Volume 135, Issue 19

7 November 2025

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A dense suspension of negatively phototactic unicellular algae surrounded by a circular array of LEDs (not shown). Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Pure Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Active Jets of Puller Microalgae
Isabelle Eisenmann, Marco Vona, Nicolas Desprat, Takuji Ishikawa, Eric Lauga, and Raphaël Jeanneret
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 198301 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Magneto-optics in the Noncoplanar Antiferromagnet ${Co}_{1 / 3} {NbS}_{2}$ : Imaging and Writing Chiral Magnetic Domains

E. Kirstein, H. Park, I. Martin, J. F. Mitchell, N. J. Ghimire, and S. A. Crooker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196702 (2025) - Published 4 November, 2025

Researchers use a magneto-optical technique to image and manipulate magnetic domains in a chiral antiferromagnet, opening new routes for spin-based electronics.

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Zero-Point Motion of Polar Optical Phonons Revealed by Up-Converted Photoluminescence from a Single Perovskite Nanocrystal at Cryogenic Temperatures

Rentong Duan, Fengrui Hu, Chunyang Yin, Yan Lv, Chunfeng Zhang, Min Xiao, Zhi-Gang Yu, and Xiaoyong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196901 (2025) - Published 5 November, 2025

A nanocrystal cooled to near absolute zero produces an unexpected light emission, which is shown to arise from quantum fluctuations in the crystal’s atomic lattice.

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Circular Dichroism in Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering: Probing Altermagnetic Domains in MnTe

D. Takegami, T. Aoyama, T. Okauchi, T. Yamaguchi, S. Tippireddy, S. Agrestini, M. García-Fernández, T. Mizokawa, K. Ohgushi, Ke-Jin Zhou, J. Chaloupka, J. Kuneš, A. Hariki, and H. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196502 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Two new techniques use circularly polarized x rays to characterize a new and potentially useful form of magnetism.

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Circular Dichroism in Resonant Photoelectron Diffraction as a Direct Probe of Sublattice Magnetization in Altermagnets

Peter Krüger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196703 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Two new techniques use circularly polarized x rays to characterize a new and potentially useful form of magnetism.

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Clock Precision beyond the Standard Quantum Limit at $10^{- 18}$ Level

Y. A. Yang, Maya Miklos, Yee Ming Tso, Stella Kraus, Joonseok Hur, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 193202 (2025) - Published 7 November, 2025

An entanglement-enhanced optical clock achieves unprecedented precision of 10 $^{- 18}$ with 2dB quantum noise squeezing.

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Why and When Merging Surface Nanobubbles Jump

Yixin Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 194001 (2025) - Published 7 November, 2025

Molecular dynamics simulations and theory show how pressure energy, together with surface tension, drives coalescence-induced nanobubble release, offering fresh insights for enhancing gas evolution in key physicochemical processes.

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Gyromorphs: A New Class of Functional Disordered Materials

Mathias Casiulis, Aaron Shih, and Stefano Martiniani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196101 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Gyromorphs are a new class of functional correlated disordered materials with high rotational order that exhibit deeper isotropic bandgaps.

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Josephson Junction Tuning Described by Depinning Physics

Oscar W. Kennedy, Jared H. Cole, and Connor D. Shelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196202 (2025) - Published 4 November, 2025

Resistance optimization guided by a new theoretical model of qubit resistance leads to improved tuning of Josephson junctions used in the manufacture of superconducting qubits and quantum processors.

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Discovery of Universal Phonon Thermal Hall Effect in Crystals

X. B. Jin, X. Zhang, W. B. Wan, H. R. Wang, Y. H. Jiao, and S. Y. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196302 (2025) - Published 3 November, 2025

Observation of the thermal Hall effect in nonmagnetic insulators and semiconductors characterized by a universal scaling behavior of the thermal Hall coefficient and the longitudinal thermal conductivity might point towards an intrinsic effect purely driven by phonons.

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Orbital Magnetic Field Driven Metal-Insulator Transition in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

Georg Rohringer and Anton Markov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196503 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Orbital effects of the magnetic field trigger metal-insulator transitions in correlated systems.

