Volume 135, Issue 13

26 September 2025

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Unit cell of a three-dimensional acoustic lattice composed of resonators (orange) connected by coupling tubes (red, blue, and gray). Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Observation of Embedded Topology in a Trivial Bulk via Projective Crystal Symmetry
Hau Tian Teo, Yang Long, Hong-yu Zou, Kailin Song, Haoran Xue, Yong Ge, Shou-qi Yuan, Hong-xiang Sun, and Baile Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136602 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Spontaneous Emission Decay and Excitation in Photonic Time Crystals

Jagang Park, Kyungmin Lee, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Hee-Chul Park, Jung-Wan Ryu, Gil Young Cho, Min Yeul Lee, Zhaoqing Zhang, Namkyoo Park, Wonju Jeon, Jonghwa Shin, C. T. Chan, and Bumki Min

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 133801 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

A material whose dielectric properties vary in time could produce exotic light-emission phenomena in a nearby atom, theorists predict.

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Vibrational Modes and Particle Rearrangements in Sheared Quasi-Two-Dimensional Complex Plasmas

Yang Miao, Alexei V. Ivlev, Hartmut Löwen, Volodymyr Nosenko, He Huang, Wei Yang, Hubertus M. Thomas, Jing Zhang, and Cheng-Ran Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 135301 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Shearing a dusty plasma with a laser shows how vibrational modes lead to weak points in an amorphous active system.

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Unraveling Dicke Superradiant Decay with Separable Coherent Spin States

P. Rosario, L. O. R. Solak, A. Cidrim, R. Bachelard, and J. Schachenmayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 133602 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Scientists have shown that entanglement plays no role in a form of collective light emission called Dicke superradiance, settling a long-standing debate.

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Practical Advantage of Classical Communication in Entanglement Detection

Wen-Bo Xing (邢文博), Min-Yu Lv (吕敏玉), Lingxia Zhang (张凌霞), Yu Guo (郭钰), Mirjam Weilenmann, Zhaohui Wei (魏朝晖), Chuan-Feng Li (李传锋), Guang-Can Guo (郭光灿), Xiao-Min Hu (胡晓敏), Bi-Heng Liu (柳必恒), Miguel Navascués, and Zizhu Wang (王子竹)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 130805 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

One-way local operations and classical communication are found to be advantageous for reducing statistical errors in entanglement certification protocols.

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First Law of Binary Black Hole Scattering

Riccardo Gonzo, Jack Lewis, and Adam Pound

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131401 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

A derivation of the first law of binary black hole scattering includes dissipative effects.

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Search for a Dark Higgs Boson Produced in Association with Inelastic Dark Matter at the Belle II Experiment

I. Adachi et al. (The Belle II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131801 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

A search for a dark Higgs boson produced in association with inelastic dark matter results in significant new bounds on the scenario.

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Turbulence without Walls: Whither the Zeroth Law of Turbulence?

Kartik P. Iyer, Theodore D. Drivas, Gregory L. Eyink, and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 134001 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Direct numerical simulations of incompressible homogeneous and isotropic turbulence in a periodic box show that the mean dissipation rate of the kinetic energy approaches zero as the Reynolds number goes to infinity, violating the classical zeroth law of turbulence but compatible with the Kolmogorov 4/5 law.

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Switchable Chern Insulators and Competing Quantum Phases in Rhombohedral Graphene Moiré Superlattices

Jian Zheng, Size Wu, Kai Liu, Bosai Lyu, Shuhan Liu, Yating Sha, Zhengxian Li, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jinfeng Jia, Zhiwen Shi, and Guorui Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136302 (2025) - Published 26 September, 2025

A range of competing phases and their transitions are observed using a device made of rhombohedrally stacked hexalayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride moiré superlattices.

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Observation of Embedded Topology in a Trivial Bulk via Projective Crystal Symmetry

Hau Tian Teo, Yang Long, Hong-yu Zou, Kailin Song, Haoran Xue, Yong Ge, Shou-qi Yuan, Hong-xiang Sun, and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136602 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

A new topological mechanism, wherein dimension reduction and projective crystal symmetry create embedded topology from a trivial bulk, redefines the conventional hierarchy of bulk-boundary correspondence.

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Electrically Tunable Picosecond-Scale Octupole Fluctuations in Chiral Antiferromagnets

Shiva T. Konakanchi, Sagnik Banerjee, Mohammad M. Rahman, Yuta Yamane, Shun Kanai, Shunsuke Fukami, and Pramey Upadhyaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136704 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

Theoretical investigation of relaxation mechanisms in chiral antiferromagnets offers fundamental insights for information coding in spintronics.

