Volume 135, Issue 11

12 September 2025

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Inspiral, merger, and ringdown for a pair of black holes, which allowed confirmation of Hawking’s area law. Data are from LIGO Hanford (red) and LIGO Livingston (blue). Selected for Viewpoint in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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GW250114: Testing Hawking’s Area Law and the Kerr Nature of Black Holes
A. G. Abac et al. (LIGO Scientific, Virgo, and KAGRA Collaborations)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111403 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Could We Observe an Exploding Black Hole in the Near Future?

Michael J. Baker, Joaquim Iguaz Juan, Aidan Symons, and Andrea Thamm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111002 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Primordial black holes could be stabilized by a dark, electromagnetic-like interaction, delaying their violent end until the present day.

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GW250114: Testing Hawking’s Area Law and the Kerr Nature of Black Holes

A. G. Abac et al. (LIGO Scientific, Virgo, and KAGRA Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111403 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has shown Hawking’s area law to hold with high credibility.

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Superradiant Neutrino Lasers from Radioactive Condensates

B. J. P. Jones and J. A. Formaggio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111801 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

A Bose-Einstein condensate of radioactive atoms could turn into a source of intense, coherent, and directional neutrino beams, according to a theoretical proposal.

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Evidence for Longitudinally Polarized $W$ Bosons in the Electroweak Production of Same-Sign $W$ Boson Pairs in Association with Two Jets in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111802 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

A deep neural network has proven essential in confirming a key prediction of one of the standard model’s cornerstones.

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Single-Chain Nanoparticles Break the Strength-Toughness-Processability Trilemma in Polymer Glasses

Lei Zhang, Xu-Ze Zhang, Rui Shi, Shi-Long Wu, Chao-Hao Xu, Ji-Chun You, Yu Zhang, Ming-Yang Li, Wen-Yu Xu, Qing-Lin Li, Zhen-Zhong Yang, Zhong-Yuan Lu, and Hu-Jun Qian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 118101 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

Incorporating single-chain nanoparticles in polymer glasses can simultaneously enhance strength, toughness, and processabilty – qualities that are typically at odds with one another.

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Strain-Enhanced Spin Readout Contrast in Silicon Carbide Membranes

Haibo Hu, Guodong Bian, Ailun Yi, Chunhui Jiang, Junhua Tan, Qi Luo, Bo Liang, Zhengtong Liu, Xinfang Nie, Dawei Lu, Shumin Xiao, Xin Ou, Ádám Gali, Yu Zhou, and Qinghai Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 110601 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

By employing the strain engineering strategy, optical spin readout contrast is more than doubled at room temperature.

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Probing Gluon Fluctuations in Nuclei with the First Energy-Dependent Measurement of Incoherent $J / ψ$ Photoproduction in Ultraperipheral PbPb Collisions

V. Chekhovsky et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 112301 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

The first measurement of incoherent $J / ψ$ photoproduction in ultraperipheral lead-lead collisions provides new constraints on gluon fluctuations within nuclei at previously unexplored small- $x$ values.

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Exciton Photoemission from a Ground State of a Solid: ${Ta}_{2} {Pd}_{3} {Te}_{5}$

Siwon Lee, Kyung-Hwan Jin, SeongJin Kwon, Hyunjin Jung, Choongjae Won, Sang-Wook Cheong, Gil Young Cho, Jaeyoung Kim, and Han Woong Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116401 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

Orbital-selective angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy provides a direct spectroscopic view of the ground state of an excitonic insulator.

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Observation of Electridelike $s$ States Coexisting with Correlated $d$ Electrons in ${NdNiO}_{2}$

Chihao Li, Yutong Chen, Xiang Ding, Yezhao Zhuang, Nan Guo, Zhihui Chen, Yu Fan, Jiahao Ye, Zhitong An, Suppanut Sangphet, Shenglin Tang, Xiaoxiao Wang, Hai Huang, Haichao Xu, Donglai Feng, and Rui Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116501 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

ARPES measurements on NdNiO $_{2}$ reveal an unexpected electronic structure for nickelates, which is reminiscent of electrides, clarifying the role of long-debated electron pockets in determining the nature of superconductivity in nickelates.

