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Establishing a New Benchmark in Quantum Computational Advantage with 105-qubit Zuchongzhi 3.0 Processor
Dongxin Gao et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090601 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Establishing a New Benchmark in Quantum Computational Advantage with 105-qubit Zuchongzhi 3.0 Processor

Dongxin Gao et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090601 (2025) - Published 3 March, 2025

A new high-performance quantum processor boasts 105 superconducting qubits and rivals Google’s acclaimed Willow processor.

First Measurement of Z Opacity Sample Evolution near Solar Interior Conditions Using Time-Resolved Spectroscopy

G. P. Loisel, J. E. Bailey, T. Nagayama, S. B. Hansen, G. S. Dunham, P. D. Gard, A. P. Colombo, A. D. Edens, R. Speas, Q. Looker, M. Kimmel, J. L. Porter, E. C. Harding, G. A. Rochau, C. J. Fontes, J. P. Colgan, C. Blancard, Ph. Cossé, G. Faussurier, F. Gilleron, J.-Ch. Pain, and D. Aberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 095101 (2025) - Published 3 March, 2025

Temporal measurements in conditions similar to those in the Sun rebut a leading hypothesis for why models and experiments disagree on how much light iron absorbs

Auroralike Light from a Polymer pn Junction Emitting Free Electrons

Dongze Wang and Jun Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096203 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

The discovery of a mini aurora above a light-emitting polymer material reveals an electron-ejection process that might be useful in field-emission displays and material fabrication.

Bound States in the Continuum in Cylindrical All-Dielectric Metasurface Cavities

Pietro Brugnolo, Samel Arslanagić, and Rasmus E. Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096902 (2025) - Published 5 March, 2025

An all-dielectric version of a metamaterials-based cavity allows the cavity to operate over a previously inaccessible wavelength range—which could benefit lasers and other resonant devices.

Eliminating Surface Oxides of Superconducting Circuits with Noble Metal Encapsulation

Ray D. Chang, Nana Shumiya, Russell A. McLellan, Yifan Zhang, Matthew P. Bland, Faranak Bahrami, Junsik Mun, Chenyu Zhou, Kim Kisslinger, Guangming Cheng, Basil M. Smitham, Alexander C. Pakpour-Tabrizi, Nan Yao, Yimei Zhu, Mingzhao Liu, Robert J. Cava, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Andrew A. Houck, and Nathalie P. de Leon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 097001 (2025) - Published 6 March, 2025

The quantum properties of superconducting qubits might be improved by coating them with a noble metal such as gold.

Satisfaction and Violation of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation in Spin Ice Materials

F. Morineau, V. Cathelin, P. C. W. Holdsworth, S. R. Giblin, G. Balakrishnan, K. Matsuhira, C. Paulsen, and E. Lhotel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096702 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Experiments identify temperature ranges where exotic materials known as spin ices are in equilibrium or out of equilibrium.

Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Parameters Using Convolutional Neural Networks with 9.3 Years of Data in IceCube DeepCore

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 091801 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Strong constraints from atmospheric neutrinos are placed on oscillation parameters using the DeepCore subdetector of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

Dynamical Formation of Multiple Quantum Droplets in a Bose-Bose Mixture

L. Cavicchioli, C. Fort, F. Ancilotto, M. Modugno, F. Minardi, and A. Burchianti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093401 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

A single quantum droplet in a two-component bosonic mixture of ultracold atoms breaks up into multiple droplets, a behavior consistent with capillary instability.

Test of Nonlocal Energy Alteration between Two Quantum Memories

Jian-Peng Dou, Feng Lu, Hao Tang, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093601 (2025) - Published 3 March, 2025

Using quantum memories, it is shown that nonlocality is also inherent in the hidden variable interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Universal Phenomenology of Charge-Spin Interconversion and Dynamics in Diffusive Systems with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Tim Kokkeler, F. Sebastian Bergeret, and I. V. Tokatly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096001 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

A phenomenological theory, reminiscent of the Ginzburg-Landau theory, describes the diffusive transport in normal metals, and naturally captures the effects of superconducting fluctuations.

