Volume 135, Issue 16

17 October 2025

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A cavity induces spin-frustrating interactions in ultracold atomic gases, and holographically imaging its emission provides direct measurements of the spin glass states. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Multimode Cavity QED Ising Spin Glass
Brendan P. Marsh, David Atri Schuller, Yunpeng Ji, Henry S. Hunt, Giulia Z. Socolof, Deven P. Bowman, Jonathan Keeling, and Benjamin L. Lev
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160403 (2025)

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Femtosecond and Attosecond Phase-Space Correlations in Few-Particle Photoelectron Pulses

Rudolf Haindl, Valerio Di Giulio, Armin Feist, and Claus Ropers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 165002 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Electrostatic repulsion between electrons usually impairs the performance of electron microscopes. Now it can be turned into an advantage.

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Defect-Free Growth of Decagonal Quasicrystals around Obstacles

Kelly L. Wang, Insung Han, Domagoj Fijan, Sharon C. Glotzer, and Ashwin J. Shahani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166203 (2025) - Published 17 October, 2025

Large-scale obstacles to crystal growth can throw the whole lattice off kilter, but quasicrystals can accommodate them without losing their atomic-scale order.

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Conditional Mutual Information and Information-Theoretic Phases of Decohered Gibbs States

Yifan F. Zhang and Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160401 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

The amount of long-range conditional mutual‬ information generated under local channels undergoes a phase transition depending on the temperature of the Gibbs state.

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Multimode Cavity QED Ising Spin Glass

Brendan P. Marsh, David Atri Schuller, Yunpeng Ji, Henry S. Hunt, Giulia Z. Socolof, Deven P. Bowman, Jonathan Keeling, and Benjamin L. Lev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160403 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Ultracold atoms in a multimode cavity form an equilibrium spin glass.

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Measurement of the $Z$ -Boson Mass

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161802 (2025) - Published 17 October, 2025

The first dedicated measurement of the $Z$ -boson mass at the LHC agrees with the 2006 LEP value.

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Identifying Electronic Doorway States in Secondary Electron Emission from Layered Materials

A. Niggas, M. Hao, P. Richter, F. Simperl, F. Blödorn, M. Cap, J. Kero, D. Hofmann, A. Bellissimo, J. Burgdörfer, T. Seyller, R. A. Wilhelm, F. Libisch, and W. S. M. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166401 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Experiments coupled with DFT calculations uncover signatures of resonances that act as doorway states for low-energy electron emission in layered materials.

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Critical Gate Distance for Wigner Crystallization in the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

Agnes Valenti, Vladimir Calvera, Yubo Yang (杨煜波), Miguel A. Morales, Steven A. Kivelson, Ilya Esterlis, and Shiwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166501 (2025) - Published 17 October, 2025

The Wigner crystal phase in two-dimensional electron gas is unstable at all densities when gate electrodes are sufficiently close.

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Phase Matching of High Harmonic Generation in Twisted van der Waals Crystals

Chenjun Ma, Chen Huang, Yilong You, Huazhan Liu, Zhitong Ding, Mingchao Ding, Chang Liu, Jin Zhang, Guixin Li, Zhipei Sun, Shiwei Wu, Chaojie Ma, Enge Wang, Hao Hong, and Kaihui Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166902 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

A strategy for phase matching high-harmonic generation with arbitrary harmonic orders in crystals enables the development of ultrashort-wavelength and ultrafast-pulse laser sources in tabletop systems.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Bridging Entanglement and Magic Resources within Operator Space

Neil Dowling, Kavan Modi, and Gregory A. L. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160201 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Generalized Indefinite Causal Orders in an Integrated Quantum Switch

Yaohao Deng, Shuheng Liu, Xiaojiong Chen, Zhaorong Fu, Jueming Bao, Yun Zheng, Qihuang Gong, Qiongyi He, and Jianwei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160202 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Invested and Potential Magic Resources in Measurement-Based Quantum Computation

Gong-Chu Li, Lei Chen, Si-Qi Zhang, Xu-Song Hong, Huaqing Xu, Yuancheng Liu, You Zhou, Geng Chen, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, and Alioscia Hamma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160203 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Conditional Mutual Information and Information-Theoretic Phases of Decohered Gibbs States

Yifan F. Zhang and Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160401 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

The amount of long-range conditional mutual‬ information generated under local channels undergoes a phase transition depending on the temperature of the Gibbs state.

