Volume 135, Issue 14

3 October 2025

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A copper box contains an array of 64 ion-implanted transition-edge sensor microcalorimeters used by the HOLMES electron-neutrino-mass experiment.

From the article:

Most Stringent Bound on Electron Neutrino Mass Obtained with a Scalable Low-Temperature Microcalorimeter Array
B. K. Alpert et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141801 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Precision Measurement of Net-Proton-Number Fluctuations in $Au + Au$ Collisions at RHIC

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 142301 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider give the first hints of a critical point in the hot quark–gluon “soup” that is thought to have pervaded the infant Universe.

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Drops Can Perpetually Bounce over a Vibrating Wettable Solid

Lebo Molefe, Tomas Fullana, François Gallaire, and John M. Kolinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 144001 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

An atomically smooth surface that oscillates vertically can host drops that either bounce or hover in place, depending on the oscillation frequency.

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Surface Wave Electron Acceleration from Flat Foils at Parallel Laser Incidence

A. McCay, A. McIlvenny, A. Macchi, L. Romagnani, P. Martin, O. Cavanagh, D. P. Molloy, L. Lancia, T. Dzelzainis, H. Ahmed, J. Sarma, S. Kar, D. Margarone, and M. Borghesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 145001 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Researchers have shown experimentally that ultraintense lasers can drive high-amplitude surface plasma waves without the need for intricate structures.

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No Time for Surface Charge: How Bulk Conductivity Hides Charge Patterns from Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy in Contact-Electrified Surfaces

Felix Pertl, Isaac C. D. Lenton, Tobias Cramer, and Scott Waitukaitis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146202 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

A new experiment on static electricity casts doubt on previous ones.

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Probing Vector Chirality in the Early Universe

Junsup Shim, Ue-Li Pen, Hao-Ran Yu, and Teppei Okumura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141002 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

Cosmological simulations show that a left–right asymmetry in the early Universe could leave a mark in the distribution of galaxy rotations.

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Efficiently Driving $F_{1}$ Molecular Motor in Experiment by Suppressing Nonequilibrium Variation

Takahide Mishima, Deepak Gupta, Yohei Nakayama, W. Callum Wareham, Takumi Ohyama, David A. Sivak, and Shoichi Toyabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 148402 (2025) - Published 3 October, 2025

Turning a biologically important molecular motor at a constant rate saves energy, according to experiments.

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Most Stringent Bound on Electron Neutrino Mass Obtained with a Scalable Low-Temperature Microcalorimeter Array

B. K. Alpert et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141801 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

The HOLMES experiment demonstrates the capability of an approach that uses calorimetric measurement of electron capture decay of $163^{}$ Ho by placing a stringent upper bound on the electron neutrino mass.

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Machine Learning the Energetics of Electrified Solid-Liquid Interfaces

Nicolas Bergmann, Nicéphore Bonnet, Nicola Marzari, Karsten Reuter, and Nicolas G. Hörmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146201 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

A framework rooted in perturbation theory extends machine-learning interatomic potential approaches, capturing complex dynamics and energetics at electrified solid-liquid interfaces.

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Field-Induced Magnon Decay, Magnon Shadows, and Rotonlike Excitations in the Honeycomb Antiferromagnet ${YbBr}_{3}$

J. A. Hernández, A. A. Eberharter, M. Schuler, J. Lass, D. G. Mazzone, R. Sibille, S. Raymond, K. W. Krämer, B. Normand, B. Roessli, A. M. Läuchli, and M. Kenzelmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146701 (2025) - Published 3 October, 2025

The spectral function of the honeycomb antiferromagnet YbBr $_{3}$ measured via inelastic neutron scattering reveals rotonlike magnon excitations arising from magnon-magnon interactions.

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Fate of Bosonic Topological Edge Modes in the Presence of Many-Body Interactions

Niclas Heinsdorf, Darshan G. Joshi, Hosho Katsura, and Andreas P. Schnyder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146702 (2025) - Published 3 October, 2025

Tensor network calculations on a quantum Heisenberg model on a ladder reveal topological bosonic edge modes on its boundary, even when the noninteracting theory breaks down.