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Efficient Microcanonical Histogram Analysis and Application to Peptide Aggregation

Michael Bachmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 138401 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

A new, general method for identifying and classifying phase transitions is applied to the aggregation transition in GNNQQNY heptapeptides.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Accurate Gauge-Invariant Tensor-Network Simulations for Abelian Lattice Gauge Theory in $(2 + 1) D$ : Ground-State and Real-Time Dynamics

Yantao Wu and Wen-Yuan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 130401 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Quantum Work Statistics across a Critical Point: Full Crossover from Sudden Quench to the Adiabatic Limit

Zhanyu Ma, Andrew K. Mitchell, and Eran Sela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 130402 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

Active Leakage Cancellation in Single Qubit Gates

Ben Chiaro and Yaxing Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 130601 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Trotterization is Substantially Efficient for Low-Energy States

Kaoru Mizuta and Tomotaka Kuwahara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 130602 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Universal Bounds for Quantum Metrology in the Presence of Correlated Noise

Stanisław Kurdziałek, Francesco Albarelli, and Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 130801 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Quantum-Optimal Frequency Estimation of Stochastic ac Fields

Anirban Dey, Sara Mouradian, Cosmo Lupo, and Zixin Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 130802 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Measurement-Based Entanglement Distillation and Constant-Rate Quantum Repeaters over Arbitrary Distances

Yu Shi, Ashlesha Patil, and Saikat Guha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 130803 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

Constant-Overhead Fault-Tolerant Bell-Pair Distillation Using High-Rate Codes

J. Pablo Bonilla Ataides, Hengyun Zhou, Qian Xu, Gefen Baranes, Bikun Li, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 130804 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

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Practical Advantage of Classical Communication in Entanglement Detection

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 130805 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

One-way local operations and classical communication are found to be advantageous for reducing statistical errors in entanglement certification protocols.

Deterministic Nonlocal Quantum Gate with Room-Temperature Memory Modules

Xing Lei, Jiatong Li, Xiaoyu Zhou, Jieli Yan, Minwen Ji, Zhihui Yan, Xiaojun Jia, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 130806 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

New Limits on Ultralight Axionlike Dark Matter from Reanalyzed Data

K. Y. Zhang, L. Y. Wu, and H. Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131001 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Nailing Down the Theoretical Uncertainties of $\bar{D}$ Spectrum Produced from Dark Matter

Mattia Di Mauro, Nicolao Fornengo, Adil Jueid, Roberto Ruiz de Austri, and Francesca Bellini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131002 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

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First Law of Binary Black Hole Scattering

Riccardo Gonzo, Jack Lewis, and Adam Pound

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131401 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

A derivation of the first law of binary black hole scattering includes dissipative effects.

Long-Term Stable Nonlinear Evolutions of Ultracompact Black-Hole Mimickers

Gareth Arturo Marks, Seppe J. Staelens, Tamara Evstafyeva, and Ulrich Sperhake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131402 (2025) - Published 26 September, 2025

Particles and Fields

Emergence of Unitarity and Locality from Hidden Zeros at One-Loop Order

Jeffrey V. Backus and Laurentiu Rodina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131601 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Bondi-Metzner-Sachs Particles

Xavier Bekaert, Laura Donnay, and Yannick Herfray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131602 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Recursive Landau Analysis

Simon Caron-Huot, Miguel Correia, and Mathieu Giroux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131603 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

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Search for a Dark Higgs Boson Produced in Association with Inelastic Dark Matter at the Belle II Experiment

I. Adachi et al. (The Belle II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131801 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

A search for a dark Higgs boson produced in association with inelastic dark matter results in significant new bounds on the scenario.

Muon-Decay Parameters from COHERENT

Víctor Bresó-Pla, Sergio Cruz-Alzaga, Martín González-Alonso, and Suraj Prakash

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131802 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Probing New Hadronic Forces with Heavy Exotic Atoms

Hongkai Liu, Ben Ohayon, Omer Shtaif, and Yotam Soreq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131803 (2025) - Published 26 September, 2025

QCD Theory Meets Information Theory

Benoît Assi, Stefan Höche, Kyle Lee, and Jesse Thaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131901 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Nature of $χ_{c 1} (3872)$ and $T_{c c}^{+} (3875)$

Nora Brambilla, Abhishek Mohapatra, Tommaso Scirpa, and Antonio Vairo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131902 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Corrections to Nucleon Dirac Form Factors

