Volume 135, Issue 23

5 December 2025

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An elastic shell undergoes fluid-induced snapping in a viscous flow. Selected for a Focus story in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Fluid-Induced Snap-Through Instability of Spherical Shells
Pier Giuseppe Ledda, Hemanshul Garg, Vitus Østergaard-Clausen, Lucas Krumenacker Rudzki, Ahmad Madary, and Matteo Pezzulla
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 234002 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Tunable Einstein-Bohr Recoiling-Slit Gedankenexperiment at the Quantum Limit

Yu-Chen Zhang, Hao-Wen Cheng, Zhao-Qiu Zengxu, Zhan Wu, Rui Lin, Yu-Cheng Duan, Jun Rui, Ming-Cheng Chen, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230202 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

A single-atom interferometer confirms Niels Bohr’s resolution of a seemingly paradoxical thought experiment devised by Albert Einstein.

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Evidence for the Dimuon Decay of the Higgs Boson in $p p$ Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231802 (2025) - Published 3 December, 2025

Measurements of the decay of the Higgs boson into muon–antimuon pairs provide evidence for the mechanism by which quarks and leptons acquire their mass.

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Probing Valence Electron and Hydrogen Dynamics Using Charge-Pair Imaging with Ultrafast Electron Diffraction

Tianyu Wang, Hui Jiang, Ming Zhang, Xiao Zou, Pengfei Zhu, Feng He, Zheng Li, and Dao Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 233002 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

Ultrafast electron diffraction can capture the motion of electrons and nuclei during light-induced reactions with high spatial and temporal resolution.

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Fluid-Induced Snap-Through Instability of Spherical Shells

Pier Giuseppe Ledda, Hemanshul Garg, Vitus Østergaard-Clausen, Lucas Krumenacker Rudzki, Ahmad Madary, and Matteo Pezzulla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 234002 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

A phenomenon reminiscent of a common experience with an umbrella inspires the development of a potential microfluidics component.

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Molecular Anyons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Mytraya Gattu and J. K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236601 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

The quasiparticles associated with a phenomenon called the fractional quantum Hall effect can bind together into stable clusters.

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Long-Time Storage of a Qubit Encoded in Decoherence-Free Subspace Using a Dual-Type Quantum Memory

Y.-L. Xu, L. Zhang, C. Zhang, Y.-K. Wu, Y.-Y. Chen, C.-X. Huang, Z.-B. Cui, R. Yao, W.-Q. Lian, J.-Y. Ma, W.-X. Guo, B.-X. Qi, P.-Y. Hou, Y.-F. Pu, Z.-C. Zhou, L. He, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230803 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Metastable qubits with coherence time over two hours are constructed by encoding into decoherence-free subspace.

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Ramanujan’s $1 / π$ Series and Conformal Field Theories

Faizan Bhat and Aninda Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231602 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

Ramanujan’s infinite series for $1 / π$ leads to new expansions in logarithmic conformal field theories that converge faster than the standard conformal block decomposition.

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Observation of Orbitally Excited $B_{c}^{+}$ States

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231902 (2025) - Published 3 December, 2025

$B_{c}^{+}$ , the only known meson made of two different flavors of heavy quarks, is observed in an orbitally excited state for the first time.

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Dynamical Generation of Higher-Order Spin-Orbit Coupling, Topology, and Persistent Spin Texture in Light-Irradiated Altermagnets

Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi and Qiang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236702 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Tuning the nonequilibrium properties of altermagnets with light-matter interactions generates anisotropic and higher-order spin-orbit coupling.

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Dynamics from the Surface to the Bulk in Ultrastable and Liquid-Cooled Oligomeric Glasses

Iain McKenzie, Victoria L. Karner, Ruohong Li, W. Andrew MacFarlane, Gerald D. Morris, Michael F. Thees, John O. Ticknor, and James A. Forrest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 238101 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

Specific preparation and thermal history lock oligomeric glasses into distinct regions of the potential energy landscape, giving rise to fundamentally different dynamics.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

No Massless Goldstone Bosons in Hamiltonian Time Crystals

Antti J. Niemi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230201 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

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Tunable Einstein-Bohr Recoiling-Slit Gedankenexperiment at the Quantum Limit

Yu-Chen Zhang, Hao-Wen Cheng, Zhao-Qiu Zengxu, Zhan Wu, Rui Lin, Yu-Cheng Duan, Jun Rui, Ming-Cheng Chen, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230202 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

A single-atom interferometer confirms Niels Bohr’s resolution of a seemingly paradoxical thought experiment devised by Albert Einstein.

