Volume 135, Issue 10

5 September 2025

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Aerial view of the Muon g – 2 experiment at Fermi National Laboratory. Selected for a Research News story in Physics Magazine and an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 127 ppb
D. P. Aguillard et al. (Muon $g - 2$ Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101802 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 127 ppb

D. P. Aguillard et al. (Muon $g - 2$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101802 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

The final results from the Muon $g$ − 2 experiment agree with the latest predictions of the muon’s magnetic properties—letting down hopes that the particle would upset the standard model’s applecart.

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String-Breaking Mechanism in a Lattice Schwinger Model Simulator

Ying Liu, Wei-Yong Zhang, Zi-Hang Zhu, Ming-Gen He, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101902 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

An optical-lattice experiment offers a platform for observing dynamics of particle–antiparticle pair creation in quantum field theories.

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Sea Ice Aging by Diffusion-Driven Desalination

Yihong Du, Feng Wang, Enrico Calzavarini, and Chao Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 104201 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Experiments on freezing saltwater have teased apart flow dynamics inside ice pores, offering a possible boost to climate models’ predictive power.

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Magnifying the Wave Function of Interacting Fermionic Atoms

Sandra Brandstetter, Carl Heintze, Paul Hill, Philipp M. Preiss, Maciej Gałka, and Selim Jochim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 103401 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

A new technique allows the imaging of an atomic system in which the interatomic spacing is smaller than the optical-resolution limit.

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Unveiling the Electrodynamic Nature of Spacetime Collisions

Siddharth Boyeneni, Jiaxi Wu, and Elias R. Most

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101401 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Gravitational field equations describing binary black holes can be recast in a form resembling coupled Maxwell’s equations for electrodynamics.

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Experimental Evidence of Stimulated Raman Rescattering in Laser-Plasma Interaction

J.-R. Marquès, F. Pérez, P. Loiseau, L. Lancia, C. Briand, S. Depierreux, M. Grech, and C. Riconda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 105101 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Raman rescattering, a long-predicted form of Raman scattering driven by Raman scattering itself and relevant to the study of inertial confinement fusion plasmas, has been observed in a laser plasma.

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Non-Abelian Fractional Chern Insulators and Competing States in Flat Moiré Bands

Hui Liu, Zhao Liu, and Emil J. Bergholtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106604 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

By tuning the coupling strength between twisted bilayers in a moiré material, transitioning the flat band from the regime of the lowest Landau level to the second Landau level, phase transitions occur between gapless composite Fermi liquids, charge density waves, and genuine Moore-Read states.

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Tomography of Parametric Transition in Magnets

Hiroki Shimizu, Tomosato Hioki, Shuntaro Takeda, and Eiji Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106701 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

A new spectroscopic method shows that parametric oscillation in magnets is triggered by asymmetrically distorted magnetization correlations which form due to nonlinear effects.

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Hydrodynamics of Cooperation and Self-Interest in a Two-Population Occupation Model

Jérôme Garnier-Brun, Ruben Zakine, and Michael Benzaquen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 107402 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Socioeconomic systems, where individualistic and altruistic agents coexist and interact, can be analytically characterized through state-of-the-art tools from active matter at the hydrodynamics scale.

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Exact Computation of Transfer Entropy with Path Weight Sampling

Avishek Das and Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 107404 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

A new computational algorithm makes it possible to quantify the transfer entropy for any stochastic model without the need for approximations.

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Deciphering Complexity in Human Brain Organoids via a Novel Hurst Exponent Estimation

Mariana Sacrini Ayres Ferraz, Alysson R. Muotri, and Alexandre Hiroaki Kihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 108402 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

A method that estimates the Hurst exponent directly from a binary spike train series suggests that the coefficient of variation of the exponent, rather than the exponent itself, more accurately reflects neural complexity during organoid maturation.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Quantifying Two-Mode Entanglement of Bosonic Gaussian States from Their Full Counting Statistics

Victor Gondret, Clothilde Lamirault, Rui Dias, Charlie Leprince, Christoph I. Westbrook, David Clément, and Denis Boiron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 100201 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Measurement Incompatibility under Loss