Long-Bin Chen, Wen Chen, Feng Feng, Siwei Hu, and Yu Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 131903 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Observation of $Λ$ Hyperon Local Polarization in $p$ -Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 8.16 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 132301 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Superfluid Density in Linear Response Theory: Pulsar Glitches from the Inner Crust of Neutron Stars

Giorgio Almirante and Michael Urban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 132701 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Precision Measurement of Spin-Dependent Dipolar Splitting in ${}^{6}{Li}$ $p$ -Wave Feshbach Resonances

Shuai Peng, Sijia Peng, Lijun Ren, Shaokun Liu, Bin Liu, Jiaming Li, and Le Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 133401 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Optical Lattice Quantum Simulator of Dynamics beyond Born-Oppenheimer

Javier Argüello-Luengo, Alejandro González-Tudela, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 133402 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Role of Matter Interactions in Superradiant Phenomena

João Pedro Mendonça, Krzysztof Jachymski, and Yao Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 133601 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

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Unraveling Dicke Superradiant Decay with Separable Coherent Spin States

P. Rosario, L. O. R. Solak, A. Cidrim, R. Bachelard, and J. Schachenmayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 133602 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Scientists have shown that entanglement plays no role in a form of collective light emission called Dicke superradiance, settling a long-standing debate.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spontaneous Emission Decay and Excitation in Photonic Time Crystals

Jagang Park, Kyungmin Lee, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Hee-Chul Park, Jung-Wan Ryu, Gil Young Cho, Min Yeul Lee, Zhaoqing Zhang, Namkyoo Park, Wonju Jeon, Jonghwa Shin, C. T. Chan, and Bumki Min

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 133801 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

A material whose dielectric properties vary in time could produce exotic light-emission phenomena in a nearby atom, theorists predict.

Toward Chaotic Group Velocity Hopping of an On-Chip Dissipative Kerr Soliton

Grégory Moille, Sashank Kaushik Sridhar, Pradyoth Shandilya, Avik Dutt, Curtis Menyuk, and Kartik Srinivasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 133802 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Universal Kerr-Thermal Dynamics of Self-Injection-Locked Microresonator Dark Pulses

Shichang Li, Kunpeng Yu, Dmitry A. Chermoshentsev, Wei Sun, Jinbao Long, Xiaoying Yan, Chen Shen, Artem E. Shitikov, Nikita Yu. Dmitriev, Igor A. Bilenko, and Junqiu Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 133803 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Turbulence without Walls: Whither the Zeroth Law of Turbulence?

Kartik P. Iyer, Theodore D. Drivas, Gregory L. Eyink, and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 134001 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Generation of Relativistic Structured Spin-Polarized Lepton Beams

Zhong-Peng Li, Yu Wang, Yousef I. Salamin, Mamutjan Ababekri, Feng Wan, Qian Zhao, Kun Xue, Ye Tian, and Jian-Xing Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 135001 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

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Vibrational Modes and Particle Rearrangements in Sheared Quasi-Two-Dimensional Complex Plasmas

Yang Miao, Alexei V. Ivlev, Hartmut Löwen, Volodymyr Nosenko, He Huang, Wei Yang, Hubertus M. Thomas, Jing Zhang, and Cheng-Ran Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 135301 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Shearing a dusty plasma with a laser shows how vibrational modes lead to weak points in an amorphous active system.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Nonlinear Planar Hall Effect from Superconducting Vortex Motion

Mio Hashimoto, Takako Konoike, Tomoki Kobayashi, Shintaro Hoshino, Takuya Kawada, Tomoyuki Yokouchi, Shinya Uji, Atsutaka Maeda, and Yuki Shiomi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136001 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

Unified High-Pressure Phase-Transition Sequence in the $f$ -Electron Metals: $o F 16 \to o F 8$ Transition in Terbium

C. V. Storm, S. E. Finnegan, J. D. McHardy, M. J. Duff, M. I. McMahon, S. G. MacLeod, E. Plekhanov, and C. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136101 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

In-Plane Anisotropy of Charge Density Wave Fluctuations in $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$

Xuefei Guo, Anshul Kogar, Jans Henke, Felix Flicker, Fernando de Juan, Stella X.-L. Sun, Issam Khayr, Yingying Peng, Sangjun Lee, Matthew J. Krogstad, Stephan Rosenkranz, Raymond Osborn, Jacob P. C. Ruff, David B. Lioi, Goran Karapetrov, Daniel J. Campbell, Johnpierre Paglione, Jasper van Wezel, Tai C. Chiang, and Peter Abbamonte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136102 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

