Volume 134, Issue 3

24 January 2025

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Three-fold minivalley induced by trigonal warping under an electric field, which can be used to control spin filling. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Switching Spin Filling Sequence in a Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dot through Trigonal Warping
Guo-Quan Qin, Fang-Ming Jing, Tian-Yue Hao, Shun-Li Jiang, Zhuo-Zhi Zhang, Gang Cao, Xiang-Xiang Song, and Guo-Ping Guo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036301 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Fast Radio Bursts as Precursor Radio Emission from Monster Shocks

A. Vanthieghem and A. Levinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 035201 (2025) - Published 21 January, 2025

Powerful shock waves around magnetized neutron stars may be the source of mysterious radio bursts that are observed across the sky.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Glass Transition in Monolayers of Rough Colloidal Ellipsoids

Jian Liang, Xuan Feng, Ning Zheng, Huaguang Wang, Ran Ni, and Zexin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 038202 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Roughing up the surfaces of particles in a colloidal system can smooth its transition into a glassy state.

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Optimal Reconstruction of the Hellings and Downs Correlation

Bruce Allen and Joseph D. Romano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 031401 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

A theoretical analysis places limits on the precision for inter-pulsar correlations contained in the Hellings and Downs curve.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Switching Spin Filling Sequence in a Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dot through Trigonal Warping

Guo-Quan Qin, Fang-Ming Jing, Tian-Yue Hao, Shun-Li Jiang, Zhuo-Zhi Zhang, Gang Cao, Xiang-Xiang Song, and Guo-Ping Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036301 (2025) - Published 21 January, 2025

In graphene quantum dots with only a few electrons, a triangular distortion of the energy bands near specific points in the hexagonal Brillouin zone makes it possible to control the spin degree of freedom.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Energy Relaxation and Dynamics in the Correlated Metal ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ via Terahertz Two-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy

David Barbalas, Ralph Romero, III, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Fahad Mahmood, Hari P. Nair, Nathaniel J. Schreiber, Darrell G. Schlom, K. M. Shen, and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036501 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

Energy relaxation rates in Sr $_{2}$ RuO $_{4}$ probed with THz 2D coherent spectroscopy are strongly subdominant compared to the previously measured momentum relaxation rates.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Enhanced Strange Metallicity due to Hubbard- $U$ Coulomb Repulsion

Andrew Hardy, Olivier Parcollet, Antoine Georges, and Aavishkar A. Patel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036502 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

A model of electrons that has a particular Coulomb repulsion and is coupled to a 2D bosonic bath shows a quantum critical point where traditional Fermi-liquid physics breaks down, resulting in a so-called strange metal.

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Single-Electron Quantization of Dark Current in Quanta Image Sensors

Joanna Krynski, Daniel McGrath, Alexandre Le Roch, Sarah Holloway, Lucrezia Migliorin, Cédric Virmontois, and Vincent Goiffon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 037001 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

A CMOS-based image sensor with very low noise levels allows observation of the quantization of dark current generation rate of stray electron/hole pairs in unilluminated photodetectors.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamics of Microscale and Nanoscale Systems in the Weak-Memory Regime

Kay Brandner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 037101 (2025) - Published 21 January, 2025

For dynamical systems in the weak-memory regime, a unique local approximation of the original nonlocal dynamics becomes arbitrarily accurate at long times.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory of Complex Systems on Sparse Directed Networks

Fernando L. Metz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 037401 (2025) - Published 24 January, 2025

A generalized dynamical mean-field theory allows computation of the phase diagram of sparse and heterogeneous networks.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Biased Ensembles of Pulsating Active Matter

William D. Piñeros and Étienne Fodor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 038301 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Ensembles of particles that actively pulsate in size which are also biased to select certain rare configurations can exhibit complex emergent behaviors that depend on system geometry.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Revealing Hidden Physical Nonclassicality with Non-negative Polynomials

Ties-A. Ohst, Benjamin Yadin, Birte Ostermann, Timo de Wolff, Otfried Gühne, and Hai-Chau Nguyen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 030201 (2025) - Published 24 January, 2025

Krylov Subspace Methods for Quantum Dynamics with Time-Dependent Generators

Kazutaka Takahashi and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 030401 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

Universal Work Statistics in Long-Range Interacting Quantum Systems

Andrea Solfanelli and Nicolò Defenu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 030402 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Optimizing Quantum Measurements by Partitioning Multisets of Observables

O. Veltheim and E. Keski-Vakkuri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 030801 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

Privacy in Networks of Quantum Sensors

Majid Hassani, Santiago Scheiner, Matteo G. A. Paris, and Damian Markham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 030802 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Path Percolation in Quantum Communication Networks

Xiangyi Meng, Bingjie Hao, Balázs Ráth, and István A. Kovács

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 030803 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Ultralight Dark Matter Search with Space-Time Separated Atomic Clocks and Cavities

Melina Filzinger, Ashlee R. Caddell, Dhruv Jani, Martin Steinel, Leonardo Giani, Nils Huntemann, and Benjamin M. Roberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 031001 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optimal Reconstruction of the Hellings and Downs Correlation

Bruce Allen and Joseph D. Romano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 031401 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

A theoretical analysis places limits on the precision for inter-pulsar correlations contained in the Hellings and Downs curve.