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Generation of Pure Spin Current with Insulating Antiferromagnetic Materials

Yingwei Chen, Junyi Ji, Liangliang Hong, Xiangang Wan, and Hongjun Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146703 (2025) - Published 3 October, 2025

First-principles methodology and symmetry analysis combined with high-throughput calculations identify new antiferromagnetic insulating materials that may exhibit pure piezospintronic effects driven by atomic displacements rather than electronic changes.

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Stopping Cross Sections for Protons Across Different Phases of Water

F. Matias, N. E. Koval, P. de Vera, R. Garcia-Molina, I. Abril, J. M. B. Shorto, H. Yoriyaz, J. J. N. Pereira, T. F. Silva, M. H. Tabacniks, M. Vos, and P. L. Grande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 148003 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

A modified DFT method for computing stopping power data across different phases of water shows that liquid water and amorphous ice are indistinguishable in their ability to slow down protons across the relevant energy ranges of medical interest

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Characterizing the Multipartite Entanglement Structure of Non-Gaussian Continuous-Variable States with a Single Evolution Operator

Mingsheng Tian, Xiaoting Gao, Boxuan Jing, Fengxiao Sun, Matteo Fadel, Manuel Gessner, and Qiongyi He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 140201 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Classical Non-Markovian Noise in Symmetry-Preserving Quantum Dynamics

William M. Watkins and Gregory Quiroz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 140401 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Critically Slow Hilbert-Space Ergodicity in Quantum Morphic Drives

Saúl Pilatowsky-Cameo, Soonwon Choi, and Wen Wei Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 140402 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Single-Ion Information Engine for Charging Quantum Battery

Jialiang Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Wentao Chen, Zhengyang Cai, Mu Qiao, Riling Li, Yingye Huang, Haonan Tian, Chuyang Luan, Hengchao Tu, Kaifeng Cui, Leilei Yan, Junhua Zhang, Jingning Zhang, Manhong Yung, and Kihwan Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 140403 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

Pontus-Mpemba Effects

Andrea Nava and Reinhold Egger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 140404 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

Exponential Quantum Advantages for Practical Non-Hermitian Eigenproblems

Xiao-Ming Zhang, Yukun Zhang, Wenhao He, and Xiao Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 140601 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Tessellation Codes: Encoded Quantum Gates by Geometric Rotation

Yixu Wang, Yijia Xu (许逸葭), and Zi-Wen Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 140602 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

General Approach to Error Detection of Bosonic Codes via Phase Estimation

Yuan-De Jin, Shi-Yu Zhang, Ulrik L. Andersen, and Wen-Long Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 140603 (2025) - Published 3 October, 2025

Heisenberg-Limited Quantum Metrology without Ancillae

Qiushi Liu and Yuxiang Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 140801 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Prepare-and-Measure Scenarios with Photon-Number Constraints

Carles Roch i Carceller, Jef Pauwels, Stefano Pironio, and Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 140802 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

NuSTAR as an Axion Helioscope

J. Ruz, E. Todarello, J. K. Vogel, F. R. Candón, M. Giannotti, B. Grefenstette, H. S. Hudson, I. G. Hannah, I. G. Irastorza, C. S. Kim, M. Regis, D. M. Smith, M. Taoso, and J. Trujillo Bueno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141001 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

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Probing Vector Chirality in the Early Universe

Junsup Shim, Ue-Li Pen, Hao-Ran Yu, and Teppei Okumura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141002 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

Cosmological simulations show that a left–right asymmetry in the early Universe could leave a mark in the distribution of galaxy rotations.

Resummation of Universal Tails in Gravitational Waveforms

Mikhail M. Ivanov, Yue-Zhou Li, Julio Parra-Martinez, and Zihan Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141401 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

Indefinite Causal Order and Quantum Coordinates

Anne-Catherine de la Hamette, Viktoria Kabel, Marios Christodoulou, and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141402 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Tidal Resonance in Binary Neutron Star Inspirals: A High-Precision Study in Numerical Relativity

Hao-Jui Kuan, Kenta Kiuchi, and Masaru Shibata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141403 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

New Framework for Classical Double Copies

Brian Kent and Aaron Zimmerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141501 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

Particles and Fields

Condensates, Crystals, and Renormalons in the Gross-Neveu Model at Finite Density

Francesco Benini, Ohad Mamroud, Tomás Reis, and Marco Serone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141601 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Boundary Criticality for the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa Models

Huan Jiang, Yang Ge, and Shao-Kai Jian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141602 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

