Volume 135, Issue 24

12 December 2025

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Time-resolved x-ray diffraction of a layered EuTe₄ compound. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Bidirectional Ultrafast Control of Charge Density Waves via Phase Competition
Honglie Ning, Kyoung Hun Oh, Yifan Su, Zhengyan Darius Shi, Dong Wu, Qiaomei Liu, B. Q. Lv, Alfred Zong, Gyeongbo Kang, Hyeongi Choi, Hyun-Woo J. Kim, Seunghyeok Ha, Jaehwon Kim, Suchismita Sarker, Jacob P. C. Ruff, B. J. Kim, N. L. Wang, Todadri Senthil, Hoyoung Jang, and Nuh Gedik
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246504 (2025)

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Source of Heralded Atom-Photon Entanglement for Quantum Networking

Gianvito Chiarella, Tobias Frank, Leart Zuka, Pau Farrera, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 240802 (2025) - Published 10 December, 2025

A new strategy boosts both the efficiency and reliability of quantum communication networks.

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Energy Spectrum of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays across Declinations $- 90 °$ to $+ 44.8 °$ as Measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory

A. Abdul Halim et al. (Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 241002 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

New measurements from an observatory in Argentina suggest that all the most energetic cosmic rays arise from the same types of extragalactic accelerators.

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Magneto-Optical Trapping of Aluminum Monofluoride

J. E. Padilla-Castillo, J. Cai, P. Agarwal, P. Kukreja, R. Thomas, B. G. Sartakov, S. Truppe, G. Meijer, and S. C. Wright

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 243401 (2025) - Published 10 December, 2025

A class of molecules with two valence electrons has been laser cooled and trapped for the first time.

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Inverse Acoustic Spin Hall Effect in Heavy Metal-Ferromagnet Bilayers

Yang Cao, Tong Li, Na Lei, Liyang Liao, Baoshan Cui, Li Xi, Dahai Wei, Tao Yu, Yoshichika Otani, Desheng Xue, and Dezheng Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246705 (2025) - Published 12 December, 2025

The demonstration of wave conversion may lead to spintronic technology that transmits fragile spin data as acoustic waves.

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High-Fidelity Quantum State Control of a Polar Molecular Ion in a Cryogenic Environment

Dalton Chaffee, Baruch Margulis, April Sheffield, Julian Schmidt, April Reisenfeld, David R. Leibrandt, Dietrich Leibfried, and Chin-Wen Chou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 240801 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Molecular quantum state preparation, coherent manipulation, and measurement with high fidelity are demonstrated in a polar molecule for the first time.

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First Evidence of Solar Neutrino Interactions on ${}^{13}C$

M. Abreu et al. ( $SNO +$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 241803 (2025) - Published 10 December, 2025

The first evidence of $^{8} B$ solar neutrinos interacting with $^{13} C$ nuclei provides a test of the solar model as well as constitutes the lowest energy measurements of neutrino interactions on $^{13} C$ .

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Bidirectional Ultrafast Control of Charge Density Waves via Phase Competition

Honglie Ning, Kyoung Hun Oh, Yifan Su, Zhengyan Darius Shi, Dong Wu, Qiaomei Liu, B. Q. Lv, Alfred Zong, Gyeongbo Kang, Hyeongi Choi, Hyun-Woo J. Kim, Seunghyeok Ha, Jaehwon Kim, Suchismita Sarker, Jacob P. C. Ruff, B. J. Kim, N. L. Wang, Todadri Senthil, Hoyoung Jang, and Nuh Gedik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246504 (2025) - Published 12 December, 2025

Competition between two charge density wave orders form a moiré superstructure, enabling bidirectional control of the charge density wave amplitude.

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Interplay of Silver-Mean Quasiperiodicity and Weyl Semimetal Phase in ${WTe}_{2}$

So-Dam Sohn, Ja-Yong Koo, Chang-Youn Moon, and Daejin Eom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246601 (2025) - Published 8 December, 2025

Scanning tunneling microscopy reveals that epoxy resin intercalates into a 3D Weyl semimetal with molecular-scale height modulations that follow the Pell sequence.

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Edge-State Selective Measurement of Dispersions in the Quantum Hall Regime

Henok Weldeyesus, T. Patlatiuk, Q. Chen, C. P. Scheller, D. M. Zumbühl, A. Yacoby, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246602 (2025) - Published 8 December, 2025

A new method utilizes a GaAs 2D electron gas, combined with cleaved-edge overgrowth quantum wires, to accurately map the dispersions and velocities of individual edge states across a wide range of parameters.

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Optically Induced Magnetic Inertia and Magnons from Non-Markovian Extension of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Equation

Felipe Reyes-Osorio and Branislav K. Nikolić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246701 (2025) - Published 8 December, 2025

An extension of the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation for laser-driven magnets yields frequency-dependent damping and a reactive inertial term, predicting coherent, sharp magnon features under ultrafast drive.

