Volume 134, Issue 5

7 February 2025

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Supersolid emission pattern (blue) from a photonic crystal waveguide vertically pumped by a continuous wave source. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Supersolidity of Polariton Condensates in Photonic Crystal Waveguides
Davide Nigro, Dimitrios Trypogeorgos, Antonio Gianfrate, Daniele Sanvitto, Iacopo Carusotto, and Dario Gerace
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056002 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Antiprotons and Elementary Particles over a Solar Cycle: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 051002 (2025) - Published 3 February, 2025

The spectrum of cosmic-ray antiprotons has been measured for a full solar cycle, which may allow a better understanding of the sources and transport mechanisms of these high-energy particles.

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Monopole-Fermion Scattering and the Solution to the Semiton–Unitarity Puzzle

Vazha Loladze and Takemichi Okui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 051602 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

The scattering of a charged particle off a magnetic monopole does not imply the existence of fractional particle numbers, theorists say.

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Surface Furrowing Instability in Everting Soft Solids

Jonghyun Hwang, Mariana Altomare, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 058205 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

An ultrasoft material can move smoothly through a pipe, but the motion generates “furrows” on the material’s front surface.

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Interaction-Induced Topological Phase Transition at Finite Temperature

Ze-Min Huang and Sebastian Diehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 053002 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with Hubbard interactions exhibits a defect-driven topological phase transition at finite temperatures.

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Supersolidity of Polariton Condensates in Photonic Crystal Waveguides

Davide Nigro, Dimitrios Trypogeorgos, Antonio Gianfrate, Daniele Sanvitto, Iacopo Carusotto, and Dario Gerace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056002 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

Prediction of a polariton supersolid state whose periodicity can be tuned by the input power, providing a novel platform to explore exotic states of matter.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Entanglement Detection Length of Multipartite Quantum States

Fei Shi, Lin Chen, Giulio Chiribella, and Qi Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050201 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Magic Resource Can Enhance the Quantum Capacity of Channels

Kaifeng Bu and Arthur Jaffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050202 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Heat as a Witness of Quantum Properties

A. de Oliveira Junior, Jonatan Bohr Brask, and Patryk Lipka-Bartosik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050401 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

Multiseed Krylov Complexity

Ben Craps, Oleg Evnin, and Gabriele Pascuzzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050402 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

Volume-Entangled Exact Scar States in the PXP and Related Models in Any Dimension

Andrew N. Ivanov and Olexei I. Motrunich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050403 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

Dynamical Landauer Principle: Quantifying Information Transmission by Thermodynamics

Chung-Yun Hsieh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050404 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Fock-Space Delocalization and the Emergence of the Porter-Thomas Distribution from Dual-Unitary Dynamics

Pieter W. Claeys and Giuseppe De Tomasi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050405 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Quantum Detailed Fluctuation Theorem in Curved Spacetimes: The Observer Dependent Nature of Entropy Production

Marcos L. W. Basso, Jonas Maziero, and Lucas C. Céleri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050406 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Quantum Origin of Limit Cycles, Fixed Points, and Critical Slowing Down

Shovan Dutta, Shu Zhang, and Masudul Haque

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050407 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

Qudit Dynamical Decoupling on a Superconducting Quantum Processor

Vinay Tripathi, Noah Goss, Arian Vezvaee, Long B. Nguyen, Irfan Siddiqi, and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050601 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

Implementing Arbitrary Ising Models with a Trapped-Ion Quantum Processor

Yao Lu, Wentao Chen, Shuaining Zhang, Kuan Zhang, Jialiang Zhang, Jing-Ning Zhang, and Kihwan Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050602 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

Accelerating Dissipative State Preparation with Adaptive Open Quantum Dynamics

Andrew Pocklington and Aashish A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050603 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Probing Dynamics of a Two-Dimensional Dipolar Spin Ensemble Using Single Qubit Sensor

Kristine Rezai, Soonwon Choi, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Alexander O. Sushkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050801 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Solar Modulation of Cosmic Nuclei over a Solar Cycle: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 051001 (2025) - Published 3 February, 2025

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Antiprotons and Elementary Particles over a Solar Cycle: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 051002 (2025) - Published 3 February, 2025

The spectrum of cosmic-ray antiprotons has been measured for a full solar cycle, which may allow a better understanding of the sources and transport mechanisms of these high-energy particles.

