Volume 135, Issue 2

11 July 2025

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Controllable, 100-µm-sized, tabletop Fermi accelerator in which ultracold atoms are accelerated by moving barriers: One of the walls moving toward the opposite wall causes bouncing atoms to gain energy. Selected for a Focus in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Observation of Fermi Acceleration with Cold Atoms
G. Barontini, V. Naniyil, J. P. Stinton, D. G. Reid, J. M. F. Gunn, H. M. Price, A. B. Deb, D. Caprioli, and V. Guarrera
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 025201 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Origin of the Most Recently Ejected OB Runaway Star from the R136 Cluster

Simon Portegies Zwart, Mitchel Stoop, Lex Kaper, Alex de Koter, Steven Rieder, and Tomer Shenar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021201 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

A detailed analysis of a stellar cluster has led to a possible explanation for several fast-moving runaway stars around the cluster.

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Observation of Fermi Acceleration with Cold Atoms

G. Barontini, V. Naniyil, J. P. Stinton, D. G. Reid, J. M. F. Gunn, H. M. Price, A. B. Deb, D. Caprioli, and V. Guarrera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 025201 (2025) - Published 9 July, 2025

A mechanism for accelerating charged particles in astrophysical plasmas has been reproduced with cold atoms in an optical trap.

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Meron Spin Textures in Momentum Space Spawning from Bound States in the Continuum

Lixi Rao, Jiajun Wang, Xinhao Wang, Shunben Wu, Xingqi Zhao, Wenzhe Liu, Rensheng Xie, Yijie Shen, Lei Shi, and Jian Zi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026203 (2025) - Published 10 July, 2025

An arrangement of spins known as a meron turns out to be easier to make in momentum space than in real space.

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Polariton Fluids as Quantum Field Theory Simulators on Tailored Curved Spacetimes

Kévin Falque, Adrià Delhom, Quentin Glorieux, Elisabeth Giacobino, Alberto Bramati, and Maxime J. Jacquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 023401 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

A fluid made of light can simulate a black hole’s boundary, providing insights into the mysterious quantum phenomena that occur at such a boundary.

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Thermodynamics and Statistical Equilibrium of Large-Scale Hydroelastic Wave Turbulence

Marlone Vernet and Eric Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 024004 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Experiments with turbulent waves show that energy spreads from small to large scales, producing a steady-state regime that can be described using classical thermodynamics.

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Quark Matter at Four Loops: Hardships and How to Overcome Them

Aapeli Kärkkäinen, Pablo Navarrete, Mika Nurmela, Risto Paatelainen, Kaapo Seppänen, and Aleksi Vuorinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021901 (2025) - Published 7 July, 2025

A new theoretical framework simplifies the four-loop Feynman diagrams for dense QCD to few infrared-finite integrals, which brings the higher-order calculation of the pressure inside cold and dense quark matter within reach.

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Quantum Stochastic Rectification in a Single Molecule

Jiang Yao, Siyu Chen, Wenlu Shi, and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026201 (2025) - Published 7 July, 2025

Monitoring the conformational switching of a single molecule using inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy demonstrates quantum stochastic rectification.

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Nonadiabatic Renormalization of the Phonon Dispersion in Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene

Jiade Li, Jilin Tang, Zhiyu Tao, Ruochen Shi, Xin Gao, Siwei Xue, Xiaoyin Gao, Weiyu Sun, Guangyao Miao, Zhibin Su, Xiongfei Shi, Shiqi Hu, Ruilin Mao, Xiaowen Zhang, Peiyi He, Weihua Wang, Peng Gao, Hailin Peng, Chao Lian, Jiandong Guo, and Xuetao Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026204 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

High-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy with 2D imaging detection of energy and momentum maps the full phonon spectra of monolayer and bilayer graphene.

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Internal Entropy of Non-Abelian Anyons from Heat Current through a Tunneling Barrier

Noam Schiller, Hiromi Ebisu, Gil Refael, and Yuval Oreg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026602 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

The effective internal entropy of non-Abelian anyons, such as those that arise in the fractional quantum Hall state at filling factor 5/2, manifests in the heat current through a tunneling barrier.