Coherent Detection of the Oscillating Acoustoelectric Effect in Graphene

Yicheng Mou, Jiayu Wang, Haonan Chen, Yingchao Xia, Hailong Li, Qing Yan, Xue Jiang, Yijia Wu, Wu Shi, Hua Jiang, X. C. Xie, and Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096301 (2025) - Published 6 March, 2025

Coherent detection of the oscillating acoustoelectric effect in graphene is achieved through the coherent rectification of spatial-temporal charge oscillation with electromagnetic waves emitted by interdigital transducers.

Raman Forbidden Layer-Breathing Modes in Layered Semiconductor Materials Activated by Phonon and Optical Cavity Effects

Miao-Ling Lin, Jiang-Bin Wu, Xue-Lu Liu, Tao Liu, Rui Mei, Heng Wu, Shan Guan, Jia-Liang Xie, Jun-Wei Luo, Lin-Wang Wang, Andrea C. Ferrari, and Ping-Heng Tan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096903 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Layered semiconductor multilayers can serve as photon-phonon cavities to enable wavevector matching between photon and standing waves of a layer-breathing phonon displacement field along the out-of-plane axis, leading to emergence of Raman forbidden layer-breathing modes.

Computing Nonequilibrium Responses with Score-Shifted Stochastic Differential Equations

Jérémie Klinger and Grant M. Rotskoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 097101 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

In nonequilibrium systems, where the fluctuation-dissipation theorem generally does not hold, introducing an appropriate drift term to a stochastic differential equation allows computation of the response of the system to perturbations in the diffusion tensor.

Mechanistic Picture for the Slow Arrhenius Process in Glass Forming Systems: The Collective Small Displacements Model

Ronald P. White, Simone Napolitano, and Jane E. G. Lipson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 098203 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

A method based on thermodynamic analysis of material properties is able to predict slow Arrhenius process (SAP) relaxation rates and SAP-driven equilibration rates in glassy systems without inputing any prior data on the SAP

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Randomness versus Nonlocality in Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output Quantum Scenario

Chao Zhang, Yi Li, Xiao-Min Hu, Yu Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, Jordi Tura, Qihuang Gong, Qiongyi He, and Bi-Heng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090201 (2025) - Published 3 March, 2025

Computable Entanglement Cost under Positive Partial Transpose Operations

Ludovico Lami, Francesco Anna Mele, and Bartosz Regula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090202 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Frustration Elimination and Excited State Search in Coherent Ising Machines

Zheng-Yang Zhou, Clemens Gneiting, J. Q. You, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090401 (2025) - Published 5 March, 2025

Engineering Nonequilibrium Steady States through Floquet Liouvillians

Weijian Chen, Maryam Abbasi, Serra Erdamar, Jacob Muldoon, Yogesh N. Joglekar, and Kater W. Murch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090402 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Establishing a New Benchmark in Quantum Computational Advantage with 105-qubit Zuchongzhi 3.0 Processor

Dongxin Gao et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090601 (2025) - Published 3 March, 2025

A new high-performance quantum processor boasts 105 superconducting qubits and rivals Google’s acclaimed Willow processor.

Lowering Connectivity Requirements for Bivariate Bicycle Codes Using Morphing Circuits

Mackenzie H. Shaw and Barbara M. Terhal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090602 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Low-Cost Noise Reduction for Clifford Circuits

Nicolas Delfosse and Edwin Tham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090603 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Stability of Classical Shadows under Gate-Dependent Noise

Raphael Brieger, Markus Heinrich, Ingo Roth, and Martin Kliesch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090801 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Semidefinite Relaxations for High-Dimensional Entanglement in the Steering Scenario

Nicola D’Alessandro, Carles Roch i Carceller, and Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090802 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Fundamental Physics with the Lyman-Alpha Forest: Constraints on the Growth of Structure and Neutrino Masses from SDSS with Effective Field Theory

