Volume 135, Issue 17

24 October 2025

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Snapshot of a flock of driven magnetic rollers in a racetrack propagating through an isotropic gaseous phase.

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Flocking Phase Separation in Inertial Active Matter
Nan Luo, Longfei Li, Mingcheng Yang, and Yi Peng
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 178301 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Coexistence of Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution and Classical Data over 120 km Fiber

Adnan A. E. Hajomer, Ivan Derkach, Vladyslav C. Usenko, Ulrik L. Andersen, and Tobias Gehring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170804 (2025) - Published 23 October, 2025

Data protected by quantum physics have been sent alongside classical data through 120 km of optical fiber.

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Stimulated Emission or Absorption of Gravitons by Light

Ralf Schützhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171501 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

A proposed scheme for emitting gravitons in a verifiable earth-bound experiment may serve as a probe for quantum gravity.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Near-Perfect Broadband Quantum Memory Enabled by Intelligent Spin-Wave Compaction

Jinxian Guo, Zeliang Wu, Guzhi Bao, Peiyu Yang, Yuan Wu, L. Q. Chen, and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170802 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

A new approach stores and retrieves quantum states with record reliability, paving the way for improved quantum information processing.

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Tile Codes: High-Efficiency Quantum Codes on a Lattice with Boundary

Vincent Steffan, Shin Ho Choe, Nikolas P. Breuckmann, Francisco Revson Fernandes Pereira, and Jens Niklas Eberhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170601 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

A new family of 2D-local quantum LDPC code outperforms the rotated surface code by over a factor of 12.

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Classically Estimating Observables of Noiseless Quantum Circuits

Armando Angrisani, Alexander Schmidhuber, Manuel S. Rudolph, M. Cerezo, Zoë Holmes, and Hsin-Yuan Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170602 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

Estimation of observables of quantum circuits exhibiting chaotic and locally scrambling behavior is classically tractable across all geometries.

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Warm Inflation with the Standard Model

Kim V. Berghaus, Marco Drewes, and Sebastian Zell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171002 (2025) - Published 23 October, 2025

An axionlike coupling between the inflaton field and the standard-model gluons could directly induce warm inflation.

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Reconciliation between Neutron Skin Thickness from PREX-2 Experiment and Neutron-Star Tidal Polarizability from GW170817 Event: The Key Role of Symmetry Energy Curvature

Z. Y. Guan (管中原) and Y. F. Niu (牛一斐)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 172701 (2025) - Published 24 October, 2025

A tension between the tidal deformability inferred from neutron star merger GW170818 and the neutron skin measurement of $^{208}$ Pb by the PREX-2 experiment has been resolved.

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Revealing the Structure and Dynamics of Self-Generated Electric and Magnetic Fields Near Plasma Stagnation in Laser-Driven Hohlraums

J. A. Pearcy, G. D. Sutcliffe, T. M. Johnson, B. L. Reichelt, S. G. Dannhoff, J. Kuniumune, Y. Lawrence, B. Foo, M. Gatu-Johnson, J. A. Frenje, R. D. Petrasso, and C. K. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 175102 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Triparticle radiography combined with a reconstruction algorithm simultaneously recovers the spatiotemporal evolution of self-generated electric and magnetic fields in laser-driven hohlraum experiments.

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Fully Flat Bands in a Photonic Dipolar Kagome Lattice

Han-Rong Xia, Ziyao Wang, Yunrui Wang, Zhen Gao, and Meng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 176902 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

A photonic kagome lattice with tunable dipoles achieves fully flat, dispersionless bands yielding robust light localization and new routes to interaction-enhanced phenomena.

