Volume 135, Issue 22

26 November 2025

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Scanning-probe quantum imaging of a chiral antiferromagnet shows unconventional spin-orbit-torque driven, field-free deterministic magnetic switching. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Nanoscale Quantum Imaging of Field-Free Deterministic Switching of a Chiral Antiferromagnet
Jingcheng Zhou, Senlei Li, Chuangtang Wang, Hanshang Jin, Stelo Xu, Zelong Xiong, Carson Jacobsen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Valentin Taufour, Liuyan Zhao, Hua Chen, Chunhui Rita Du, and Hailong Wang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226701 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Letokhov-Chebotayev Intracavity Trapping Spectroscopy of $H_{2}$

Wim Ubachs, Frank M. J. Cozijn, Meissa L. Diouf, Clement Lauzin, Hubert Jóźwiak, and Piotr Wcisło

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223201 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

The one-dimensional confinement of molecules in an optical cavity allows researchers to measure a narrow absorption line without the blurring effects of molecular motion.

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Possibility of Type-III Multiferroics Hosting $d^{0}$ Ferroelectricity and $d^{0}$ Ferromagnetism

Haojin Wang, Haitao Liu, Meng Ye, and Yuanchang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226402 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

A new type of multiferroic behavior—the coupling between magnetic ordering and electric polarization in a material—could facilitate applications, according to a theoretical proposal.

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Fragmentation: Principles versus Mechanisms

Emmanuel Villermaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 228201 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

A new principle underlying the physics of fragmentation explains why fragment sizes follow a specific, universal distribution.

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Extreme Violations of Leggett-Garg Inequalities for a System Evolving under Superposition of Unitaries

Arijit Chatterjee, H. S. Karthik, T. S. Mahesh, and A. R. Usha Devi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 220202 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Extending the superposition principle to the time domain gives rise to enhanced correlations that exceed a theoretical quantum limit—a result that could inspire new forms of quantum control.

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Sign-Problem-Free Nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation

Zhong-Wang Niu and Bing-Nan Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 222504 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

The construction of a sign-problem-free nuclear quantum Monte Carlo simulation is able to reproduce binding energies of a wide range of nuclei.

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Local Control of Parity and Charge in Nanoscale Superconducting Lead Islands

Stefano Trivini, Jon Ortuzar, Katerina Vaxevani, Beatriz Viña-Bausá, F. Sebastian Bergeret, and Jose Ignacio Pascual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226001 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Deterministic control of charge parity in Coulomb-blockaded superconducting Pb islands provides a key ingredient for qubit design.

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Unveiling Intrinsic Triplet Superconductivity in Noncentrosymmetric NbRe through Inverse Spin-Valve Effects

F. Colangelo, M. Modestino, F. Avitabile, A. Galluzzi, Z. Makhdoumi Kakhaki, Abhishek Kumar, J. Linder, M. Polichetti, C. Attanasio, and C. Cirillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226002 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Observation of an inverse spin-valve effect in a structurally minimal Py/NbRe/Py heterostructure indicates intrinsic equal-spin triplet superconductivity in the noncentrosymmetric material, NbRe.

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Direct Measurement of the Effective Electronic Temperature in Organic Semiconductors

Anton Kompatscher and Martijn Kemerink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226301 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

The first direct measurement of a field-driven effective electronic temperature in a disordered organic semiconductors reveals that charge carriers reach a locally thermal distribution even while the system remains globally out of equilibrium.

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Nanoscale Quantum Imaging of Field-Free Deterministic Switching of a Chiral Antiferromagnet

Jingcheng Zhou, Senlei Li, Chuangtang Wang, Hanshang Jin, Stelo Xu, Zelong Xiong, Carson Jacobsen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Valentin Taufour, Liuyan Zhao, Hua Chen, Chunhui Rita Du, and Hailong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226701 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Unconventional spin-orbit torque generated from a low-symmetry van der Waals material WTe $_{2}$ produces field-free deterministic magnetic switching in a chiral antiferromagnet, Mn $_{3}$ Sn.

