Volume 135, Issue 18

31 October 2025

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Image of the apparatus used to generate a 110 T magnetic-field pulse exploding, as intended, during operation. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Observation of Giant and Anisotropic Magnetostriction in $β − O_{2}$ at 110 Tesla
Akihiko Ikeda, Yuya Kubota, Yuto Ishii, Xuguang Zhou, Shiyue Peng, Hiroaki Hayashi, Yasuhiro H. Matsuda, Kosuke Noda, Tomoya Tanaka, Kotomi Shimbori, Kenta Seki, Hideaki Kobayashi, Dilip Bhoi, Masaki Gen, Kamini Gautam, Mitsuru Akaki, Shiro Kawachi, Shusuke Kasamatsu, Toshihiro Nomura, Yuichi Inubushi, and Makina Yabashi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186702 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Counterdiabatic Driving with Performance Guarantees

Jernej Rudi Finžgar, Simone Notarnicola, Madelyn Cain, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Dries Sels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 180602 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Theorists have proposed a universal recipe for trying to quickly prepare a system in a desired ground state without exciting it.

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LHC as an Axion-Photon Collider

Sergio Barbosa, Matheus Coelho, Sylvain Fichet, Gustavo Gil da Silveira, and Magno Machado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 181801 (2025) - Published 30 October, 2025

Researchers have proposed that exotic particles emitted by the Large Hadron Collider’s relativistic beams might reveal themselves in collisions of their own.

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Acoustic Nanoparticle Trapping Is Driven by Synergy between Acoustic and Hydrodynamic Interactions

Alen Pavlič and Thierry Baasch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 187201 (2025) - Published 28 October, 2025

Fluid flow and acoustic waves act together to trap nanoparticles.

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Distributed Current Injection into a One-Dimensional Ballistic Edge Channel

Kristof Moors, Christian Wagner, Helmut Soltner, Felix Lüpke, F. Stefan Tautz, and Bert Voigtländer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186301 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Criteria are identified that can discriminate between ballistic and resistive edge channels in multiterminal transport.

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Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Ferromagnetic Metals

Yu-Hao Wan, Peng-Yi Liu, and Qing-Feng Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186302 (2025) - Published 31 October, 2025

A three-band model with strong dephasing shows that robust quantized Hall plateaus persist even in metallic ferromagnets.

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Coexistence of Insulatorlike Paramagnon and Metallic Spin-Orbit Exciton Modes in ${SrIrO}_{3}$

E. Paris, W. Zhang, Y. Tseng, A. Efimenko, C. Sahle, V. N. Strocov, E. Skoropata, K. Rolfs, T. Shang, J. Lyu, E. Pomjakushina, M. Medarde, H. M. Rønnow, B. Normand, M. Radovic, and T. Schmitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186506 (2025) - Published 31 October, 2025

In SrIrO $_{3}$ , a paramagnon characteristic of an antiferromagnetic insulator, coexists with a dispersive spin-orbit exciton, characteristic of a metal.

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From Fractionalization to Chiral Topological Superconductivity in a Flat Chern Band

Daniele Guerci, Ahmed Abouelkomsan, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186601 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Interacting electrons in a flat Chern band can form a chiral f-wave topological superconductor that hosts neutral Majorana fermion edge modes, in addition to fractional Chern insulators.

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X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Observation of Giant and Anisotropic Magnetostriction in $β − O_{2}$ at 110 Tesla

Akihiko Ikeda, Yuya Kubota, Yuto Ishii, Xuguang Zhou, Shiyue Peng, Hiroaki Hayashi, Yasuhiro H. Matsuda, Kosuke Noda, Tomoya Tanaka, Kotomi Shimbori, Kenta Seki, Hideaki Kobayashi, Dilip Bhoi, Masaki Gen, Kamini Gautam, Mitsuru Akaki, Shiro Kawachi, Shusuke Kasamatsu, Toshihiro Nomura, Yuichi Inubushi, and Makina Yabashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186702 (2025) - Published 28 October, 2025

Magnetic fields in excess of 100 T produced using a portable generator reveal the giant and anisotropic magnetostriction in solid oxygen at high fields.

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Nonreciprocal Spin-Glass Transition and Aging

Giulia Garcia Lorenzana, Ada Altieri, Giulio Biroli, Michel Fruchart, and Vincenzo Vitelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 187402 (2025) - Published 30 October, 2025

A model representing two nonreciprocally coupled complex agents undergoes a finite-temperature phase transition from a static disordered phase to an oscillating amorphous phase, challenging the current belief that nonreciprocity destroys glassiness.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Partial Independence Suffices to Rule Out Real Quantum Theory Experimentally

Mirjam Weilenmann, Nicolas Gisin, and Pavel Sekatski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 180201 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Liouvillian Spectral Transition in Noisy Quantum Many-Body Scars

Jin-Lou Ma, Zexian Guo, Yu Gao, Zlatko Papić, and Lei Ying

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 180401 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Precision through a Quantum-Centric Computation

Mario Motta, Antonio Mezzacapo, and Giacomo Guarnieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 180601 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025

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Counterdiabatic Driving with Performance Guarantees

Jernej Rudi Finžgar, Simone Notarnicola, Madelyn Cain, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Dries Sels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 180602 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Theorists have proposed a universal recipe for trying to quickly prepare a system in a desired ground state without exciting it.

