Volume 135, Issue 25

19 December 2025

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On the Cover

Wavefront-modulated (left) and conventional (right) Bragg coherent diffraction patterns from a highly strained Pt nanocrystal. The new technique enables unambiguous 3D structure and strain imaging. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Bragg Coherent Modulation Imaging of Highly Strained Nanocrystals
Jiangtao Zhao, Ewen Bellec, Marie-Ingrid Richard, Linus Pithan, Ivan A. Vartanyants, Fucai Zhang, Tobias Schülli, and Steven J. Leake
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256101 (2025)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: Generalized Landau Paradigm for Quantum Phases and Phase Transitions

Xie Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 250001 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

In this final forward-looking Essay of the year, Xie Chen discusses how the generalized Landau principle reframes beyond-Landau phases and transitions as symmetry-breaking phases of potentially generalized symmetries and symmetry-breaking transitions, providing a more systematic framework for their study.

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bragg Coherent Modulation Imaging of Highly Strained Nanocrystals

Jiangtao Zhao, Ewen Bellec, Marie-Ingrid Richard, Linus Pithan, Ivan A. Vartanyants, Fucai Zhang, Tobias Schülli, and Steven J. Leake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256101 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for measuring lattice distortions that are too big for conventional methods to handle.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strict Universality of the Square-Root Law in Price Impact across Stocks: A Complete Survey of the Tokyo Stock Exchange

Yuki Sato and Kiyoshi Kanazawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 257401 (2025) - Published 15 December, 2025

Analysis of a large dataset from the Tokyo Stock Exchange validates a universal power law relating the price of a traded stock to the traded volume.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Interferometric Amplification and Suppression of External Beam Shifts

Carlotta Versmold, Jan Dziewior, Florian Huber, Elina Köster, Gregory Reznik, Lev Vaidman, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 253802 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

A quantum trick based on interferometric measurements allows the ultrasensitive detection of the motion of a laser beam.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Demonstration of Discrete-Time Quantum Walks and Observation of Topological Edge States in a Superconducting Qutrit Chain

Kun Zhou, Jian-Wen Xu, Qi-Ping Su, Yu Zhang, Xiang-Min Yu, Zhuang Ma, Han-Yu Zhang, Hong-Yi Shi, Wen Zheng, Shuyi Pan, Yihao Kang, Zhiguo Huang, Chui-Ping Yang, Shao-Xiong Li, and Yang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 250601 (2025) - Published 19 December, 2025

A qutrit-based realization of a discrete-time quantum walk overcomes the scalability challenge and demonstrates the generation of topological edge states.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electrically Pumped Ultrabright Entangled Photons on Chip

Xu-Feng Jiao, Ming-Yang Zheng, Yi-Hang Chen, Bo Cao, Xina Wang, Yang Liu, Cheng-Ao Yang, Xiu-Ping Xie, Chao-Yang Lu, Zhi-Chuan Niu, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 250803 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

A compact on-chip source of entangled photons uses an electrically pumped laser integrated with thin-film lithium niobate.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stochastic Heating in the Sub-Alfvénic Solar Wind

Trevor A. Bowen, Tamar Ervin, Alfred Mallet, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Nikos Sioulas, Philip A. Isenberg, Stuart D. Bale, Jonathan Squire, Kristopher G. Klein, and Oreste Pezzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 255201 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

Analysis of Parker Solar Probe data identifies stochastic magnetic moment breaking by intermittent structures in imbalanced turbulence as a viable heating mechanism in the sub-Alfvenic solar wind.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Shapiro Steps in the Charge Density Wave State Induced by Strain on a Piezoelectric Substrate

Koji Fujiwara, Takuya Kawada, Natsumi Nikaido, Jihoon Park, Nan Jiang, Shintaro Takada, and Yasuhiro Niimi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256304 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

The current response of the charge density wave state in niobium triselenide shows Shapiro steps induced by strain from surface acoustic waves in the substrate.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Gapless Spectral Flows in Elastic Metamaterials with Synthetic Dimension

Yue Shen, Linyun Yang, Zhi-Kang Lin, Kailun Wang, Xiang Li, Liang Li, Ying Wu, and Jian-Hua Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256601 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