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Fluctuations and Correlations of Local Topological Order Parameters in Disordered Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators

Roberta Favata, Nicolas Baù, and Antimo Marrazzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026603 (2025) - Published 9 July, 2025

Space-resolved topological markers characterizing disorder-driven topological phase transitions act as local order parameters.

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Observing the Mobile Surface Layer of Water During Vapor Deposition and Its Impact on Structure

Erik Thoms, Jan P. Gabriel, and Ranko Richert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 028001 (2025) - Published 7 July, 2025

Surface mobility can determine whether a deposited film of solid water will be in a porous or collapsed amorphous phase, or if it will form crystalline ice.

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Thermodynamic Origin of Multistep Polymer Crystallization

Wenlin Zhang (张文麟)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 028101 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

A quantitative theoretical model describes the multistep crystallization mechanisms for semicrystalline polymers that agrees with experimental results.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Experimental Characterization of Quantumness Using the Uncertainty Principle, Coherence, and Nonlocality

Yan-Han Yang, Xin-Zhu Liu, Xing-Zhou Zheng, Jun-Li Jiang, Xue Yang, Shao-Ming Fei, Zhihao Ma, Zizhu Wang, and Ming-Xing Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 020201 (2025) - Published 10 July, 2025

Matchgate Circuits Deeply Thermalize

Mircea Bejan, Benjamin Béri, and Max McGinley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 020401 (2025) - Published 7 July, 2025

Measuring Decoherence due to Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations

Anirudh Gundhi and Hendrik Ulbricht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 020402 (2025) - Published 7 July, 2025

Pseudoentanglement from Tensor Networks

Zihan Cheng, Xiaozhou Feng, and Matteo Ippoliti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 020403 (2025) - Published 7 July, 2025

Quantum Thermal Analogs of Electric Circuits: A Universal Approach

Devvrat Tiwari, Samyadeb Bhattacharya, and Subhashish Banerjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 020404 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Self-Discharging Mitigated Quantum Battery

Wan-Lu Song, Ji-Ling Wang, Bin Zhou, Wan-Li Yang, and Jun-Hong An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 020405 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Exceptional Stationary State in a Dephasing Many-Body Open Quantum System

Alice Marché, Gianluca Morettini, Leonardo Mazza, Lorenzo Gotta, and Luca Capizzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 020406 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Counterdiabatic Route to Entanglement Steering and Dynamical Freezing in the Floquet Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model

Nakshatra Gangopadhay and Sayan Choudhury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 020407 (2025) - Published 9 July, 2025

Local Properties of the Rapidity Distribution in the Lieb-Liniger Model

Miłosz Panfil and Zoran Ristivojevic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 020408 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

Dark Spin-Cat States as Biased Qubits

Andreas Kruckenhauser, Ming Yuan, Han Zheng, Mikhail Mamaev, Pei Zeng, Xuanhui Mao, Qian Xu, Torsten V. Zache, Liang Jiang, Rick van Bijnen, and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 020601 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

One-Shot Min-Entropy Calculation of Classical-Quantum States and Its Application to Quantum Cryptography

Rong Wang and H. F. Chau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 020801 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Chip-to-Chip Quantum Photonic Controlled-not Gate Teleportation

Lan-Tian Feng, Ming Zhang, Di Liu, Yu-Jie Cheng, Xin-Yu Song, Yu-Yang Ding, Dao-Xin Dai, Guo-Ping Guo, Guang-Can Guo, and Xi-Feng Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 020802 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Sharp Finite Statistics for Quantum Key Distribution

Vaisakh Mannalath, Víctor Zapatero, and Marcos Curty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 020803 (2025) - Published 10 July, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Composite Heavy Axionlike Dark Matter

Pierluca Carenza, Roman Pasechnik, and Zhi-Wei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021001 (2025) - Published 7 July, 2025

Precision Spectral Measurements of Chromium and Titanium from 10 to $250 GeV / n$ and Sub-Iron to Iron Ratio with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani et al. (CALET Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021002 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Origin of the Most Recently Ejected OB Runaway Star from the R136 Cluster

Simon Portegies Zwart, Mitchel Stoop, Lex Kaper, Alex de Koter, Steven Rieder, and Tomer Shenar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021201 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

A detailed analysis of a stellar cluster has led to a possible explanation for several fast-moving runaway stars around the cluster.