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Moiré-Induced Magnetoelectricity in Twisted Bilayer ${NiI}_{2}$

Haiyan Zhu, Hongyu Yu, Weiqin Zhu, Guoliang Yu, Changsong Xu, and Hongjun Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196701 (2025) - Published 3 November, 2025

Twist-induced structural distortions induce ferroelectricity and polar magnetic topologies in bilayer NiI $_{2}$ .

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Pure Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Active Jets of Puller Microalgae

Isabelle Eisenmann, Marco Vona, Nicolas Desprat, Takuji Ishikawa, Eric Lauga, and Raphaël Jeanneret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 198301 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Using phototaxis to control cell orientation, various instabilities can be induced in jets of motile microalgae.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Subsystem Decompositions of Quantum Evolutions and Transformations between Causal Perspectives

Julian Wechs and Ognyan Oreshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 190201 (2025) - Published 5 November, 2025

Semiclassical Approach to Quantum Fisher Information

Mahdi RouhbakhshNabati, Daniel Braun, and Henning Schomerus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 190202 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Simplest Kochen-Specker Set

Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 190203 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Dynamical Complexity of Non-Gaussian Many-Body Systems with Dissipation

Guillermo González-García, Alexey V. Gorshkov, J. Ignacio Cirac, and Rahul Trivedi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 190401 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

From Light-Cone to Supersonic Propagation of Correlations by Competing Short- and Long-Range Couplings

Catalin-Mihai Halati, Ameneh Sheikhan, Giovanna Morigi, Corinna Kollath, and Simon B. Jäger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 190402 (2025) - Published 7 November, 2025

Device-Independent Quantum Key Activation

Bora Ulu, Nicolas Brunner, and Mirjam Weilenmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 190801 (2025) - Published 3 November, 2025

Noise Constraints on Sensitivity Scaling in Quantum Nonlinear Metrology

Noah Lordi, John Drew Wilson, Murray J. Holland, and Joshua Combes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 190802 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Search for Axion Dark Matter from 1.1 to 1.3 GHz with ADMX

G. Carosi et al. (ADMX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 191001 (2025) - Published 3 November, 2025

Mirages and Large TeV Halo-Pulsar Offsets from Cosmic-Ray Propagation

Yiwei Bao, Gwenael Giacinti, Ruo-Yu Liu, Hai-Ming Zhang, and Yang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 191002 (2025) - Published 3 November, 2025

Sub-GeV Dark Matter Direct Detection with Neutrino Observatories

Rebecca K. Leane and John F. Beacom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 191003 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Can Premature Collapse Form Black Holes in the Upper and Lower Mass Gaps?

Thomas W. Baumgarte and Stuart L. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 191401 (2025) - Published 4 November, 2025

Black Hole Airy Tail

Stefano Antonini, Luca V. Iliesiu, Pratik Rath, and Patrick Tran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 191501 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Particles and Fields

Gravitational Wave Scattering via the Born Series: Scalar Tidal Matching to $O (G^{7})$ and Beyond

Simon Caron-Huot, Miguel Correia, Giulia Isabella, and Mikhail Solon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 191601 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Window Observables for Benchmarking Parton Distribution Functions

Joe Karpie, Christopher J. Monahan, Kostas Orginos, and Savvas Zafeiropoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 191901 (2025) - Published 3 November, 2025

Unraveling the Structure of $Λ$ Hyperons with Polarized $Λ \bar{Λ}$ Pairs

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 191902 (2025) - Published 4 November, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Measurement of the $g$ Factor of Ground-State ${}^{87}{Sr}$ at the Parts-per-Million Level Using Co-Trapped Ultracold Atoms

Premjith Thekkeppatt, Digvijay, Alexander Urech, Florian Schreck, and Klaasjan van Druten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 193001 (2025) - Published 3 November, 2025

Spin Polarization in Strong-Field Ionization as Sensor of Trapped Electron Orbits

Linxuan Zhang, Stefanos Carlström, Olga Smirnova, Misha Ivanov, and Difa Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 193201 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Clock Precision beyond the Standard Quantum Limit at $10^{- 18}$ Level

Y. A. Yang, Maya Miklos, Yee Ming Tso, Stella Kraus, Joonseok Hur, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 193202 (2025) - Published 7 November, 2025

An entanglement-enhanced optical clock achieves unprecedented precision of 10 $^{- 18}$ with 2dB quantum noise squeezing.

