Volume 134, Issue 6

14 February 2025

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Optical image of the surface of suspended bilayer WS₂ on a holey SiO₂/Si substrate. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Room-Temperature Amplified Spontaneous Emission in Two-Dimensional ${WS}_{2}$ beyond Exciton Mott Transition
Yan Xu, Yihan Xiang, Meng Shi, Baoxing Zhai, Wei Dai, Ti Wang, Xiaoze Liu, Yiling Yu, and Jun He
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066904 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unveiling Resilient Superconducting Fluctuations in Atomically Thin ${NbSe}_{2}$ through Higgs Mode Spectroscopy

Yu Du, Gan Liu, Wei Ruan, Zhi Fang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ronghua Liu, Jian-Xin Li, and Xiaoxiang Xi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066002 (2025) - Published 13 February, 2025

An enigmatic and anomalous metallic state turns out to be intrinsic rather than a consequence of crystalline defects.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantumlike Product States Constructed from Classical Networks

Gregory D. Scholes and Graziano Amati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 060202 (2025) - Published 13 February, 2025

A one-to-one map between the product basis of quantum states and eigenstates of a classical-network-based construction could be used to mimic quantumlike product states.

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Thermal Properties of the Superconductor–Quantum Hall Interface

Lingfei Zhao, Trevyn F. Q. Larson, Zubair Iftikhar, John Chiles, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, François Amet, and Gleb Finkelstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066001 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

Investigation of current fluctuations in the thermal properties of superconductor-quantum Hall interfaces reveals a significant amount of excess noise when the interface is biased.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anderson Transition at Complex Energies in One-Dimensional Parity-Time-Symmetric Disordered Systems

Wei Wang, Xulong Wang, and Guancong Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066301 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

One-dimensional disordered rings with chiral hopping can host Anderson localized modes which exhibit complex energies, a phenomenon previously associated exclusively with extended modes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Revisiting the Formulation of Charged Defect in Solids

Hanzhi Shang, Zeyu Jiang, Yiyang Sun, D. West, and Shengbai Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066401 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

A one-shot linear response-based method accurately estimates the defect formation energy of smaller supercells.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tunable Spatiotemporal Orders in Driven Insulators

Daniel Kaplan, Pavel A. Volkov, Ahana Chakraborty, Zekun Zhuang, and Premala Chandra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066902 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

A new method can use light to generate incommensurate order, spatial as well as temporal, in insulators of any symmetry.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Room-Temperature Amplified Spontaneous Emission in Two-Dimensional ${WS}_{2}$ beyond Exciton Mott Transition

Yan Xu, Yihan Xiang, Meng Shi, Baoxing Zhai, Wei Dai, Ti Wang, Xiaoze Liu, Yiling Yu, and Jun He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066904 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

Amplified spontaneous emission from a degenerate electron-hole plasma in a 2D semiconductor has been demonstrated for the first time.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multiplet Supercurrents in a Josephson Circuit

Ethan G. Arnault, John Chiles, Trevyn F. Q. Larson, Chun-Chia Chen, Lingfei Zhao, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, François Amet, and Gleb Finkelstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 067001 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

Multiplet supercurrents mediated by two Cooper pairs have been observed in graphene-based Josephson junctions.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Multipath and Multiparticle Tests of Complex versus Hypercomplex Quantum Theory

Ece İpek Saruhan, Joachim von Zanthier, and Marc-Oliver Pleinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 060201 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantumlike Product States Constructed from Classical Networks

Gregory D. Scholes and Graziano Amati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 060202 (2025) - Published 13 February, 2025

A one-to-one map between the product basis of quantum states and eigenstates of a classical-network-based construction could be used to mimic quantumlike product states.