By modulating air-hole depth in a 2D elastic plate a synthetic third dimension is created that hosts Dirac points and gapless spectral flows, restoring robust topological edge transport in elasticity.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantized Crystalline-Electromagnetic Responses in Insulators

Sachin Vaidya, André Grossi Fonseca, Mark R. Hirsbrunner, Taylor L. Hughes, and Marin Soljačić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256602 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Nonsymmorphic momentum-space symmetries quantize electromagnetic-crystalline responses in insulators.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fractional Topological States in Rhombohedral Multilayer Graphene Modulated by Kagome Superlattice

Yanran Shi, Bo Xie, Fengfan Ren, Xinyu Cai, Zhongqing Guo, Qiao Li, Xin Lu, Nicolas Regnault, Zhongkai Liu, and Jianpeng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256603 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene coupled with a patterned kagome superlattice produces various zero-magnetic-field fractional topological states.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermodynamic Geometric Constraint on the Spectrum of Markov Rate Matrices

Guo-Hua Xu, Artemy Kolchinsky, Jean-Charles Delvenne, and Sosuke Ito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 257102 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

A thermodynamic constraint is placed on the spectrum of Markov rate matrices, allowing for a better understanding of the dynamics of biochemical clocks.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Lanczos-Pascal Approach to Correlation Functions in Chaotic Quantum Systems

Merlin Füllgraf, Jiaozi Wang, Robin Steinigeweg, and Jochen Gemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 250401 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

Asymptotic Exceptional Steady States in Dissipative Dynamics

Yu-Min Hu and Jan Carl Budich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 250402 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Emergent Disorder and Sub-ballistic Dynamics in Quantum Simulations of the Ising Model Using Rydberg Atom Arrays

Ceren B. Dağ, Hanzhen Ma, P. Myles Eugenio, Fang Fang, and Susanne F. Yelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 250403 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Demonstration of Discrete-Time Quantum Walks and Observation of Topological Edge States in a Superconducting Qutrit Chain

Kun Zhou, Jian-Wen Xu, Qi-Ping Su, Yu Zhang, Xiang-Min Yu, Zhuang Ma, Han-Yu Zhang, Hong-Yi Shi, Wen Zheng, Shuyi Pan, Yihao Kang, Zhiguo Huang, Chui-Ping Yang, Shao-Xiong Li, and Yang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 250601 (2025) - Published 19 December, 2025

A qutrit-based realization of a discrete-time quantum walk overcomes the scalability challenge and demonstrates the generation of topological edge states.

Quantum Memory Enhanced Multipoint Correlation Spectroscopy for Statistically Polarized NMR

Tobias Spohn, Nicolas Staudenmaier, Philipp J. Vetter, Timo Joas, Thomas Unden, Ilai Schwartz, Philipp Neumann, Genko Genov, and Fedor Jelezko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 250801 (2025) - Published 15 December, 2025

Efficient Detection of Statistical RF Fields with a Quantum Sensor

Rouven Maier, Cheng-I Ho, Hitoshi Sumiya, Shinobu Onoda, Junichi Isoya, Vadim Vorobyov, and Jörg Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 250802 (2025) - Published 15 December, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electrically Pumped Ultrabright Entangled Photons on Chip

Xu-Feng Jiao, Ming-Yang Zheng, Yi-Hang Chen, Bo Cao, Xina Wang, Yang Liu, Cheng-Ao Yang, Xiu-Ping Xie, Chao-Yang Lu, Zhi-Chuan Niu, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 250803 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

A compact on-chip source of entangled photons uses an electrically pumped laser integrated with thin-film lithium niobate.

