Volume 134, Issue 25

27 June 2025

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Interference pattern in the transmitted current across a monolayer graphene Fabry-Pérot interferometer as a function of plunger gate voltage and magnetic field. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Hard and Soft Phase Slips in a Fabry-Pérot Quantum Hall Interferometer
N. L. Samuelson, L. A. Cohen, W. Wang, S. Blanch, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, M. P. Zaletel, and A. F. Young
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256301 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Landau Theory

Canon Sun and Joseph Maciejko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256001 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

Contrary to conventional wisdom, so-called order parameters that distinguish symmetry-governed phases of matter can have topological structure.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Constraints on General Neutrino Interactions Based on KATRIN Data

M. Aker et al. (KATRIN Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 251801 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

The KATRIN experiment places competitive constraints on the general neutrino interaction couplings using a fraction of the dataset from their second measurement campaign.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Saturation of Thermal and Spin Conductances in a Dissipative Superfluid Junction

Meng-Zi Huang, Philipp Fabritius, Jeffrey Mohan, Mohsen Talebi, Simon Wili, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 253403 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

Particle dissipation in a one-dimensional fermionic superfluid junction increases diffusive thermal and spin transport.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theory of Internal Conversion of the ${}^{229}{Th}$ Nuclear Isomer in Solid-State Hosts

H. W. T. Morgan, H. B. Tran Tan, R. Elwell, A. N. Alexandrova, Eric R. Hudson, and Andrei Derevianko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 253801 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Ab initio relativistic treatment of electron-nuclear interaction provides crucial physical understanding for the development of solid-state nuclear clocks.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hard and Soft Phase Slips in a Fabry-Pérot Quantum Hall Interferometer

N. L. Samuelson, L. A. Cohen, W. Wang, S. Blanch, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, M. P. Zaletel, and A. F. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256301 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

A new nonequilibrium picture for the behavior of quasiparticles in quantum Hall interferometers suggests that the dynamics of individual quasiparticles can be characterized by tracking the timescale over which they enter or exit the interferometer bulk.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electrothermal Manipulation of Current-Induced Phase Transitions in Ferrimagnetic ${Mn}_{3} {Si}_{2} {Te}_{6}$

Jiaqi Fang, Jiawei Hu, Xintian Chen, Yaotian Liu, Zheng Yin, Zhe Ying, Yunhao Wang, Ziqiang Wang, Zhilin Li, Shiyu Zhu, Yang Xu, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Hong-Jun Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256302 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Magnetic force microscopy is utilized to investigate current-induced phase transitions in ferrimagnetic materials and distinguish between current-induced quantum states and thermal contributions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Accurate Simulation of the Hubbard Model with Finite Fermionic Projected Entangled Pair States

Wen-Yuan Liu, Huanchen Zhai, Ruojing Peng, Zheng-Cheng Gu, and Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256502 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Simulations of the 2D Hubbard model by tensor networks surpass the accuracy and simulation sizes accessible to Density Matrix Renormalization Group.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetoelastic Dynamics of the Spin Jahn-Teller Transition in ${CoTi}_{2} O_{5}$

K. Guratinder, R. D. Johnson, D. Prabhakaran, R. A. Taylor, F. Lang, S. J. Blundell, L. S. Taran, S. V. Streltsov, T. J. Williams, S. R. Giblin, T. Fennell, K. Schmalzl, and C. Stock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256702 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Even though there are no observable structural signatures in the spin-Jahn Teller transition in CoTi $_{2}$ O $_{5}$ , a dynamical signature in the acoustics could indicate that cooperative magnetoelastic fluctuations drive the transition.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spring-Block Theory of Feature Learning in Deep Neural Networks

Cheng Shi, Liming Pan, and Ivan Dokmanić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 257301 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

A spring–block phenomenological model with asymmetric friction elucidates the role of nonlinearity and randomness in the theory of feature learning for deep neural networks.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Surveying the Space of Descriptions of a Composite System with Machine Learning

Kieran A. Murphy, Yujing Zhang, and Dani S. Bassett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 257401 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

