 241902 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Thermal Dilepton Polarization and Dynamics of the QCD Plasma in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Xiang-Yu Wu, Han Gao, Bailey Forster, Charles Gale, Greg Jackson, and Sangyong Jeon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 242301 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Final Results of the Majorana Demonstrator’s Search for Double-Beta Decay of ${}^{76}{Ge}$ to Excited States of ${}^{76}{Se}$

I. J. Arnquist et al. (Majorana Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 242501 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Next-to-Leading-Order Prediction for the Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay

Y. L. Yang and P. W. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 242502 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Few-Electron Highly Charged Muonic Ar Atoms Verified by Electronic $K$ X Rays

T. Okumura et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243001 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Precision x-ray spectroscopy reveals the formation of highly charged muonic argon ions, which are exotic few-body systems composed of a muon, a few electrons, and a nucleus.

Confinement-Induced Resonances in Spherical Shell Traps

C. Moritz Carmesin and Maxim A. Efremov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243401 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Measurement Uncertainty in Infrared Spectroscopy with Entangled Photon Pairs

Xue Zhang, Zhucheng Zhang, and Hui Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243601 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Hybrid Sub- and Superradiant States in Emitter Arrays with Quantized Motion

Beatriz Olmos and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243602 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Squeezing at the Normal-Mode Splitting Frequency of a Nonlinear Coupled Cavity

Jonas Junker, Jiayi Qin, Vaishali B. Adya, Nutsinee Kijbunchoo, Sheon S. Y. Chua, Terry G. McRae, Bram J. J. Slagmolen, and David E. McClelland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243603 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Time-Resolved Spectral Diffusion of a Multimode Mechanical Memory

Niccolò Fiaschi, Lorenzo Scarpelli, Alexander Rolf Korsch, Amirparsa Zivari, and Simon Gröblacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243604 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Nearfield Vortex Dynamics of Supercell Bloch Modes

Xiaona Ye, Guangfeng Wang, Xiaoyang Duan, Ziwei Wang, Zengya Li, Tongtong Jia, Tingxin Li, Luqi Yuan, Bo Wang, and Xianfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243801 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Ultrasensitive Higher-Order Exceptional Points via Non-Hermitian Zero-Index Materials

Dongyang Yan, Alexander S. Shalin, Yongxing Wang, Yun Lai, Yadong Xu, Zhi Hong Hang, Fang Cao, Lei Gao, and Jie Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243802 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Reservoir-Engineered Squeezed Lasing through the Parametric Coupling

Yuhang Tian, Yajun Wang, Weijie Wang, Xiaocong Sun, Yuhang Li, Shaoping Shi, Long Tian, and Yaohui Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243803 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Robust Purcell Effect of ${CsPbI}_{3}$ Quantum Dots Using Nonlocal Plasmonic Metasurfaces

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243804 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

A hybrid plasmonic–photonic metasurface supports nonlocal topological modes, offering stable light–matter interaction for quantum photonics.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlinear Non-Hermitian Skin Effect and Skin Solitons in Temporal Photonic Feedforward Lattices

Shulin Wang, Bing Wang, Chenyu Liu, Chengzhi Qin, Lange Zhao, Weiwei Liu, Stefano Longhi, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 243805 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

A concept based on an exotic effect in periodic structures may be useful for developing future photonic devices.

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Kolmogorov Scaling in Bubble-Induced Turbulence

Tian Ma, Shiyong Tan, Rui Ni, Hendrik Hessenkemper, and Andrew D. Bragg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 244001 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Acceleration of Positive Muons by a Radio-Frequency Cavity

S. Aritome et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 245001 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Researchers have demonstrated the slowing and subsequent reacceleration of a muon beam, increasing the potential of muon beams as a research tool.