Energetic Advantages for Quantum Agents in Online Execution of Complex Strategies

Jayne Thompson, Paul M. Riechers, Andrew J. P. Garner, Thomas J. Elliott, and Mile Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160402 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

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Multimode Cavity QED Ising Spin Glass

Brendan P. Marsh, David Atri Schuller, Yunpeng Ji, Henry S. Hunt, Giulia Z. Socolof, Deven P. Bowman, Jonathan Keeling, and Benjamin L. Lev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160403 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Ultracold atoms in a multimode cavity form an equilibrium spin glass.

Long-Range Nonstabilizerness and Phases of Matter

David Aram Korbany, Michael J. Gullans, and Lorenzo Piroli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160404 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

Macroscopic Suppression of Supersonic Quantum Transport

Jérémy Faupin, Marius Lemm, Israel Michael Sigal, and Jingxuan Zhang (张景宣)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160405 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

Thermodynamics and State Preparation in a Two-State System of Light

Christian Kurtscheid, Andreas Redmann, Frank Vewinger, Julian Schmitt, and Martin Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160406 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

Measuring Full Counting Statistics in a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator

Lata Kh Joshi, Filiberto Ares, Manoj K. Joshi, Christian F. Roos, and Pasquale Calabrese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160601 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Lindbladian Simulation with Logarithmic Precision Scaling via Two Ancillas

Wenjun Yu, Xiaogang Li, Qi Zhao, and Xiao Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160602 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Roughening Transition in Quantum Circuits

Hyunsoo Ha, David A. Huse, and Grace M. Sommers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160603 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

On-Chip Verified Quantum Computation with an Ion-Trap Quantum Processing Unit

Cica Gustiani, Dominik Leichtle, Jonathan Miller, Ross Grassie, Daniel Mills, and Elham Kashefi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160801 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Bell Nonlocality in Quantum Networks with Unreliable Sources: Loophole-Free Postelection via Self-Testing

Sadra Boreiri, Nicolas Brunner, and Pavel Sekatski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160802 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Closing the Detection Loophole in the Triangle Network with High-Dimensional Photonic States

Tamás Kriváchy and Martin Kerschbaumer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160803 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Suppressing Spurious Transitions Using Spectrally Balanced Pulse

Ruixia Wang, Yaqing Feng, Yujia Zhang, Jiayu Ding, Boxi Li, Felix Motzoi, Yang Gao, Huikai Xu, Zhen Yang, Wuerkaixi Nuerbolati, Haifeng Yu, Weijie Sun, and Fei Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 160804 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Atacama Cosmology Telescope, South Pole Telescope, and Chaotic Inflation

Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, and Diederik Roest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161001 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

First Limits on Light Dark Matter Interactions in a Low Threshold Two-Channel Athermal Phonon Detector from the TESSERACT Collaboration

T. K. Bui et al. (TESSERACT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161002 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Fermion-Boson Stars as Attractors in Fuzzy Dark Matter and Ideal Gas Dynamics

Iván Alvarez-Rios, Francisco S. Guzmán, and Jens Niemeyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161003 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Resolving the Negative Effective Neutrino Mass Parameter with Cosmic Birefringence

Toshiya Namikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161004 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Fermi-LAT Galactic Center Excess Morphology of Dark Matter in Simulations of the Milky Way Galaxy

Moorits Mihkel Muru, Joseph Silk, Noam I. Libeskind, Stefan Gottlöber, and Yehuda Hoffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161005 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

Hawking Evaporation and the Fate of Black Holes in Loop Quantum Gravity

Idrus Husin Belfaqih, Martin Bojowald, Suddhasattwa Brahma, and Erick I. Duque

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161501 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

Particles and Fields

Semiclassical Wormholes toward Typical Entangled States

Javier M. Magán, Martin Sasieta, and Brian Swingle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161601 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

New Chiral Structures for Baryon Number Violating Nucleon Decays

Yi Liao, Xiao-Dong Ma, and Hao-Lin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161801 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

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Measurement of the $Z$ -Boson Mass

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161802 (2025) - Published 17 October, 2025

The first dedicated measurement of the $Z$ -boson mass at the LHC agrees with the 2006 LEP value.