Mohammad Mehboudi, Fatemeh Rezaeinia, and Saleh Rahimi-Keshari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 100202 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Efficient Computation of Cumulant Evolution and Full Counting Statistics: Application to Infinite Temperature Quantum Spin Chains

Angelo Valli, Cătălin Paşcu Moca, Miklós Antal Werner, Márton Kormos, Žiga Krajnik, Tomaž Prosen, and Gergely Zaránd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 100401 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Heisenberg-Limited Continuous-Variable Distributed Quantum Metrology with Arbitrary Weights

Wenchao Ge and Kurt Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 100801 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Quantum Metrology in the Ultrastrong Coupling Regime of Light-Matter Interactions: Leveraging Virtual Excitations without Extracting Them

Christoph Hotter, Adam Miranowicz, and Karol Gietka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 100802 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Ultralight Dark Matter Statistics for Pulsar Timing Detection

Kimberly K. Boddy, Jeff A. Dror, and Austin Lam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101001 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Universal Bound on the Duration of a Kination Era

Cem Eröncel, Yann Gouttenoire, Ryosuke Sato, Géraldine Servant, and Peera Simakachorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101002 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Scalar Relics from the Hot Big Bang

David Cyncynates and Olivier Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101003 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unveiling the Electrodynamic Nature of Spacetime Collisions

Siddharth Boyeneni, Jiaxi Wu, and Elias R. Most

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101401 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Gravitational field equations describing binary black holes can be recast in a form resembling coupled Maxwell’s equations for electrodynamics.

Broadband Limits on Stochastic Length Fluctuations from a Pair of Table-Top Interferometers

Abhinav Patra, Lorenzo Aiello, Aldo Ejlli, William L. Griffiths, Alasdair L. James, Nikitha Kuntimaddi, Ohkyung Kwon, Eyal Schwartz, Henning Vahlbruch, Sander M. Vermeulen, Keiko Kokeyama, Katherine L. Dooley, and Hartmut Grote

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101402 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Particles and Fields

Localization of the M2-Brane

Friðrik Freyr Gautason and Jesse van Muiden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101601 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Electroweak Symmetry Restoration and Radiation Amplitude Zeros

Rodolfo Capdevilla and Tao Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101801 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

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Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 127 ppb

D. P. Aguillard et al. (Muon $g - 2$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101802 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Single-Inclusive Hadron Production in Electron-Positron Annihilation at Next-to-Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Chuan-Qi He, Hongxi Xing, Tong-Zhi Yang, and Hua Xing Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101901 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

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String-Breaking Mechanism in a Lattice Schwinger Model Simulator

Ying Liu, Wei-Yong Zhang, Zi-Hang Zhu, Ming-Gen He, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101902 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

An optical-lattice experiment offers a platform for observing dynamics of particle–antiparticle pair creation in quantum field theories.

Elliptic Leading Singularities and Canonical Integrands

E. Chaubey and V. Sotnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101903 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Dilepton Production from Moaton Quasiparticles

Zohar Nussinov, Michael C. Ogilvie, Laurin Pannullo, Robert D. Pisarski, Fabian Rennecke, Stella T. Schindler, and Marc Winstel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 101904 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Effect of Incremental Hydration on Reverse Internal Conversion Vibrational Autodetachment of an Anion

E. Michi Burrow, Connor J. Clarke, and Jan R. R. Verlet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 103001 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Leveraging Resonant Frequencies of an Optical Cavity for Spectroscopic Measurement of Gas Temperature and Concentration

Daniel Lisak, Vittorio D’Agostino, Szymon Wójtewicz, Agata Cygan, Marcin Gibas, Piotr Wcisło, Roman Ciuryło, and Katarzyna Bielska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 103201 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

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Magnifying the Wave Function of Interacting Fermionic Atoms

Sandra Brandstetter, Carl Heintze, Paul Hill, Philipp M. Preiss, Maciej Gałka, and Selim Jochim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 103401 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

A new technique allows the imaging of an atomic system in which the interatomic spacing is smaller than the optical-resolution limit.