Computation of the Semiclassical Outflux Emerging from a Collapsing Spherical Null Shell

Amos Ori and Noa Zilberman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021401 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Firewalls from General Covariance

Raphael Bousso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021501 (2025) - Published 7 July, 2025

Particles and Fields

Revisiting Scattering Enhancement from the Aharonov-Bohm Effect

T. Daniel Brennan, Jaipratap Singh Grewal, and Eric Y. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021601 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Minimal Model Renormalization Group Flows: Noninvertible Symmetries and Nonperturbative Description

Federico Ambrosino and Stefano Negro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021602 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Form Factors from String Amplitudes

Qu Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021603 (2025) - Published 10 July, 2025

Incorporating Physical Priors into Weakly Supervised Anomaly Detection

Chi Lung Cheng, Gup Singh, and Benjamin Nachman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021801 (2025) - Published 7 July, 2025

Evidence for $B^{-} \to D^{* * 0} τ^{-} \bar{ν_{τ}}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021802 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

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Quark Matter at Four Loops: Hardships and How to Overcome Them

Aapeli Kärkkäinen, Pablo Navarrete, Mika Nurmela, Risto Paatelainen, Kaapo Seppänen, and Aleksi Vuorinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021901 (2025) - Published 7 July, 2025

Isolating Unisolated Upsilons with Anomaly Detection in CMS Open Data

Rikab Gambhir, Radha Mastandrea, Benjamin Nachman, and Jesse Thaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021902 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

QCD Predictions for Physical Multimeson Scattering Amplitudes

Sebastian M. Dawid, Zachary T. Draper, Andrew D. Hanlon, Ben Hörz, Colin Morningstar, Fernando Romero-López, Stephen R. Sharpe, and Sarah Skinner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021903 (2025) - Published 7 July, 2025

Neural-Network Extraction of Unpolarized Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Distributions

Alessandro Bacchetta, Valerio Bertone, Chiara Bissolotti, Matteo Cerutti, Marco Radici, Simone Rodini, and Lorenzo Rossi (MAP (Multi-dimensional Analyses of Partonic distributions) Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021904 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Benchmarking Nuclear Matrix Elements of $0 ν β β$ Decay with High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

Yi Li, Xin Zhang, Giuliano Giacalone, and Jiangming Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 022301 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Collision-Energy Dependence in Heavy-Ion Collisions from Nonlinear QCD Evolution

Heikki Mäntysaari, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen, and Wenbin Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 022302 (2025) - Published 10 July, 2025

New Class of Three-Nucleon Forces and Their Implications

Vincenzo Cirigliano, Maria Dawid, Wouter Dekens, and Sanjay Reddy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 022501 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Isospin Symmetry Breaking Disclosed in the Decay of Three-Proton Emitter ${}^{20}{Al}$

X.-D. Xu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 022502 (2025) - Published 10 July, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Optical Protection of Alkali-Metal Atoms from Spin Relaxation

Avraham Berrebi, Mark Dikopoltsev, Ori Katz, and Or Katz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 023201 (2025) - Published 10 July, 2025

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Polariton Fluids as Quantum Field Theory Simulators on Tailored Curved Spacetimes

Kévin Falque, Adrià Delhom, Quentin Glorieux, Elisabeth Giacobino, Alberto Bramati, and Maxime J. Jacquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 023401 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

A fluid made of light can simulate a black hole’s boundary, providing insights into the mysterious quantum phenomena that occur at such a boundary.

