Volume 135, Issue 5

1 August 2025

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Flip-chip quantum processor with 21 superconducting qubits arranged in a 1D chain with multiple legs.

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Direct Implementation of High-Fidelity Three-Qubit Gates for Superconducting Processor with Tunable Couplers
Hao-Tian Liu, Bing-Jie Chen, Jia-Chi Zhang, Yong-Xi Xiao, Tian-Ming Li, Kaixuan Huang, Ziting Wang, Hao Li, Kui Zhao, Yueshan Xu, Cheng-Lin Deng, Gui-Han Liang, Zheng-He Liu, Si-Yun Zhou, Cai-Ping Fang, Xiaohui Song, Zhongcheng Xiang, Dongning Zheng, Yun-Hao Shi, Kai Xu, and Heng Fan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 050602 (2025)

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Observation of Anomalous Information Scrambling in a Rydberg Atom Array

Xinhui Liang, Zongpei Yue, Yu-Xin Chao, Zhen-Xing Hua, Yige Lin, Meng Khoon Tey, and Li You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 050201 (2025) - Published 31 July, 2025

Evidence that quantum information can get scrambled unconventionally in a chain of atoms could improve our understanding of quantum many-body dynamics.

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Direct Constraints on Strongly Interacting Dark Matter from the James Webb Space Telescope

Peizhi Du, Rouven Essig, Bernard J. Rauscher, and Hailin Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 051002 (2025) - Published 31 July, 2025

Researchers have analyzed “blank” calibration images, seeking signs of dark matter moving through the telescope.

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Greater than 1000-fold Gain in a Free-Electron Laser Driven by a Laser-Plasma Accelerator with High Reliability

S. K. Barber, F. Kohrell, C. E. Doss, K. Jensen, C. Berger, F. Isono, Z. Eisentraut, S. Schröder, A. J. Gonsalves, K. Nakamura, G. R. Plateau, R. A. van Mourik, M. Gracia-Linares, L. Labun, B. M. Hegelich, S. V. Milton, C. G. R. Geddes, J. Osterhoff, C. B. Schroeder, E. H. Esarey, and J. van Tilborg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 055001 (2025) - Published 29 July, 2025

A laser-plasma-driven free-electron laser achieves record performance, marking a step toward making intense, ultrafast x-ray sources more accessible.

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Observation of Residual Entanglement in Entanglement Purification

Lan Zhou, Cen-Xiao Huang, Yu-Bo Sheng, Yu Guo, Xiao-Min Hu, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, and Bi-Heng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 050801 (2025) - Published 28 July, 2025

An experimental implementation of entanglement purification protocols with nonidentical input mixed states confirms the existence of residual entanglement in different error models.

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Flux-Controlled Two-Site Kitaev Chain

Ivan Kulesh, Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf, Qingzhen Wang, Vincent P. M. Sietses, Yining Zhang, Sebastiaan R. Roelofs, Christian G. Prosko, Di Xiao, Candice Thomas, Michael J. Manfra, and Srijit Goswami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056301 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

Tunable long-range superconducting coupling makes it possible to engineer Majorana bound states in Kitaev chains.

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Quasiparticle Gap Renormalization Driven by Internal and External Screening in a ${WS}_{2}$ Device

Chakradhar Sahoo, Yann in ’t Veld, Alfred J. H. Jones, Zhihao Jiang, Greta Lupi, Paulina E. Majchrzak, Kimberly Hsieh, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Philip Hofmann, Jill A. Miwa, Yong P. Chen, Malte Rösner, and Søren Ulstrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056401 (2025) - Published 28 July, 2025

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy reveals band gap renormalization in a WS $_{2}$ /h-BN device.

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Lippmann-Schwinger Approach for Accurate Photoelectron Wave Functions and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectra from First Principles

Ji Hoon Ryoo and Cheol-Hwan Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056403 (2025) - Published 1 August, 2025

The Lippmann-Schwinger approach to calculating photoelectron wave functions enables accurate simulations of ARPES spectra using DFT.

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Impact of Tiny Fermi Pockets with Extremely High Mobility on the Hall Anomaly in the Kagome Metal ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

S. Liu, M. Roppongi, M. Kimata, K. Ishihara, R. Grasset, M. Konczykowski, B. R. Ortiz, S. D. Wilson, K. Yoshimi, T. Shibauchi, and K. Hashimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056502 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

The Hall anomaly in the AV₃Sb₅ family of kagome metals originates from high-mobility tiny Fermi pockets formed by Fermi surface reconstruction at the charge-density-wave transition, rather than anomalous Hall mechanisms.

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Approximately Symmetric Neural Networks for Quantum Spin Liquids

Dominik S. Kufel, Jack Kemp, DinhDuy Vu, Simon M. Linsel, Chris R. Laumann, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056702 (2025) - Published 29 July, 2025

A new neural network scheme based on approximate symmetry facilitates neural quantum state interpretability.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

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Observation of Anomalous Information Scrambling in a Rydberg Atom Array

Xinhui Liang, Zongpei Yue, Yu-Xin Chao, Zhen-Xing Hua, Yige Lin, Meng Khoon Tey, and Li You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 050201 (2025) - Published 31 July, 2025

Evidence that quantum information can get scrambled unconventionally in a chain of atoms could improve our understanding of quantum many-body dynamics.

Magic Resources of the Heisenberg Picture

Neil Dowling, Pavel Kos, and Xhek Turkeshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 050401 (2025) - Published 29 July, 2025

Unveiling a Hidden Percolation Transition in Monitored Clifford Circuits: Inroads from ZX Calculus

Einat Buznach Ahituv, Debanjan Chowdhury, and Jonathan Ruhman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 050402 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

Spin Liquid and Superconductivity Emerging from Steady States and Measurements

Kaixiang Su, Abhijat Sarma, Marcus Bintz, Thomas Kiely, Yimu Bao, Matthew P. A. Fisher, and Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 050403 (2025) - Published 1 August, 2025

Efficient Preparation of Entangled States in Cavity QED with Grover’s Algorithm

Omar Nagib, M. Saffman, and K. Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 050601 (2025) - Published 28 July, 2025

Direct Implementation of High-Fidelity Three-Qubit Gates for Superconducting Processor with Tunable Couplers

Hao-Tian Liu, Bing-Jie Chen, Jia-Chi Zhang, Yong-Xi Xiao, Tian-Ming Li, Kaixuan Huang, Ziting Wang, Hao Li, Kui Zhao, Yueshan Xu, Cheng-Lin Deng, Gui-Han Liang, Zheng-He Liu, Si-Yun Zhou, Cai-Ping Fang, Xiaohui Song, Zhongcheng Xiang, Dongning Zheng, Yun-Hao Shi, Kai Xu, and Heng Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 050602 (2025) - Published 29 July, 2025

Realization of High-Fidelity Perfect Entanglers between Remote Superconducting Quantum Processors

Juan Song, Shuang Yang, Pei Liu, Hui-Li Zhang, Guang-Ming Xue, Zhen-Yu Mi, Wen-Gang Zhang, Fei Yan, Yi-Rong Jin, and Hai-Feng Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 050603 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

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Observation of Residual Entanglement in Entanglement Purification

Lan Zhou, Cen-Xiao Huang, Yu-Bo Sheng, Yu Guo, Xiao-Min Hu, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, and Bi-Heng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 050801 (2025) - Published 28 July, 2025

An experimental implementation of entanglement purification protocols with nonidentical input mixed states confirms the existence of residual entanglement in different error models.

Distributed Quantum Sensing with Multimode $N 00 N$ States

Dong-Hyun Kim, Seongjin Hong, Yong-Su Kim, Kyunghwan Oh, Su-Yong Lee, Changhyoup Lee, and Hyang-Tag Lim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 050802 (2025) - Published 1 August, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Towards a Robust Model-Independent Test of the $DAMA / LIBRA$ Dark Matter Signal: ANAIS-112 Results with Six Years of Data

Julio Amaré, Jaime Apilluelo, Susana Cebrián, David Cintas, Iván Coarasa, Eduardo García, María Martínez, Ysrael Ortigoza, Alfonso Ortiz de Solórzano, Tamara Pardo, Jorge Puimedón, María Luisa Sarsa, and Carmen Seoane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 051001 (2025) - Published 28 July, 2025

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Direct Constraints on Strongly Interacting Dark Matter from the James Webb Space Telescope

Peizhi Du, Rouven Essig, Bernard J. Rauscher, and Hailin Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 051002 (2025) - Published 31 July, 2025

Researchers have analyzed “blank” calibration images, seeking signs of dark matter moving through the telescope.