Mass-Gap Description of Heavy Impurities in Fermi Gases

Xin Chen, Eugen Dizer, Emilio Ramos Rodríguez, and Richard Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 193401 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Breaking a Superfluid Harmonic Dam: Observation and Theory of Riemann Invariants and Accelerating Sonic Horizons

Shashwat Sharan, Judith Gonzalez Sorribes, Patrick Sprenger, Mark A. Hoefer, P. Engels, Boaz Ilan, and M. E. Mossman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 193402 (2025) - Published 7 November, 2025

Phase-Space Nonseparability, Partial Coherence, and Optical Beam Shifts

Yahong Chen and Sergey A. Ponomarenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 193801 (2025) - Published 5 November, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Why and When Merging Surface Nanobubbles Jump

Yixin Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 194001 (2025) - Published 7 November, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Laser-Modulation-Driven X-Ray Pulse Shaping in Regenerative Amplifier Free-Electron Lasers

Zhen Zhang, Jingyi Tang, Erik Hemsing, and Zhirong Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 195001 (2025) - Published 4 November, 2025

Beam Realignment with Emittance Preservation in a Plasma Wakefield-Accelerator Stage

Lance Hildebrand, Yujian Zhao, Weiming An, Fei Li, Qianqian Su, Xinlu Xu, Chan Joshi, and Warren B. Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 195002 (2025) - Published 5 November, 2025

Proposal to Use Laser-Accelerated Electrons to Probe the Axion-Electron Coupling

Georgios Vacalis, Atsushi Higuchi, Robert Bingham, and Gianluca Gregori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 195003 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Dynamics of Fractal Ice Grains in Cryogenic Plasmas

André Nicolov, Seth Pree, and Paul M. Bellan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 195301 (2025) - Published 3 November, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gyromorphs: A New Class of Functional Disordered Materials

Mathias Casiulis, Aaron Shih, and Stefano Martiniani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196101 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Gyromorphs are a new class of functional correlated disordered materials with high rotational order that exhibit deeper isotropic bandgaps.

Ab Initio Electron-Phonon-Coupling Theory of Elastic Helium-Atom Scattering

Cristóbal Méndez, C. J. Thompson, M. F. Van Duinen, S. J. Sibener, and Tomás A. Arias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196201 (2025) - Published 3 November, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Josephson Junction Tuning Described by Depinning Physics

Oscar W. Kennedy, Jared H. Cole, and Connor D. Shelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196202 (2025) - Published 4 November, 2025

Resistance optimization guided by a new theoretical model of qubit resistance leads to improved tuning of Josephson junctions used in the manufacture of superconducting qubits and quantum processors.

Orientation-Dependent Ionic-Current Rectification in Colloidal Crystals

Santiago F. Bonoli, Leandro L. Missoni, Yamila A. Perez Sirkin, and Mario Tagliazucchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196301 (2025) - Published 3 November, 2025

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Discovery of Universal Phonon Thermal Hall Effect in Crystals

X. B. Jin, X. Zhang, W. B. Wan, H. R. Wang, Y. H. Jiao, and S. Y. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196302 (2025) - Published 3 November, 2025

General First-Principles Approach to Crystals in Finite Magnetic Fields

Chengye Lü, Yingwei Chen, Yuzhi Wang, Zhihao Dai, Zhong Fang, Xin-Gao Gong, Quansheng Wu, and Hongjun Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196401 (2025) - Published 3 November, 2025

Moiré Band Theory for M-Valley Twisted Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Chao Lei, Perry T. Mahon, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196402 (2025) - Published 5 November, 2025