Entropy Inequalities Constrain Holographic Erasure Correction

Bartłomiej Czech, Sirui Shuai, and Yixu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141603 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Most Stringent Bound on Electron Neutrino Mass Obtained with a Scalable Low-Temperature Microcalorimeter Array

B. K. Alpert et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141801 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Higgs Self-Coupling at the Future Circular $e^{+} e^{-}$ Collider

Victor Maura, Ben A. Stefanek, and Tevong You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141802 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Dark-Matter–Electron Detectors for Dark-Matter–Nucleon Interactions

Sinéad M. Griffin, Guy Daniel Hadas, Yonit Hochberg, Katherine Inzani, and Benjamin V. Lehmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141803 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

Precision $C P$ Symmetry Test and Polarization Analysis in $Σ^{+}$ Decays

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141804 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Nuclear Physics

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Precision Measurement of Net-Proton-Number Fluctuations in $Au + Au$ Collisions at RHIC

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 142301 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider give the first hints of a critical point in the hot quark–gluon “soup” that is thought to have pervaded the infant Universe.

Quarkonium Spectroscopy in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Zhanduo Tang, Biaogang Wu, Andrew Hanlon, Swagato Mukherjee, Peter Petreczky, and Ralf Rapp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 142302 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

Emulators for Scarce and Noisy Data: Application to Auxiliary-Field Diffusion Monte Carlo for Neutron Matter

Cassandra L. Armstrong, Pablo Giuliani, Kyle Godbey, Rahul Somasundaram, and Ingo Tews

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 142501 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

Study of the Beta Spectrum Shape of ${}^{92}{Rb}$ and ${}^{142}{Cs}$ Decays for the Prediction of Reactor Antineutrino Spectra

G. A. Alcalá et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 142502 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Partial-Wave Resolved Spin-Orbit Dynamics

Wankai Li, Jingxuan Zhang, Yang Jin, Dongdong Zhang, Dajun Ding, and Kiyoshi Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 143201 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

Realization of a Fast Triple-Magic All-Optical Qutrit in ${}^{88}{Sr}$

Maximilian Ammenwerth, Hendrik Timme, Flavien Gyger, Renhao Tao, Immanuel Bloch, and Johannes Zeiher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 143401 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

Nanoscale Mirrorless Superradiant Lasing

Anna Bychek, Raphael Holzinger, and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 143601 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Observation of Two-Dimensional Branched Flow of Light

Yan Liu, Ke Lin, Zhaoyu Liu, Jianwei Qin, Qidong Fu, Peng Wang, and Fangwei Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 143801 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Locking Orbital Angular Momentum with Linear Momentum of Light

Hui-Ming Wang, Yuan Chen, Ming-Yuan Chen, Ying-Yu Fang, Ka-Di Zhu, Cheng-Wei Qiu, Yan-Qing Lu, Keyu Xia, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 143802 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Drops Can Perpetually Bounce over a Vibrating Wettable Solid

Lebo Molefe, Tomas Fullana, François Gallaire, and John M. Kolinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 144001 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

An atomically smooth surface that oscillates vertically can host drops that either bounce or hover in place, depending on the oscillation frequency.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Surface Wave Electron Acceleration from Flat Foils at Parallel Laser Incidence

A. McCay, A. McIlvenny, A. Macchi, L. Romagnani, P. Martin, O. Cavanagh, D. P. Molloy, L. Lancia, T. Dzelzainis, H. Ahmed, J. Sarma, S. Kar, D. Margarone, and M. Borghesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 145001 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Researchers have shown experimentally that ultraintense lasers can drive high-amplitude surface plasma waves without the need for intricate structures.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Handedness Selection and Hysteresis of Chiral Orders in Crystals

Mauro Fava, Aldo H. Romero, and Eric Bousquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146102 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

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Machine Learning the Energetics of Electrified Solid-Liquid Interfaces

Nicolas Bergmann, Nicéphore Bonnet, Nicola Marzari, Karsten Reuter, and Nicolas G. Hörmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146201 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

A framework rooted in perturbation theory extends machine-learning interatomic potential approaches, capturing complex dynamics and energetics at electrified solid-liquid interfaces.