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Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials for Long-Range Systems

Yajie Ji, Jiuyang Liang, and Zhenli Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 178001 (2025) - Published 23 October, 2025

A neural network framework that incorporates long-range interactions into machine-learning interatomic potentials opens up the possibility of capturing physics in ionic fluids, interfaces, ferroelectric materials, and biological systems.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

State–Entanglement-Witness Contraction

Albert Rico

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170201 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Computation and Verification of Spectra for Non-Hermitian Systems

Catherine Drysdale, Matthew Colbrook, and Michael T. M. Woodley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170202 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

Scaling Theory of Fading Ergodicity

Rafał Świętek, Miroslav Hopjan, Carlo Vanoni, Antonello Scardicchio, and Lev Vidmar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170401 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Semigroup Influence Matrices for Nonequilibrium Quantum Impurity Models

Michael Sonner, Valentin Link, and Dmitry A. Abanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170402 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Measurement-Induced Lévy Flights of Quantum Information

Igor Poboiko, Marcin Szyniszewski, Christopher J. Turner, Igor V. Gornyi, Alexander D. Mirlin, and Arijeet Pal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170403 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Minimizing Dissipation via Interacting Environments: Quadratic Convergence to Landauer Bound

Patryk Lipka-Bartosik and Martí Perarnau-Llobet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170404 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

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Tile Codes: High-Efficiency Quantum Codes on a Lattice with Boundary

Vincent Steffan, Shin Ho Choe, Nikolas P. Breuckmann, Francisco Revson Fernandes Pereira, and Jens Niklas Eberhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170601 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

A new family of 2D-local quantum LDPC code outperforms the rotated surface code by over a factor of 12.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Classically Estimating Observables of Noiseless Quantum Circuits

Armando Angrisani, Alexander Schmidhuber, Manuel S. Rudolph, M. Cerezo, Zoë Holmes, and Hsin-Yuan Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170602 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

Estimation of observables of quantum circuits exhibiting chaotic and locally scrambling behavior is classically tractable across all geometries.

Temporal Asymmetry in Entanglement Distillation

Yuhang Li, Junjing Xing, Dengke Qu, Huixia Gao, Lei Xiao, Jin-Ming Liu, Yunlong Xiao, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170801 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

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Near-Perfect Broadband Quantum Memory Enabled by Intelligent Spin-Wave Compaction

Jinxian Guo, Zeliang Wu, Guzhi Bao, Peiyu Yang, Yuan Wu, L. Q. Chen, and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170802 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

A new approach stores and retrieves quantum states with record reliability, paving the way for improved quantum information processing.

Wideband Covariance Magnetometry below the Diffraction Limit

Xuan Hoang Le, Pavel E. Dolgirev, Piotr Put, Eric L. Peterson, Arjun Pillai, Alexander A. Zibrov, Eugene Demler, Hongkun Park, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170803 (2025) - Published 24 October, 2025

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Coexistence of Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution and Classical Data over 120 km Fiber

Adnan A. E. Hajomer, Ivan Derkach, Vladyslav C. Usenko, Ulrik L. Andersen, and Tobias Gehring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170804 (2025) - Published 23 October, 2025

Data protected by quantum physics have been sent alongside classical data through 120 km of optical fiber.

Optimal and Feasible Contextuality-Based Randomness Generation

Yuan Liu and Ravishankar Ramanathan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 170805 (2025) - Published 24 October, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Search for QCD Coupled Axion Dark Matter with Data from the MICROSCOPE Space Experiment

Jordan Gué, Peter Wolf, and Aurélien Hees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171001 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

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Warm Inflation with the Standard Model

Kim V. Berghaus, Marco Drewes, and Sebastian Zell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171002 (2025) - Published 23 October, 2025

An axionlike coupling between the inflaton field and the standard-model gluons could directly induce warm inflation.

Late-Time Tails in Nonlinear Evolutions of Merging Black Holes

Marina De Amicis, Hannes R. Rüter, Gregorio Carullo, Simone Albanesi, C. Melize Ferrus, Keefe Mitman, Leo C. Stein, Vitor Cardoso, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Michael Boyle, Nils Deppe, Lawrence E. Kidder, Jordan Moxon, Alessandro Nagar, Kyle C. Nelli, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, William Throwe, Nils L. Vu, and An𝚤l Zenginoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171401 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

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Stimulated Emission or Absorption of Gravitons by Light

Ralf Schützhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171501 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

A proposed scheme for emitting gravitons in a verifiable earth-bound experiment may serve as a probe for quantum gravity.