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Interlayer Charge Transfer Induced by Electronic Instabilities in the Natural van der Waals Heterostructure $4 H_{b} − {TaS}_{2}$

R. Mathew Roy, X. Feng, M. Wenzel, V. Hasse, C. Shekhar, M. G. Vergniory, C. Felser, A. V. Pronin, and M. Dressel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116503 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Low-energy (far-infrared) features in the optical conductivity point to temperature-dependent band modifications that couple to layer-selective intralayer charge density wave states in 4 $H_{b}$ -TaS $_{2}$ .

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Information and Majorization Theory for Fermionic Phase-Space Distributions

Nicolas J. Cerf and Tobias Haas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 110201 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Experimental Observation of Genuine Triplewise Monogamy of Contextuality Correlations

Xiang Zhan, Bingzi Huo, Dengke Qu, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 110202 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Prethermal Time-Crystalline Corner Modes

Si Jiang, Dong Yuan, Wenjie Jiang, Dong-Ling Deng, and Francisco Machado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 110401 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Quantum Thermodynamic Advantage in Work Extraction from Steerable Quantum Correlations

Tanmoy Biswas, Chandan Datta, and Luis Pedro García-Pintos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 110402 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Quantum Information Perspective on Many-Body Dispersive Forces

Christopher Willby, Martin Kiffner, Joseph Tindall, Jason Crain, and Dieter Jaksch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 110403 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Quantum Dissipative Continuous Time Crystals

Felix Russo and Thomas Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 110404 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

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Strain-Enhanced Spin Readout Contrast in Silicon Carbide Membranes

Haibo Hu, Guodong Bian, Ailun Yi, Chunhui Jiang, Junhua Tan, Qi Luo, Bo Liang, Zhengtong Liu, Xinfang Nie, Dawei Lu, Shumin Xiao, Xin Ou, Ádám Gali, Yu Zhou, and Qinghai Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 110601 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

By employing the strain engineering strategy, optical spin readout contrast is more than doubled at room temperature.

Covariant Quantum Error-Correcting Codes with Metrological Entanglement Advantage

Cheng-Ju Lin, Zi-Wen Liu, Victor V. Albert, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 110801 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Entangling Two Rydberg Superatoms via Single-Photon Interference

Chao-Wei Yang, Jun Li, Peng-Fei Sun, Zi-Ye An, Xiao-Hui Bao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 110802 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Topological Phase Transitions in a Constrained Two-Qubit Quantum Control Landscape

Nicolò Beato, Pranay Patil, and Marin Bukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 110803 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Approaching the Multiparameter Quantum Cramér-Rao Bound via Classical Correlation and Entangling Measurements

Minghao Mi, Ben Wang, and Lijian Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 110804 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Optimal Moment-Based Characterization of a Gaussian State

Niels Tripier-Mondancin, Ilya Karuseichyk, Mattia Walschaers, Valentina Parigi, and Nicolas Treps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 110805 (2025) - Published 12 September, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Resonant Axion-Plasmon Conversion in Neutron Star Magnetospheres

H. Terças, J. T. Mendonça, and R. Bingham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111001 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

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Could We Observe an Exploding Black Hole in the Near Future?

Michael J. Baker, Joaquim Iguaz Juan, Aidan Symons, and Andrea Thamm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111002 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Primordial black holes could be stabilized by a dark, electromagnetic-like interaction, delaying their violent end until the present day.