Experimental Observation of Non-Markovian Quantum Exceptional Points

Hao-Long Zhang, Pei-Rong Han, Fan Wu, Wen Ning, Zhen-Biao Yang, and Shi-Biao Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230203 (2025) - Published 3 December, 2025

Multipartite Quantum States over Time from Two Fundamental Assumptions

Seok Hyung Lie and James Fullwood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230204 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

Boundary Time Crystals Induced by Local Dissipation and Long-Range Interactions

Zhuqing Wang, Ruochen Gao, Xiaoling Wu, Berislav Buča, Klaus Mølmer, Li You, and Fan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230401 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

Designing Open Quantum Systems for Enabling Quantum-Enhanced Sensing through Classical Measurements

Robert Mattes, Albert Cabot, Federico Carollo, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230402 (2025) - Published 3 December, 2025

Engineering a Multilevel Bath for Transmons with Three-Wave Mixing and Parametric Drives

Xi Cao, Maria Mucci, Gangqiang Liu, David Pekker, and Michael Hatridge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230403 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Quantum Process Tomography with Digital Twins of Error Matrices

Tangyou Huang, Akshay Gaikwad, Ilya Moskalenko, Anuj Aggarwal, Tahereh Abad, Marko Kuzmanović, Yu-Han Chang, Ognjen Stanisavljević, Emil Hogedal, Christhopher Warren, Irshad Ahmad, Janka Biznárová, Amr Osman, Mamta Dahiya, Marcus Rommel, Anita Fadavi Rousari, Andreas Nylander, Liangyu Chen, Jonas Bylander, Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu, Anton Frisk Kockum, and Giovanna Tancredi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230601 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

Computing $n$ -Time Correlation Functions without Ancilla Qubits

Xiaoyang Wang, Long Xiong, Xiaoxia Cai, and Xiao Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230602 (2025) - Published 3 December, 2025

Analytical Lower Bound on Query Complexity for Transformations of Unknown Unitary Operations

Tatsuki Odake, Satoshi Yoshida, and Mio Murao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230603 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

Microwave Circulation in an Extended Josephson Junction Ring

Dat Thanh Le, Arkady Fedorov, and T. M. Stace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230801 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

Optimal Phase-Insensitive Force Sensing with Non-Gaussian States

Piotr T. Grochowski and Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230802 (2025) - Published 3 December, 2025

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Long-Time Storage of a Qubit Encoded in Decoherence-Free Subspace Using a Dual-Type Quantum Memory

Y.-L. Xu, L. Zhang, C. Zhang, Y.-K. Wu, Y.-Y. Chen, C.-X. Huang, Z.-B. Cui, R. Yao, W.-Q. Lian, J.-Y. Ma, W.-X. Guo, B.-X. Qi, P.-Y. Hou, Y.-F. Pu, Z.-C. Zhou, L. He, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 230803 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Metastable qubits with coherence time over two hours are constructed by encoding into decoherence-free subspace.

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Limits on WIMP Dark Matter with NaI(Tl) Crystals in Three Years of COSINE-100 Data

G. H. Yu et al. (COSINE-100 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231001 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

New Source for QCD Axion Dark Matter Production: Curvature Induced

Cem Eröncel, Yann Gouttenoire, Ryosuke Sato, Géraldine Servant, and Peera Simakachorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231002 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

Neutrino-Mass-Driven Instabilities as the Earliest Flavor Conversion in Supernovae

Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Hans-Thomas Janka, and Georg G. Raffelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231003 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

Breaking Boundaries: Extending the Orbit-Averaged Fokker-Planck Equation Inside the Loss Cone

Luca Broggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231201 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

Dynamical Tides in Neutron Stars with First-Order Phase Transitions: The Role of the Discontinuity Mode

Jonas P. Pereira, Lucas Tonetto, Michał Bejger, J. Leszek Zdunik, and Paweł Haensel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231401 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

Particles and Fields

Quantum Droplets in Curved Space

Antonino Flachi and Takahiro Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231601 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

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Ramanujan’s $1 / π$ Series and Conformal Field Theories

Faizan Bhat and Aninda Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231602 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

Ramanujan’s infinite series for $1 / π$ leads to new expansions in logarithmic conformal field theories that converge faster than the standard conformal block decomposition.