Robust Integration of Fast Flavor Conversions in Classical Neutrino Transport

Zewei Xiong, Meng-Ru Wu, Manu George, and Chun-Yu Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 051003 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

First Result for Dark Matter Search by WINERED

Wen Yin, Taiki Bessho, Yuji Ikeda, Hitomi Kobayashi, Daisuke Taniguchi, Hiroaki Sameshima, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Shogo Otsubo, Yuki Sarugaku, Tomomi Takeuchi, Haruki Kato, Satoshi Hamano, and Hideyo Kawakita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 051004 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

Expanding the Quantum-Limited Gravitational-Wave Detection Horizon

Liu Tao, Mohak Bhattacharya, Peter Carney, Luis Martin Gutierrez, Luke Johnson, Shane Levin, Cynthia Liang, Xuesi Ma, Michael Padilla, Tyler Rosauer, Aiden Wilkin, and Jonathan W. Richardson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 051401 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Boosting Supermassive Black Hole Growth in the Early Universe by Fuzzy Dark Matter Solitons

H.-H. Sandy Chiu (邱懷萱), Hsi-Yu Schive (薛熙于), Hsiang-Yi Karen Yang (楊湘怡), Hsinhao Huang (黃新豪), and Massimo Gaspari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 051402 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Particles and Fields

All Next-to-Next-to-Extremal One-Loop Correlators of AdS Supergluons and Supergravitons

Zhongjie Huang (黄中杰), Bo Wang (王波), and Ellis Ye Yuan (袁野)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 051601 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Monopole-Fermion Scattering and the Solution to the Semiton–Unitarity Puzzle

Vazha Loladze and Takemichi Okui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 051602 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

The scattering of a charged particle off a magnetic monopole does not imply the existence of fractional particle numbers, theorists say.

Nuclear Physics

Flavor Hierarchy of Jet Energy Correlators inside the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Wen-Jing Xing, Shanshan Cao, Guang-You Qin, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 052301 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Angular Momentum Resolved Inelastic Electron Scattering for Nuclear Giant Resonances

Zhi-Wei Lu, Liang Guo, Mamutjan Ababekri, Jia-Lin Zhang, Xiu-Feng Weng, Yuanbin Wu, Yi-Fei Niu, and Jian-Xing Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 052501 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

Revealing the Nature of yrast States in Neutron-Rich Polonium Isotopes

R. Lică et al. (IDS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 052502 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Refined Topology of the $N = 20$ Island of Inversion with High Precision Mass Measurements of ${}^{31 - 33}{Na}$ and ${}^{31 - 35}{Mg}$

E. M. Lykiardopoulou et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 052503 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

Enhanced Isomer Population via Direct Irradiation of Solid-Density Targets Using a Compact Laser-Plasma Accelerator

Robert E. Jacob, Speero M. Tannous, Lee A. Bernstein, Joshua Brown, Tobias Ostermayr, Qiang Chen, Dieter H G. Schneider, Carl B. Schroeder, Jeroen van Tilborg, Eric H. Esarey, and Cameron G R. Geddes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 052504 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

Effects of Neutron-Antineutron Transitions in Neutron Stars

Itzhak Goldman, Rabindra N. Mohapatra, Shmuel Nussinov, and Robert Shrock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 052701 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Dipolar Droplets of Strongly Interacting Molecules

Tim Langen, Jordi Boronat, Juan Sánchez-Baena, Raúl Bombín, Tijs Karman, and Ferran Mazzanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 053001 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interaction-Induced Topological Phase Transition at Finite Temperature

Ze-Min Huang and Sebastian Diehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 053002 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with Hubbard interactions exhibits a defect-driven topological phase transition at finite temperatures.

Many-Body Adiabatic Passage: Instability, Chaos, and Quantum Classical Correspondence

Anant Vijay Varma, Amichay Vardi, and Doron Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 053201 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Purcell-Enhanced Generation of Photonic Bell States via the Inelastic Scattering off Single Atoms

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 053401 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Optical Superlattice for Engineering Hubbard Couplings in Quantum Simulation

Thomas Chalopin, Petar Bojović, Dominik Bourgund, Si Wang, Titus Franz, Immanuel Bloch, and Timon Hilker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 053402 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Observation of Photonic Mobility Edge Phases

Yi-Jun Chang, Jia-Hui Zhang, Yong-Heng Lu, Ying-Yue Yang, Feng Mei, Jie Ma, Suotang Jia, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 053601 (2025) - Published 3 February, 2025