Offset Charge Dependence of Measurement-Induced Transitions in Transmons

Mathieu Féchant, Marie Frédérique Dumas, Denis Bénâtre, Nicolas Gosling, Philipp Lenhard, Martin Spiecker, Simon Geisert, Sören Ihssen, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Benjamin D’Anjou, Alexandre Blais, and Ioan M. Pop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 180603 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Frequency-Noise-Insensitive Universal Control of Kerr-Cat Qubits

Lennart Maximilian Seifert, Connor T. Hann, and Kyungjoo Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 180801 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Apparent $w < - 1$ and a Lower $S_{8}$ from Dark Axion and Dark Baryons Interactions

Justin Khoury, Meng-Xiang Lin, and Mark Trodden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 181001 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025

Probing a New Regime of Neutrino Self-Interactions with Astrophysical Neutrinos and the Relativistic Cosmic Neutrino Background

Isaac R. Wang, Xun-Jie Xu, and Bei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 181002 (2025) - Published 28 October, 2025

Current Constraints on Cosmological Scenarios with Very Low Reheating Temperatures

Nicola Barbieri, Thejs Brinckmann, Stefano Gariazzo, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Sergio Pastor, and Ofelia Pisanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 181003 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Scalable Architecture for Dark Photon Searches: Superconducting-Qubit Proof of Principle

Runqi Kang, Qingqin Hu, Xiao Cai, Wenlong Yu, Jingwei Zhou, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 181004 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

All-Sky Search for Individual Primordial Black Hole Bursts with LHAASO

Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 181005 (2025) - Published 30 October, 2025

Kerr Black Hole in a Uniform Bertotti-Robinson Magnetic Field: An Exact Solution

Jiří Podolský and Hryhorii Ovcharenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 181401 (2025) - Published 31 October, 2025

Particles and Fields

Diagrammatic Derivation of Hidden Zeros and Exact Factorization of Pion Scattering Amplitudes

Yang Li (李阳), Tianzhi Wang (王天志), Tomáš Brauner, and Diederik Roest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 181601 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

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LHC as an Axion-Photon Collider

Sergio Barbosa, Matheus Coelho, Sylvain Fichet, Gustavo Gil da Silveira, and Magno Machado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 181801 (2025) - Published 30 October, 2025

Researchers have proposed that exotic particles emitted by the Large Hadron Collider’s relativistic beams might reveal themselves in collisions of their own.

Nuclear Physics

Revealing the Harmonic Structure of Nuclear Two-Body Correlations in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions

Thomas Duguet, Giuliano Giacalone, Sangyong Jeon, and Alexander Tichai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 182301 (2025) - Published 28 October, 2025

Measurement of ${}^{19}F (p, α γ) {}^{16}O$ Reaction Reopens the Fluorine Conundrums in Stars

X. D. Su et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 182701 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Atomic Real-Space Imaging of Molecular Statics and Dynamics at Confined States

Yusheng Liu (刘雨生), Liang Xu (许亮), Xiao Chen (陈晓), Ning Huang (黄宁), Mengmeng Ma (马蒙蒙), Huiqiu Wang (王挥遒), Bin Song (宋斌), Tao Cheng (程涛), Fei Wei (魏飞), and Boyuan Shen (申博渊)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 183001 (2025) - Published 30 October, 2025

Search for Exotic Spin-Dependent Interactions with Dressed Atoms

Xiyu Liu, Wei Xiao, Meng Liu, Xiang Peng, Teng Wu, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 183201 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Photoionization Time Delays Probe Electron Correlations

Mingxuan Li, Huiyong Wang, Rezvan Tahouri, Robin Weissenbilder, Jialong Li, Wentao Wang, Jiaao Cai, Xiaochun Hong, Xiaosen Shi, Liang-Wen Pi, David Busto, Mathieu Gisselbrecht, Kiyoshi Ueda, Philipp V. Demekhin, Anne L’Huillier, Jan Marcus Dahlström, Eva Lindroth, Dajun Ding, and Sizuo Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 183202 (2025) - Published 30 October, 2025

Observation of Temperature Effects on False Vacuum Decay in Atomic Quantum Gases

Riccardo Cominotti, Cosetta Baroni, Chiara Rogora, Diego Andreoni, Giacomo Guarda, Giacomo Lamporesi, Gabriele Ferrari, and Alessandro Zenesini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 183401 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025

Exact Perturbative Expansion of the Transport Coefficients of a Normal Low-Temperature Fermi Gas with Contact Interactions

Pierre-Louis Taillat and Hadrien Kurkjian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 183402 (2025) - Published 28 October, 2025

Time-Resolved and Superradiantly Amplified Unruh Effect

Akhil Deswal, Navdeep Arya, Kinjalk Lochan, and Sandeep K. Goyal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 183601 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025