String Duals of Two-Dimensional Yang-Mills Theory and Symmetric Product Orbifolds

Shota Komatsu and Pronobesh Maity

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231603 (2025) - Published 3 December, 2025

Pulse and Polarization Structures in Axion-Converted X-Rays from Pulsars

JiJi Fan, Lingfeng Li, and Chen Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231801 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

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Evidence for the Dimuon Decay of the Higgs Boson in $p p$ Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231802 (2025) - Published 3 December, 2025

Measurements of the decay of the Higgs boson into muon–antimuon pairs provide evidence for the mechanism by which quarks and leptons acquire their mass.

Standard Model Tested with Neutrinos

M. Atzori Corona, M. Cadeddu, N. Cargioli, F. Dordei, C. Giunti, and C. A. Ternes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231803 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Search for New Physics in Jet Multiplicity Patterns of Multilepton Events at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231804 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

Study of the $Λ \to p ℓ {\bar{ν}}_{ℓ}$ Semileptonic Decay in Lattice QCD

Simone Bacchio and Andreas Konstantinou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231901 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

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Observation of Orbitally Excited $B_{c}^{+}$ States

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 231902 (2025) - Published 3 December, 2025

$B_{c}^{+}$ , the only known meson made of two different flavors of heavy quarks, is observed in an orbitally excited state for the first time.

Nuclear Physics

$β$ -Decay Half-Lives of Neutron-Rich Sulfur to Potassium: Evolution of the $N = 32$ and 34 Subshell Closures below Calcium

Q. B. Zeng et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 232501 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

Beam-Normal Single-Spin Asymmetry in ${}^{208}{Pb}$ at Low Energy: Discrepancy Resolved or New Kinematic Puzzle?

A. Esser, N. Kozyrev, K. Aulenbacher, S. Baunack, M. Dehn, A. Del Vincio, L. Doria, M. Hoek, F. Keil, F. Maas, H. Merkel, M. Mihovilovič, U. Müller, J. Pochodzalla, B. S. Schlimme, T. Shao, S. Stengel, M. Thiel, L. Wilhelm, and C. Sfienti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 232502 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

Enhanced $S$ -Factor for the ${}^{14}N (p, γ)^{15} O$ Reaction and Its Impact on the Solar Composition Problem

X. Chen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 232701 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Interference between One- and Two-Electron Channels in Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

Johan Söderström, Marcus Agåker, Ji-Cai Liu, Takashi Tokushima, Anirudha Ghosh, Conny Såthe, Jian Wang, Andreas Pantelis Frey Koudouridis, Moritz Grunwald-Delitz, Thomas M. Baumann, Michael Meyer, Manuel Harder, Zhong Yin, Olle Björneholm, Joseph Nordgren, Stephan Fritzsche, Victor Kimberg, Jan-Erik Rubensson, and Faris Gel’mukhanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 233001 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

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Probing Valence Electron and Hydrogen Dynamics Using Charge-Pair Imaging with Ultrafast Electron Diffraction

Tianyu Wang, Hui Jiang, Ming Zhang, Xiao Zou, Pengfei Zhu, Feng He, Zheng Li, and Dao Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 233002 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

Ultrafast electron diffraction can capture the motion of electrons and nuclei during light-induced reactions with high spatial and temporal resolution.