Anomalous Nodal Gap in a Doped Spin- $1 / 2$ Antiferromagnetic Mott Insulator

Yong Hu, Christopher Lane, Xiang Chen, Shuting Peng, Zeliang Sun, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, Tao Wu, Robert S. Markiewicz, Xianhui Chen, Arun Bansil, Stephen D. Wilson, and Junfeng He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196403 (2025) - Published 7 November, 2025

Chiral Graviton Modes on the Lattice

Hernan B. Xavier, Zeno Bacciconi, Titas Chanda, Dam Thanh Son, and Marcello Dalmonte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196501 (2025) - Published 4 November, 2025

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Circular Dichroism in Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering: Probing Altermagnetic Domains in MnTe

D. Takegami, T. Aoyama, T. Okauchi, T. Yamaguchi, S. Tippireddy, S. Agrestini, M. García-Fernández, T. Mizokawa, K. Ohgushi, Ke-Jin Zhou, J. Chaloupka, J. Kuneš, A. Hariki, and H. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196502 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Two new techniques use circularly polarized x rays to characterize a new and potentially useful form of magnetism.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbital Magnetic Field Driven Metal-Insulator Transition in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

Georg Rohringer and Anton Markov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196503 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Orbital effects of the magnetic field trigger metal-insulator transitions in correlated systems.

Multiphoton Spectroscopy of a Dynamical Axion Insulator

Olivia Liebman, Jonathan B. Curtis, Ioannis Petrides, and Prineha Narang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196601 (2025) - Published 4 November, 2025

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Moiré-Induced Magnetoelectricity in Twisted Bilayer ${NiI}_{2}$

Haiyan Zhu, Hongyu Yu, Weiqin Zhu, Guoliang Yu, Changsong Xu, and Hongjun Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196701 (2025) - Published 3 November, 2025

Twist-induced structural distortions induce ferroelectricity and polar magnetic topologies in bilayer NiI $_{2}$ .

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Magneto-optics in the Noncoplanar Antiferromagnet ${Co}_{1 / 3} {NbS}_{2}$ : Imaging and Writing Chiral Magnetic Domains

E. Kirstein, H. Park, I. Martin, J. F. Mitchell, N. J. Ghimire, and S. A. Crooker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196702 (2025) - Published 4 November, 2025

Researchers use a magneto-optical technique to image and manipulate magnetic domains in a chiral antiferromagnet, opening new routes for spin-based electronics.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Circular Dichroism in Resonant Photoelectron Diffraction as a Direct Probe of Sublattice Magnetization in Altermagnets

Peter Krüger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196703 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Two new techniques use circularly polarized x rays to characterize a new and potentially useful form of magnetism.

Spin-Torque-Driven Subterahertz Antiferromagnetic Resonance Dynamics

Yichen Su, Chunyan Geng, Deyin Kong, Lei Han, Lin Huang, Feng Pan, Fei Dai, Xiaojun Wu, and Cheng Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196704 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Predictive Indicator of Critical Point in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Magnetic Systems

Tianyi Zhang, Caihua Wan, and Xiufeng Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196705 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

Spin-Disorder-Induced Angular Anisotropy in Polarized Magnetic Neutron Scattering

Ivan Titov, Mathias Bersweiler, Michael P. Adams, Evelyn Pratami Sinaga, Venus Rai, Štefan Liščák, Max Lahr, Thomas L. Schmidt, Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Andreas Haller, Kiyonori Suzuki, Nina-Juliane Steinke, Diego Alba Venero, Dirk Honecker, Joachim Kohlbrecher, Luis Fernández Barquín, and Andreas Michels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196706 (2025) - Published 6 November, 2025

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Zero-Point Motion of Polar Optical Phonons Revealed by Up-Converted Photoluminescence from a Single Perovskite Nanocrystal at Cryogenic Temperatures

Rentong Duan, Fengrui Hu, Chunyang Yin, Yan Lv, Chunfeng Zhang, Min Xiao, Zhi-Gang Yu, and Xiaoyong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 196901 (2025) - Published 5 November, 2025

A nanocrystal cooled to near absolute zero produces an unexpected light emission, which is shown to arise from quantum fluctuations in the crystal’s atomic lattice.