Observation of a New Charmed Baryon Decaying to $Ξ_{c}^{+} π^{-} π^{+}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161901 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Study of $ϕ \to K \bar{K}$ and $K_{S}^{0} - K_{L}^{0}$ Asymmetry in the Amplitude Analysis of $D_{s}^{+} \to K_{S}^{0} K_{L}^{0} π^{+}$ Decays

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161902 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Open $B$ -Hadron Production at Hadron Colliders in QCD at Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order and Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Logarithmic Accuracy

Michał Czakon, Terry Generet, Alexander Mitov, and Rene Poncelet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161903 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

$η$ and $η^{'}$ Production in $J / ψ$ Radiative Decays from Quantum Chromodynamics

Mischa Batelaan, Jozef J. Dudek, and Robert G. Edwards (for the Hadron Spectrum Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 161904 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Extracting the Speed of Sound in Heavy-Ion Collisions: A Study of Quantum-Initiated Fluctuations and Thermalization

Yu-Shan Mu, Jing-An Sun, Li Yan, and Xu-Guang Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 162301 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Crust Composition and the Shallow Heat Source in KS 1731–260

R. Jain, E. F. Brown, H. Schatz, A. V. Afanasjev, M. Beard, L. R. Gasques, J. Grace, A. Heger, G. W. Hitt, W. R. Hix, R. Lau, W.-J. Ong, M. Wiescher, and Y. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 162701 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spontaneous Emission from Electronic Metastable Resonance States

Amir Sivan, Milan Šindelka, Meir Orenstein, and Nimrod Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 163001 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

${}^{208}{Pb}$ Nuclear Charge Radius Revisited: Closing the Fine-Structure-Anomaly Gap

Zewen Sun, Konstantin A. Beyer, Zoia A. Mandrykina, Igor A. Valuev, Christoph H. Keitel, and Natalia S. Oreshkina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 163002 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Attosecond Optical Orientation

Lauren B. Drescher, Nicola Mayer, Kylie Gannan, Jonah R. Adelman, and Stephen R. Leone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 163201 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Meissner-like Currents of Photons in Anomalous Superradiant Phases

Linjun Li, Pengfei Huang, Zi-Xiang Hu, and Yu-Yu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 163601 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Addressing the Correlation of Stokes-Shifted Photons Emitted from Two Quantum Emitters

Adrián Juan-Delgado, Jean-Baptiste Trebbia, Ruben Esteban, Quentin Deplano, Philippe Tamarat, Rémi Avriller, Brahim Lounis, and Javier Aizpurua

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 163602 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Photoionization-Induced Floquet Driving of a Discrete Time Crystal in a Thermal Rydberg Ensemble

Yuechun Jiao, Yu Zhang, Jingxu Bai, Suotang Jia, C. Stuart Adams, Zhengyang Bai, Heng Shen, and Jianming Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 163603 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

Two-Dimensional Topological Edge States in Periodic Space-Time Interfaces

Ohad Segal, Yonatan Plotnik, Eran Lustig, Yonatan Sharabi, Moshe-Ishay Cohen, Alexander Dikopoltsev, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 163801 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Persistence in Physical Systems: An Application to Soil Moisture Memory

Madhusudan Ingale, Bhupendra Bahadur Singh, Milind Mujumdar, Mangesh Goswami, Naresh Ganeshi, C. D. Aju, R. Krishnan, and M. Ravichandran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 164201 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Relativistic Oscillating Window Driven by an Intense Laguerre-Gaussian Laser Pulse

Yao Meng, Runze Li, and Longqing Yi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 165001 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

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Femtosecond and Attosecond Phase-Space Correlations in Few-Particle Photoelectron Pulses

Rudolf Haindl, Valerio Di Giulio, Armin Feist, and Claus Ropers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 165002 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Electrostatic repulsion between electrons usually impairs the performance of electron microscopes. Now it can be turned into an advantage.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Dissipative Superfluidity in a Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensate

Hongchao Li, Xie-Hang Yu, Masaya Nakagawa, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166001 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Selective Excitation of Collective Modes in Multiband Superconductor ${MgB}_{2}$

Jiayu Yuan, Liyu Shi, Tiequan Xu, Yue Wang, Zizhao Gan, Hao Wang, Tianyi Wu, Dong Wu, Tao Dong, and Nanlin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166002 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Superconductivity at 28 K in Sodium Graphite Intercalation Compound under High Pressure