A machine learning algorithm offers a versatile and scalable framework to apply multivariate information theory to complex systems.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Global Becomes Local: Efficient Many-Body Dynamics for Global Master Equations

Alexander Schnell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 250401 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

1D Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Thermal Equilibrium via Non-Hermitian Construction

Jia-Bao Wang, Zi-Hao Dong, and Yi Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 250402 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Stability and Loop Models from Decohering Non-Abelian Topological Order

Pablo Sala and Ruben Verresen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 250403 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025

Exact Calculations of Coherent Information for Toric Codes under Decoherence: Identifying the Fundamental Error Threshold

Jong Yeon Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 250601 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Efficient Simulation of Parametrized Quantum Circuits under Nonunital Noise through Pauli Backpropagation

Victor Martinez, Armando Angrisani, Ekaterina Pankovets, Omar Fawzi, and Daniel Stilck França

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 250602 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

First Search for Ultralight Dark Matter Using a Magnetically Levitated Particle

Dorian W. P. Amaral, Dennis G. Uitenbroek, Tjerk H. Oosterkamp, and Christopher D. Tunnell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 251001 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

One-Loop Corrections to Near-Extremal Kerr Thermodynamics from Semiclassical Virasoro Blocks

Paolo Arnaudo, Giulio Bonelli, and Alessandro Tanzini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 251401 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

Relieving Scale Disparity in Binary Black Hole Simulations

Nikolas A. Wittek, Leor Barack, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Adam Pound, Nils Deppe, Lawrence E. Kidder, Alexandra Macedo, Kyle C. Nelli, William Throwe, and Nils L. Vu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 251402 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

Particles and Fields

Improved Limits on the Spin- and Velocity-Dependent Exotic Interaction in the Micrometer Range

Sumin Li, Wenbo Zhang, Rui Luo, Jinquan Liu, and Pengshun Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 251601 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Complex Liouville String

Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt, Beatrix Mühlmann, and Victor A. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 251602 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Gluing via Intersection Theory

Giulio Crisanti, Burkhard Eden, Maximilian Gottwald, Pierpaolo Mastrolia, and Tobias Scherdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 251603 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Constraints on General Neutrino Interactions Based on KATRIN Data

M. Aker et al. (KATRIN Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 251801 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

The KATRIN experiment places competitive constraints on the general neutrino interaction couplings using a fraction of the dataset from their second measurement campaign.

Sullivan Process near Threshold and the Pion Gravitational Form Factors

Yoshitaka Hatta and Jakob Schoenleber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 251901 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Lattice-QCD Computable Quark Correlation Functions at Three-Loop Order and Extraction of Splitting Functions

Chen Cheng, Li-Hong Huang, Xiang Li, Zheng-Yang Li, and Yan-Qing Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 251902 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Energy-Energy Correlator for Jet Production in $p p$ and $p A$ Collisions

João Barata, Zhong-Bo Kang, Xoán Mayo López, and Jani Penttala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 251903 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Thrust Distribution in Electron-Positron Annihilation at Full Next-to-Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Logarithmic Accuracy Including Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order Terms in QCD

Ugo Giuseppe Aglietti, Giancarlo Ferrera, Wan-Li Ju, and Jiahao Miao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 251904 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Jet Rates in Higgs Boson Decay at Third Order in QCD

Elliot Fox, Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder, Thomas Gehrmann, Nigel Glover, Matteo Marcoli, and Christian T. Preuss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 251905 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Explaining Snowball-in-Hell Phenomena in Heavy-Ion Collisions Using a Novel Thermodynamic Variable

Eric Braaten, Kevin Ingles, and Justin Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 252301 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025

Reduction in Nuclear Size and Quadrupole Deformation of High-Spin Isomers of ${}^{127, 129}{In}$

A. R. Vernon et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 252501 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Photoelectron Circular Dichroism of a Chiral Molecule Induced by Resonant Interatomic Coulombic Decay from an Antenna Atom

Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, Andreas Hans, Janine C. Franz, and Philipp V. Demekhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 253001 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Collisional Energy Transfer in the Highly Reactive ${OH}^{+}$ – $H_{2}$ System