Systematic Analysis of Parity-Violating Modes

Hong-Ming Zhu (朱弘明) and Ue-Li Pen (彭威禮)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111003 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Two-Step Procedure to Detect Cosmological Gravitational Wave Backgrounds with Next-Generation Terrestrial Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Haowen Zhong, Luca Reali, Bei Zhou, Emanuele Berti, and Vuk Mandic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111401 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

Probing the Nature of Dark Matter Using Strongly Lensed Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Holes

Souvik Jana, Shasvath J. Kapadia, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Surhud More, and Parameswaran Ajith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111402 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

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GW250114: Testing Hawking’s Area Law and the Kerr Nature of Black Holes

A. G. Abac et al. (LIGO Scientific, Virgo, and KAGRA Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111403 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has shown Hawking’s area law to hold with high credibility.

Particles and Fields

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Superradiant Neutrino Lasers from Radioactive Condensates

B. J. P. Jones and J. A. Formaggio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111801 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

A Bose-Einstein condensate of radioactive atoms could turn into a source of intense, coherent, and directional neutrino beams, according to a theoretical proposal.

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Evidence for Longitudinally Polarized $W$ Bosons in the Electroweak Production of Same-Sign $W$ Boson Pairs in Association with Two Jets in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111802 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

A deep neural network has proven essential in confirming a key prediction of one of the standard model’s cornerstones.

Precise Measurement of the Form Factors in $D^{0} \to K^{} (892)^{-} μ^{+} ν_{μ}$ , and Test of Lepton Universality with $D^{0} \to K^{} (892)^{-} ℓ^{+} ν_{ℓ}$ Decays

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111803 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Nucleon Decays into Light New Particles in Neutrino Detectors

Julian Heeck and Ian M. Shoemaker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111804 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Measurement of Two-Point Energy Correlators within Jets in $p + p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

B. E. Aboona et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111901 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Bayesian Inferring Nucleon Gravitational Form Factors via Near-Threshold $J / ψ$ Photoproduction

Yuxun Guo, Feng Yuan, and Wenbin Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111902 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Nuclear Physics

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Probing Gluon Fluctuations in Nuclei with the First Energy-Dependent Measurement of Incoherent $J / ψ$ Photoproduction in Ultraperipheral PbPb Collisions

V. Chekhovsky et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 112301 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

Modification of the Jet Energy-Energy Correlator in Cold Nuclear Matter

Yu Fu, Berndt Müller, and Chathuranga Sirimanna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 112302 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

Evidence of Oscillating Neutron-Capture Cross Sections

P. E. Koehler and A. Stamatopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 112501 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Contribution of Subthreshold States to the Residual Energy Distribution of ${}^{159}{Dy}$

Tadafumi Kishimoto and Toru Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 112502 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Testing Strong-Field QED to Second Order in the Highly Correlated Atomic System Berylliumlike ${Pb}^{78 +}$ by Electron-Ion Collision Spectroscopy

S. Schippers et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 113001 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Selective Bond Breaking in ${CO}_{2}^{2 +}$ Induced by Photoelectron Recoil

J. Weiherer, N. Melzer, M. Kircher, A. Pier, L. Kaiser, J. Kruse, N. Anders, J. Stindl, L. Sommerlad, O. D. McGinnis, M. Schmidt, J. Drnec, F. Trinter, M. S. Schöffler, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, N. Sisourat, S. Eckart, T. Jahnke, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 113002 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Molecular Wave Plate for the Control of Ultrashort Pulses Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum

Chengqing Xu, Lixin He, Wanchen Tao, Xiaosong Zhu, Feng Wang, Long Xu, Lu Xu, Pengfei Lan, Ilya Averbukh, Yehiam Prior, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 113201 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Nonlinear Stage of Modulational Instability in Repulsive Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates

S. Mossman, S. I. Mistakidis, G. C. Katsimiga, A. Romero-Ros, G. Biondini, P. Schmelcher, P. Engels, and P. G. Kevrekidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 113401 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Medium-Enhanced Polaron Repulsion in a Dilute Bose Mixture

Jesper Levinsen, Olivier Bleu, and Meera M. Parish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 113402 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Selective Collective Emission from a Dense Atomic Ensemble Coupled to a Nanophotonic Resonator