Mikhail M. Ivanov, Michael W. Toomey, and Naim Göksel Karaçayl𝚤

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 091001 (2025) - Published 3 March, 2025

Particles and Fields

Holographic Correlators with Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield Bound States in N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Francesco Aprile, Stefano Giusto, and Rodolfo Russo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 091602 (2025) - Published 5 March, 2025

Dissipation and Decay of Three-Dimensional Holographic Quantum Turbulence

Hua-Bi Zeng, Chuan-Yin Xia, Wei-Can Yang, Yu Tian, and Makoto Tsubota

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 091603 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Parameters Using Convolutional Neural Networks with 9.3 Years of Data in IceCube DeepCore

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 091801 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Strong constraints from atmospheric neutrinos are placed on oscillation parameters using the DeepCore subdetector of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

Next-to-Leading-Order Weak-Annihilation Correction to Rare B{K,π}+ Decays

Yong-Kang Huang, Yue-Long Shen, Chao Wang, and Yu-Ming Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 091901 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Increasing Octupole Collectivity across the Z=64 Isotopic Chain: B(E3) Values in Gd150

S. Pascu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 092501 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Turning on the Fluorescence from Isolated GFP Chromophore Anions at Cryogenic Temperatures

Thomas Toft Lindkvist, Iden Djavani-Tabrizi, Lars Henrik Andersen, and Steen Brøndsted Nielsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093001 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Sequential Synchronous Mechanism for Double-Electron Capture: Insights into Unforeseen Large Cross Sections in Low-Energy Sn3++H2 Collisions

Lamberto Oltra, Luis Méndez, Ismanuel Rabadán, Klaas Bijlsma, Emiel de Wit, and Ronnie Hoekstra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093002 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Smallness of the Nuclear Polarization Effect in the Hyperfine Structure of Heavy Muonic Atoms as a Stimulus for Next-Generation Experiments

J. Vandeleur, G. Sanamyan, O. R. Smits, I. A. Valuev, N. S. Oreshkina, and J. S. M. Ginges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093003 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Exploring the Dynamical Interplay between Mass-Energy Equivalence, Interactions, and Entanglement in an Optical Lattice Clock

Anjun Chu, Victor J. Martínez-Lahuerta, Maya Miklos, Kyungtae Kim, Peter Zoller, Klemens Hammerer, Jun Ye, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093201 (2025) - Published 3 March, 2025

Spin-Polarized Photoelectrons in the Vicinity of Spectral Features

Stefanos Carlström, Rezvan Tahouri, Asimina Papoulia, Jan Marcus Dahlström, Misha Yu Ivanov, Olga Smirnova, and Serguei Patchkovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093202 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Dynamical Formation of Multiple Quantum Droplets in a Bose-Bose Mixture

L. Cavicchioli, C. Fort, F. Ancilotto, M. Modugno, F. Minardi, and A. Burchianti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093401 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

A single quantum droplet in a two-component bosonic mixture of ultracold atoms breaks up into multiple droplets, a behavior consistent with capillary instability.

Test of Nonlocal Energy Alteration between Two Quantum Memories

Jian-Peng Dou, Feng Lu, Hao Tang, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093601 (2025) - Published 3 March, 2025

Using quantum memories, it is shown that nonlocality is also inherent in the hidden variable interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Thouless Pumping in a Driven-Dissipative Kerr Resonator Array

S. Ravets, N. Pernet, N. Mostaan, N. Goldman, and J. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093801 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Entangled-Beam Reflectometry and Goos-Hänchen Shift

Q. Le Thien, R. Pynn, and G. Ortiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093802 (2025) - Published 5 March, 2025

Observation of a Giant Goos-Hänchen Shift for Matter Waves

S. McKay, V. O. de Haan, J. Leiner, S. R. Parnell, R. M. Dalgliesh, P. Boeni, L. J. Bannenberg, Q. Le Thien, D. V. Baxter, G. Ortiz, and R. Pynn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093803 (2025) - Published 5 March, 2025