Floquet Expansion by Counting Pump Photons

Kilian Seibold, Orjan Ameye, and Oded Zilberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 060401 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

Neural-Network-Based Design of Approximate Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Code

Yexiong Zeng, Wei Qin, Ye-Hong Chen, Clemens Gneiting, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 060601 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Observation of the Two-Photon Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana Effect

Isak Björkman, Marko Kuzmanović, and Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 060602 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Ultrahigh-Energy Particle Collisions and Heavy Dark Matter at Phase Transitions

Iason Baldes, Maximilian Dichtl, Yann Gouttenoire, and Filippo Sala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 061001 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Nuclear Recoil Calibration at Sub-keV Energies in LUX and Its Impact on Dark Matter Search Sensitivity

D. S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 061002 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Quadratic Quasinormal Mode Dependence on Linear Mode Parity

Patrick Bourg, Rodrigo Panosso Macedo, Andrew Spiers, Benjamin Leather, Béatrice Bonga, and Adam Pound

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 061401 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Distinguishable Consequence of Classical Gravity on Quantum Matter

Serhii Kryhin and Vivishek Sudhir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 061501 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

Particles and Fields

Measurement of the Branching Fraction Ratios $R (D^{+})$ and $R (D^{* +})$ Using Muonic $τ$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 061801 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

Atoms as Electron Accelerators for Measuring the Cross Section of $e^{+} e^{-} \to Hadrons$

Fernando Arias-Aragón, Luc Darmé, Giovanni Grilli di Cortona, and Enrico Nardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 061802 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

Search for Magnetic Monopole Pair Production in Ultraperipheral $Pb + Pb$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.36 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 061803 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Factorization Restoration through Glauber Gluons

Thomas Becher, Patrick Hager, Sebastian Jaskiewicz, Matthias Neubert, and Dominik Schwienbacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 061901 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

Complete Dispersive Evaluation of the Hadronic Light-by-Light Contribution to Muon $g - 2$

Martin Hoferichter, Peter Stoffer, and Maximilian Zillinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 061902 (2025) - Published 11 February, 2025

Jet Definition and Transverse-Momentum–Dependent Factorization in Semi-inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering

Paul Caucal, Edmond Iancu, A. H. Mueller, and Feng Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 061903 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Fragmentation of the Giant Pairing Vibration in ${}^{14}C$ Induced by Many-Body Processes

F. Barranco, G. Potel, and E. Vigezzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 062501 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Deformation and Collectivity in Doubly Magic ${}^{208}{Pb}$

J. Henderson et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 062502 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Direct Mass Measurements of Neutron-Rich Zinc and Gallium Isotopes: An Investigation of the Formation of the First $r$ -Process Peak

Andrew Jacobs et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 062701 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Convergent Close-Coupling Approach to Electron Impact Dissociation of the Polyatomic Molecule $H_{3}^{+}$ and Its Isotopologues

Reese K. Horton, Michael V. Pak, Igor Bray, and Dmitry V. Fursa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 063001 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

Probing New Bosons and Nuclear Structure with Ytterbium Isotope Shifts

Menno Door et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 063002 (2025) - Published 11 February, 2025

Neutral Sulfur Atom Formation in Decay of Deep Core Holes in ${SF}_{6}$

Oksana Travnikova, Florian Trinter, Marcus Agåker, Giorgio Visentin, Joakim Andersson, Ludvig Kjellsson, Iyas Ismail, Nicolas Velasquez, Dimitris Koulentianos, Manuel Harder, Zhong Yin, Johan Söderström, Tatiana Marchenko, Renaud Guillemin, O. Dennis McGinnis, Hans Ågren, Stephan Fritzsche, Marc Simon, Jan-Erik Rubensson, and Joseph Nordgren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 063003 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

Observation of Collapse and Revival in a Superconducting Atomic Frequency Comb

E. S. Redchenko, M. Zens, M. Žemlička, M. Peruzzo, F. Hassani, R. Sett, P. Zieliński, H. S. Dhar, D. O. Krimer, S. Rotter, and J. M. Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 063601 (2025) - Published 11 February, 2025

Floquet Engineering the Quantum Rabi Model in the Ultrastrong Coupling Regime

Kamran Akbari, Franco Nori, and Stephen Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 063602 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