Paul Pirlot Jankowiak and François Lique

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 253002 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Vortex to Rotons Transition in Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates

Alberto Villois, Miguel Onorato, and Davide Proment

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 253401 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Stabilizing an Ultracold Fermi Gas against Fermi Acceleration to Superdiffusion through Localization

S. Barbosa, M. Kiefer-Emmanouilidis, F. Lang, J. Koch, and A. Widera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 253402 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Saturation of Thermal and Spin Conductances in a Dissipative Superfluid Junction

Meng-Zi Huang, Philipp Fabritius, Jeffrey Mohan, Mohsen Talebi, Simon Wili, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 253403 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

Particle dissipation in a one-dimensional fermionic superfluid junction increases diffusive thermal and spin transport.

Gaussian-to-Non-Gaussian Transition of a Quantum Spin Bath Revealed by Fourth-Order Correlation

Fan Xia, Shuowei Li, Xin-Yu Pan, Ping Wang, and Gang-Qin Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 253601 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

Ultralow Loss Torsion Micropendula for Chipscale Gravimetry

C. A. Condos, J. R. Pratt, J. Manley, A. R. Agrawal, S. Schlamminger, C. M. Pluchar, and D. J. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 253602 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theory of Internal Conversion of the ${}^{229}{Th}$ Nuclear Isomer in Solid-State Hosts

H. W. T. Morgan, H. B. Tran Tan, R. Elwell, A. N. Alexandrova, Eric R. Hudson, and Andrei Derevianko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 253801 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Ab initio relativistic treatment of electron-nuclear interaction provides crucial physical understanding for the development of solid-state nuclear clocks.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Towards the Generation of Petawatt Near-Infrared Few-Cycle Light Pulses via Forward Raman Amplification in Plasma

Zhi-Yu Lei, Zheng-Ming Sheng, Su-Ming Weng, Min Chen, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 255001 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Landau Theory

Canon Sun and Joseph Maciejko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256001 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

Contrary to conventional wisdom, so-called order parameters that distinguish symmetry-governed phases of matter can have topological structure.

Distinct Electronic Origins of Superconductivity and Nematicity in FeSe

Xueying Ma, Keyi Li, Shaoshuai Hou, Helin Mei, Yiwen Dong, Mingshu Tan, Mingtai Xie, Wei Ren, Xingdong Jiang, Zhiwei Li, Anmin Zhang, and Qingming Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256002 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Medium-Range Order, Density Fluctuations, and Activated Relaxation in the Equilibrated Deep Glass Regime

Baicheng Mei and Kenneth S. Schweizer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256101 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hard and Soft Phase Slips in a Fabry-Pérot Quantum Hall Interferometer

N. L. Samuelson, L. A. Cohen, W. Wang, S. Blanch, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, M. P. Zaletel, and A. F. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256301 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electrothermal Manipulation of Current-Induced Phase Transitions in Ferrimagnetic ${Mn}_{3} {Si}_{2} {Te}_{6}$

Jiaqi Fang, Jiawei Hu, Xintian Chen, Yaotian Liu, Zheng Yin, Zhe Ying, Yunhao Wang, Ziqiang Wang, Zhilin Li, Shiyu Zhu, Yang Xu, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Hong-Jun Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256302 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Magnetic force microscopy is utilized to investigate current-induced phase transitions in ferrimagnetic materials and distinguish between current-induced quantum states and thermal contributions.

Relativistic Spin-Lattice Interaction Compatible with Discrete Translation Symmetry in Solids

Bumseop Kim, Noejung Park, and Kyoung-Whan Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256303 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

Universal Exchange-Correlation Surface Asymptotics: Metal Slabs Versus Semi-infinite Metal Surfaces

C. M. Horowitz, C. R. Proetto, and J. M. Pitarke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256401 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Highly Tunable Valley Polarization of Potential-Trapped Moiré Excitons in ${WSe}_{2} / {WS}_{2}$ Heterojunctions

Yueh-Chun Wu, Matthew DeCapua, ZhongChen Xu, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, YouGuo Shi, and Jun Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256402 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025

Intrinsic Thermal Hall Effect in Mott Insulators

Jixun K. Ding, Emily Z. Zhang, Wen O. Wang, Tessa Cookmeyer, Brian Moritz, Yong Baek Kim, and Thomas P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256501 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Accurate Simulation of the Hubbard Model with Finite Fermionic Projected Entangled Pair States

Wen-Yuan Liu, Huanchen Zhai, Ruojing Peng, Zheng-Cheng Gu, and Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256502 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Simulations of the 2D Hubbard model by tensor networks surpass the accuracy and simulation sizes accessible to Density Matrix Renormalization Group.