Observation of Spin Squeezing with Contact Interactions in One- and Three-Dimensional Easy-Plane Magnets

Yoo Kyung Lee, Maxwell Block, Hanzhen Lin (林翰桢), Vitaly Fedoseev, Philip J. D. Crowley, Norman Y. Yao, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 023402 (2025) - Published 9 July, 2025

Joint Estimation of a Two-Phase Spin Rotation beyond Classical Limit

Jiahao Cao, Xinwei Li, Tianwei Mao, Wenxin Xu, and Li You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 023403 (2025) - Published 10 July, 2025

Counterflow of Lattice Polarons in Harmonically Confined Optical Lattices

Felipe Isaule, Abel Rojo-Francàs, Luis Morales-Molina, and Bruno Juliá-Díaz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 023404 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

Imaging-Based Quantum Optomechanics

C. M. Pluchar, W. He, J. Manley, N. Deshler, S. Guha, and D. J. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 023601 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Wettability-Dependent Damping of Droplet Vibrations on Solid Surfaces

Fei Zhang, Chunyu Zhang, Wanqiu Zhang, Yingjie Yu, Shuguang Zhao, Jingwei Chen, Jiaqi Cheng, Yuanpeng Zhang, Hang Ding, and Xinping Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 024001 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Flat Elastic Disc Suspensions Are Indistinguishable from Solutions of Long Flexible Polymers within Planar Incompressible Flows

Fabian Hillebrand, Rebecca J. Hill, Mahdi Davoodi, Simon J. Haward, Amy Q. Shen, Robert J. Poole, and Stylianos Varchanis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 024002 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Elastic Pseudoturbulence in Polymer Solutions

Mithun Ravisankar and Roberto Zenit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 024003 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

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Thermodynamics and Statistical Equilibrium of Large-Scale Hydroelastic Wave Turbulence

Marlone Vernet and Eric Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 024004 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Experiments with turbulent waves show that energy spreads from small to large scales, producing a steady-state regime that can be described using classical thermodynamics.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Fermi Acceleration with Cold Atoms

G. Barontini, V. Naniyil, J. P. Stinton, D. G. Reid, J. M. F. Gunn, H. M. Price, A. B. Deb, D. Caprioli, and V. Guarrera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 025201 (2025) - Published 9 July, 2025

A mechanism for accelerating charged particles in astrophysical plasmas has been reproduced with cold atoms in an optical trap.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Perfect Superconducting Diode Effect in Altermagnets

Debmalya Chakraborty and Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026001 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Topotactical Hydrogen Induced Single-Band $d$ -Wave Superconductivity in ${La}_{2} {NiO}_{4}$

Ying Gao, Wenfeng Wu, Zhaoxin Liu, Karsten Held, and Liang Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026002 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

Unified Picture of Superconductivity and Magnetism in ${CeRh}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Changhee Lee, Daniel F. Agterberg, and P. M. R. Brydon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026003 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Stochastic Rectification in a Single Molecule

Jiang Yao, Siyu Chen, Wenlu Shi, and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026201 (2025) - Published 7 July, 2025

Monitoring the conformational switching of a single molecule using inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy demonstrates quantum stochastic rectification.

Superlubric-Locked Transition of Twist Grain Boundaries in 3D Crystals

Jin Wang and Erio Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026202 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Meron Spin Textures in Momentum Space Spawning from Bound States in the Continuum

Lixi Rao, Jiajun Wang, Xinhao Wang, Shunben Wu, Xingqi Zhao, Wenzhe Liu, Rensheng Xie, Yijie Shen, Lei Shi, and Jian Zi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026203 (2025) - Published 10 July, 2025

An arrangement of spins known as a meron turns out to be easier to make in momentum space than in real space.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonadiabatic Renormalization of the Phonon Dispersion in Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026204 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

High-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy with 2D imaging detection of energy and momentum maps the full phonon spectra of monolayer and bilayer graphene.

Extracting Nonlinear Dynamical Response Functions from Time Evolution

Atsushi Ono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026401 (2025) - Published 9 July, 2025

Overcoming Asymmetric Carrier Injection in III-Nitride Light-Emitting Diodes through Defect Engineering

Yuxin Yang, Zhiming Shi, Shunpeng Lv, Hang Zang, Xiaobao Ma, Feng Zhang, Yan Yu, Peng Han, Ke Jiang, Xiaolan Yan, Su-Huai Wei, Xiaojuan Sun, and Dabing Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026402 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Efficient Projected Entangled Pair States Methods for Periodic Quantum Systems

Shaojun Dong, Chao Wang, Hao Zhang, Meng Zhang, and Lixin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026501 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Exploring Novel Quantum Embedding Methods with Nonorthogonal Decomposition of Slater Determinants