Mid-Infrared Energy Deposition Spectroscopy

Jiaze Yin, Christian Pfluegl, Chu C. Teng, Rylie Bolarinho, Guo Chen, Xinrui Gong, Dashan Dong, Daryoosh Vakhshoori, and Ji-Xin Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093804 (2025) - Published 6 March, 2025

Resolving the Orientations of and Angular Separation Between a Pair of Dipole Emitters

Yiyang Chen, Yuanxin Qiu, and Matthew D. Lew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093805 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Direct Measurement of the Viscocapillary Lift Force near a Liquid Interface

Hao Zhang, Zaicheng Zhang, Aditya Jha, Yacine Amarouchene, Thomas Salez, Thomas Guérin, Chaouqi Misbah, and Abdelhamid Maali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 094001 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Invariant Forms of Dissolution Fingers

Stanisław Żukowski, Silvana Magni, Florian Osselin, Filip Dutka, Max Cooper, Anthony J. C. Ladd, and Piotr Szymczak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 094101 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

First Measurement of Z Opacity Sample Evolution near Solar Interior Conditions Using Time-Resolved Spectroscopy

G. P. Loisel, J. E. Bailey, T. Nagayama, S. B. Hansen, G. S. Dunham, P. D. Gard, A. P. Colombo, A. D. Edens, R. Speas, Q. Looker, M. Kimmel, J. L. Porter, E. C. Harding, G. A. Rochau, C. J. Fontes, J. P. Colgan, C. Blancard, Ph. Cossé, G. Faussurier, F. Gilleron, J.-Ch. Pain, and D. Aberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 095101 (2025) - Published 3 March, 2025

Temporal measurements in conditions similar to those in the Sun rebut a leading hypothesis for why models and experiments disagree on how much light iron absorbs

Group Conductivity and Nonadiabatic Born Effective Charges of Disordered Metals, Warm Dense Matter, and Hot Dense Plasma

Vidushi Sharma and Alexander J. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 095102 (2025) - Published 6 March, 2025

Measurement of Zero-Frequency Fluctuations Generated by Coupling between Alfvén Modes in the JET Tokamak

J. Ruiz Ruiz, J. Garcia, M. Barnes, M. Dreval, C. Giroud, V. H. Hall-Chen, M. R. Hardman, J. C. Hillesheim, Y. Kazakov, S. Mazzi, B. S. Patel, F. I. Parra, A. A. Schekochihin, and Ž. Štancar (the JET Contributors and the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 095103 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Universal Phenomenology of Charge-Spin Interconversion and Dynamics in Diffusive Systems with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Tim Kokkeler, F. Sebastian Bergeret, and I. V. Tokatly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096001 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

A phenomenological theory, reminiscent of the Ginzburg-Landau theory, describes the diffusive transport in normal metals, and naturally captures the effects of superconducting fluctuations.

Thermodynamic Evidence for Density Wave Order in a Two Dimensional He4 Supersolid

J. Knapp, J. Nyéki, H. Patel, F. Ziouzia, B. P. Cowan, and J. Saunders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096002 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Automatic Process Exploration through Machine Learning Assisted Transition State Searches

King Chun Lai, Patricia Poths, Sebastian Matera, Christoph Scheurer, and Karsten Reuter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096201 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Intrinsic High-Fidelity Spin Polarization of Charged Vacancies in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

W. Lee, V. S. Liu, Z. Zhang, S. Kim, R. Gong, X. Du, K. Pham, T. Poirier, Z. Hao, J. H. Edgar, P. Kim, C. Zu, E. J. Davis, and N. Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096202 (2025) - Published 6 March, 2025

Auroralike Light from a Polymer pn Junction Emitting Free Electrons

Dongze Wang and Jun Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096203 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

The discovery of a mini aurora above a light-emitting polymer material reveals an electron-ejection process that might be useful in field-emission displays and material fabrication.