Particles and Fields

Observation of $D^{+} \to K_{S}^{0} π^{0} μ^{+} ν_{μ}$ , Test of Lepton Flavor Universality, and First Angular Analysis of $D^{+} \to {\bar{K}}^{*} (892)^{0} ℓ^{+} ν_{ℓ}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171801 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Hitting the Thermal Target for Leptophilic Dark Matter at Future Lepton Colliders

Cari Cesarotti and Gordan Krnjaic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171802 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

First Differential Measurement of the Single $π^{+}$ Production Cross Section in Neutrino Neutral-Current Scattering

K. Abe et al. (T2K Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171803 (2025) - Published 23 October, 2025

First Event-by-Event Identification of Cherenkov Radiation from Sub-Mev Particles in Liquid Argon

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (CCM Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171804 (2025) - Published 23 October, 2025

First Observation of Quantum Correlations in $e^{+} e^{-} \to X D \bar{D}$ and $C$ -Even Constrained $D \bar{D}$ Pairs

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171901 (2025) - Published 20 October, 2025

Identified Hadron Production at Hadron Colliders in Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order QCD

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171902 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

$q_{T}$ Slicing with Multiple Jets

Rong-Jun Fu, Rudi Rahn, Ding Yu Shao, Wouter J. Waalewijn, and Bin Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 171903 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Toward a Microscopic Description of Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions

Matteo Vorabbi, Michael Gennari, Paolo Finelli, Carlotta Giusti, and Petr Navrátil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 172501 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Chiral Symmetry and Peripheral Neutron- $α$ Scattering

Yilong Yang (杨一龙), Evgeny Epelbaum, Jie Meng (孟杰), Lu Meng (孟璐), and Pengwei Zhao (赵鹏巍)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 172502 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

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Reconciliation between Neutron Skin Thickness from PREX-2 Experiment and Neutron-Star Tidal Polarizability from GW170817 Event: The Key Role of Symmetry Energy Curvature

Z. Y. Guan (管中原) and Y. F. Niu (牛一斐)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 172701 (2025) - Published 24 October, 2025

A tension between the tidal deformability inferred from neutron star merger GW170818 and the neutron skin measurement of $^{208}$ Pb by the PREX-2 experiment has been resolved.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Creating and Melting a Supersolid by Heating a Quantum Dipolar System

R. Bombín, J. Boronat, F. Mazzanti, and J. Sánchez-Baena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 173401 (2025) - Published 20 October, 2025

Solitons in Arbitrary Dimensions Stabilized by Photon-Mediated Interactions

Haoqing Zhang, Anjun Chu, Chengyi Luo, James K. Thompson, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 173402 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Interaction Induced Anderson Transition in a Kicked One Dimensional Bose Gas

H. Olsen, P. Devillard, G. Aupetit-Diallo, P. Vignolo, and M. Albert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 173403 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

Electron-Enabled Nanoparticle Diffraction

Stefan Nimmrichter, Dennis Rätzel, Isobel C. Bicket, Michael S. Seifner, and Philipp Haslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 173601 (2025) - Published 23 October, 2025

Dissipative Phase Transition in the Two-Photon Dicke Model

Aanal Jayesh Shah, Peter Kirton, Simone Felicetti, and Hadiseh Alaeian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 173602 (2025) - Published 24 October, 2025

Open Transmission Channels in Multimode Fiber Cavities with Random Mode Mixing

Guy Pelc, Shay Guterman, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Cuevas, Arthur Goetschy, Sébastien M. Popoff, and Yaron Bromberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 173801 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Exceptional Points and Lasing Thresholds: When Lower-Q Modes Win