Efficient In Situ Generation of Photon-Memory Entanglement in a Nonlinear Cavity

Hoi-Kwan Lau, Hong Qiao, Aashish A. Clerk, and Tian Zhong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 053602 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

Autonomous Feedback Stabilization of a Cavity-Coupled Spin Oscillator

Julian Wolf, Olive H. Eilbott, Joshua A. Isaacs, Kevin P. Mours, Jonathan Kohler, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 053603 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Suppression of Motional Dephasing Using State Mapping

Yuechun Jiao, Changcheng Li, Xiao-Feng Shi, Jiabei Fan, Jingxu Bai, Suotang Jia, Jianming Zhao, and C. Stuart Adams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 053604 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Postselection-Free Cavity-Enhanced Narrow-Band Orbital Angular Momentum Entangled Photon Source

Pei Wan (万佩), Wen-Zheng Zhu (朱文正), Yan-Chao Lou (娄严超), Zi-Mo Cheng (程子默), Zhi-Cheng Ren (任志成), Han Zhang (张涵), Xi-Lin Wang (汪喜林), and Hui-Tian Wang (王慧田)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 053801 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Emergence of Capillary Waves in Miscible Coflowing Fluids

Alessandro Carbonaro, Giovanni Savorana, Luca Cipelletti, Rama Govindarajan, and Domenico Truzzolillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 054001 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

Turbulent Spectrum of 2D Internal Gravity Waves

Michal Shavit, Oliver Bühler, and Jalal Shatah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 054101 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Bounds on Heavy Axions with an X-Ray Free Electron Laser

Jack W. D. Halliday, Giacomo Marocco, Konstantin A. Beyer, Charles Heaton, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi, Thomas R. Preston, Charles D. Arrowsmith, Carsten Baehtz, Sebastian Goede, Oliver Humphries, Alejandro Laso Garcia, Richard Plackett, Pontus Svensson, Georgios Vacalis, Justin Wark, Daniel Wood, Ulf Zastrau, Robert Bingham, Ian Shipsey, Subir Sarkar, and Gianluca Gregori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 055001 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Laboratory Demonstration of Collisionless Blob Formation via Laser-Produced Plasma Self-Focusing

R. S. Dorst, A. Le, C. G. Constantin, D. J. Larson, J. J. Pilgram, S. Vincena, S. K. P. Tripathi, M. M. Cowee, D. Winske, D. B. Schaeffer, and C. Niemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 055101 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Continuum Damping of Topologically Protected Edge Modes at the Boundary of Cold Magnetized Plasmas

Roopendra Singh Rajawat, G. Shvets, and V. Khudik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 055301 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Revealing the Orbital Origins of Exotic Electronic States with Ti Substitution in Kagome Superconductor ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Zihao Huang, Hui Chen, Hengxin Tan, Xianghe Han, Yuhan Ye, Bin Hu, Zhen Zhao, Chengmin Shen, Haitao Yang, Binghai Yan, Ziqiang Wang, Feng Liu, and Hong-Jun Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056001 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Supersolidity of Polariton Condensates in Photonic Crystal Waveguides

Davide Nigro, Dimitrios Trypogeorgos, Antonio Gianfrate, Daniele Sanvitto, Iacopo Carusotto, and Dario Gerace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056002 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

Prediction of a polariton supersolid state whose periodicity can be tuned by the input power, providing a novel platform to explore exotic states of matter.

Effect of Grain Geometry on the Stability of Polycrystalline Pt at the Nanoscale

Huangliu Fu, Xin Zhou, Zhipeng Gao, Zhaohui Jin, Xiuyan Li, and K. Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056101 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Atomistic Understanding of Dislocation Climb in Nitride Semiconductors: Role of Asymmetric Jogs

Han Yang, Xiangru Han, Xuelin Yang, Yingming Song, Beile Chen, Zhenghao Chen, Guangxu Ju, Fujun Xu, Ning Tang, Tongjun Yu, Xinqiang Wang, Weikun Ge, Bing Huang, and Bo Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056102 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Learning Neural Free-Energy Functionals with Pair-Correlation Matching

Jacobus Dijkman, Marjolein Dijkstra, René van Roij, Max Welling, Jan-Willem van de Meent, and Bernd Ensing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056103 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

Augmentation of Universal Potentials for Broad Applications

Joe Pitfield, Florian Brix, Zeyuan Tang, Andreas Møller Slavensky, Nikolaj Rønne, Mads-Peter Verner Christiansen, and Bjørk Hammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056201 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

