Volume 135, Issue 6

8 August 2025

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Event display of a candidate electron-neutrino charged-current interaction in the MicroBooNE detector.

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First Measurement of $ν_{e}$ and ${\bar{ν}}_{e}$ Charged-Current Single Charged-Pion Production Differential Cross Sections on Argon Using the MicroBooNE Detector
P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061802 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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AI-Enabled Parallel Assembly of Thousands of Defect-Free Neutral Atom Arrays

Rui Lin, Han-Sen Zhong, You Li, Zhang-Rui Zhao, Le-Tian Zheng, Tai-Ran Hu, Hong-Ming Wu, Zhan Wu, Wei-Jie Ma, Yan Gao, Yi-Kang Zhu, Zhao-Feng Su, Wan-Li Ouyang, Yu-Chen Zhang, Jun Rui, Ming-Cheng Chen, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 060602 (2025) - Published 8 August, 2025

To demonstrate a new system for rapidly rearranging thousands of atoms, researchers produced an animation featuring Schrödinger’s famous feline.

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Cryogenic Optical Lattice Clock with $1.7 \times 10^{- 20}$ Blackbody Radiation Stark Uncertainty

Youssef S. Hassan, Kyle Beloy, Jacob L. Siegel, Takumi Kobayashi, Eric Swiler, Tanner Grogan, Roger C. Brown, Tristan Rojo, Tobias Bothwell, Benjamin D. Hunt, Adam Halaoui, and Andrew D. Ludlow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 063402 (2025) - Published 5 August, 2025

A new experimental design eliminates the top source of clock uncertainty.

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Coulomb Sensing of Single Ballistic Electrons

J. D. Fletcher, W. Park, P. See, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, H.-S. Sim, and M. Kataoka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 067002 (2025) - Published 7 August, 2025

An electron on a ballistic trajectory can be detected with trillionth-of-a-second timing resolution through its long-range interaction with another electron.

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Universality of Rényi Entropy in Conformal Field Theory

Yuya Kusuki, Hirosi Ooguri, and Sridip Pal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061603 (2025) - Published 5 August, 2025

A calculation using thermal effective theory proves new universal behaviors of Rényi entropy for conformal field theories in arbitrary dimensions.

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EMC Effect of Tritium and Helium-3 from the JLab MARATHON Experiment

D. Abrams et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 062502 (2025) - Published 7 August, 2025

Measurements of the EMC effect in tritium and helium-3 mirror nuclei are expected to provide unique input for the study of the isovector component of the partonic structure of these few-body nuclear systems especially in the valence quark region.

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Leaking Outside the Box: Kinetic Turbulence with Cosmic-Ray Escape

Evgeny A. Gorbunov, Daniel Grošelj, and Fabio Bacchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 065201 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

Kinetic simulations of astrophysical plasmas featuring a novel technique for diffusive particle escape allow for self-consistent modeling of the escape and confinement of particles, such as cosmic rays, in true steady-state driven turbulence.

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Strong Kitaev Interaction in ${BaCo}_{2} ({AsO}_{4})_{2}$

Pavel A. Maksimov, Shengtao Jiang (蒋晟韬), L. P. Regnault, and A. L. Chernyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066703 (2025) - Published 7 August, 2025

Inelastic neutron scattering results together with analytical and density-matrix renormalization group numerical analyses point to a dominant Kitaev term in the model description of BaCo $_{2}$ (AsO $_{4}$ ) $_{2}$ .

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Time-Varying Strong Coupling and the Induced Time Diffraction of Magnon Modes

Jinwei Rao, Yi-Pu Wang, Zhijian Chen, Bimu Yao, Kaixin Zhao, Chunke Wei, Congyi Wang, Runze Li, Lihui Bai, and Wei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066704 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

By rapidly modulating strong magnon-magnon coupling with microwave pulses, researchers create “time slits” that generate double-slit magnon diffraction—analogous to Young’s double-slit experiment of light.