Atomic Coherence of 2 Minutes and Instability of $1.5 \times 10^{- 18}$ at 1 s in a Wannier-Stark Lattice Clock

Kyungtae Kim, Alexander Aeppli, William Warfield, Anjun Chu, Ana Maria Rey, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 103601 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Cavity QED Based on Strongly Localized Modes: Exponentially Enhancing Single-Atom Cooperativity

Qian Bin, Ying Wu, Jin-Hua Gao, Aixi Chen, Franco Nori, and Xin-You Lü

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 103602 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Tricritical Directed Percolation Controls the Laminar-Turbulent Transition in Pipes with Body Forces

Guru K. Jayasingh and Nigel Goldenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 104001 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

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Sea Ice Aging by Diffusion-Driven Desalination

Yihong Du, Feng Wang, Enrico Calzavarini, and Chao Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 104201 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Experiments on freezing saltwater have teased apart flow dynamics inside ice pores, offering a possible boost to climate models’ predictive power.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Evidence of Stimulated Raman Rescattering in Laser-Plasma Interaction

J.-R. Marquès, F. Pérez, P. Loiseau, L. Lancia, C. Briand, S. Depierreux, M. Grech, and C. Riconda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 105101 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Raman rescattering, a long-predicted form of Raman scattering driven by Raman scattering itself and relevant to the study of inertial confinement fusion plasmas, has been observed in a laser plasma.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Emergent Negative Thermal Expansion in Amorphous Fe-Y-Zr-B Alloys

Ming Gao, Hankun Xu, Kun Lin, Andrea Sanson, Alessandro Venier, Alessandro Puri, Jochi Tseng, Guodong Li, Qian Zhang, Xuyu Dong, Yili Cao, Qiang Li, and Xianran Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106101 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Pressure-Induced Polyhedral Reorganization Causes Indirect-to-Direct Band-Gap Transition in Spinel Structure

Pengfei Shen, Donghao Xu, Zhiguo Xia, and Mingguang Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106102 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Dual Role for Heterogeneity in Dynamic Fracture

Itamar Kolvin and Mokhtar Adda-Bedia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106201 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Singlet-Only Always-On Gapless Exchange Qubits with Baseband Control

Nathan L. Foulk, Silas Hoffman, Katharina Laubscher, and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106202 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Multiorbital Interactions and Spin Polarization in Single Rare-Earth Adatoms

Massine Kelai, Stefano Reale, Roberto Robles, Jaehyun Lee, Divya Jyoti, Philippe Ohresser, Edwige Otero, Fadi Choueikani, Fabrice Scheurer, Nicolás Lorente, Deung-Jang Choi, Aparajita Singha, and Fabio Donati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106203 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Intrinsic Dynamic Generation of Spin Polarization by Time-Varying Electric Field

Xukun Feng, Jin Cao, Zhi-Fan Zhang, Lay Kee Ang, Shen Lai, Hua Jiang, Cong Xiao, and Shengyuan A. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106301 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Nonreciprocity of Hydrodynamic Electron Transport in Noncentrosymmetric Conductors

E. Kirkinis, L. Bonds, A. Levchenko, and A. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106302 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Probing Green’s Function Zeros by Cotunneling through Mott Insulators

Carl Lehmann, Lorenzo Crippa, Giorgio Sangiovanni, and Jan Carl Budich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106303 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

High-Throughput Search for Metallic Altermagnets by Embedded Dynamical Mean Field Theory

Xuhao Wan, Subhasish Mandal, Yuzheng Guo, and Kristjan Haule

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106501 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Density Matrix Renormalization Group Algorithm for non-Hermitian Systems

Peigeng Zhong, Wei Pan, Haiqing Lin, Xiaoqun Wang, and Shijie Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106502 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Robust Charge Density Wave Correlations in Optimally Doped ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{y}$

Rui Zhou, Igor Vinograd, Hadrien Mayaffre, Juan Porras, Hun-Ho Kim, Toshinao Loew, Yiran Liu, Matthieu Le Tacon, Bernhard Keimer, and Marc-Henri Julien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106503 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Terahertz Field Control of Electronic-Ferroelectric Anisotropy at Room Temperature in ${LuFe}_{2} O_{4}$