Independently Tunable Flat Bands and Correlations in a Graphene Double Moiré System

Yimeng Wang, Jihang Zhu, G. William Burg, Anand Swain, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Yuebing Zheng, Allan H. MacDonald, and Emanuel Tutuc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096204 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Coherent Detection of the Oscillating Acoustoelectric Effect in Graphene

Yicheng Mou, Jiayu Wang, Haonan Chen, Yingchao Xia, Hailong Li, Qing Yan, Xue Jiang, Yijia Wu, Wu Shi, Hua Jiang, X. C. Xie, and Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096301 (2025) - Published 6 March, 2025

Coherent detection of the oscillating acoustoelectric effect in graphene is achieved through the coherent rectification of spatial-temporal charge oscillation with electromagnetic waves emitted by interdigital transducers.

Domain-Wall Ferroelectric Polarons in a Two-Dimensional Rotor Lattice Model

Florian Kluibenschedl, Georgios M. Koutentakis, Ragheed Alhyder, and Mikhail Lemeshko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096302 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Landscapes of an Out-of-Equilibrium Anyonic Sea

Gu Zhang, Igor Gornyi, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096303 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Chirality in the Kagome Metal CsV3Sb5

H. J. Elmers et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096401 (2025) - Published 6 March, 2025

Connecting High-Field and High-Pressure Superconductivity in UTe2

T. Vasina, D. Aoki, A. Miyake, G. Seyfarth, A. Pourret, C. Marcenat, M. Amano Patino, G. Lapertot, J. Flouquet, J.-P. Brison, D. Braithwaite, and G. Knebel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096501 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Signature of Preformed Pairs in Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Klemen Kovač, Alberto Nocera, Andrea Damascelli, Janez Bonča, and Mona Berciu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096502 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Decoherence through Ancilla Anyon Reservoirs

Nayan Myerson-Jain, Taylor L. Hughes, and Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096503 (2025) - Published 5 March, 2025

Many-Body Effects on High-Harmonic Generation in Hubbard Ladders

Yuta Murakami, Thomas Hansen, Shintaro Takayoshi, Lars Bojer Madsen, and Philipp Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096504 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Characterizing Dynamic Hybridization of Majorana Zero Modes for Universal Quantum Computing

Themba Hodge, Eric Mascot, Dan Crawford, and Stephan Rachel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096601 (2025) - Published 6 March, 2025

Unconventional Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in Noncollinear Antiferromagnet/Heavy-Metal Stacks

Tomohiro Uchimura, Jiahao Han, Ping Tang, Ju-Young Yoon, Yutaro Takeuchi, Yuta Yamane, Shun Kanai, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Hideo Ohno, and Shunsuke Fukami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096701 (2025) - Published 3 March, 2025

Satisfaction and Violation of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation in Spin Ice Materials

F. Morineau, V. Cathelin, P. C. W. Holdsworth, S. R. Giblin, G. Balakrishnan, K. Matsuhira, C. Paulsen, and E. Lhotel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096702 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Experiments identify temperature ranges where exotic materials known as spin ices are in equilibrium or out of equilibrium.

Mirror Chern Bands and Weyl Nodal Loops in Altermagnets

Daniil S. Antonenko, Rafael M. Fernandes, and Jörn W. F. Venderbos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096703 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Exploring Single-Photon Recoil on Free Electrons

Alexander Preimesberger, Dominik Hornof, Theo Dorfner, Thomas Schachinger, Martin Hrtoň, Andrea Konečná, and Philipp Haslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096901 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Bound States in the Continuum in Cylindrical All-Dielectric Metasurface Cavities

Pietro Brugnolo, Samel Arslanagić, and Rasmus E. Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096902 (2025) - Published 5 March, 2025

An all-dielectric version of a metamaterials-based cavity allows the cavity to operate over a previously inaccessible wavelength range—which could benefit lasers and other resonant devices.