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Structural Reducibility of Hypergraphs

Alec Kirkley, Helcio Felippe, and Federico Battiston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 247401 (2025) - Published 12 December, 2025

An information-theoretic framework finds and removes redundancies in a hypergraph representation of a network, allowing for more efficient analysis of higher-order elements.

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Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Sample-Half-Inserted Quantum Interferometer

Wei Li, Tao Xie, Yu-Hang Luo, Kang Zheng, Meiyu Peng, Hui Yang, Chunling Ding, Chen-Zhi Yuan, Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza, Keyu Xia, Ryosuke Shimizu, Hui Jing, Chenglong You, and Rui-Bo Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 240201 (2025) - Published 12 December, 2025

Exact Non-Markovian Master Equations: A Generalized Derivation for Gaussian Systems

Antonio D’Abbruzzo, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Vasco Cavina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 240401 (2025) - Published 8 December, 2025

Nanoscale Detection of Many-Body Entanglement via Multidimensional Correlation Imprinting

Tao Zhang, Wentao Ji, Yuhang Guo, Mengqi Wang, Bo Chong, Xing Rong, Fazhan Shi, Ping Wang, and Ya Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 240402 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Connection between Memory Performance and Optical Absorption in Quantum Reservoir Computing

Niclas Götting, Steffen Wilksen, Alexander Steinhoff, Frederik Lohof, and Christopher Gies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 240403 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Nonstabilizerness Dynamics in Many-Body Localized Systems

Pedro R. Nicácio Falcão, Piotr Sierant, Jakub Zakrzewski, and Emanuele Tirrito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 240404 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Fault-Tolerant Stabilizer Measurements in Surface Codes with Three-Qubit Gates

Josias Old, Stephan Tasler, Michael J. Hartmann, and Markus Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 240601 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Low-Depth Quantum Error Correction via Three-Qubit Gates in Rydberg Atom Arrays

Laura Pecorari, Sven Jandura, and Guido Pupillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 240602 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Observation of Entanglement in a Cold Atom Analog of Cosmological Preheating

Victor Gondret, Clothilde Lamirault, Rui Dias, Léa Camier, Amaury Micheli, Charlie Leprince, Quentin Marolleau, Jean-René Rullier, Scott Robertson, Denis Boiron, and Christoph I. Westbrook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 240603 (2025) - Published 11 December, 2025

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High-Fidelity Quantum State Control of a Polar Molecular Ion in a Cryogenic Environment

Dalton Chaffee, Baruch Margulis, April Sheffield, Julian Schmidt, April Reisenfeld, David R. Leibrandt, Dietrich Leibfried, and Chin-Wen Chou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 240801 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Molecular quantum state preparation, coherent manipulation, and measurement with high fidelity are demonstrated in a polar molecule for the first time.

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Source of Heralded Atom-Photon Entanglement for Quantum Networking

Gianvito Chiarella, Tobias Frank, Leart Zuka, Pau Farrera, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 240802 (2025) - Published 10 December, 2025

A new strategy boosts both the efficiency and reliability of quantum communication networks.

Uniting Quantum Processing Nodes of Cavity-Coupled Ions with Rare-Earth Quantum Repeaters Using Single-Photon Pulse Shaping Based on Atomic Frequency Comb

P. Cussenot, B. Grivet, L. Feldmann, S. Wengerowsky, B. P. Lanyon, T. E. Northup, H. de Riedmatten, A. S. Sørensen, and N. Sangouard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 240803 (2025) - Published 10 December, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Gravitational Origin of the QCD Axion

Georgios K. Karananas, Mikhail Shaposhnikov, and Sebastian Zell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 241001 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

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Energy Spectrum of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays across Declinations $- 90 °$ to $+ 44.8 °$ as Measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory

A. Abdul Halim et al. (Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 241002 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

New measurements from an observatory in Argentina suggest that all the most energetic cosmic rays arise from the same types of extragalactic accelerators.

New Asymptotically Flat Einstein-Maxwell Instantons

Bernardo Araneda and Maciej Dunajski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 241501 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Particles and Fields

Double Spacelike Collinear Limits from Multi-Regge Kinematics

Claude Duhr, Aniruddha Venkata, and Chi Zhang (张驰)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 241601 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Data-Driven Discovery Strategy for Standard Model Effective Field Theory Searches

Martin Hirsch, Luca Mantani, and Veronica Sanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 241801 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Directional Searching for Light Dark Matter with Quantum Sensors

Hajime Fukuda, Yuichiro Matsuzaki, and Thanaporn Sichanugrist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 241802 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

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First Evidence of Solar Neutrino Interactions on ${}^{13}C$