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Hyperuniform Interfaces in Nonequilibrium Phase Coexistence

Raphaël Maire, Leonardo Galliano, Andrea Plati, and Ludovic Berthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 227102 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

Simulations of three physically distinct scenarios reveal that long-wavelength interfacial fluctuations are suppressed strongly in nonequilibrium phase coexistence between bulk hyperuniform systems.

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Phototactic Decision-Making by Microalgae

Shantanu Raikwar, Adham Al-Kassem, Nir S. Gov, Adriana I. Pesci, Raphaël Jeanneret, and Raymond E. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 228401 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

When subject to light coming from two different directions, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a phototactic unicellular algae, follows a tangent law, swimming opposite to the light sources in a direction which is the intensity-weighted average of both light propagation vectors.

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Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Thermodynamic Framework for Coherently Driven Systems

Max Schrauwen, Aaron Daniel, Marcelo Janovitch, and Patrick P. Potts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 220201 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

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Extreme Violations of Leggett-Garg Inequalities for a System Evolving under Superposition of Unitaries

Arijit Chatterjee, H. S. Karthik, T. S. Mahesh, and A. R. Usha Devi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 220202 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Extending the superposition principle to the time domain gives rise to enhanced correlations that exceed a theoretical quantum limit—a result that could inspire new forms of quantum control.

Catalytic Activation of Bell Nonlocality

Jessica Bavaresco, Nicolas Brunner, Antoine Girardin, Patryk Lipka-Bartosik, and Pavel Sekatski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 220203 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Anticoncentration and Nonstabilizerness Spreading under Ergodic Quantum Dynamics

Emanuele Tirrito, Xhek Turkeshi, and Piotr Sierant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 220401 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Giant Number-Parity Effect Leading to Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Finite-Size Quantum Spin Models

Filippo Caleca, Saverio Bocini, Fabio Mezzacapo, and Tommaso Roscilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 220402 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

Logical Operations with a Dynamical Qubit in Floquet-Bacon-Shor Code

Xuandong Sun et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 220601 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Experimental Distributed Quantum Sensing in a Noisy Environment

J. Bate, A. Hamann, M. Canteri, A. Winkler, Z. X. Koong, V. Krutyanskiy, W. Dür, and B. P. Lanyon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 220801 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Room-Temperature Electrical Readout of Spin Defects in van der Waals Materials

Shihao Ru, Liheng An, Haidong Liang, Zhengzhi Jiang, Zhiwei Li, Xiaodan Lyu, Feifei Zhou, Hongbing Cai, Yuzhe Yang, Ruihua He, Robert Cernansky, Edwin Hang Tong Teo, Manas Mukherjee, Andrew A. Bettiol, Jesus Zúñiga-Perez, Fedor Jelezko, and Weibo Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 220802 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Genuine Multipartite Entanglement is Not Necessary for Standard Device-Independent Conference Key Agreement

Lewis Wooltorton, Peter Brown, and Roger Colbeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 220803 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Core Collapse Beyond the Fluid Approximation: The Late Evolution of Self-Interacting Dark Matter Halos

James Gurian and Simon May

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 221001 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Ultrarelativistic Freeze-Out: A Bridge from WIMPs to FIMPs

Stephen E. Henrich, Yann Mambrini, and Keith A. Olive

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 221002 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

WIMP Dark Matter Search Using a 3.1 Tonne-Year Exposure of the XENONnT Experiment

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 221003 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Particles and Fields

Monte Carlo Studies of the Emergent Spacetime in the Polarized Type IIB Matrix Model

Chien-Yu Chou, Jun Nishimura, and Cheng-Tsung Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 221601 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Emergent Photons and Confinement: A Numerical Study on $Z_{N}$ Lattice Gauge Theory

Jeffrey Giansiracusa, David Lanners, and Tin Sulejmanpasic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 221901 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Charge Radii Measurements of Exotic Tin Isotopes in the Proximity of $N = 50$ and $N = 82$

F. P. Gustafsson et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 222501 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

First Measurement of the Quadrupole Moment of the $2_{1}^{+}$ State in ${}^{110}{Sn}$

J. Park et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 222502 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Identification of Prompt Proton Emission in $N = Z - 1$ ${}^{61}{Ga}$ : Isospin Symmetry at the Limit of Nuclear Binding

Y. Hrabar et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 222503 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

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Sign-Problem-Free Nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation

Zhong-Wang Niu and Bing-Nan Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 222504 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

The construction of a sign-problem-free nuclear quantum Monte Carlo simulation is able to reproduce binding energies of a wide range of nuclei.