Origin of Quasinormal Modes in Semi-Open Systems

Leonardo Solidoro, Sam Patrick, Silke Weinfurtner, and Ruth Gregory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 051401 (2025) - Published 28 July, 2025

Particles and Fields

Observation of the Very Rare $Σ^{+} \to p μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decay

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 051801 (2025) - Published 29 July, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Deviations from the Porter-Thomas Distribution due to Nonstatistical $γ$ Decay below the ${}^{150}{Nd}$ Neutron Separation Threshold

O. Papst, J. Isaak, V. Werner, D. Savran, N. Pietralla, G. Battaglia, T. Beck, M. Beuschlein, S. W. Finch, U. Friman-Gayer, K. E. Ide, R. V. F. Janssens, M. D. Jones, J. Kleemann, B. Löher, M. Scheck, M. Spieker, W. Tornow, R. Zidarova, and A. Zilges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 052501 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

Electron-Nucleus Cross Sections from Transfer Learning

Krzysztof M. Graczyk, Beata E. Kowal, Artur M. Ankowski, Rwik Dharmapal Banerjee, Jose Luis Bonilla, Hemant Prasad, and Jan T. Sobczyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 052502 (2025) - Published 1 August, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Neutralization of Multiply Charged Ground-State Ions by Collective Electron Transfer from an Environment

Lutz Marder, Catmarna Küstner-Wetekam, Nils Kiefer, Johannes Viehmann, Niklas Golchert, Emilia Heikura, Florian Trinter, Denis Cubaynes, Jérôme Palaudoux, Francis Penent, Arno Ehresmann, Lorenz S. Cederbaum, Přemysl Kolorenč, and Andreas Hans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 053201 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

Universal Efimov Scaling in the Rabi-Coupled Few-Body Spectrum

Anthony N. Zulli, Brendan C. Mulkerin, Meera M. Parish, and Jesper Levinsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 053401 (2025) - Published 28 July, 2025

Stabilizing Open Photon Condensates by Ghost-Attractor Dynamics

Aya Abouelela, Michael Turaev, Roman Kramer, Moritz Janning, Michael Kajan, Sayak Ray, and Johann Kroha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 053402 (2025) - Published 29 July, 2025

Collective Nuclear Excitation and Pulse Propagation in Single-Mode X-Ray Waveguides

Leon M. Lohse, Petar Andrejić, Sven Velten, Malte Vassholz, Charlotte Neuhaus, Ankita Negi, Anjali Panchwanee, Ilya Sergeev, Adriana Pálffy, Tim Salditt, and Ralf Röhlsberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 053601 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

Transport Measurements of Majorization Order for Wave Coherence

Cheng Guo, David A. B. Miller, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 053801 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

Polarization Inversion with Parity–Time-Reversal–Duality Symmetric Scatterers

Roee Geva, Mário G. Silveirinha, and Raphael Kastner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 053802 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Shape Asymmetry and Flexibility in Active Cross-Stream Migration in Nonuniform Shear

Derek C. Gomes and Tapan C. Adhyapak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 054001 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Greater than 1000-fold Gain in a Free-Electron Laser Driven by a Laser-Plasma Accelerator with High Reliability

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 055001 (2025) - Published 29 July, 2025

A laser-plasma-driven free-electron laser achieves record performance, marking a step toward making intense, ultrafast x-ray sources more accessible.