Hirotake Itoh, Ryusei Minakami, Hongwu Yu, Ryohei Tsuruoka, Tatsuya Amano, Yohei Kawakami, Shin-ya Koshihara, Kosuke Fujiwara, Naoshi Ikeda, Yoichi Okimoto, and Shinichiro Iwai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106504 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Current-Induced Nonequilibrium Hidden Spin Polarization in Topological Dirac Semimetals

Yun-Jing Lai, Meng-Rou Huang, Hou-Jian Duan, Mou Yang, Rui-Qiang Wang, and Ming-Xun Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106505 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Non-Hermitian Floquet Topological Sensors for Ultrasensitive Detection of Dynamic Signals

Xiaoqi Zhou, Weixuan Zhang, Wenhui Cao, and Xiangdong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106601 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Quantum Geometry and the Electric Magnetochiral Anisotropy in Noncentrosymmetric Polar Media

Pierpaolo Fontana, Victor Velasco, Chang Niu, Peide D. Ye, Pedro V. Lopes, Kaio E. M. de Souza, Marcus V. O. Moutinho, Caio Lewenkopf, and Marcello B. Silva Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106602 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Anomalous Hall Effect in the Dirac Semimetal ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$ Probed by In-Plane Magnetic Field

Shinichi Nishihaya, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Yuki Deguchi, Ayano Nakamura, Tadashi Yoneda, Hsiang Lee, Markus Kriener, and Masaki Uchida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106603 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Non-Abelian Fractional Chern Insulators and Competing States in Flat Moiré Bands

Hui Liu, Zhao Liu, and Emil J. Bergholtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106604 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Extrinsic Mechanisms of Phonon Magnetic Moment

Rui Xue, Zhenhua Qiao, Yang Gao, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106605 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tomography of Parametric Transition in Magnets

Hiroki Shimizu, Tomosato Hioki, Shuntaro Takeda, and Eiji Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106701 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

A new spectroscopic method shows that parametric oscillation in magnets is triggered by asymmetrically distorted magnetization correlations which form due to nonlinear effects.

High-Temperature Phase Separation and Charge-Magnon Liquid in Kinetic Antiferromagnets

Johan Carlström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106702 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Mixing of Surface and Bulk Optical Nonlinearities via Surface Plasmon Polaritons

Guy Sayer, Matan Iluz, Amit Kam, and Guy Bartal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106901 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Optical Signatures of Dynamical Excitonic Condensates

Alexander Osterkorn, Yuta Murakami, Tatsuya Kaneko, Zhiyuan Sun, Andrew J. Millis, and Denis Golež

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106902 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Diffusive Nature of Housing Prices

Antoine-Cyrus Becharat, Michael Benzaquen, and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 107401 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hydrodynamics of Cooperation and Self-Interest in a Two-Population Occupation Model

Jérôme Garnier-Brun, Ruben Zakine, and Michael Benzaquen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 107402 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Weak-Correlation Universality and Macroscopic Fluctuations in Power-Law Recurrent Networks

Farzada Farkhooi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 107403 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exact Computation of Transfer Entropy with Path Weight Sampling

Avishek Das and Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 107404 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

A new computational algorithm makes it possible to quantify the transfer entropy for any stochastic model without the need for approximations.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Deciphering Complexity in Human Brain Organoids via a Novel Hurst Exponent Estimation

Mariana Sacrini Ayres Ferraz, Alysson R. Muotri, and Alexandre Hiroaki Kihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 108402 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

ERRATA

Erratum: Quantum State Smoothing for Linear Gaussian Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 190402 (2019)]

Kiarn T. Laverick, Areeya Chantasri, and Howard M. Wiseman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 109901 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Erratum: Giant Splitting of the Hydrogen Rotational Eigenenergies in the $C_{2}$ Filled Ice [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 236101 (2024)]

Simone Di Cataldo, Maria Rescigno, Lorenzo Monacelli, Umbertoluca Ranieri, Richard Gaal, Stefan Klotz, Jacques Ollivier, Michael Marek Koza, Cristiano De Michele, and Livia Eleonora Bove

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 109902 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025