Quantum-Enhanced Interferometer for Multiphase Sensing

Yanni Feng, Zhaoqing Zeng, Jialin Cheng, Zhaolin You, Huadong Lu, Zhihui Yan, Xiaojun Jia, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 183602 (2025) - Published 28 October, 2025

Nonlocal Coherent Optical Nonlinearities of a Macroscopic Quantum System

Albert Liu, Eric W. Martin, Jiaqi Hu, Zhaorong Wang, Hui Deng, and Steven T. Cundiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 183801 (2025) - Published 28 October, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Data-Driven Construction of a Generalized Kinetic Collision Operator from Molecular Dynamics

Yue Zhao, Joshua Burby, Andrew Christlieb, and Huan Lei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 185101 (2025) - Published 28 October, 2025

Free Energy Source of the Mirror Instability: Nonresonant Particles

Xudong Guo, Jinsong Zhao, Kristopher G. Klein, and Huasheng Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 185201 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Body-Centered-Cubic Phase Transformation in Gold at TPa Pressures

Amy L. Coleman, Saransh Singh, Tom E. Lockard, Ian K. Ocampo, Amy E. Lazicki, Martin G. Gorman, Stefano Racioppi, Andrew G. Krygier, Christopher E. Wehrenberg, Rasool Ahmad, Marius Millot, Sebastien Hamel, Sirus Han, Mary Kate Ginnane, Damian C. Swift, Stanimir A. Bonev, Eva Zurek, Thomas S. Duffy, Jon H. Eggert, James McNaney, and Raymond F. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186101 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025

Water-Induced Current Determines Heat Generation during Double Layer Charging

Liang Zeng, Nan Huang, and Guang Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186201 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025

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Distributed Current Injection into a One-Dimensional Ballistic Edge Channel

Kristof Moors, Christian Wagner, Helmut Soltner, Felix Lüpke, F. Stefan Tautz, and Bert Voigtländer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186301 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Criteria are identified that can discriminate between ballistic and resistive edge channels in multiterminal transport.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Ferromagnetic Metals

Yu-Hao Wan, Peng-Yi Liu, and Qing-Feng Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186302 (2025) - Published 31 October, 2025

A three-band model with strong dephasing shows that robust quantized Hall plateaus persist even in metallic ferromagnets.

Real-Time Edge Dynamics of Non-Hermitian Lattices

Tian-Hua Yang and Chen Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186401 (2025) - Published 28 October, 2025

Polaronic Quasiparticles in the Valence-Transition Compound ${TmSe}_{1 - x} {Te}_{x}$

C.-H. Min, S. Müller, W. J. Choi, L. Dudy, V. Zabolotnyy, M. Heber, J. D. Denlinger, C.-J. Kang, M. Kalläne, N. Wind, M. Scholz, T. L. Lee, C. Schlueter, A. Gloskovskii, E. D. L. Rienks, V. Hinkov, H. Bentmann, Y. S. Kwon, F. Reinert, H.-D. Kim, and K. Rossnagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186501 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

High-Temperature Superconductivity from Finite-Range Attractive Interaction

Dmitry Miserev, Joel Hutchinson, Herbert Schoeller, Jelena Klinovaja, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186502 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Field Induced Density Wave in a Kagome Superconductor

Md. Shafayat Hossain, Qi Zhang, Julian Ingham, Jinjin Liu, Sen Shao, Yangmu Li, Yuxin Wang, Bal K. Pokharel, Zi-Jia Cheng, Yu-Xiao Jiang, Maksim Litskevich, Byunghoon Kim, Xian Yang, Yongkai Li, Tyler A. Cochran, Yugui Yao, Dragana Popović, Zhiwei Wang, Ronny Thomale, Luis Balicas, and M. Zahid Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186503 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Emergence of Chiral Order Driven by Quenched Disorder

Coraline Letouzé, Pascal Viot, and Laura Messio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186504 (2025) - Published 30 October, 2025

$λ$ -Jellium Model for the Anomalous Hall Crystal

Tomohiro Soejima (副島智大), Junkai Dong (董焌锴), Ashvin Vishwanath, and Daniel E. Parker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186505 (2025) - Published 30 October, 2025

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Coexistence of Insulatorlike Paramagnon and Metallic Spin-Orbit Exciton Modes in ${SrIrO}_{3}$

E. Paris, W. Zhang, Y. Tseng, A. Efimenko, C. Sahle, V. N. Strocov, E. Skoropata, K. Rolfs, T. Shang, J. Lyu, E. Pomjakushina, M. Medarde, H. M. Rønnow, B. Normand, M. Radovic, and T. Schmitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186506 (2025) - Published 31 October, 2025

In SrIrO $_{3}$ , a paramagnon characteristic of an antiferromagnetic insulator, coexists with a dispersive spin-orbit exciton, characteristic of a metal.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

From Fractionalization to Chiral Topological Superconductivity in a Flat Chern Band

Daniele Guerci, Ahmed Abouelkomsan, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 186601 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Interacting electrons in a flat Chern band can form a chiral f-wave topological superconductor that hosts neutral Majorana fermion edge modes, in addition to fractional Chern insulators.