Sliding Ferroelectricity in a Bulk Misfit Layer Compound ${(PbS)}_{1.11} {VS}_{2}$

Cinthia Antunes Corrêa, Jiří Volný, Kateřina Tetalová, Klára Uhlířová, Václav Petříček, Martin Vondráček, Jan Honolka, and Tim Verhagen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056202 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

Intrinsic Nonlinear Spin Hall Effect and Manipulation of Perpendicular Magnetization

Hui Wang, Huiying Liu, Xukun Feng, Jin Cao, Weikang Wu, Shen Lai, Weibo Gao, Cong Xiao, and Shengyuan A. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056301 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Hall Response in Interacting Bosonic and Fermionic Ladders

R. Citro, T. Giamarchi, and E. Orignac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056501 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Transient Dynamical Phase Diagram of the Spin-Boson Model

Olga Goulko, Hsing-Ta Chen, Moshe Goldstein, and Guy Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056502 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Hidden Zero Modes and Topology of Multiband Non-Hermitian Systems

Kyle Monkman and Jesko Sirker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056601 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Observation of Coherent Gapless Magnons in an Antiferromagnet

Jilei Chen, Zhejunyu Jin, Rundong Yuan, Hanchen Wang, Hao Jia, Weiwei Wei, Lutong Sheng, Jinlong Wang, Yuelin Zhang, Song Liu, Dapeng Yu, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Peng Yan, and Haiming Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056701 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025

Current-Induced Sliding Motion in a Helimagnet ${MnAu}_{2}$

Yuta Kimoto, Hidetoshi Masuda, Takeshi Seki, Yoichi Nii, Jun-ichiro Ohe, Yusuke Nambu, and Yoshinori Onose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056702 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Nonresonant Electric Quantum Control of Individual On-Surface Spins

S. A. Rodríguez, S. S. Gómez, J. Fernández-Rossier, and A. Ferrón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056703 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

Dynamics of Thermally Driven Domain Transformation in Ferroelectric Thin Films

Rui Liu, Anna Gura, Theodore Sauyet, Yugang Zhang, Lutz Wiegart, Andrei Fluerasu, and Matthew Dawber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056801 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Origin of Interstitial Doping Induced Coercive Field Reduction in Ferroelectric Hafnia

Tianyuan Zhu, Liyang Ma, Xu Duan, Shiqing Deng, and Shi Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056802 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

Solvated Electrons in Polar Liquids as $ϵ$ -Near-Zero Materials Tunable in the Terahertz Frequency Range

Matthias Runge, Michael Woerner, Denys I. Bondar, and Thomas Elsaesser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056901 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Tattered Membranes and Constrained Magnets

Pierre Le Doussal and Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 057101 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

Networks with Many Structural Scales: A Renormalization Group Perspective

Anna Poggialini, Pablo Villegas, Miguel A. Muñoz, and Andrea Gabrielli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 057401 (2025) - Published 5 February, 2025

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Emergent Metric-Like States of Active Particles with Metric-Free Polar Alignment

Yinong Zhao, Cristián Huepe, and Pawel Romanczuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 058201 (2025) - Published 3 February, 2025

Statistical Mechanics Approach to DNA-Driven Droplet Deformation and Adhesion

Nicolas Judd, Angus McMullen, Sascha Hilgenfeldt, and Jasna Brujic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 058202 (2025) - Published 4 February, 2025

Universal Scaling Framework for Controlling Phase Behavior in Thickening and Jamming Suspensions

Meera Ramaswamy, Itay Griniasty, James P. Sethna, Bulbul Chakraborty, and Itai Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 058203 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

Accessing Semiaddressable Self-Assembly with Efficient Structure Enumeration

Maximilian C. Hübl and Carl P. Goodrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 058204 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

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Surface Furrowing Instability in Everting Soft Solids

Jonghyun Hwang, Mariana Altomare, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 058205 (2025) - Published 7 February, 2025

An ultrasoft material can move smoothly through a pipe, but the motion generates “furrows” on the material’s front surface.

Direct and Retrograde Wave Propagation in Unidirectionally Coupled Wilson-Cowan Oscillators

Guy Elisha, Richard Gast, Sourav Halder, Sara A. Solla, Peter J. Kahrilas, John E. Pandolfino, and Neelesh A. Patankar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 058401 (2025) - Published 6 February, 2025