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No Time for Surface Charge: How Bulk Conductivity Hides Charge Patterns from Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy in Contact-Electrified Surfaces

Felix Pertl, Isaac C. D. Lenton, Tobias Cramer, and Scott Waitukaitis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146202 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

A new experiment on static electricity casts doubt on previous ones.

Exchange Interaction in an InSb Quantum Well Measured with Landau-Level Tunneling Spectroscopy

S. K. Clowes, C. P. Allford, D. Shearer, G. V. Smith, R. Simmons, B. N. Murdin, U. Zeitler, and P. D. Buckle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146301 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Multipolar Fermi Surface Deformations in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ Probed by Resistivity and Sound Attenuation: A Window into Electron Viscosity and the Collision Operator

Davis Thuillier, Sayak Ghosh, B. J. Ramshaw, and Thomas Scaffidi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146302 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Spin Transport Revealed by Spin Quantum Geometry

Longjun Xiang, Hao Jin, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146303 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Identification of Gapless Phases by a Twisting Operator

Hang Su, Tengzhou Zhang, Yuan Yao, and Akira Furusaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146502 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Observation of Anisotropic Dispersive Dark-Exciton Dynamics in CrSBr

J. Sears, B. Zager, W. He, C. A. Occhialini, Y. Shen, M. Lajer, J. W. Villanova, T. Berlijn, F. Yakhou-Harris, N. B. Brookes, D. G. Chica, X. Roy, E. Baldini, J. Pelliciari, V. Bisogni, S. Johnston, M. Mitrano, and M. P. M. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146503 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Emergent Inductance from Chiral Orbital Currents in a Bulk Ferrimagnet

Gang Cao, Hengdi Zhao, Yu Zhang, Alex Fix, Tristan R. Cao, Dhruva Ananth, Yifei Ni, Gabriel Schebel, Rahul Nandkishore, Itamar Kimchi, Hua Chen, Feng Ye, and Lance E. DeLong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146504 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects and Emergent SU(2) Hall Ferromagnets at Fractional Filling of Helical Trilayer Graphene

Sen Niu, Jason Alicea, D. N. Sheng, and Yang Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146505 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Dichotomy in Low- and High-Energy Band Renormalizations in Trilayer Nickelate ${La}_{4} {Ni}_{3} O_{10}$ : A Comparison with Cuprates

X. Du, Y. L. Wang, Y. D. Li, Y. T. Cao, M. X. Zhang, C. Y. Pei, J. M. Yang, W. X. Zhao, K. Y. Zhai, Z. K. Liu, Z. W. Li, J. K. Zhao, Z. T. Liu, D. W. Shen, Z. Li, Y. He, Y. L. Chen, Y. P. Qi, H. J. Guo, and L. X. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146506 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Anyon Braiding on the Single Edge of a Fractional Quantum Hall State

Flavio Ronetti, Noé Demazure, Jérôme Rech, Thibaut Jonckheere, Benoît Grémaud, Laurent Raymond, Masayuki Hashisaka, Takeo Kato, and Thierry Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146601 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

Most Two-Dimensional Bosonic Topological Orders Forbid Sign-Problem-Free Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation: Nonpositive Gauss Sum as an Indicator

Donghae Seo, Minyoung You, Hee-Cheol Kim, and Gil Young Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146602 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

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Field-Induced Magnon Decay, Magnon Shadows, and Rotonlike Excitations in the Honeycomb Antiferromagnet ${YbBr}_{3}$

J. A. Hernández, A. A. Eberharter, M. Schuler, J. Lass, D. G. Mazzone, R. Sibille, S. Raymond, K. W. Krämer, B. Normand, B. Roessli, A. M. Läuchli, and M. Kenzelmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146701 (2025) - Published 3 October, 2025

The spectral function of the honeycomb antiferromagnet YbBr $_{3}$ measured via inelastic neutron scattering reveals rotonlike magnon excitations arising from magnon-magnon interactions.