Guangchen Ma, Yingying Wang, Zefang Wang, Yuki Nakamoto, Katsuya Shimizu, Guangtao Liu, Mi Zhou, Hongbo Wang, Pengyue Gao, and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166003 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Quantitative Role of Phonons and Elasticity in Tuning Uniaxial Negative Thermal Expansion of $M {Zr}_{2} (M = Fe, Co, and Ni)$

Meng Xu, Qilong Gao, Yongqiang Qiao, Kaiyue Zhao, Andrea Sanson, Qiang Sun, Changtian Wang, Alessandro Venier, Francesco d’Acapito, Matt Tucker, Yuzhu Song, Chang Zhou, Xianran Xing, and Jun Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166101 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Imaging Sublattice Cooper-Pair Density Waves in Monolayer $1 T^{'} − {MoTe}_{2}$

Fang-Jun Cheng, Cong-Cong Lou, Ai-Xi Chen, Li-Xuan Wei, Yu Liu, Bo-Yuan Deng, Fangsen Li, Ziqiang Wang, Qi-Kun Xue, Xu-Cun Ma, and Can-Li Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166201 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Transition from Near-Field to Extreme Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer

F. Geesmann, P. Thurau, S. Rodehutskors, T. Ziehm, L. Worbes, S.-A. Biehs, and A. Kittel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166202 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

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Defect-Free Growth of Decagonal Quasicrystals around Obstacles

Kelly L. Wang, Insung Han, Domagoj Fijan, Sharon C. Glotzer, and Ashwin J. Shahani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166203 (2025) - Published 17 October, 2025

Large-scale obstacles to crystal growth can throw the whole lattice off kilter, but quasicrystals can accommodate them without losing their atomic-scale order.

Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance in Ambipolar Polymer Field-Effect Transistors

Zichen Wang, Ilia Kulikov, Tarig Mustafa, Sam Schott, Remington L. Carey, Jan Behrends, and Henning Sirringhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166301 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Kinetic Uncertainty Relations for Quantum Transport

Didrik Palmqvist, Ludovico Tesser, and Janine Splettstoesser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166302 (2025) - Published 17 October, 2025

Superdiffusive Transport in Chaotic Quantum Systems with Nodal Interactions

Yu-Peng Wang, Jie Ren, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, and Romain Vasseur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166303 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Unconventional Hall Effect in Gapless Superconductors: Transverse Supercurrent Converted from Normal Current

Miaomiao Wei, Longjun Xiang, Fuming Xu, Bin Wang, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166304 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

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Identifying Electronic Doorway States in Secondary Electron Emission from Layered Materials

A. Niggas, M. Hao, P. Richter, F. Simperl, F. Blödorn, M. Cap, J. Kero, D. Hofmann, A. Bellissimo, J. Burgdörfer, T. Seyller, R. A. Wilhelm, F. Libisch, and W. S. M. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166401 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Experiments coupled with DFT calculations uncover signatures of resonances that act as doorway states for low-energy electron emission in layered materials.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Critical Gate Distance for Wigner Crystallization in the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

Agnes Valenti, Vladimir Calvera, Yubo Yang (杨煜波), Miguel A. Morales, Steven A. Kivelson, Ilya Esterlis, and Shiwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166501 (2025) - Published 17 October, 2025

The Wigner crystal phase in two-dimensional electron gas is unstable at all densities when gate electrodes are sufficiently close.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase Matching of High Harmonic Generation in Twisted van der Waals Crystals

Chenjun Ma, Chen Huang, Yilong You, Huazhan Liu, Zhitong Ding, Mingchao Ding, Chang Liu, Jin Zhang, Guixin Li, Zhipei Sun, Shiwei Wu, Chaojie Ma, Enge Wang, Hao Hong, and Kaihui Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166902 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Photomagnetic-Chiral Anisotropy Mediated by Chirality-Driven Asymmetric Spin Splitting

Tianwei Ouyang, Hang Su, Wanning Zhang, Yingying Duan, Yuxi Fang, Shunai Che, and Yizhou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 166903 (2025) - Published 15 October, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Elastic Screening of Pseudogauge Fields in Graphene [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 046404 (2025)]

Christophe De Beule, Robin Smeyers, Wilson Nieto Luna, E. J. Mele, and Lucian Covaci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 169901 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025