Revealing Band-Hybrid Cooper Pairs on the Surface of a Superconductor with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Javier Zaldívar, Jon Ortuzar, Miguel Alvarado, Stefano Trivini, Julie Baumard, Carmen Rubio-Verdú, Edwin Herrera, Hermann Suderow, Alfredo Levy Yeyati, F. Sebastian Bergeret, and Jose Ignacio Pascual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136201 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Spatially Resolved Vibronic Excitations of an Isolated Adsorbed Organometallic Complex via Multiple Tunneling Channels

Xiangzhi Meng, Kai Uwe Clausen, Marie-Laure Bocquet, Alexander Weismann, Niklas Ide, Felix Tuczek, and Richard Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136202 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Carrier Localization and Spontaneous Formation of Two-Dimensional Polarization Domain in Halide Perovskites

Andrew Grieder, Marcos Calegari Andrade, Hiroyuki Takenaka, Tadashi Ogitsu, Liang Z. Tan, and Yuan Ping

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136301 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

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Switchable Chern Insulators and Competing Quantum Phases in Rhombohedral Graphene Moiré Superlattices

Jian Zheng, Size Wu, Kai Liu, Bosai Lyu, Shuhan Liu, Yating Sha, Zhengxian Li, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jinfeng Jia, Zhiwen Shi, and Guorui Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136302 (2025) - Published 26 September, 2025

A range of competing phases and their transitions are observed using a device made of rhombohedrally stacked hexalayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride moiré superlattices.

New Pathway to Impact Ionization in a Photoexcited One-Dimensional Ionic Hubbard Model

Zhenyu Cheng, Li Yang, Xiang Hu, Hantao Lu, Zhongbing Huang, and Liang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136501 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Self-Reconstruction of Order Parameter in Spin-Triplet Superconductor ${UTe}_{2}$

Y. Tokiwa, P. Opletal, H. Sakai, K. Kubo, S. Kambe, E. Yamamoto, M. Kimata, S. Awaji, T. Sasaki, D. Aoki, Y. Yanase, Y. Tokunaga, and Y. Haga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136502 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Band Renormalization, Quarter Metals, and Chiral Superconductivity in Rhombohedral Tetralayer Graphene

Guillermo Parra-Martínez, Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo, Võ Tiến Phong, Héctor Sainz-Cruz, Daniel Kaplan, Peleg Emanuel, Yuval Oreg, Pierre A. Pantaleón, José Ángel Silva-Guillén, and Francisco Guinea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136503 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Simulating the Two-Dimensional $t − J$ Model at Finite Doping with Neural Quantum States

Hannah Lange, Annika Böhler, Christopher Roth, and Annabelle Bohrdt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136504 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Orbital-Selective Quasiparticle Depletion across the Density Wave Transition in Trilayer Nickelate ${La}_{4} {Ni}_{3} O_{10}$

Dong-Hyeon Gim, Chung Ha Park, and Kee Hoon Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136505 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

Brillouin Platycosms and Topological Phases

Chen Zhang, Peiyuan Wang, Junkun Lyu, and Y. X. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136601 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

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Observation of Embedded Topology in a Trivial Bulk via Projective Crystal Symmetry

Hau Tian Teo, Yang Long, Hong-yu Zou, Kailin Song, Haoran Xue, Yong Ge, Shou-qi Yuan, Hong-xiang Sun, and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136602 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Robust Triple- $q$ Magnetic Order with Trainable Spin Vorticity in ${Na}_{2} {Co}_{2} {TeO}_{6}$

Xianghong Jin, Mengqiao Geng, Fabio Orlandi, Dmitry Khalyavin, Pascal Manuel, Yang Liu, and Yuan Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136701 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Large Magnetoresistance in an Electrically Tunable van der Waals Antiferromagnet

Chung-Tao Chou, Eugene Park, Josep Ingla-Aynes, Julian Klein, Kseniia Mosina, Jagadeesh S. Moodera, Zdenek Sofer, Frances M. Ross, and Luqiao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136702 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Thermal Spin Wave Noise as a Probe for the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction

Aurore Finco, Pawan Kumar, Van Tuong Pham, Joseba Urrestarazu-Larrañaga, Rodrigo Guedas Garcia, Maxime Rollo, Olivier Boulle, Joo-Von Kim, and Vincent Jacques

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136703 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

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