Multiple Mechanisms for Emerging Conductance Plateaus in Fractional Quantum Hall States

Sourav Manna, Ankur Das, Yuval Gefen, and Moshe Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256503 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Topological Solitons in Square-Root Graphene Nanoribbons Controlled by Electric Fields

Haiyue Huang, Mamun Sarker, Percy Zahl, C. Stephen Hellberg, Jeremy Levy, Ioannis Petrides, Alexander Sinitskii, and Prineha Narang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256601 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Sliding Ferroelectrics Induced Hybrid-Order Topological Phase Transitions

Ning-Jing Yang, Jian-Min Zhang, Xiao-Ping Li, Zeying Zhang, Zhi-Ming Yu, Zhigao Huang, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256602 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Observation of Extrinsic Topological Phases in Floquet Photonic Lattices

Rajesh Asapanna, Rabih El Sokhen, Albert F. Adiyatullin, Clément Hainaut, Pierre Delplace, Álvaro Gómez-León, and Alberto Amo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256603 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Chiral Gapless Spin Liquid in Hyperbolic Space

Felix Dusel, Tobias Hofmann, Atanu Maity, Rémy Mosseri, Julien Vidal, Yasir Iqbal, Martin Greiter, and Ronny Thomale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256604 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025

Dynamic Scaling Theory for a Field Quench near the Kasteleyn Transition in Spin Ice

Stephen Powell and Sukla Pal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256701 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetoelastic Dynamics of the Spin Jahn-Teller Transition in ${CoTi}_{2} O_{5}$

K. Guratinder, R. D. Johnson, D. Prabhakaran, R. A. Taylor, F. Lang, S. J. Blundell, L. S. Taran, S. V. Streltsov, T. J. Williams, S. R. Giblin, T. Fennell, K. Schmalzl, and C. Stock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256702 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Inverse Melting of Polar Order in Chemically Substituted ${BaTiO}_{3}$

Yang Zhang, Suk Hyun Sung, Colin B. Clement, Sang-Wook Cheong, and Ismail El Baggari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256801 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Deterministic Generation of a Single-Byte Electric Skyrmion Bubble

Peng Chen, Yousra Nahas, Sergei Prokhorenko, and Laurent Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256802 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025

Spin Noise of a Halide Perovskite

V. O. Kozlov, N. I. Selivanov, C. C. Stoumpos, G. G. Kozlov, V. S. Zapasskii, Yu. V. Kapitonov, D. S. Smirnov, and I. I. Ryzhov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256901 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Atomiclike Selection Rules in Free Electron Scattering

Simon Garrigou and Hugo Lourenço-Martins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256902 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Broadband Ptychotomography with a Hyperspectral Detector

Wiebe Stolp, Frederic van Assche, Ruizhi Tang, Karel Desplenter, Caori Organista Castelblanco, Ralf Ziesche, Silvia Cipiccia, Darren Batey, and Matthieu N. Boone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 257001 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Master Stability for Traveling Waves on Networks

Stefan Ruschel and Andrus Giraldo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 257201 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spring-Block Theory of Feature Learning in Deep Neural Networks

Cheng Shi, Liming Pan, and Ivan Dokmanić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 257301 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

A spring–block phenomenological model with asymmetric friction elucidates the role of nonlinearity and randomness in the theory of feature learning for deep neural networks.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Surveying the Space of Descriptions of a Composite System with Machine Learning

Kieran A. Murphy, Yujing Zhang, and Dani S. Bassett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 257401 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

A machine learning algorithm offers a versatile and scalable framework to apply multivariate information theory to complex systems.