M. Abreu et al. ( $SNO +$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 241803 (2025) - Published 10 December, 2025

Ultimate Quantum Precision Limit at Colliders: Conditions and Case Studies

Tengyu Ai, Qi Bi, Yuxin He, Jia Liu, and Xiao-Ping Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 241804 (2025) - Published 11 December, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Universal Equilibration Condition for Heavy Quarks

Krishna Rajagopal, Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld, and Urs Achim Wiedemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 242301 (2025) - Published 8 December, 2025

Indications for Freeze-Out of Charge Fluctuations in the Quark-Gluon Plasma at the LHC

Jonathan Parra, Roman Poberezhniuk, Volker Koch, Claudia Ratti, and Volodymyr Vovchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 242302 (2025) - Published 8 December, 2025

Supercooled Goldstone Bosons at the QCD Chiral Phase Transition

Adrien Florio, Eduardo Grossi, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Alexander Soloviev, and Derek Teaney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 242303 (2025) - Published 12 December, 2025

Non-Hermitian Quantum Mechanics Approach for Extracting and Emulating Continuum Physics Based on Bound-State-like Calculations

Xilin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 242501 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Deviations from the Isobaric Multiplet Mass Equation due to Threshold States

R. J. Charity, J. Okołowicz, M. Płoszajczak, L. G. Sobotka, and K. W. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 242502 (2025) - Published 12 December, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Magneto-Optical Trapping of Aluminum Monofluoride

J. E. Padilla-Castillo, J. Cai, P. Agarwal, P. Kukreja, R. Thomas, B. G. Sartakov, S. Truppe, G. Meijer, and S. C. Wright

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 243401 (2025) - Published 10 December, 2025

A class of molecules with two valence electrons has been laser cooled and trapped for the first time.

Tailoring the van der Waals Interaction with Rotation

H. S. G. Amaral, P. P. Abrantes, F. Impens, P. A. Maia Neto, and R. de Melo e Souza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 243601 (2025) - Published 11 December, 2025

Multiply Quantized Vortex Spectroscopy in a Quantum Fluid of Light

Killian Guerrero, Kévin Falque, Elisabeth Giacobino, Alberto Bramati, and Maxime J. Jacquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 243801 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Measuring the Oscillation Frequency beyond the Diffraction Limit

Chao-Ning Hu, Jun Xin, and Xiao-Ming Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 243802 (2025) - Published 10 December, 2025

Direct Reconstruction of Terahertz-Driven Subcycle Electron Emission Dynamics

Jiakang Mao, Yushan Zeng, Hongyang Li, Liwei Song, Ye Tian, and Ruxin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 243803 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Bound States in the Continuum as Nodal Chain Points of Scattering Matrices

Wenzhe Liu, Yuan-Song Zeng, Jingyi Zhao, Chenfeng Yang, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Xiaohan Cui, Geng-Bo Wu, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 243804 (2025) - Published 11 December, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Direct Combinational Measurements of the Electron Density and Electric Field in Secondary Streamer Discharge under Atmospheric-Pressure Air

Yuki Inada, Tatsutoshi Shioda, Ryosuke Nakamura, Akiko Kumada, Mitsuaki Maeyama, and Ryo Ono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 245301 (2025) - Published 8 December, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

From Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Scaling to Soliton Proliferation in Josephson Junction Arrays

Mikheil Tsitsishvili, Reinhold Egger, Karsten Flensberg, and Sebastian Diehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246001 (2025) - Published 8 December, 2025

Topological Chiral Superconductivity Mediated by Intervalley Antiferromagnetic Fluctuations in Twisted Bilayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Wei Qin, Wen-Xuan Qiu, and Fengcheng Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246002 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Two-Dimensional Superconducting Diode Effect in Topological Insulator/Superconductor Heterostructure

Soma Nagahama, Yuki Sato, Minoru Kawamura, Ilya Belopolski, Ryutaro Yoshimi, Atsushi Tsukazaki, Naoya Kanazawa, Kei S. Takahashi, Masashi Kawasaki, and Yoshinori Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246003 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Machine-Learning Prediction of Charged-Defect Formation Energies from Crystal Structures

Shin Kiyohara, Chisa Shibui, Soungmin Bae, and Yu Kumagai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246101 (2025) - Published 11 December, 2025

Structural Evolution of Rutile ${TiO}_{2} (110) − (1 \times 2)$ Reconstruction Driven by Oxygen-Promoted Titanium Migration

Liuxi Chen, Meiliang Ma, Bingwei Chen, Ying Jiang, Wentao Yuan, Zhong-Kang Han, Sergey V. Levchenko, and Yong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246201 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Asymmetric Elastic Bound State in the Continuum by an Exceptional Point

Liyun Cao and Badreddine Assouar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246301 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Field-Effect-Tunable Even-Odd Transition of Quantum Hall States in a Rashba System