Noncooperative Quantum Networks

Yanxuan Shao, Jannik L. Wyss, Don Towsley, and Adilson E. Motter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 250804 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Experimental Realization of Quantum Zeno Dynamics for Robust Quantum Metrology

Ran Liu, Xiaodong Yang, Xiang Lv, Xinyue Long, Hongfeng Liu, Dawei Lu, Ying Dong, and Jun Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 250805 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

Overcoming Frequency Resolution Limits Using a Solid-State Spin Quantum Sensor

Qingyun Cao, Genko T. Genov, Yaoming Chu, Jianming Cai, Yu Liu, Alex Retzker, and Fedor Jelezko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 250806 (2025) - Published 19 December, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Local-in-Time Conservative Binary Dynamics at Fifth Post-Minkowskian and First Self-Force Orders

Christoph Dlapa, Gregor Kälin, Zhengwen Liu, and Rafael A. Porto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 251401 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

Experimental Limits on Planetary Mass Primordial Black Hole Mergers

William M. Campbell, Leonardo Mariani, Michael E. Tobar, and Maxim Goryachev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 251402 (2025) - Published 19 December, 2025

Particles and Fields

Probing Top-Quark–Electron Interactions at Future Colliders

Luigi Bellafronte, Sally Dawson, Pier Paolo Giardino, and Hongkai Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 251801 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Vacuum Muon Decay and Interaction with Laser Pulses

B. King and D. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 251802 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Neutrino Effects on Atomic Measurements of the Weinberg Angle

Mitrajyoti Ghosh, Yuval Grossman, Chinhsan Sieng, and Bingrong Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 251803 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

First Measurement of Charged-Current Muon-Neutrino-Induced $K^{+}$ Production on Argon Using the MicroBooNE Detector

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 251804 (2025) - Published 19 December, 2025

Next-to-Leading-Order Corrections and Factorization for Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries

Daniel Rein, Marc Schlegel, Patrick Tollkühn, and Werner Vogelsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 251901 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Clarifying the $N, Z = 14$ Shells near the Drip Lines from the Spectroscopy of ${}^{22}{Si}$ and ${}^{21}{Al}$

J. S. Phillips, R. J. Charity, N. Dronchi, H. Webb, L. G. Sobotka, M. J. Basson, C. Benetti, B. A. Brown, K. W. Brown, S. Brown, J. Chung-Jung, J. R. Cory, G. Flores, A. Gade, M. Gajdosik, S. Gillespie, M. Kuich, C. E. McCormick, T. Parry, J. Pereira, D. Weisshaar, and V. Zerbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 252501 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

Direct Evidence for the $ν d_{5 / 2}$ Orbital in ${}^{69}{Ni}$ : Implications for the $N = 40$ Island of Inversion

A. Ceulemans et al. (ISS Collaboration, ISOLDE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 252502 (2025) - Published 19 December, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Engineering Frustrated Rydberg Spin Models by Graphical Floquet Modulation

Mingsheng Tian, Rhine Samajdar, and Bryce Gadway

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 253001 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

Control of Dipolar Dynamics by Geometrical Programming

Jiaqi You, John M. Doyle, Zirui Liu, Scarlett S. Yu, and Avikar Periwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 253002 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

Quantum Impurities in Finite-Temperature Bose Gases: Detecting Vortex Proliferation across the BKT and BEC Transitions

Paolo Comaron, Nathan Goldman, Atac Imamoglu, and Ivan Amelio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 253401 (2025) - Published 15 December, 2025

Collective Dissipation Engineering of Interacting Rydberg Atoms

Tao Chen, Chenxi Huang, Jacob P. Covey, and Bryce Gadway

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 253402 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

Anyonization of Bosons in One Dimension: An Effective Swap Model

Botao Wang, Amit Vashisht, Yanliang Guo, Sudipta Dhar, Manuele Landini, Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, and Nathan Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 253403 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Generation of Motional Squeezed States for Neutral Atoms in Optical Tweezers

Vincent Lienhard, Romain Martin, Yuki Torii Chew, Takafumi Tomita, Kenji Ohmori, and Sylvain de Léséleuc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 253404 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Robust Measurement of the Concurrence of Vector Light Beams

Zhongyi Hu, Jiahui Shen, Yimeng Zhu, Yonglei Liu, Lin Liu, Ari T. Friberg, Tero Setälä, Yangjian Cai, Fei Wang, and Yahong Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 253801 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Interferometric Amplification and Suppression of External Beam Shifts

Carlotta Versmold, Jan Dziewior, Florian Huber, Elina Köster, Gregory Reznik, Lev Vaidman, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 253802 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

A quantum trick based on interferometric measurements allows the ultrasensitive detection of the motion of a laser beam.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Forced 3D Reconnection in an Exponentially Separating Magnetic Field