A Continuous Galactic Line Source of Axions: The Remarkable Case of ${}^{23}{Na}$

W. C. Haxton, Xing Liu, Annie McCutcheon, and Anupam Ray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 222701 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Symmetry-Energy Dependence of the Bulk Viscosity of Nuclear Matter

Yumu Yang, Mauricio Hippert, Enrico Speranza, and Jorge Noronha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 222702 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Oscillating Nuclear Charge Radii as Sensors for Ultralight Dark Matter

Abhishek Banerjee, Dmitry Budker, Melina Filzinger, Nils Huntemann, Gil Paz, Gilad Perez, Sergey Porsev, and Marianna Safronova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223001 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Cavity-Enhanced Doppler-Broadening Thermometry via All-Frequency Metrology

Qi Huang (黄琪), Jin Wang (王进), Rui-Heng Yin (尹睿恒), Yan Tan (谈艳), Cun-Feng Cheng (程存峰), Yu R. Sun (孙羽), An-Wen Liu (刘安雯), and Shui-Ming Hu (胡水明)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223002 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Enhanced One-Color-Two-Photon Resonant Ionization in Highly Charged Ions by Fine-Structure Effects

Moto Togawa et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223003 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

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Letokhov-Chebotayev Intracavity Trapping Spectroscopy of $H_{2}$

Wim Ubachs, Frank M. J. Cozijn, Meissa L. Diouf, Clement Lauzin, Hubert Jóźwiak, and Piotr Wcisło

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223201 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

The one-dimensional confinement of molecules in an optical cavity allows researchers to measure a narrow absorption line without the blurring effects of molecular motion.

Vibrationally Resolved Photoionization Delays in the Water Molecule

Prateek Pranjal, Jesus González-Vázquez, Roger Y. Bello, and Fernando Martín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223202 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

Motion of Ferrodark Solitons in Trapped Superfluids: Spin Corrections and Emergent Oscillators

Jiangnan Biguo and Xiaoquan Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223401 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Quantum Carpets of Higgs Quasiparticles in a Supersolid

K. Mukherjee, M. Schubert, R. Klemt, T. Bland, T. Pfau, and S. M. Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223402 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Laser Cooling and Qubit Measurements on a Forbidden Transition in Neutral Cs Atoms

J. Scott, H. M. Lim, U. Singla, Q. Meece, C. Fang, J. T. Choy, S. Kolkowitz, T. M. Graham, and M. Saffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223403 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Dressed Interference in Giant Superatoms: Entanglement Generation and Transfer

Lei Du, Xin Wang, Anton Frisk Kockum, and Janine Splettstoesser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223601 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Isolated Attosecond Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices: Interplay between the Topological Charge and Orbital Angular Momentum Scaling in High Harmonic Generation

Rodrigo Martín-Hernández, Luis Plaja, Carlos Hernández-García, and Miguel A. Porras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223801 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Broadband Carrier-Envelope Phase-Controlled Stimulated Ultraviolet Emission from Carbon Dioxide Ions

Jingsong Gao, Hao Liang, Ming-Shian Tsai, Ming-Chang Chen, Hans Jakob Wörner, and Meng Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223802 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy with Intense Entangled-Photon Beams

Deependra Jadoun, Upendra Harbola, Vladimir Y. Chernyak, and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223803 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Dual-Wavelength Quantum Skyrmions from Liquid Crystal Topological Defects

Mwezi Koni, Fazilah Nothlawala, Vagharshak Hakobyan, Isaac Nape, Etienne Brasselet, and Andrew Forbes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 223804 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Combined Influence of Rotation and Scrape-Off Layer Drifts on Recycling Asymmetries in Tokamak Plasmas

E. D. Emdee, L. Horvath, A. Bortolon, R. Gerrú, G. J. Wilkie, S. R. Haskey, and F. M. Laggner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 225101 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Local Control of Parity and Charge in Nanoscale Superconducting Lead Islands