Xinchao Zhou, Deepak A. Suresh, F. Robicheaux, and Chen-Lung Hung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 113601 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Temporally Localized Quantum Operations on Continuous-Wave Thermal Light

Yunkai Wang, Yujie Zhang, and Virginia O. Lorenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 113602 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Floquet Engineering of Interactions and Entanglement in Periodically Driven Rydberg Chains

Nazli Ugur Koyluoglu, Nishad Maskara, Johannes Feldmeier, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 113603 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Optimal Diffractive Focusing of Matter and Light Waves

Maxim A. Efremov, Felix Hufnagel, Hugo Larocque, Wolfgang P. Schleich, and Ebrahim Karimi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 113604 (2025) - Published 12 September, 2025

Ultraflat Soliton Microcombs in Driven Quadratic-Kerr Nonlinear Microresonators

Gangzhou Wu, Yating Wei, Lingfang Li, Shihua Chen, Lili Bu, Fabio Baronio, Tong Lin, Min Zhu, Stefano Trillo, and Zhenhua Ni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 113801 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

Theory and Experimental Observation of Scattering by a Space-Time Corner

Luca Stefanini, Emanuele Galiffi, Shixiong Yin, Sahitya Singh, Diego M. Solís, Nader Engheta, Alessandro Toscano, Davide Ramaccia, Filiberto Bilotti, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 113802 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Spontaneous Vortex-Antivortex Lattice and Majorana Fermions in Rhombohedral Graphene

Filippo Gaggioli, Daniele Guerci, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116001 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Renormalization Group Flow at a Quantum Phase Transition

Matthias Thamm, Harini Radhakrishnan, Hatem Barghathi, C. M. Herdman, Arpan Biswas, Bernd Rosenow, and Adrian Del Maestro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116002 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Fast Crystallization Driven by Quasiatomic Electrons at Ultralow Temperatures

Long Zhao, Hongxiang Zong, Artem R. Oganov, Xiangdong Ding, Jun Sun, and Graeme J. Ackland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116101 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Hydrophobic Versus Hydrophilic Nature of the Gold-Water Interface Determined by Fluctuating Local Water Orientation

Tadneem Tabassum, Banshi Das, Chanbum Park, Soumya Ghosh, Dennis Naujoks, Stefan M. Piontek, Alfred Ludwig, Dominik Marx, and Poul B. Petersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116201 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Design of Frictionless Interfaces for Moiré Layers

Zichong Zhang and Shuze Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116202 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Electric Hall Effect and Quantum Electric Hall Effect

Chaoxi Cui, Run-Wu Zhang, Yuhui Qiu, Yilin Han, Zhi-Ming Yu, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116301 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

Universal Transport at Lifshitz Metal-Insulator Transitions in Two Dimensions

Harry Tomlins and Jan M. Tomczak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116302 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

Thermally Bianisotropic Metamaterials Induced by Spatial Asymmetry

Gal Shmuel and John R. Willis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116303 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

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Exciton Photoemission from a Ground State of a Solid: ${Ta}_{2} {Pd}_{3} {Te}_{5}$

Siwon Lee, Kyung-Hwan Jin, SeongJin Kwon, Hyunjin Jung, Choongjae Won, Sang-Wook Cheong, Gil Young Cho, Jaeyoung Kim, and Han Woong Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116401 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

Orbital-selective angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy provides a direct spectroscopic view of the ground state of an excitonic insulator.