Julius Kullig, Qi Zhong, Jan Wiersig, and Ramy El-Ganainy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 173802 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Stable Small Plasmas at the Density Limit in the W7-X Stellarator

A. Pandey, T. S. Pedersen, G. Fuchert, T. Szepesi, D. Zhang, T. Stange, A. Buzas, T. Romba, F. Reimold, V. Perseo, S. Kwak, G. Kocsis, G. Cseh, T. Gonda, G. Schlisio, M. Hirsch, N. Chaudhary, and W7-X team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 175101 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

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Revealing the Structure and Dynamics of Self-Generated Electric and Magnetic Fields Near Plasma Stagnation in Laser-Driven Hohlraums

J. A. Pearcy, G. D. Sutcliffe, T. M. Johnson, B. L. Reichelt, S. G. Dannhoff, J. Kuniumune, Y. Lawrence, B. Foo, M. Gatu-Johnson, J. A. Frenje, R. D. Petrasso, and C. K. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 175102 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Pump with Broadband Probe Experiments for Single-Shot Measurements of Plasma Conditions and Crossed-Beam Energy Transfer

A. Longman, R. Muir, D. E. Mittelberger, E. S. Grace, C. Goyon, G. F. Swadling, G. E. Kemp, T. Chapman, S. Maricle, N. Vanartsdalen, A. Linder, T. Dumbacher, K. Zoromski, B. C. Stuart, F. Albert, J. E. Heebner, and P. Michel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 175103 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Variational Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Built on Dynamical Mean-Field Theory

Yueyi Wang and Kristjan Haule

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 176501 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

Observation of Giant Nernst Plateau in Ideal 1D Weyl Phase

Y. Zhang, J. Q. Cai, Peng-Lu Zhao, Q. Li, Y. C. Qian, Y. Y. Lv, Y. B. Chen, Q. Niu, Hai-Zhou Lu, J. L. Zhang, and M. L. Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 176601 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Photonic Flat Landau Levels Induced by Antisymmetric Nonuniform Pseudomagnetic Fields

Xiao Zhang, Li Liang, Kai Shao, Feifei Li, Biaobing Jin, Huabing Wang, Yin Poo, Wei Chen, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 176602 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Design and Theory of Switchable Linear Magnetoelectricity by Ferroelectricity in Type-I Multiferroics

Hui-Min Zhang, Cheng-Ao Ji, Tong Zhu, Hongjun Xiang, Hiroshi Kageyama, Shuai Dong, James M. Rondinelli, and Xue-Zeng Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 176701 (2025) - Published 20 October, 2025

Exchange Surface Spin Waves in Type-A van der Waals Antiferromagnets

Zhoujian Sun, Fuxiang Li, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, and Ping Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 176702 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

Hallmarks of Ballistic Terahertz Magnon Currents in an Antiferromagnetic Insulator

Hongsong Qiu, Oliver Franke, Yuanzhe Tian, Zdeněk Kašpar, Reza Rouzegar, Oliver Gueckstock, Ji Wu, Maguang Zhu, Biaobing Jin, Yongbing Xu, Tom S. Seifert, Di Wu, Piet W. Brouwer, and Tobias Kampfrath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 176703 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

Symmetry-Forbidden Intraband Transitions Leading to Ultralow Gilbert Damping in van der Waals Ferromagnets

Weizhao Chen, Yu Zhang, Yi Liu, and Zhe Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 176704 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Spin-Orbital Altermagnetism

Zi-Ming Wang, Yang Zhang, Song-Bo Zhang, Jin-Hua Sun, Elbio Dagotto, Dong-Hui Xu, and Lun-Hui Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 176705 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

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Fully Flat Bands in a Photonic Dipolar Kagome Lattice

Han-Rong Xia, Ziyao Wang, Yunrui Wang, Zhen Gao, and Meng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 176902 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

A photonic kagome lattice with tunable dipoles achieves fully flat, dispersionless bands yielding robust light localization and new routes to interaction-enhanced phenomena.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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