Image Rotation in Plasmas

Renaud Gueroult, Shreekrishna Tripathi, Jia Han, Patrick Pribyl, Jean-Marcel Rax, and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 245101 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Phase Diagram and Crystal Melting of Helium-4 in Two Dimensions

David Linteau, Gabriel Pescia, Jannes Nys, Giuseppe Carleo, and Markus Holzmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246001 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Neural Canonical Transformations for Quantum Anharmonic Solids of Lithium

Qi Zhang, Xiaoyang Wang, Rong Shi, Xinguo Ren, Han Wang, and Lei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246101 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Contribution of Water Molecules to the Electronic Dipole Moment across the Gold-Water Interface

Soumya Ghosh, Chanbum Park, Harald Forbert, and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246201 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Kibble-Zurek Dynamics in the Anisotropic Ising Model of the Si(001) Surface

G. Schaller, F. Queisser, S. P. Katoorani, C. Brand, C. Kohlfürst, M. R. Freeman, A. Hucht, P. Kratzer, B. Sothmann, M. Horn-von Hoegen, and R. Schützhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246202 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Full-Gap Superconductivity in BaAs/Ferropnictide Heterostructures

Ming-Qiang Ren, Qiang-Jun Cheng, Hui-Hui He, Ze-Xian Deng, Fang-Jun Cheng, Yong-Wei Wang, Cong-Cong Lou, Qinghua Zhang, Lin Gu, Kai Liu, Xu-Cun Ma, Qi-Kun Xue, and Can-Li Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246203 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Hidden Self Duality and Exact Mobility Edges in Quasiperiodic Network Models

Hai-Tao Hu, Xiaoshui Lin, Ai-Min Guo, Guangcan Guo, Zijing Lin, and Ming Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246301 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Quantum Disorder Induced by Nuclear Tunneling in Lattice

Yu-Cheng Zhu, Jia-Xi Zeng, Qi-Jun Ye, and Xin-Zheng Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246401 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Fractality-Induced Topology

L. Eek, Z. F. Osseweijer, and C. Morais Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246601 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Movable Dirac Points with Ferroelectrics: Kink States and Berry Curvature Dipoles

Konstantin S. Denisov, Yuntian Liu, and Igor Žutić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246602 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Phonon-Driven Multipolar Dynamics in a Spin-Orbit Coupled Mott Insulator

Kathleen Hart, Ruairidh Sutcliffe, Gil Refael, and Arun Paramekanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246701 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Probing Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics via Synthetic Axion Fields

Leon Shaposhnikov, Eduardo Barredo-Alamilla, Frank Wilczek, and Maxim A. Gorlach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246702 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Altermagnetic ${RuO}_{2}$ -Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

Seunghyeon Noh, Gye-Hyeon Kim, Jiyeon Lee, Hyeonjung Jung, Uihyeon Seo, Gimok So, Jaebyeong Lee, Seunghyun Lee, Miju Park, Seungmin Yang, Yoon Seok Oh, Hosub Jin, Changhee Sohn, and Jung-Woo Yoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246703 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electrically Controlled Nonlinear Magnon-Magnon Coupling in a Synthetic Antiferromagnet

A. Sud, K. Yamamoto, S. Iihama, K. Ishibashi, S. Fukami, H. Kurebayashi, and S. Mizukami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246704 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Cavity Spectroscopy for Strongly Correlated Polaritonic Systems

Lukas Grunwald, Emil Viñas Boström, Mark Kamper Svendsen, Dante M. Kennes, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246901 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Excited-State Trions in a Quantum Well

Sourabh Jain, Mikhail Glazov, and Ashish Arora

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246902 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Self-Powered Pure Spin Photocurrent in Bent CrSBr Monolayer

Hongli Chen (陈红丽), Li Chen (陈立), Liyuan Chen (陈丽媛), Liyan Shang (商丽燕), Yawei Li (李亚巍), Liangqing Zhu (朱亮清), Junhao Chu (褚君浩), Shijing Gong (龚士静), and Zhigao Hu (胡志高)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 247001 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025