Qijia Xu, Jingyue Wang, Junwei Huang, Yufei Zhao, Weiyu Sun, Xuzhong Cong, Huakun Zuo, Zengwei Zhu, Congwei Tan, Hongtao Liu, Binghai Yan, Hongtao Yuan, and Hailin Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246302 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

On-Demand and Tunable Andreev Conversion of Single-Electron Charge Pulses

Pablo Burset, Benjamin Roussel, Michael Moskalets, and Christian Flindt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246303 (2025) - Published 12 December, 2025

Luttinger Count is the Homotopy Not the Physical Charge: Generalized Anomalies Characterize Non-Fermi Liquids

Gabriele La Nave, Jinchao Zhao, and Philip W. Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246501 (2025) - Published 8 December, 2025

Optical Injection and Detection of Long-Lived Interlayer Excitons in van der Waals Heterostructures

Alperen Tüğen, Anna M. Seiler, Arthur Christianen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Martin Kroner, and Ataç İmamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246502 (2025) - Published 10 December, 2025

Emergent Gauge Field in Composite-Fermion Metals: A Large-Scale Microscopic Study

Amogh Anakru, Mytraya Gattu, Ajit C. Balram, Xiao-Chuan Wu, Prashant Kumar, Zhen Bi, and J. K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246503 (2025) - Published 11 December, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bidirectional Ultrafast Control of Charge Density Waves via Phase Competition

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246504 (2025) - Published 12 December, 2025

Competition between two charge density wave orders form a moiré superstructure, enabling bidirectional control of the charge density wave amplitude.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interplay of Silver-Mean Quasiperiodicity and Weyl Semimetal Phase in ${WTe}_{2}$

So-Dam Sohn, Ja-Yong Koo, Chang-Youn Moon, and Daejin Eom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246601 (2025) - Published 8 December, 2025

Scanning tunneling microscopy reveals that epoxy resin intercalates into a 3D Weyl semimetal with molecular-scale height modulations that follow the Pell sequence.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Edge-State Selective Measurement of Dispersions in the Quantum Hall Regime

Henok Weldeyesus, T. Patlatiuk, Q. Chen, C. P. Scheller, D. M. Zumbühl, A. Yacoby, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246602 (2025) - Published 8 December, 2025

Fractional Quantum Hall State at $ν = 1 / 2$ with Energy Gap Up to 6 K and Possible Transition from the One- to Two-Component State

Siddharth Kumar Singh, Chengyu Wang, Adbhut Gupta, Kirk W. Baldwin, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Mansour Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246603 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Theory of Magnetoroton Bands in Moiré Materials

Bishoy M. Kousa, Nicolás Morales-Durán, Tobias M. R. Wolf, Eslam Khalaf, and Allan H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246604 (2025) - Published 11 December, 2025

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Optically Induced Magnetic Inertia and Magnons from Non-Markovian Extension of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Equation

Felipe Reyes-Osorio and Branislav K. Nikolić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246701 (2025) - Published 8 December, 2025

Twofold-Symmetric Magnetoelasticity Induced by Dominant Vertical Shear Strain

Fa Chen, Liyang Liao, Jiaxin Chen, Qiuyun Fu, Yue Zhang, Wei Luo, and Yoshichika Otani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246702 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

THz-Driven Spin Dynamics in Orthoferrites with Kramers and Non-Kramers Rare-Earth Ions

R. A. Leenders, O. Y. Kovalenko, Y. Saito, N. R. Vovk, A. V. Kimel, and R. V. Mikhaylovskiy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246703 (2025) - Published 12 December, 2025

Gyrotropic Magnetic Effect in Metallic Chiral Magnets

Nisarga Paul, Takamori Park, Jung Hoon Han, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246704 (2025) - Published 12 December, 2025

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Inverse Acoustic Spin Hall Effect in Heavy Metal-Ferromagnet Bilayers

Yang Cao, Tong Li, Na Lei, Liyang Liao, Baoshan Cui, Li Xi, Dahai Wei, Tao Yu, Yoshichika Otani, Desheng Xue, and Dezheng Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246705 (2025) - Published 12 December, 2025

The demonstration of wave conversion may lead to spintronic technology that transmits fragile spin data as acoustic waves.

Multicolor Phonon Excitation in Terahertz Cavities

Omer Yaniv and Dominik M. Juraschek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 246901 (2025) - Published 9 December, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Structural Reducibility of Hypergraphs

Alec Kirkley, Helcio Felippe, and Federico Battiston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 247401 (2025) - Published 12 December, 2025

An information-theoretic framework finds and removes redundancies in a hypergraph representation of a network, allowing for more efficient analysis of higher-order elements.

Volume 135, Issue 24

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Condensed Matter and Materials

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics