Volume 135, Issue 21

21 November 2025

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A silicon dioxide microsphere (center) suspended by optical tweezers between copper electrodes used to measure its electric charge. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Using Optical Tweezers to Simultaneously Trap, Charge, and Measure the Charge of a Microparticle in Air
Andrea Stoellner, Isaac C. D. Lenton, Artem G. Volosniev, James Millen, Renjiro Shibuya, Hisao Ishii, Dmytro Rak, Zhanybek Alpichshev, Grégory David, Ruth Signorell, Caroline Muller, and Scott Waitukaitis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 218202 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Localization and Delocalization of a Single Molecule in a Helium Nanodroplet

Zhengjun Ye, Haomai Hou, Linqian Zeng, Lianrong Zhou, Zhejun Jiang, Menghang Shi, Chenxu Lu, Shengzhe Pan, Ruolin Gong, Peifen Lu, Hongcheng Ni, Wenbin Zhang, Feng He, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 213202 (2025) - Published 18 November, 2025

An optical technique reveals the spatial extent of a molecule’s wave function when the molecule is embedded in a tiny helium droplet.

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Extreme-Temperature Single-Particle Heat Engine

M. Message, F. Cerisola, J. D. Pritchett, K. O’Flynn, Y. Ren, M. Rashid, J. Anders, and J. Millen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 217101 (2025) - Published 19 November, 2025

A levitated bead is driven to behave like a heat engine, revealing strong fluctuations that seemingly defy thermodynamic principles.

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Using Optical Tweezers to Simultaneously Trap, Charge, and Measure the Charge of a Microparticle in Air

Andrea Stoellner, Isaac C. D. Lenton, Artem G. Volosniev, James Millen, Renjiro Shibuya, Hisao Ishii, Dmytro Rak, Zhanybek Alpichshev, Grégory David, Ruth Signorell, Caroline Muller, and Scott Waitukaitis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 218202 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

The laser that levitates a microscale particle can also charge it up, providing a useful tool for lab-based experiments for atmospheric science.

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Approaching the Ballistic Transport Limit in Single Crystalline Au

Xiaomeng Yang, Jianfei Zhang, Wei Li, Qing Zhang, Quan Zhou, Shengcheng Mao, Menglong Wang, Sikang Zheng, Lihua Wang, Ze Zhang, and Xiaodong Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216302 (2025) - Published 21 November, 2025

A new measuring system captures the point where a stretched wire becomes narrow enough that its electrons flow smoothly without scattering.

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Search for Light Dark Matter with 259 Days of Data in PandaX-4T

Minzhen Zhang et al. (PandaX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211001 (2025) - Published 18 November, 2025

World-leading bounds are placed on dark matter in the 2.5 to 5.0 GeV mass range.

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Experimental Realization of Synthetic $π$ -Flux Photonic Crystals

Renwen Huang, Haotian Li, Shiyin Jia, Junzheng Hu, Shiqi Li, Jing Li, Biye Xie, Minghui Lu, Peng Zhan, Yanfeng Chen, and Zhenlin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216603 (2025) - Published 18 November, 2025

An experimental demonstration of $π$ -flux photonic crystals, a fundamental theoretical construct, reveals Mobius and nonsymmorphic topological phases.

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Probing Ice-Rule-Breaking Transition in ${Dy}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$ Thin Film by Proximitized Transport and Magnetic Torque

Chengkun Xing, Han Zhang, Kyle Noordhoek, Guoxin Zheng, Kuan-Wen Chen, Lukas Horák, Yan Xin, Eun Sang Choi, Lu Li, Haidong Zhou, and Jian Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216702 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Experimental studies of spin-ice thin films reveal that proximitized transport provides an effective means to investigate frustrated magnetic systems.

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Third-Order Nonlinear Hall Effect in Altermagnet ${RuO}_{2}$

R. Y. Chu, L. Han, Z. H. Gong, X. Z. Fu, H. Bai, S. X. Liang, C. Chen, S-W. Cheong, Y. Y. Zhang, J. W. Liu, Y. Y. Wang, F. Pan, H. Z. Lu, and C. Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216703 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Experimental demonstration of the third-order nonlinear Hall effect in RuO $_{2}$ thin films provides a fingerprint for identifying altermagnets.

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Rescaled Schwarz-Christoffel Transformations for Isotropic, Polygon, and Multiphysics Metamaterials

Pengfei Zhuang, Chengmeng Wang, Fubao Yang, Gaole Dai, Liujun Xu, Peng Tan, Fabio Marchesoni, and Jiping Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216901 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

A rescaled Schwarz–Christoffel transformation provides coordinated control of thermal and electromagnetic fields in isotropic metamaterials.

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Hot-Phonon-Induced Distortion of Diamond Defects on Ultrafast Timescales

Terng Junn Keat, Jiahui Zhao, Jack M. Woolley, Partha Malakar, Gregory M. Greetham, Xuxu Wu, Jonathan P. Goss, Robin J. Cruddace, Christopher B. Hartland, Matthew W. Dale, Vasilios G. Stavros, Mark E. Newton, and James Lloyd-Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216902 (2025) - Published 18 November, 2025

Vibrational excitation of a defect in diamond creates a transient hot ground state, challenging the long-standing assumption of rigid lattice behavior during defect relaxation.

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Role of Hydrodynamics in the Synchronization of Chlamydomonas Flagella

Luc Zorrilla, Antoine Allard, Krish Desai, and Marco Polin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 218402 (2025) - Published 18 November, 2025

Using a tipless AFM cantilever to selectively block hydrodynamic coupling between flagella of a single cell reveals a subtle balance of the intracellular forces and hydrodynamic interactions that underlies the coordination of flagella within a single-cell microswimmer.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Generating Generalized Ground-State Ansätze from Few-Body Examples

Matt Lourens, Ilya Sinayskiy, Johannes N. Kriel, and Francesco Petruccione

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 210401 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

Prethermalization of Light and Matter in Cavity-Coupled Rydberg Arrays

Aleksandr N. Mikheev, Hossein Hosseinabadi, and Jamir Marino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 210402 (2025) - Published 21 November, 2025

Entanglement-Minimized Orbitals Enable Faster Quantum Simulation of Molecules

Zhendong Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 210601 (2025) - Published 18 November, 2025

Kramers-Protected Hardware-Efficient Error Correction with Andreev Spin Qubits

Haoran Lu, Isidora Araya Day, Anton R. Akhmerov, Bernard van Heck, and Valla Fatemi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 210602 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

Fast Computational Deep Thermalization

Shantanav Chakraborty, Soonwon Choi, Soumik Ghosh, and Tudor Giurgică-Tiron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 210603 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

Quantum-Enhanced Quickest Change Detection of Transmission Loss

Saikat Guha, Tiju Cherian John, Zihao Gong, and Prithwish Basu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 210801 (2025) - Published 19 November, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Search for Light Dark Matter with 259 Days of Data in PandaX-4T

Minzhen Zhang et al. (PandaX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211001 (2025) - Published 18 November, 2025

World-leading bounds are placed on dark matter in the 2.5 to 5.0 GeV mass range.

Search for Postinflationary QCD Axions with a Quantum-Limited Tunable Microwave Receiver

G. Sardo Infirri, D. Alesini, C. Braggio, G. Cappelli, G. Carugno, D. D’Agostino, A. D’Elia, D. Di Gioacchino, R. Di Vora, M. Esposito, P. Falferi, U. Gambardella, A. Gardikiotis, C. Gatti, C. Ligi, G. Lilli, A. Lombardi, G. Maccarrone, D. Maiello, A. Ortolan, A. Ranadive, A. Rettaroli, N. Roch, S. Tocci, and G. Ruoso (QUAX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211002 (2025) - Published 19 November, 2025

Leading Bounds on Micrometer to Picometer Fifth Forces from Neutron Star Cooling

Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Alessandro Lella, Ciaran A. J. O’Hare, and Edoardo Vitagliano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211003 (2025) - Published 19 November, 2025

Dark Matter Velocity Distributions for Direct Detection: Astrophysical Uncertainties Are Smaller Than They Appear

Dylan Folsom, Carlos Blanco, Mariangela Lisanti, Lina Necib, Mark Vogelsberger, and Lars Hernquist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211004 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

Fully Relativistic Treatment of Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals in Collisionless Environments

Rodrigo Vicente, Theophanes K. Karydas, and Gianfranco Bertone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211401 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Gravitational Waves from Binary Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals: Doppler Shift and Beaming, Resonant Excitation, Helicity Oscillations, and Self-Lensing

João S. Santos, Vitor Cardoso, José Natário, and Maarten van de Meent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211402 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysical Environments