David N. Hosking, Ian G. Abel, and Steven C. Cowley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 255101 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stochastic Heating in the Sub-Alfvénic Solar Wind

Trevor A. Bowen, Tamar Ervin, Alfred Mallet, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Nikos Sioulas, Philip A. Isenberg, Stuart D. Bale, Jonathan Squire, Kristopher G. Klein, and Oreste Pezzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 255201 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

Analysis of Parker Solar Probe data identifies stochastic magnetic moment breaking by intermittent structures in imbalanced turbulence as a viable heating mechanism in the sub-Alfvenic solar wind.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Superfluid Dome in the Spatially Modulated Two-Dimensional XY Model

Feng-Feng Song, Aditya Chugh, Hanggai Nuomin, Naoki Kawashima, and Alexander Wietek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256001 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Balanced Cross-Kerr Coupling for Superconducting Qubit Readout

Alex A. Chapple, Othmane Benhayoune-Khadraoui, Simon Richer, and Alexandre Blais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256002 (2025) - Published 19 December, 2025

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bragg Coherent Modulation Imaging of Highly Strained Nanocrystals

Jiangtao Zhao, Ewen Bellec, Marie-Ingrid Richard, Linus Pithan, Ivan A. Vartanyants, Fucai Zhang, Tobias Schülli, and Steven J. Leake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256101 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for measuring lattice distortions that are too big for conventional methods to handle.

Surface-State Engineering for Generation of Nonlinear Charge and Spin Photocurrents

Javier Sivianes, Peio Garcia-Goiricelaya, Daniel Hernangómez-Pérez, and Julen Ibañez-Azpiroz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256201 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

Phonons in Epitaxial ${DySi}_{2}$ : From the Bulk to Self-Organized Nanoislands and Nanowires

Svetoslav Stankov, Przemysław Piekarz, Anja Seiler, Dániel G. Merkel, Olga Bauder, Ramu Pradip, Tilo G. Baumbach, Aleksandr I. Chumakov, and Rudolf Rüffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256202 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Evidence of Surface Interlayer Dimerization in the Commensurate Charge Density Wave Phase of $1 T − {TaSe}_{2}$

Niccolò Mignani, Alberto Crepaldi, Luca Moreschini, Aaron Bostwick, Chris Jozwiak, Eli Rotenberg, Simon Crampin, Enrico Da Como, and Ettore Carpene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256203 (2025) - Published 19 December, 2025

Quantum Kinetic Anatomy of Electron Angular Momenta Edge Accumulation

Thierry Valet, Henri Jaffrès, Vincent Cros, and Roberto Raimondi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256301 (2025) - Published 15 December, 2025

External Magnetic Field Suppression of Carbon Diffusion in Iron

Luke J. Wirth and Dallas R. Trinkle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256302 (2025) - Published 15 December, 2025

Sign Reversal and Nonmonotonicity of Chirality-Related Anomalous Hall Effect in Highly Conductive Metals

Ryunosuke Terasawa, Masafumi Udagawa, and Hiroaki Ishizuka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256303 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Shapiro Steps in the Charge Density Wave State Induced by Strain on a Piezoelectric Substrate

Koji Fujiwara, Takuya Kawada, Natsumi Nikaido, Jihoon Park, Nan Jiang, Shintaro Takada, and Yasuhiro Niimi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256304 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

The current response of the charge density wave state in niobium triselenide shows Shapiro steps induced by strain from surface acoustic waves in the substrate.

Critical States of Fermions with $Z_{2}$ Flux Disorder

Hiranmay Das, Naba P. Nayak, Soumya Bera, and Vijay B. Shenoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256305 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

Proper Definition of Intrinsic Nonlinear Current

Cong Xiao, Jin Cao, Qian Niu, and Shengyuan A. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256306 (2025) - Published 19 December, 2025

Intrinsic High Chern Numbers in Two-Dimensional $M_{2} X_{2}$ Materials

Zujian Dai, Xudong Zhu, and Lixin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256401 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Importance of Nonadiabatic Effects in Kohn Anomalies in 1D Metals