Tracing Long-Lived Atomic Coherences Generated via Molecular Conical Intersections

Patrick Rupprecht, Francesco Montorsi, Lei Xu, Nicolette G. Puskar, Marco Garavelli, Shaul Mukamel, Niranjan Govind, Daniel M. Neumark, Daniel Keefer, and Stephen R. Leone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 233201 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

Leveraging Reactant Entanglement in the Coherent Control of Ultracold Bimolecular Chemical Reactions

Adrien Devolder, Timur V. Tscherbul, and Paul Brumer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 233401 (2025) - Published 3 December, 2025

Generalized Gibbs Ensemble from Eigenstate Entanglement Hamiltonian

Hao Chen and Biao Lian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 233402 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

Twin Polaritons: Classical versus Quantum Features in Polaritonic Spectra

Irén Simkó and Norah M. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 233601 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

Deconfined Quantum Criticality on a Triangular Rydberg Array

Lisa Bombieri, Torsten V. Zache, Gabriele Calliari, Mikhail D. Lukin, Hannes Pichler, and Daniel González-Cuadra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 233602 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Emergence of an Epsilon-Near-Zero Medium from Microscopic Atomic Principles

L. Ruks and J. Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 233603 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Engineering Continuous-Variable Entanglement in Mechanical Oscillators with Optimal Control

Maverick J. Millican, Vassili G. Matsos, Christophe H. Valahu, Tomas Navickas, Liam J. Bond, and Ting Rei Tan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 233604 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

Optical Switching of $χ^{(2)}$ in Diamond Photonics

Sigurd Flågan, Joe Itoi, Prasoon K. Shandilya, Vinaya K. Kavatamane, Matthew Mitchell, David P. Lake, and Paul E. Barclay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 233801 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

Non-Abelian Gauge Field Optics in the Time Domain

Yucheng Lai, Yongliang Zhang, and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 233802 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Photonic Shankar Skyrmion

Haiwen Wang and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 233803 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Dynamic Pressure Enhancement upon Disk Impact on a Boiling Liquid

Yee Li (Ellis) Fan, Bernardo Palacios Muñiz, Nayoung Kim, and Devaraj van der Meer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 234001 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

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Fluid-Induced Snap-Through Instability of Spherical Shells

Pier Giuseppe Ledda, Hemanshul Garg, Vitus Østergaard-Clausen, Lucas Krumenacker Rudzki, Ahmad Madary, and Matteo Pezzulla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 234002 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

A phenomenon reminiscent of a common experience with an umbrella inspires the development of a potential microfluidics component.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Dual-Time-Scale Ion Acceleration Dynamics in Hall Thrusters

Q. Delavière–Delion, F. Gaboriau, G. Fubiani, and L. Garrigues

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 235301 (2025) - Published 3 December, 2025

Sheath Instabilities Excited by Intense Secondary Electron Emission

Pascal Chabert and Jean-Luc Raimbault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 235302 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Nonreciprocal Current-Induced Zero-Resistance State in Valley-Polarized Superconductors

Akito Daido, Youichi Yanase, and K. T. Law

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236001 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

Direct Observation of the Surface Superconducting Gap in the Topological Superconductor Candidate $β − {PdBi}_{2}$

Akifumi Mine, Takeshi Suzuki, Yigui Zhong, Sahand Najafzadeh, Kenjiro Okawa, Masato Sakano, Kyoko Ishizaka, Shik Shin, Takao Sasagawa, and Kozo Okazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236002 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

Superconductivity Governed by Janus-Faced Fermiology in Strained Bilayer Nickelates

Siheon Ryee, Niklas Witt, Giorgio Sangiovanni, and Tim O. Wehling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236003 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

Upper Critical Field and Pairing Symmetry of Ising Superconductors

Lena Engström, Ludovica Zullo, Tristan Cren, Andrej Mesaros, and Pascal Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236004 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

Slip Electron Flow in GaAs Microscale Constrictions

Daniil I. Sarypov, Dmitriy A. Pokhabov, Arthur G. Pogosov, Evgeny Yu. Zhdanov, Andrey A. Shevyrin, Askhat K. Bakarov, and Alexander A. Shklyaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236301 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

Parity Anomaly from a Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem: Exact Valley Symmetries on the Lattice

Salvatore D. Pace, Minho Luke Kim, Arkya Chatterjee, and Shu-Heng Shao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236501 (2025) - Published 3 December, 2025