Pedro G. S. Fernandes and Vitor Cardoso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211403 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Higher-Spin Effects in Black Hole and Neutron Star Binary Dynamics: Worldline Supersymmetry beyond Minimal Coupling

Domenico Bonocore, Anna Kulesza, and Johannes Pirsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211404 (2025) - Published 18 November, 2025

Particles and Fields

Hidden Permutation Symmetry of Squared Amplitudes in Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena Theory

Song He (何颂), Canxin Shi (施灿欣), Yichao Tang (唐一朝), and Yao-Qi Zhang (张耀奇)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211601 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Defect Conformal Manifolds from Phantom Noninvertible Symmetries

Andrea Antinucci, Christian Copetti, Giovanni Galati, and Giovanni Rizi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211602 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Exact 3D Conformal Blocks from Fractional Calculus

Chaoming Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211603 (2025) - Published 19 November, 2025

Probing Kim-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov Axion Dark Matter near 5.9 GHz Using an 8-Cell Cavity Haloscope

Saebyeok Ahn, Çağlar Kutlu, Soohyung Lee, SungWoo Youn, Sergey V. Uchaikin, Sungjae Bae, Junu Jeong, Arjan F. van Loo, Yasunobu Nakamura, Seongjeong Oh, Jihn E. Kim, and Yannis K. Semertzidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211801 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Color Superconductivity under Neutron-Star Conditions at Next-to-Leading Order

Andreas Geißel, Tyler Gorda, and Jens Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211901 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Identified Hadron Production in Deeply Inelastic Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering

Leonardo Bonino, Thomas Gehrmann, Markus Löchner, Kay Schönwald, and Giovanni Stagnitto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211902 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Emergent Nonthermal Fluid from Jets in the Massive Schwinger Model Using Tensor Networks

Romuald A. Janik, Maciej A. Nowak, Marek M. Rams, and Ismail Zahed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 211903 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Constraining the Synthesis of the Lightest $p$ Nucleus ${}^{74}{Se}$

A. Tsantiri et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 212701 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Electron Affinities of $C_{60}$ and $C_{70}$ and Cooling of Their Anions

J. E. Navarro Navarrete, P. Martini, S. Rosén, A. Simonsson, P. Reinhed, M. Björkhage, M. Blom, J. Alexander, M. C. Ji, M. K. Kristiansson, R. Barzaga, F. Aguilar-Galindo, M. Alcamí, S. Diaz-Tendero, K. Hansen, M. Gatchell, H. Cederquist, H. T. Schmidt, and H. Zettergren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 213001 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

Topological Response in Open Quantum Systems with Weak Symmetries

Ze-Min Huang, Sebastian Diehl, and Xiao-Qi Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 213002 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

Geometric Phase in Anisotropic Kepler Problem: Perspective for Realization in Rydberg Atoms

Nikolai A. Sinitsyn and Fumika Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 213201 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

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Localization and Delocalization of a Single Molecule in a Helium Nanodroplet

Zhengjun Ye, Haomai Hou, Linqian Zeng, Lianrong Zhou, Zhejun Jiang, Menghang Shi, Chenxu Lu, Shengzhe Pan, Ruolin Gong, Peifen Lu, Hongcheng Ni, Wenbin Zhang, Feng He, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 213202 (2025) - Published 18 November, 2025

An optical technique reveals the spatial extent of a molecule’s wave function when the molecule is embedded in a tiny helium droplet.

Chiral Recognition with High-Energy Photo- and Compton Electrons: A Theoretical Showcase Study of Methyloxirane and Trifluoromethyloxirane Molecules

Daniel M. Haubenreißer, Nikolay M. Novikovskiy, Max Kircher, Markus S. Schöffler, Reinhard Dörner, Till Jahnke, and Philipp V. Demekhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 213203 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

Broad Feshbach Resonance with a Large Background Scattering Length in a Fermionic Atom-Molecule Mixture

Zhen Su, Tong-Hui Shou, Huan Yang, Jin Cao, Bo-Yuan Wang, Ting Xie, Jun Rui, Bo Zhao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 213401 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

Observation of Non-Hermitian Bulk-Boundary Correspondence in Nonchiral Nonunitary Quantum Dynamics of Single Photons

Miao Zhang, Yue Zhang, Shuai Li, Yi-an Li, Yuanbang Wei, Rui Tian, Tianhao Wu, Hongyan Shi, Hong Gao, Fuli Li, and Bo Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 213601 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Nanoparticle Stored with an Atomic Ion in a Linear Paul Trap