Raman Forbidden Layer-Breathing Modes in Layered Semiconductor Materials Activated by Phonon and Optical Cavity Effects

Miao-Ling Lin, Jiang-Bin Wu, Xue-Lu Liu, Tao Liu, Rui Mei, Heng Wu, Shan Guan, Jia-Liang Xie, Jun-Wei Luo, Lin-Wang Wang, Andrea C. Ferrari, and Ping-Heng Tan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 096903 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Layered semiconductor multilayers can serve as photon-phonon cavities to enable wavevector matching between photon and standing waves of a layer-breathing phonon displacement field along the out-of-plane axis, leading to emergence of Raman forbidden layer-breathing modes.

Eliminating Surface Oxides of Superconducting Circuits with Noble Metal Encapsulation

Ray D. Chang, Nana Shumiya, Russell A. McLellan, Yifan Zhang, Matthew P. Bland, Faranak Bahrami, Junsik Mun, Chenyu Zhou, Kim Kisslinger, Guangming Cheng, Basil M. Smitham, Alexander C. Pakpour-Tabrizi, Nan Yao, Yimei Zhu, Mingzhao Liu, Robert J. Cava, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Andrew A. Houck, and Nathalie P. de Leon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 097001 (2025) - Published 6 March, 2025

The quantum properties of superconducting qubits might be improved by coating them with a noble metal such as gold.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Computing Nonequilibrium Responses with Score-Shifted Stochastic Differential Equations

Jérémie Klinger and Grant M. Rotskoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 097101 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

In nonequilibrium systems, where the fluctuation-dissipation theorem generally does not hold, introducing an appropriate drift term to a stochastic differential equation allows computation of the response of the system to perturbations in the diffusion tensor.

Effective Grand Canonical Description of Condensation in Negative-Temperature Regimes

Stefano Iubini and Antonio Politi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 097102 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Classical Origins of Landau-Incompatible Transitions

Abhishodh Prakash and Nick G. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 097103 (2025) - Published 6 March, 2025

Partial Yet Definite Emergence of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Class in Isotropic Spin Chains

Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, Kazuaki Takasan, Ofer Busani, Patrik L. Ferrari, Romain Vasseur, and Jacopo De Nardis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 097104 (2025) - Published 6 March, 2025

Flux Hypothesis for Odd Transport Phenomena

Cory Hargus, Alhad Deshpande, Ahmad K. Omar, and Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 097105 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Mesoscopic Dynamics in Molecular Liquids: Universality of Nondispersive Structural Mode and Its Reflection in Self-Atomic Motions

Arantxa Arbe, Silvia Arrese-Igor, María Dolores Ruiz-Martín, Bela Farago, Fernando Alvarez, Gøran J. Nilsen, and Juan Colmenero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 098001 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Diffusioosmotic Reversal of Colloidal Focusing Direction in a Microfluidic T-Junction

Haoyu Liu and Amir A. Pahlavan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 098201 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Crack Propagation by Activated Avalanches during Creep and Fatigue from Elastic Interface Theory

Tero Mäkinen, Lumi Tuokkola, Joonas Lahikainen, Ivan V. Lomakin, Juha Koivisto, and Mikko J. Alava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 098202 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Mechanistic Picture for the Slow Arrhenius Process in Glass Forming Systems: The Collective Small Displacements Model

Ronald P. White, Simone Napolitano, and Jane E. G. Lipson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 098203 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

A method based on thermodynamic analysis of material properties is able to predict slow Arrhenius process (SAP) relaxation rates and SAP-driven equilibration rates in glassy systems without inputing any prior data on the SAP

Activity-Driven Emulsification of Phase-Separating Binary Mixtures

Javier Díaz and Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 098301 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

Hotter Is Not Faster for a Melting RNA Hairpin

Huaping Li, E. M. Bahçeci, M. Sayar, and A. Kabakç𝚤oğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 098401 (2025) - Published 7 March, 2025

COMMENTS

Comment on “Absence of Topological Protection of the Interface States in Z2 Photonic Crystals”

Xing-Xiang Wang, Toshikaze Kariyado, and Xiao Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 099301 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

Xu et al. Reply:

Shupeng Xu, Yuhui Wang, and Ritesh Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 099302 (2025) - Published 4 March, 2025

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