Testing Mirror Symmetry in the Universe with LIGO-Virgo Black-Hole Mergers

Juan Calderón Bustillo, Adrian del Rio, Nicolas Sanchis-Gual, Koustav Chandra, and Samson H. W. Leong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 031402 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Particles and Fields

Hidden Zeros Are Equivalent to Enhanced Ultraviolet Scaling, and Lead to Unique Amplitudes in $Tr (ϕ^{3})$ Theory

Laurentiu Rodina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 031601 (2025) - Published 24 January, 2025

Symmetric Mass Generation with Four SU(2) Doublet Fermions

Nouman Butt, Simon Catterall, and Anna Hasenfratz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 031602 (2025) - Published 24 January, 2025

Complete Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections to $Z Z$ Production in Gluon Fusion

Bakul Agarwal, Stephen Jones, Matthias Kerner, and Andreas von Manteuffel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 031901 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

Observation of Exotic $J / ψ ϕ$ Resonant Structure in Diffractive Processes in Proton-Proton Collisions

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 031902 (2025) - Published 24 January, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Spin-Triplet Pairing in Heavy Nuclei Is Stable against Deformation

Georgios Palkanoglou, Michael Stuck, and Alexandros Gezerlis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 032501 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Revisiting the Helium Isotope-Shift Puzzle with Improved Uncertainties from Nuclear Structure Corrections

Simone Salvatore Li Muli, Thomas R. Richardson, and Sonia Bacca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 032502 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Experimental Evidence for Double Intermolecular Coulombic Decay in Bio-Relevant Molecular Dimers

Xintai Hao, Xiaorui Xue, Jiaqi Zhou, Xinyu Zhang, Xiaokai Li, Qingrui Zeng, Qibo Ma, Yongtao Zhao, Chuncheng Wang, Sizuo Luo, Dajun Ding, and Xueguang Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 033001 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Lattice Light Shift Evaluations in a Dual-Ensemble Yb Optical Lattice Clock

Tobias Bothwell, Benjamin D. Hunt, Jacob L. Siegel, Youssef S. Hassan, Tanner Grogan, Takumi Kobayashi, Kurt Gibble, Sergey G. Porsev, Marianna S. Safronova, Roger C. Brown, Kyle Beloy, and Andrew D. Ludlow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 033201 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

Probing Rotational Decoherence with a Trapped-Ion Planar Rotor

Neil Glikin, Benjamin A. Stickler, Ryan Tollefsen, Sara Mouradian, Neha Yadav, Erik Urban, Klaus Hornberger, and Hartmut Häffner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 033601 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Multistable Kuramoto Splay States in a Crystal of Mode-Locked Laser Pulses

T. G. Seidel, A. Bartolo, A. Garnache, M. Giudici, M. Marconi, S. V. Gurevich, and J. Javaloyes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 033801 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

Observation of Copropagating Chiral Zero Modes in Magnetic Photonic Crystals

Zhongfu Li, Shaojie Ma, Shuwei Li, Oubo You, Yachao Liu, Qingdong Yang, Yuanjiang Xiang, Peiheng Zhou, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 033802 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

Realization of Topology-Controlled Photonic Cavities in a Valley Photonic Crystal

Bei Yan, Baoliang Liao, Fulong Shi, Xiang Xi, Yuan Cao, Kexin Xiang, Yan Meng, Linyun Yang, Zhenxiao Zhu, Jingming Chen, Xiao-Dong Chen, Gui-Geng Liu, Baile Zhang, and Zhen Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 033803 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Exogenous–Endogenous Surfactant Interaction Yields Heterogeneous Spreading in Complex Branching Networks

Richard Mcnair, Fernando Temprano-Coleto, François J. Peaudecerf, Frédéric Gibou, Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz, Oliver E. Jensen, and Julien R. Landel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 034001 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Pellet Rocket Effect in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Plasmas

Nico J. Guth, Oskar Vallhagen, Per Helander, Istvan Pusztai, Sarah L. Newton, and Tünde Fülöp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 035101 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fast Radio Bursts as Precursor Radio Emission from Monster Shocks

A. Vanthieghem and A. Levinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 035201 (2025) - Published 21 January, 2025

Powerful shock waves around magnetized neutron stars may be the source of mysterious radio bursts that are observed across the sky.