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Observation and Control of Chiral Spin Frustration in BiYIG Thin Films

Jinlong Wang, Hanchen Wang, Zhewen Xu, Artim L. Bassant, Junfeng Hu, Wenjie Song, Chaozhong Li, Xiangrui Meng, Mengqi Zhao, Song Liu, Guozhi Chai, Peng Gao, Wanjun Jiang, Desheng Xue, Dapeng Yu, William Legrand, Christian L. Degen, Rembert A. Duine, Pietro Gambardella, and Haiming Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066705 (2025) - Published 8 August, 2025

Chiral spin frustration can be identified and controlled via scanning nitrogen-vacancy magnetometry and spin pumping.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Randomness Certification from Incompatibility

Yi Li, Yu Xiang, Jordi Tura, and Qiongyi He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 060201 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

Critical Dynamics in Short-Range Quadratic Hamiltonians

Miroslav Hopjan and Lev Vidmar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 060401 (2025) - Published 5 August, 2025

Stabilizer Scars

Jeremy Hartse, Lukasz Fidkowski, and Niklas Mueller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 060402 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

Optimal Bound on Long-Range Distillable Entanglement

Jonah Kudler-Flam, Vladimir Narovlansky, and Nikita Sopenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 060403 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

Quantum Enhancement of Thermalization

Yulong Qiao, Frank Großmann, Peter Schlagheck, and Gabriel M. Lando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 060404 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

Scalable Improvement of the Generalized Toffoli Gate Realization Using Trapped-Ion-Based Qutrits

Anastasiia S. Nikolaeva, Ilia V. Zalivako, Alexander S. Borisenko, Nikita V. Semenin, Kristina P. Galstyan, Andrey E. Korolkov, Evgeniy O. Kiktenko, Ksenia Yu. Khabarova, Ilya A. Semerikov, Aleksey K. Fedorov, and Nikolay N. Kolachevsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 060601 (2025) - Published 5 August, 2025

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AI-Enabled Parallel Assembly of Thousands of Defect-Free Neutral Atom Arrays

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 060602 (2025) - Published 8 August, 2025

To demonstrate a new system for rapidly rearranging thousands of atoms, researchers produced an animation featuring Schrödinger’s famous feline.

Optimal Overlapping Tomography

Kiara Hansenne, Rui Qu, Lisa T. Weinbrenner, Carlos de Gois, Haifei Wang, Yang Ming, Zhengning Yang, Paweł Horodecki, Weibo Gao, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 060801 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

Continuous-Variable Designs and Design-Based Shadow Tomography from Random Lattices

Jonathan Conrad, Joseph T. Iosue, Ansgar G. Burchards, and Victor V. Albert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 060802 (2025) - Published 5 August, 2025

Longitudinal and Nonlinear Coupling for High-Fidelity Readout of a Superconducting Qubit

Can Wang, Feng-Ming Liu, He Chen, Yi-Fei Du, Chong Ying, Jian-Wen Wang, Yong-Heng Huo, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Xiaobo Zhu, Ming-Cheng Chen, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 060803 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Complete Gravitational-Wave Spectrum of the Sun

Camilo García-Cely and Andreas Ringwald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061001 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

Deciphering the Soliton-Halo Relation in Fuzzy Dark Matter

Pin-Yu Liao (廖品瑜), Guan-Ming Su (蘇冠銘), Hsi-Yu Schive (薛熙于), Alexander Kunkel, Hsinhao Huang (黃新豪), and Tzihong Chiueh (闕志鴻)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061002 (2025) - Published 8 August, 2025

Nature of Phase Transitions and Metastability in Scalar-Tensor Theories

K𝚤vanç İ. Ünlütürk, Semih Tuna, Oğuzhan K. Yamak, and Fethi M. Ramazanoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061401 (2025) - Published 5 August, 2025

Search for Higher Harmonic Signals from Close White Dwarf Binaries in the mHz Band

Naoki Seto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061402 (2025) - Published 8 August, 2025

Wheeler-DeWitt Equation and Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) Symmetry

Marc Henneaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061501 (2025) - Published 8 August, 2025

Particles and Fields

Holography for the Ishibashi-Kawai-Kitazawa-Tsuchiya Matrix Model

Franz Ciceri and Henning Samtleben

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061601 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

Entanglement Entropy as a Probe beyond the Horizon

Konstantinos Boutivas, Dimitrios Katsinis, Georgios Pastras, and Nikolaos Tetradis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061602 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

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Universality of Rényi Entropy in Conformal Field Theory

Yuya Kusuki, Hirosi Ooguri, and Sridip Pal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061603 (2025) - Published 5 August, 2025

A calculation using thermal effective theory proves new universal behaviors of Rényi entropy for conformal field theories in arbitrary dimensions.