Enrico Marazzi, Samuel Poncé, Jean-Christophe Charlier, and Gian-Marco Rignanese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256402 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Variational Machine Learning Model for Electronic Structure Optimization via the Density Matrix

Luqi Dong, Shuxiang Yang, Su-Huai Wei, and Yunhao Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256403 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

Quantum Geometry in Phonon-Mediated Optical Responses

Jiaming Hu, Wenbin Li, Zhichao Guo, Hua Wang, and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256404 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

Quantum Geometric Origin of Strain-Induced Ferroelectric Phase Transitions

Jiaming Hu, Ziye Zhu, Yubo Yuan, Hua Wang, and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256405 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

Dynamically Tunable Hydrodynamic Transport in Boron-Nitride-Encapsulated Graphene

Akash Gugnani, Aniket Majumdar, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Arindam Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256501 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

Chiral Wigner Crystal Phases Induced by Berry Curvature

Sandeep Joy, Leonid Levitov, and Brian Skinner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256502 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Emergent Dispersive Multipolar Excitations in ${NaErSe}_{2}$

Zheng Zhang, Mingfang Shu, Mingtai Xie, Weizhen Zhuo, Yanzhen Cai, Christian Balz, Jianting Ji, Feng Jin, Jie Ma, and Qingming Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256503 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

Projectively Implemented Altermagnetism in an Exactly Solvable Quantum Spin Liquid

Avedis Neehus, Achim Rosch, Johannes Knolle, and Urban F. P. Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256504 (2025) - Published 19 December, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Gapless Spectral Flows in Elastic Metamaterials with Synthetic Dimension

Yue Shen, Linyun Yang, Zhi-Kang Lin, Kailun Wang, Xiang Li, Liang Li, Ying Wu, and Jian-Hua Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256601 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantized Crystalline-Electromagnetic Responses in Insulators

Sachin Vaidya, André Grossi Fonseca, Mark R. Hirsbrunner, Taylor L. Hughes, and Marin Soljačić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256602 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Nonsymmorphic momentum-space symmetries quantize electromagnetic-crystalline responses in insulators.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fractional Topological States in Rhombohedral Multilayer Graphene Modulated by Kagome Superlattice

Yanran Shi, Bo Xie, Fengfan Ren, Xinyu Cai, Zhongqing Guo, Qiao Li, Xin Lu, Nicolas Regnault, Zhongkai Liu, and Jianpeng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256603 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene coupled with a patterned kagome superlattice produces various zero-magnetic-field fractional topological states.

Ab Initio Theory of Phonon Magnetic Moment Induced by Electron-Phonon Coupling in Magnetic Materials

Fuyi Wang, Xinqi Liu, Hong Sun, Huaiqiang Wang, Shuichi Murakami, Lifa Zhang, Haijun Zhang, and Dingyu Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256701 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

$d$ -Wave Flat Fermi Surface in Altermagnets Enables Maximum Charge-to-Spin Conversion

Junwen Lai, Tianye Yu, Peitao Liu, Long Liu, Guozhong Xing, Xing-Qiu Chen, and Yan Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256702 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

Two-Dimensional $J_{1} − J_{2}$ Clock Model: Enhanced Symmetries, Emergent Orders, and Landau-Incompatible Transitions

Pulloor Kuttanikkad Vishnu, Abhishodh Prakash, Rajesh Narayanan, and Titas Chanda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256703 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Electrically Switchable Nonrelativistic Zeeman Spin Splittings in Collinear Antiferromagnets

Longju Yu, Hong Jian Zhao, Laurent Bellaiche, and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 256704 (2025) - Published 17 December, 2025

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Topological Defects and Geometrical Frustration in Fourier Photonic Simulator

Yuxuan Sun, Weiru Fan, Xingqi Xu, Da-Wei Wang, and Hai-Qing Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 257101 (2025) - Published 16 December, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermodynamic Geometric Constraint on the Spectrum of Markov Rate Matrices

Guo-Hua Xu, Artemy Kolchinsky, Jean-Charles Delvenne, and Sosuke Ito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 257102 (2025) - Published 18 December, 2025

A thermodynamic constraint is placed on the spectrum of Markov rate matrices, allowing for a better understanding of the dynamics of biochemical clocks.