Dmitry S. Bykov, Lorenzo Dania, Florian Goschin, and Tracy E. Northup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 213602 (2025) - Published 21 November, 2025

Cooling of an Optically Levitated Nanoparticle via Measurement-Free Coherent Feedback

Bruno Melo, Daniël Veldhuizen, Grégoire F. M. Tomassi, Nadine Meyer, and Romain Quidant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 213603 (2025) - Published 19 November, 2025

Cooperative Squeezing of Internal and Collective Spins in an Atomic Ensemble

Youwei Zhang, Shenchao Jin, Junlei Duan, Klaus Mølmer, Guiying Zhang, Mingfeng Wang, and Yanhong Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 213604 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

Spectral Dynamics in Broadband Frequency Combs with Overlapping Harmonics

Weichen Fan, Furkan Ayhan, Thibault Wildi, Mikhail Volkov, Ali Seer, Markus Ludwig, Thibault Voumard, Andreas Brodschelm, Victor Brasch, Luis Guillermo Villanueva, and Tobias Herr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 213801 (2025) - Published 21 November, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

What Determines the Breakup Length of a Jet?

Stefan Kooij, Daniel T. A. Jordan, Cees J. M. van Rijn, Neil M. Ribe, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 214001 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Hovering of an Actively Driven Fluid-Lubricated Foil

Stephane Poulain, Timo Koch, L. Mahadevan, and Andreas Carlson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 214002 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Pair Dispersion of Bubbles in Isotropic Turbulence

Shiyong Tan, Shijie Zhong, Xu Xu, Yinghe Qi, and Rui Ni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 214003 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Observation of Synchrotron Radiation Spikes for Transverse Electron Beam Size Measurements at a Free-Electron Laser

Andrei Trebushinin, Svitozar Serkez, Wolfgang Freund, Andreas Koch, Jan Grünert, Gianluca Geloni, Weilun Qin, and Sergey Tomin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 215001 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

Proton Acceleration Associated with Sheet Crossing in Petawatt-Laser-Irradiated Nanometer Foils

Yinren Shou, Zheng Gong, Ki Hong Pae, Jin Woo Yoon, Jae Hee Sung, Seong Ku Lee, Seung Yeon Kim, Seong Hoon Kim, Xuezhi Wu, Xueqing Yan, Il Woo Choi, and Chang Hee Nam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 215002 (2025) - Published 21 November, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Quasiparticle Interference of Spin-Triplet Superconductors: Application to ${UTe}_{2}$

Hans Christiansen, Brian M. Andersen, P. J. Hirschfeld, and Andreas Kreisel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216001 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Ising Superconductivity in Bulk Layered Noncentrosymmetric $4 H − {NbSe}_{2}$

Chandan Patra, Tarushi Agarwal, Rahul Verma, Poulami Manna, Shashank Srivastava, Ravi Shankar Singh, Mathias S. Scheurer, Bahadur Singh, and Ravi Prakash Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216002 (2025) - Published 18 November, 2025

Role of Stiffness in Friction with Graphite

Yuqing He, Zhaokuan Yu, Jin Wang, Tao Xing, and Ming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216201 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Observation of Quantum-Criticality-Class Crossover at the ${LaAlO}_{3} / {KTaO}_{3}$ (111) Interface

Jia Liu, Long Cheng, Mingyue Zhang, Junkun Zha, Fei Ye, and Xiaofang Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216202 (2025) - Published 19 November, 2025

Automated In Situ Optimization and Disorder Mitigation in a Quantum Device

Jacob Benestad, Torbjørn Rasmussen, Bertram Brovang, Oswin Krause, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, Charles M. Marcus, Jeroen Danon, Ferdinand Kuemmeth, Anasua Chatterjee, and Evert van Nieuwenburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216301 (2025) - Published 19 November, 2025

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Approaching the Ballistic Transport Limit in Single Crystalline Au

Xiaomeng Yang, Jianfei Zhang, Wei Li, Qing Zhang, Quan Zhou, Shengcheng Mao, Menglong Wang, Sikang Zheng, Lihua Wang, Ze Zhang, and Xiaodong Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216302 (2025) - Published 21 November, 2025

A new measuring system captures the point where a stretched wire becomes narrow enough that its electrons flow smoothly without scattering.