Condensed Matter and Materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Switching Spin Filling Sequence in a Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dot through Trigonal Warping

Guo-Quan Qin, Fang-Ming Jing, Tian-Yue Hao, Shun-Li Jiang, Zhuo-Zhi Zhang, Gang Cao, Xiang-Xiang Song, and Guo-Ping Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036301 (2025) - Published 21 January, 2025

Giant Tunneling Magnetoresistance Based on Spin-Valley-Mismatched Ferromagnetic Metals

Kun Yan, Li Cheng, Yizhi Hu, Junjie Gao, Xiaolong Zou, and Xiaobin Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036302 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

Ionic Conductivity in Disordered Media: Molecular Flexibility as a New Paradigm to Enhance Ion Motion in Glassy Electrolytes

M. Micoulaut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036303 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Quantum Correction to the Orbital Hall Effect

Hong Liu, James H. Cullen, Daniel P. Arovas, and Dimitrie Culcer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036304 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Orbital Pumping Incorporating Both Orbital Angular Momentum and Position

Seungyun Han, Hye-Won Ko, Jung Hyun Oh, Hyun-Woo Lee, Kyung-Jin Lee, and Kyoung-Whan Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036305 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Design of Intrinsic Transparent Conductors from a Synergetic Effect of Symmetry and Spatial-Distribution Forbidden Transitions

Gui Wang, Ying Ning Du, Pu Huang, Zheng Fang Qian, Peng Zhang, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036401 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

Dynamical Theory of Angle-Resolved Electron Energy Loss and Gain Spectroscopies of Phonons and Magnons in Transmission Electron Microscopy Including Multiple Scattering Effects

José Ángel Castellanos-Reyes, Paul M. Zeiger, and Ján Rusz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036402 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

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Energy Relaxation and Dynamics in the Correlated Metal ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ via Terahertz Two-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy

David Barbalas, Ralph Romero, III, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Fahad Mahmood, Hari P. Nair, Nathaniel J. Schreiber, Darrell G. Schlom, K. M. Shen, and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036501 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

Energy relaxation rates in Sr $_{2}$ RuO $_{4}$ probed with THz 2D coherent spectroscopy are strongly subdominant compared to the previously measured momentum relaxation rates.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Enhanced Strange Metallicity due to Hubbard- $U$ Coulomb Repulsion

Andrew Hardy, Olivier Parcollet, Antoine Georges, and Aavishkar A. Patel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036502 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Valley-Mediated Singlet- and Triplet-Polaron Interactions and Quantum Dynamics in a Doped ${WSe}_{2}$ Monolayer

Yue Ni, Di Huang, Danfu Liang, Albert Liu, Xiaohui Liu, Kevin Sampson, Zhida Liu, Jianmin Quan, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Dmitry K. Efimkin, Jesper Levinsen, Meera M. Parish, and Xiaoqin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036901 (2025) - Published 24 January, 2025

Spin Noise Spectroscopy of a Single Spin Using Single Detected Photons

M. Gundín, P. Hilaire, C. Millet, E. Mehdi, C. Antón, A. Harouri, A. Lemaître, I. Sagnes, N. Somaschi, O. Krebs, P. Senellart, and L. Lanco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 036902 (2025) - Published 24 January, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Single-Electron Quantization of Dark Current in Quanta Image Sensors

Joanna Krynski, Daniel McGrath, Alexandre Le Roch, Sarah Holloway, Lucrezia Migliorin, Cédric Virmontois, and Vincent Goiffon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 037001 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

A CMOS-based image sensor with very low noise levels allows observation of the quantization of dark current generation rate of stray electron/hole pairs in unilluminated photodetectors.

Reconfiguring Surface Acoustic Wave Microfluidics via In Situ Control of Elastic Wave Polarization

Yu Gao (郜煜), Thomas Voglhuber-Brunnmaier, Yuekang Li, Leyla Akh, Nicholas H. Patino, Apresio Kefin Fajrial, Massimo Ruzzene, Bernhard Jakoby, and Xiaoyun Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 037002 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Unifying Floquet Theory of Longitudinal and Dispersive Readout

A. Chessari, E. A. Rodríguez-Mena, J. C. Abadillo-Uriel, V. Champain, S. Zihlmann, R. Maurand, Y.-M. Niquet, and M. Filippone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 037003 (2025) - Published 24 January, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamics of Microscale and Nanoscale Systems in the Weak-Memory Regime

Kay Brandner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 037101 (2025) - Published 21 January, 2025

For dynamical systems in the weak-memory regime, a unique local approximation of the original nonlocal dynamics becomes arbitrarily accurate at long times.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory of Complex Systems on Sparse Directed Networks

Fernando L. Metz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 037401 (2025) - Published 24 January, 2025

A generalized dynamical mean-field theory allows computation of the phase diagram of sparse and heterogeneous networks.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Nonmonotonic Constitutive Curves and Shear Banding in Dry and Wet Granular Flows

Christopher Ness and Suzanne M. Fielding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 038201 (2025) - Published 21 January, 2025

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Glass Transition in Monolayers of Rough Colloidal Ellipsoids

Jian Liang, Xuan Feng, Ning Zheng, Huaguang Wang, Ran Ni, and Zexin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 038202 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Roughing up the surfaces of particles in a colloidal system can smooth its transition into a glassy state.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Biased Ensembles of Pulsating Active Matter

William D. Piñeros and Étienne Fodor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 038301 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Ensembles of particles that actively pulsate in size which are also biased to select certain rare configurations can exhibit complex emergent behaviors that depend on system geometry.