Generalized Neumann’s Principle as a Unified Framework for Fractional Quantum and Conventional Ferroelectricity

Hongsheng Pang and Lixin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116402 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

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Observation of Electridelike $s$ States Coexisting with Correlated $d$ Electrons in ${NdNiO}_{2}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116501 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

Generalized Peierls Substitution for Wannier Obstructions: Response to Disorder and Interactions

Shuai A. Chen, Roderich Moessner, and Tai Kai Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116502 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

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Interlayer Charge Transfer Induced by Electronic Instabilities in the Natural van der Waals Heterostructure $4 H_{b} − {TaS}_{2}$

R. Mathew Roy, X. Feng, M. Wenzel, V. Hasse, C. Shekhar, M. G. Vergniory, C. Felser, A. V. Pronin, and M. Dressel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116503 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Unveiling Stripe-Shaped Charge Density Modulations in Doped Mott Insulators

Ning Xia, Yuchen Guo, and Shuo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116504 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Observation of Hybrid Degenerate Point in Projected Non-Hermitian Metasurfaces

Jingyi Chen, Zhiling Zhou, Yu Xiao, Nengyin Wang, Xu Wang, and Yong Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116601 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Inversion-Asymmetric Itinerant Antiferromagnets by the Space Group Symmetry

Changhee Lee and P. M. R. Brydon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116701 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

Single-Shot Magnetization Reversal in Ferromagnetic Spin Valves via Heat Control

Kazuaki Ishibashi, Junta Igarashi, Alberto Anadón, Michel Hehn, Yann Le Guen, Satoshi Iihama, Julius Hohlfeld, Jon Gorchon, Stéphane Mangin, and Grégory Malinowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116702 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

Stabilization and Observation of Large-Area Ferromagnetic Bimeron Lattice

Miming Cai, Shangyuan Wang, Yuelin Zhang, Xiaoqing Bao, Dekun Shen, Jinghua Ren, Lei Qiu, Haiming Yu, Zhenlin Luo, Mathias Kläui, Shilei Zhang, Nicolas Jaouen, Gerrit van der Laan, Thorsten Hesjedal, Ka Shen, and Jinxing Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116703 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Near-Field Dynamical Casimir Effect

Renwen Yu and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116901 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Inverse Faraday Effect in Disordered Two-Dimensional Electronic Systems

Maxim Dzero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116902 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Extended XY Model for Spinor Polariton Simulators

A. Kudlis, D. Novokreschenov, and I. A. Shelykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116903 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Photoinduced Dynamics and Momentum Distribution of Chiral Charge Density Waves in $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$

Qingzheng Qiu, Sae Hwan Chun, Jaeku Park, Dogeun Jang, Li Yue, Yeongkwan Kim, Yeojin Ahn, Mingi Jho, Kimoon Han, Xinyi Jiang, Qian Xiao, Tao Dong, Jia-Yi Ji, Nanlin Wang, Jeroen van den Brink, Jasper van Wezel, and Yingying Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116904 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Microwave Negative Refractive Index Enabled by Anti-Parity-Time Symmetry in a Coupled Photon-Magnon Hybrid System

Junyoung Kim, Bojong Kim, and Sang-Koog Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116905 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Picosecond Expansion in ${LaAlO}_{3}$ Resonantly Driven by Infrared-Active Phonons

Jakob Gollwitzer, Jeffrey Z. Kaaret, Y. Eren Suyolcu, Guru Khalsa, Rylan C. Fernandes, Oleg Gorobtsov, Sören Buchenau, ChanJu You, Jayanti Higgins, Ryan S. Russell, Ziming Shao, Yorick A. Birkhölzer, Takahiro Sato, Matthieu Chollet, Giacomo Coslovich, Mario Brützam, Christo Guguschev, John W. Harter, Ankit S. Disa, Darrell G. Schlom, Nicole A. Benedek, and Andrej Singer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 116906 (2025) - Published 12 September, 2025

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Single-Chain Nanoparticles Break the Strength-Toughness-Processability Trilemma in Polymer Glasses

Lei Zhang, Xu-Ze Zhang, Rui Shi, Shi-Long Wu, Chao-Hao Xu, Ji-Chun You, Yu Zhang, Ming-Yang Li, Wen-Yu Xu, Qing-Lin Li, Zhen-Zhong Yang, Zhong-Yuan Lu, and Hu-Jun Qian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 118101 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

Incorporating single-chain nanoparticles in polymer glasses can simultaneously enhance strength, toughness, and processabilty – qualities that are typically at odds with one another.