Unconventional Fractional Phases in Multiband Vortexable Systems

Siddhartha Sarkar, Xiaohan Wan, Ang-Kun Wu, Shi-Zeng Lin, and Kai Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216501 (2025) - Published 20 November, 2025

Zeno Freezing and Anti-Zeno Acceleration of the Dynamic Evolution of Topological Boundary States

Xiao-Meng Zhang, Ze-Guo Chen, Guancong Ma, Ming-Hui Lu, and Yan-Feng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216601 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Axion Electrodynamics and Giant Magnetic Birefringence in Weyl Excitonic Insulators

A. A. Grigoreva, A. V. Andreev, and L. I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216602 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

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Experimental Realization of Synthetic $π$ -Flux Photonic Crystals

Renwen Huang, Haotian Li, Shiyin Jia, Junzheng Hu, Shiqi Li, Jing Li, Biye Xie, Minghui Lu, Peng Zhan, Yanfeng Chen, and Zhenlin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216603 (2025) - Published 18 November, 2025

An experimental demonstration of $π$ -flux photonic crystals, a fundamental theoretical construct, reveals Mobius and nonsymmorphic topological phases.

Orbital Description of Landau Levels

Huan Wang (王欢), Rui Shi, Zhaochen Liu, and Jing Wang (王靖)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216604 (2025) - Published 19 November, 2025

Chiral Phonons Arising from Chirality-Selective Magnon-Phonon Coupling

Markus Weißenhofer, Philipp Rieger, M. S. Mrudul, Luca Mikadze, Ulrich Nowak, and Peter M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216701 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

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Probing Ice-Rule-Breaking Transition in ${Dy}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$ Thin Film by Proximitized Transport and Magnetic Torque

Chengkun Xing, Han Zhang, Kyle Noordhoek, Guoxin Zheng, Kuan-Wen Chen, Lukas Horák, Yan Xin, Eun Sang Choi, Lu Li, Haidong Zhou, and Jian Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216702 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Experimental studies of spin-ice thin films reveal that proximitized transport provides an effective means to investigate frustrated magnetic systems.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Third-Order Nonlinear Hall Effect in Altermagnet ${RuO}_{2}$

R. Y. Chu, L. Han, Z. H. Gong, X. Z. Fu, H. Bai, S. X. Liang, C. Chen, S-W. Cheong, Y. Y. Zhang, J. W. Liu, Y. Y. Wang, F. Pan, H. Z. Lu, and C. Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216703 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Experimental demonstration of the third-order nonlinear Hall effect in RuO $_{2}$ thin films provides a fingerprint for identifying altermagnets.

Coherent Spin Pumping Originated from Sub-Terahertz Néel Vector Dynamics in Easy Plane $α − {Fe}_{2} O_{3} / Pt$

Gregory Fritjofson, Junyu Tang, Atul Regmi, Jacob Hanson-Flores, Justin Michel, Fengyuan Yang, Ran Cheng, and Enrique Del Barco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216704 (2025) - Published 19 November, 2025

Nonreciprocal Inertial Spin-Wave Dynamics in Twisted Magnetic Nanostrips

Massimiliano d’Aquino and Riccardo Hertel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216705 (2025) - Published 21 November, 2025

Ferroelectrically Switchable Anomalous Hall Conductivity and Nonlinear Drude Conductivity in Multiferroics

Xinran Liu, Hong Jian Zhao, Laurent Bellaiche, and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216801 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

Domain-Pair Intertwined Topological Domain Structures in Elemental Bi Monolayer

Yunfei Hong, Junkai Deng, Yang Yang, Ri He, Zhicheng Zhong, Xiangdong Ding, Jun Sun, and Jefferson Zhe Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216802 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

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Rescaled Schwarz-Christoffel Transformations for Isotropic, Polygon, and Multiphysics Metamaterials

Pengfei Zhuang, Chengmeng Wang, Fubao Yang, Gaole Dai, Liujun Xu, Peng Tan, Fabio Marchesoni, and Jiping Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216901 (2025) - Published 17 November, 2025

A rescaled Schwarz–Christoffel transformation provides coordinated control of thermal and electromagnetic fields in isotropic metamaterials.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hot-Phonon-Induced Distortion of Diamond Defects on Ultrafast Timescales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 216902 (2025) - Published 18 November, 2025

Vibrational excitation of a defect in diamond creates a transient hot ground state, challenging the long-standing assumption of rigid lattice behavior during defect relaxation.