Anomalous Pressure Dependence of the Charge Density Wave and Fermi Surface Reconstruction in ${BaFe}_{2} {Al}_{9}$

Mahmoud Abdel-Hafiez, Muthukumaran Sundaramoorthy, Nabeel M. Jasim, K. A. Irshad, Chia Nung Kuo, Chin Shan Lue, F. L. Carstens, A. Bertrand, M. Mito, Rüdiger Klingeler, Vladislav Borisov, Anna Delin, Boby Joseph, Olle Eriksson, Sonachalam Arumugam, and Govindaraj Lingannan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236502 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

Reduced Basis Method for Driven-Dissipative Quantum Systems

Hans Christiansen, Virgil V. Baran, and Jens Paaske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236503 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

Spin Seebeck Effect of Triangular Lattice Spin Supersolid

Yuan Gao, Yixuan Huang, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Wei Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236504 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

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Molecular Anyons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Mytraya Gattu and J. K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236601 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

The quasiparticles associated with a phenomenon called the fractional quantum Hall effect can bind together into stable clusters.

Hybrid Topological Euler and Stiefel-Whitney Phases in Elastic Metamaterials

Jijie Tang, Adrien Bouhon, Yue Shen, Kailun Wang, Junrong Feng, Feng Li, Di Zhou, Robert-Jan Slager, and Ying Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236602 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

Family of Aperiodic Tilings with Tunable Quantum Geometric Tensor

Hector Roche Carrasco, Justin Schirmann, Aurelien Mordret, and Adolfo G. Grushin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236603 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Fermi Liquid Theory of $d$ -Wave Altermagnets: Demon Modes and Fano-Demon States

Habib Rostami and Johannes Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236701 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

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Dynamical Generation of Higher-Order Spin-Orbit Coupling, Topology, and Persistent Spin Texture in Light-Irradiated Altermagnets

Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi and Qiang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236702 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Tuning the nonequilibrium properties of altermagnets with light-matter interactions generates anisotropic and higher-order spin-orbit coupling.

Ionic Sliding Ferroelectricity in Layered Ion Conductors

Yutong Yan and Menghao Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236801 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

Coexistence of Ferroelectricity and Metallicity in Weakly Coupled ${(SnSe)}_{1.16} ({NbSe}_{2})$ Crystal

Cheng Jia, Wenyu Huang, Haobo Yang, Chaojie Luo, Lili Jiang, Shuangxiang Wu, Ming Li, Minghui Fan, Yuanjun Yang, and Hui Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236802 (2025) - Published 3 December, 2025

Cavity-Vacuum-Induced Chiral Spin Liquids in Kagome Lattices: Tuning and Probing Topological Quantum Phases via Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

Chenan Wei, Liu Yang, and Qing-Dong Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236901 (2025) - Published 1 December, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Force-Free Kinetic Inference of Entropy Production

I. Di Terlizzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 237101 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Content-Addressable Memory with a Content-Free Energy Function

Félix Benoist, Luca Peliti, and Pablo Sartori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 237102 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Universal Law for Diffusion in Continuous Potential Energy Landscapes

Bohan Yu, Luhui Ning, and Ke Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 237103 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025

Inverse Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation and Entropy Production

Van Tuan Vo, Andreas Dechant, and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 237104 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamics from the Surface to the Bulk in Ultrastable and Liquid-Cooled Oligomeric Glasses

Iain McKenzie, Victoria L. Karner, Ruohong Li, W. Andrew MacFarlane, Gerald D. Morris, Michael F. Thees, John O. Ticknor, and James A. Forrest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 238101 (2025) - Published 5 December, 2025

Specific preparation and thermal history lock oligomeric glasses into distinct regions of the potential energy landscape, giving rise to fundamentally different dynamics.

Model-Free Learning of Probability Flows: Elucidating the Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Flocking

Nicholas M. Boffi and Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 238301 (2025) - Published 2 December, 2025

Nonmonotonic Diffusion in Sheared Active Suspensions of Squirmers

Zhouyang Ge, John F. Brady, and Gwynn J. Elfring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 238302 (2025) - Published 4 December, 2025