Nonuniform Wave Momentum Band Gap in Biaxial Anisotropic Photonic Time Crystals

Junhua Dong, Sihao Zhang, Huan He, Huanan Li, and Jingjun Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 063801 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

Fully Programmable Spatial Photonic Ising Machine by Focal Plane Division

Daniele Veraldi, Davide Pierangeli, Silvia Gentilini, Marcello Calvanese Strinati, Jason Sakellariou, James S. Cummins, Airat Kamaletdinov, Marvin Syed, Richard Zhipeng Wang, Natalia G. Berloff, Dimitrios Karanikolopoulos, Pavlos G. Savvidis, and Claudio Conti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 063802 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Bulk-Hole Correspondence and Inner Robust Boundary Modes in Singular Flatband Lattices

Limin Song, Shenyi Gao, Shiqi Xia, Yongsheng Liang, Liqin Tang, Daohong Song, Daniel Leykam, and Zhigang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 063803 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Water Nanofilms Facilitate Ice Crystal Growth across Droplets

Shaojie Hu, Ningning Zhao, Chao Zhang, Fuxiang Li, Renpeng Chen, and Dani Or

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 064001 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermal Properties of the Superconductor–Quantum Hall Interface

Lingfei Zhao, Trevyn F. Q. Larson, Zubair Iftikhar, John Chiles, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, François Amet, and Gleb Finkelstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066001 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

Investigation of current fluctuations in the thermal properties of superconductor-quantum Hall interfaces reveals a significant amount of excess noise when the interface is biased.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unveiling Resilient Superconducting Fluctuations in Atomically Thin ${NbSe}_{2}$ through Higgs Mode Spectroscopy

Yu Du, Gan Liu, Wei Ruan, Zhi Fang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ronghua Liu, Jian-Xin Li, and Xiaoxiang Xi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066002 (2025) - Published 13 February, 2025

An enigmatic and anomalous metallic state turns out to be intrinsic rather than a consequence of crystalline defects.

Theory of Electro-Ionic Perturbations at Supported Electrocatalyst Nanoparticles

Yufan Zhang, Tobias Binninger, Jun Huang, and Michael H. Eikerling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066201 (2025) - Published 11 February, 2025

Striped Twisted State in the Orientational Epitaxy on Quasicrystals

Nicola Manini, Mario Forzanini, Sebastiano Pagano, Marco Bellagente, Martino Colombo, Dario Bertazioli, Tommaso Salvalaggio, Andrea Vanossi, Davide Vanossi, Emanuele Panizon, Erio Tosatti, and Giuseppe E. Santoro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066202 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anderson Transition at Complex Energies in One-Dimensional Parity-Time-Symmetric Disordered Systems

Wei Wang, Xulong Wang, and Guancong Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066301 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

One-dimensional disordered rings with chiral hopping can host Anderson localized modes which exhibit complex energies, a phenomenon previously associated exclusively with extended modes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Revisiting the Formulation of Charged Defect in Solids

Hanzhi Shang, Zeyu Jiang, Yiyang Sun, D. West, and Shengbai Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066401 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

A one-shot linear response-based method accurately estimates the defect formation energy of smaller supercells.

Spectroscopic Evidence for Possible Quantum Spin Liquid Behavior in a Two-Dimensional Mott Insulator

Haiyang Chen, Fo-Hong Wang, Qiang Gao, Xue-Jian Gao, Zhenhua Chen, Yaobo Huang, Kam Tuen Law, Xiao Yan Xu, and Peng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066402 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Strain-Induced Enhancement of the Charge Density Wave in the Kagome Metal $S c V_{6} {Sn}_{6}$

Manuel Tuniz, Armando Consiglio, Ganesh Pokharel, Fulvio Parmigiani, Titus Neupert, Ronny Thomale, Sandeep Kumar Chaluvadi, Pasquale Orgiani, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Stephen D. Wilson, Ivana Vobornik, Federico Salvador, Federico Cilento, Domenico Di Sante, and Federico Mazzola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066501 (2025) - Published 11 February, 2025