Yuhang Ai, Ze-Wei Li, and Hong Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026502 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Instability of Metals with Respect to Strong Electron-Phonon Interaction

Emil A. Yuzbashyan, Boris L. Altshuler, and Aniket Patra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026503 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

3D Conformal Field Theories with $Sp (N)$ Global Symmetry on a Fuzzy Sphere

Zheng Zhou (周正) and Yin-Chen He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026504 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Spontaneous Spin-Orbit Coupling Induced by Quantum Phonon Dynamics

Xiangyu Zhang, Da Wang, and Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026505 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Identifying and Quantifying Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-like Interactions with Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

Debshikha Banerjee, Jinu Thomas, Alberto Nocera, and Steven Johnston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026506 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

Stabilization of Fermi Liquid Behavior by Interactions in Disordered Metals

Arianna Poli, Simone Fratini, Jennifer Coulter, Andrew J. Millis, and Sergio Ciuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026507 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

Origin of Transitions Inversion in Rare-Earth Vanadates

Xue-Jing Zhang, Erik Koch, and Eva Pavarini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026508 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

Magnetic Field Induced Quantum Metric Dipole in Dirac Semimetal ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$

Tong-Yang Zhao, An-Qi Wang, Zhen-Tao Zhang, Zheng-Yang Cao, Xing-Yu Liu, and Zhi-Min Liao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026601 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Internal Entropy of Non-Abelian Anyons from Heat Current through a Tunneling Barrier

Noam Schiller, Hiromi Ebisu, Gil Refael, and Yuval Oreg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026602 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

The effective internal entropy of non-Abelian anyons, such as those that arise in the fractional quantum Hall state at filling factor 5/2, manifests in the heat current through a tunneling barrier.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fluctuations and Correlations of Local Topological Order Parameters in Disordered Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators

Roberta Favata, Nicolas Baù, and Antimo Marrazzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026603 (2025) - Published 9 July, 2025

Space-resolved topological markers characterizing disorder-driven topological phase transitions act as local order parameters.

Quantum Confining Excitons with an Electrostatic Moiré Superlattice

Liuxin Gu, Lifu Zhang, Sam Felsenfeld, Beini Gao, Rundong Ma, Suji Park, Houk Jang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and You Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 026901 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Experimental Realization of Special-Unitary Operations in Classical Mechanics by Nonadiabatic Evolutions

Congwei Lu, Xulong Wang, and Guancong Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 027201 (2025) - Published 9 July, 2025

Deep Generative Modeling of the Canonical Ensemble with Differentiable Thermal Properties

Shuo-Hui Li, Yao-Wen Zhang, and Ding Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 027301 (2025) - Published 8 July, 2025

By incorporating a differentiable temperature parameter an accurate one-shot simulation across a continuous range of temperature is achieved for variational modeling of a canonical ensemble.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observing the Mobile Surface Layer of Water During Vapor Deposition and Its Impact on Structure

Erik Thoms, Jan P. Gabriel, and Ranko Richert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 028001 (2025) - Published 7 July, 2025

Surface mobility can determine whether a deposited film of solid water will be in a porous or collapsed amorphous phase, or if it will form crystalline ice.

Aqueous Ion Mobility over a Broad Concentration Range

Tian Huang, Setare Mostajabi Sarhangi, Steve Granick, and Dmitry V. Matyushov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 028002 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermodynamic Origin of Multistep Polymer Crystallization

Wenlin Zhang (张文麟)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 028101 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025

A quantitative theoretical model describes the multistep crystallization mechanisms for semicrystalline polymers that agrees with experimental results.

Colloidal Model for Investigating Optimal Efficiency in Weakly Coupled Ratchet Motors

José Martín-Roca, Laura Izquierdo Solis, Fernando Martínez Pedrero, Pau Casadejust, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, and Carles Calero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 028301 (2025) - Published 9 July, 2025

Twist-Induced Networking and Fast Propagation of Defects in Three-Dimensional Active Nematics

Zhong-Yi Li, Anna Dai, Shao-Zhen Lin, Rui Zhang, and Bo Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 028302 (2025) - Published 11 July, 2025