Stefano Trivini, Jon Ortuzar, Katerina Vaxevani, Beatriz Viña-Bausá, F. Sebastian Bergeret, and Jose Ignacio Pascual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226001 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Deterministic control of charge parity in Coulomb-blockaded superconducting Pb islands provides a key ingredient for qubit design.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unveiling Intrinsic Triplet Superconductivity in Noncentrosymmetric NbRe through Inverse Spin-Valve Effects

F. Colangelo, M. Modestino, F. Avitabile, A. Galluzzi, Z. Makhdoumi Kakhaki, Abhishek Kumar, J. Linder, M. Polichetti, C. Attanasio, and C. Cirillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226002 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Observation of an inverse spin-valve effect in a structurally minimal Py/NbRe/Py heterostructure indicates intrinsic equal-spin triplet superconductivity in the noncentrosymmetric material, NbRe.

High Pressure Superconducting Transition in Dihydride ${BiH}_{2}$ with Bismuth Open-Channel Framework

Liang Ma, Xin Yang, Mei Li, Pengfei Shan, Ziyi Liu, Jun Hou, Sheng Jiang, Lili Zhang, Chuanlong Lin, Pengtao Yang, Bosen Wang, Jianping Sun, Yang Ding, Huiyang Gou, Haizhong Guo, and Jinguang Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226003 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

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Direct Measurement of the Effective Electronic Temperature in Organic Semiconductors

Anton Kompatscher and Martijn Kemerink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226301 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Geometric Delocalization in Two Dimensions

Laura Shou, Alireza Parhizkar, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226302 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

Probing Electric-Dipole-Enabled Transitions in the Excited State of the Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond

Tom Delord, Richard Monge, Gabriel I. López-Morales, Olaf Bach, Cyrus E. Dreyer, Johannes Flick, and Carlos A. Meriles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226401 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

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Possibility of Type-III Multiferroics Hosting $d^{0}$ Ferroelectricity and $d^{0}$ Ferromagnetism

Haojin Wang, Haitao Liu, Meng Ye, and Yuanchang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226402 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

A new type of multiferroic behavior—the coupling between magnetic ordering and electric polarization in a material—could facilitate applications, according to a theoretical proposal.

Memory-Efficient Nonequilibrium Green’s Function Framework Built On Quantics Tensor Trains

Maksymilian Środa, Ken Inayoshi, Hiroshi Shinaoka, and Philipp Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226501 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Separate Surface and Bulk Topological Anderson Localization Transitions in Disordered Axion Insulators

Cormac Grindall, Alexander C. Tyner, Ang-Kun Wu, Taylor L. Hughes, and J. H. Pixley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226601 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

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Nanoscale Quantum Imaging of Field-Free Deterministic Switching of a Chiral Antiferromagnet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226701 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

Unconventional spin-orbit torque generated from a low-symmetry van der Waals material WTe $_{2}$ produces field-free deterministic magnetic switching in a chiral antiferromagnet, Mn $_{3}$ Sn.

Giant Response and Harmonic Generation in Néel-Torque Antiferromagnetic Resonance

Kuangyin Deng and Ran Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226702 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

Nonlinear Optical Effects Enhanced by Deep Band Crossings

Nianlong Zou, He Li, Meng Ye, Haowei Chen, Minghui Sun, Ruiping Guo, Yizhou Liu, Bing-Lin Gu, Wenhui Duan, Yong Xu, and Chong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 226901 (2025) - Published 25 November, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Target Search Optimization by Threshold Resetting

Arup Biswas, Satya N. Majumdar, and Arnab Pal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 227101 (2025) - Published 24 November, 2025

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Hyperuniform Interfaces in Nonequilibrium Phase Coexistence

Raphaël Maire, Leonardo Galliano, Andrea Plati, and Ludovic Berthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 227102 (2025) - Published 26 November, 2025

Simulations of three physically distinct scenarios reveal that long-wavelength interfacial fluctuations are suppressed strongly in nonequilibrium phase coexistence between bulk hyperuniform systems.