Magnetic Double Helix

Yang Zhang and Paul M. Bellan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 055201 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Spatially Resolved Dynamics of the Amplitude Schmid-Higgs Mode in Disordered Superconductors

P. A. Nosov, E. S. Andriyakhina, and I. S. Burmistrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056001 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

Reversible Phase Transition Enables Rapid Electrical Switching in Multilayer ${MoTe}_{2}$ under Cyclic Strain

Bolin Yang, Zhilong Peng, Cun Zhang, Yin Yao, Shaohua Chen, and Huajian Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056101 (2025) - Published 28 July, 2025

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Flux-Controlled Two-Site Kitaev Chain

Ivan Kulesh, Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf, Qingzhen Wang, Vincent P. M. Sietses, Yining Zhang, Sebastiaan R. Roelofs, Christian G. Prosko, Di Xiao, Candice Thomas, Michael J. Manfra, and Srijit Goswami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056301 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

Tunable long-range superconducting coupling makes it possible to engineer Majorana bound states in Kitaev chains.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quasiparticle Gap Renormalization Driven by Internal and External Screening in a ${WS}_{2}$ Device

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056401 (2025) - Published 28 July, 2025

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy reveals band gap renormalization in a WS $_{2}$ /h-BN device.

Efficient First-Principles Framework for Overdamped Phonon Dynamics and Anharmonic Electron-Phonon Coupling in Superionic Materials

Yuxuan Wang, Marios Zacharias, Xiao Zhang, Nick Pant, Jacky Even, Pierre F. P. Poudeu, and Emmanouil Kioupakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056402 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

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Lippmann-Schwinger Approach for Accurate Photoelectron Wave Functions and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectra from First Principles

Ji Hoon Ryoo and Cheol-Hwan Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056403 (2025) - Published 1 August, 2025

The Lippmann-Schwinger approach to calculating photoelectron wave functions enables accurate simulations of ARPES spectra using DFT.

Non-Abelian Phases from the Condensation of Abelian Anyons

Misha Yutushui, Maria Hermanns, and David F. Mross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056501 (2025) - Published 28 July, 2025

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Impact of Tiny Fermi Pockets with Extremely High Mobility on the Hall Anomaly in the Kagome Metal ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

S. Liu, M. Roppongi, M. Kimata, K. Ishihara, R. Grasset, M. Konczykowski, B. R. Ortiz, S. D. Wilson, K. Yoshimi, T. Shibauchi, and K. Hashimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056502 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

Observation of Antihelical Edge States in Acoustic Metamaterials

Tianzhi Xia, Qicheng Zhang, and Chunyin Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056601 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

Manipulation of Topology by Electric Field in Breathing Kagome Lattice

Yu Xie, Ke Ji, Jun He, Xiaofan Shen, Dinghui Wang, and Junting Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056701 (2025) - Published 28 July, 2025

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Approximately Symmetric Neural Networks for Quantum Spin Liquids

Dominik S. Kufel, Jack Kemp, DinhDuy Vu, Simon M. Linsel, Chris R. Laumann, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 056702 (2025) - Published 29 July, 2025

A new neural network scheme based on approximate symmetry facilitates neural quantum state interpretability.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Dissipation Bounds the Coherence of Stochastic Limit Cycles

Davide Santolin and Gianmaria Falasco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 057101 (2025) - Published 31 July, 2025

Dissipation Enables Robust Extensive Scaling of Multipartite Correlations

Krzysztof Ptaszyński and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 057401 (2025) - Published 29 July, 2025

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Resolving Dual Processes in Complex Oscillatory Yielding

James J. Griebler, Anita S. Dobo, Elizabeth E. Miczuga, and Simon A. Rogers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 058201 (2025) - Published 29 July, 2025

Adaptive Node Positioning in Biological Transport Networks

Albert Alonso, Lars Erik J. Skjegstad, and Julius B. Kirkegaard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 058401 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025

ERRATA

Erratum: Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana Interferometry of a Single Hole [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207701 (2018)]

Alex Bogan, Sergei Studenikin, Marek Korkusinski, Louis Gaudreau, Piotr Zawadzki, Andy S. Sachrajda, Lisa Tracy, John Reno, and Terry Hargett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 059901 (2025) - Published 30 July, 2025