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Fate of Bosonic Topological Edge Modes in the Presence of Many-Body Interactions

Niclas Heinsdorf, Darshan G. Joshi, Hosho Katsura, and Andreas P. Schnyder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146702 (2025) - Published 3 October, 2025

Tensor network calculations on a quantum Heisenberg model on a ladder reveal topological bosonic edge modes on its boundary, even when the noninteracting theory breaks down.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generation of Pure Spin Current with Insulating Antiferromagnetic Materials

Yingwei Chen, Junyi Ji, Liangliang Hong, Xiangang Wan, and Hongjun Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146703 (2025) - Published 3 October, 2025

Terahertz-Induced Tunnel Ionization Drives Coherent Raman-Active Phonon in Bismuth

Bing Cheng, Patrick L. Kramer, Mariano Trigo, Mengkun Liu, Ctirad Uher, David A. Reis, Zhi-Xun Shen, Jonathan A. Sobota, and Matthias. C. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146901 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

Strongly Entangled Kondo and Kagome Lattices and the Emergent Magnetic Ground State in Heavy-Fermion Kagome Metal ${YbV}_{6} {Sn}_{6}$

Rui Lou et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146902 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

Pushing Photons with Electrons: Observation of the Polariton Drag Effect

D. M. Myers, Q. Yao, H. Alnatah, S. Mukherjee, B. Ozden, J. Beaumariage, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. West, and D. W. Snoke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146903 (2025) - Published 30 September, 2025

Ultrafast Nonequilibrium Enhancement of Electron-Phonon Interaction in $2 {H − MoTe}_{2}$

Nina Girotto Erhardt, Sotirios Fragkos, Dominique Descamps, Stéphane Petit, Michael Schüler, Dino Novko, and Samuel Beaulieu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146904 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Unidirectional Giant Exciton Emission into a Photonic Waveguide

Qifa Wang, Huan Luo, Chaojie Ma, Bingchang Zhang, Cheng Ji, Qinghong Yu, Guoxiang Chai, Yuxin Li, Chenyang Li, Shaojun Wang, Xuetao Gan, Kaihui Liu, Jianlin Zhao, and Fajun Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146905 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Generating Phase Singularities Using Surface Exciton Polaritons in an Organic Natural Hyperbolic Material

Philip A. Thomas, William P. Wardley, and William L. Barnes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146906 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Information Engine Fueled by First-Passage Times

Aubin Archambault, Caroline Crauste-Thibierge, Alberto Imparato, Christopher Jarzynski, Sergio Ciliberto, and Ludovic Bellon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 147101 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

Energy Diffusion in the Long-Range Interacting Spin Systems

Hideaki Nishikawa and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 147102 (2025) - Published 2 October, 2025

Walks in Rotation Spaces Return Home when Doubled and Scaled

Jean-Pierre Eckmann and Tsvi Tlusty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 147201 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Memory Kernel Coupling Theory: Obtaining Time Correlation Function from Higher-Order Moments

Wei Liu, Yu Su, Yao Wang, and Wenjie Dou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 148001 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

Charging Dynamics of Electric Double-Layer Nanocapacitors in Mean Field

Ivan Palaia, Adelchi J. Asta, Megh Dutta, Patrick B. Warren, Benjamin Rotenberg, and Emmanuel Trizac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 148002 (2025) - Published 29 September, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stopping Cross Sections for Protons Across Different Phases of Water

F. Matias, N. E. Koval, P. de Vera, R. Garcia-Molina, I. Abril, J. M. B. Shorto, H. Yoriyaz, J. J. N. Pereira, T. F. Silva, M. H. Tabacniks, M. Vos, and P. L. Grande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 148003 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Theory of Reversed Ripening in Active Phase Separating Systems

Jonathan Bauermann, Giacomo Bartolucci, Christoph A. Weber, and Frank Jülicher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 148201 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Cracking Down on Fracture to Functionalize Damage

Leo de Waal, Matthaios Chouzouris, and Marcelo A. Dias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 148202 (2025) - Published 3 October, 2025

Light-Induced Phase Separation with Finite Wavelength Selection in Photophobic Microalgae

Isabelle Eisenmann, Alfredo L’Homme, Aliénor Lahlou, Sandrine Bujaldon, Thomas Le Saux, Benjamin Bailleul, Nicolas Desprat, and Raphaël Jeanneret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 148401 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

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Efficiently Driving $F_{1}$ Molecular Motor in Experiment by Suppressing Nonequilibrium Variation

Takahide Mishima, Deepak Gupta, Yohei Nakayama, W. Callum Wareham, Takumi Ohyama, David A. Sivak, and Shoichi Toyabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 148402 (2025) - Published 3 October, 2025

Turning a biologically important molecular motor at a constant rate saves energy, according to experiments.