Magnetic Phase Diagram of the Three-Dimensional Doped Hubbard Model

Liam Rampon, Fedor Šimkovic, IV, and Michel Ferrero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066502 (2025) - Published 11 February, 2025

Multiple Chern Bands in Twisted ${MoTe}_{2}$ and Possible Non-Abelian States

Cheng Xu, Ning Mao, Tiansheng Zeng, and Yang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066601 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

Topological Exciton Density Wave in Monolayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Shan Dong, Yingda Chen, Hongwei Qu, Wen-Kai Lou, and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066602 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

Observation of Temperature-Independent Anomalous Hall Effect in Thin Bismuth from Near Absolute Zero to 300 K Temperature

Oulin Yu, F. Boivin, A. Silberztein, and G. Gervais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066603 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

Large Spin-Orbit Torque in $a$ -Plane $α − {Fe}_{2} O_{3} / Pt$ Bilayers

Igor Lyalin, Hantao Zhang, Justin Michel, Daniel Russell, Fengyuan Yang, Ran Cheng, and Roland K. Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066701 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

Mechanism of Type-II Multiferroicity in Pure and Al-Doped ${CuFeO}_{2}$

Weiqin Zhu, Panshuo Wang, Haoran Zhu, Haiyan Zhu, Xueyang Li, Jun Zhao, Changsong Xu, and Hongjun Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066801 (2025) - Published 14 February, 2025

Optical Absorption in Indirect Semiconductor to Semimetal ${PtSe}_{2}$ Arises from Direct Transitions

Marin Tharrault, Sabrine Ayari, Mehdi Arfaoui, Eva Desgué, Romaric Le Goff, Pascal Morfin, José Palomo, Michael Rosticher, Sihem Jaziri, Bernard Plaçais, Pierre Legagneux, Francesca Carosella, Christophe Voisin, Robson Ferreira, and Emmanuel Baudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066901 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tunable Spatiotemporal Orders in Driven Insulators

Daniel Kaplan, Pavel A. Volkov, Ahana Chakraborty, Zekun Zhuang, and Premala Chandra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066902 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

A new method can use light to generate incommensurate order, spatial as well as temporal, in insulators of any symmetry.

Distinct Optical Excitation Mechanisms of a Coherent Magnon in a van der Waals Antiferromagnet

Clifford J. Allington, Carina A. Belvin, Urban F. P. Seifert, Mengxing Ye, Tommy Tai, Edoardo Baldini, Suhan Son, Junghyun Kim, Jaena Park, Je-Geun Park, Leon Balents, and Nuh Gedik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066903 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Room-Temperature Amplified Spontaneous Emission in Two-Dimensional ${WS}_{2}$ beyond Exciton Mott Transition

Yan Xu, Yihan Xiang, Meng Shi, Baoxing Zhai, Wei Dai, Ti Wang, Xiaoze Liu, Yiling Yu, and Jun He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066904 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

Amplified spontaneous emission from a degenerate electron-hole plasma in a 2D semiconductor has been demonstrated for the first time.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multiplet Supercurrents in a Josephson Circuit

Ethan G. Arnault, John Chiles, Trevyn F. Q. Larson, Chun-Chia Chen, Lingfei Zhao, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, François Amet, and Gleb Finkelstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 067001 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025

Multiplet supercurrents mediated by two Cooper pairs have been observed in graphene-based Josephson junctions.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Exact Solution of Bipartite Fluctuations in One-Dimensional Fermions

Kazuya Fujimoto and Tomohiro Sasamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 067101 (2025) - Published 12 February, 2025

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Noninductively Driven Tokamak Plasmas at Near-Unity Toroidal Beta [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 035001 (2017)]

D. J. Schlossberg, G. M. Bodner, M. W. Bongard, M. G. Burke, R. J. Fonck, J. M. Perry, and J. A. Reusch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 069901 (2025) - Published 10 February, 2025