Spectral Constraints on Theories of Colored Particles and Gravity

Aaron Hillman, Yu-tin Huang, Laurentiu Rodina, and Justinas Rumbutis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061604 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

Precision Measurement of the Branching Fraction of $D^{+} \to μ^{+} ν_{μ}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061801 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

First Measurement of $ν_{e}$ and ${\bar{ν}}_{e}$ Charged-Current Single Charged-Pion Production Differential Cross Sections on Argon Using the MicroBooNE Detector

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061802 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

Search for a Neutral Gauge Boson with Nonuniversal Fermion Couplings in Vector Boson Fusion Processes in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061803 (2025) - Published 8 August, 2025

Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Predictions for the Nucleon Form Factors

Yong-Kang Huang, Bo-Xuan Shi, Yu-Ming Wang, and Xue-Chen Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 061901 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

Nuclear Physics

Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Description of ${}^{238}U (n, f)$ , ${}^{240, 242}{Pu} (n, f)$ , and ${}^{237}{Np} (n, f)$ Reactions

Aurel Bulgac, Ibrahim Abdurrahman, Matthew Kafker, and Ionel Stetcu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 062501 (2025) - Published 5 August, 2025

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EMC Effect of Tritium and Helium-3 from the JLab MARATHON Experiment

D. Abrams et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 062502 (2025) - Published 7 August, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Chirally Protected State Manipulation by Tuning One-Dimensional Statistics

F. Theel, M. Bonkhoff, P. Schmelcher, T. Posske, and N. L. Harshman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 063401 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

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Cryogenic Optical Lattice Clock with $1.7 \times 10^{- 20}$ Blackbody Radiation Stark Uncertainty

Youssef S. Hassan, Kyle Beloy, Jacob L. Siegel, Takumi Kobayashi, Eric Swiler, Tanner Grogan, Roger C. Brown, Tristan Rojo, Tobias Bothwell, Benjamin D. Hunt, Adam Halaoui, and Andrew D. Ludlow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 063402 (2025) - Published 5 August, 2025

A new experimental design eliminates the top source of clock uncertainty.

Observation of Kibble-Zurek Behavior across Topological Transitions of a Chern Band in Ultracold Atoms

Huan Yuan, Chang-Rui Yi, Jia-Yu Guo, Xiang-Can Cheng, Rui-Heng Jiao, Jinyi Zhang, Shuai Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 063403 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

Quantum Synchronization of Twin Limit-Cycle Oscillators

Tobias Kehrer, Christoph Bruder, and Parvinder Solanki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 063601 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

Ising Machine by Dimensional Collapse of Nonlinear Polarization Oscillators

Salvatore Chiavazzo, Marcello Calvanese Strinati, Claudio Conti, and Davide Pierangeli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 063801 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

Photonic Torons with 3D Topology Transitions and Tunable Spin Monopoles

Haijun Wu, Nilo Mata-Cervera, Haiwen Wang, Zhihan Zhu, Chengwei Qiu, and Yijie Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 063802 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

Polarization Faticons: Chiral Localized Structures in Self-Defocusing Kerr Resonators

Erwan Lucas, Gang Xu, Pengxiang Wang, Gian-Luca Oppo, Lewis Hill, Pascal Del’Haye, Bertrand Kibler, Yiqing Xu, Stuart G. Murdoch, Miro Erkintalo, Stéphane Coen, and Julien Fatome

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 063803 (2025) - Published 8 August, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Direct Experimental Proof of the Principal Role of Reduced High-Mode Hydrodynamic Mix in Recent Ignition Success on NIF

B. Bachmann et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 065101 (2025) - Published 7 August, 2025

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Leaking Outside the Box: Kinetic Turbulence with Cosmic-Ray Escape

Evgeny A. Gorbunov, Daniel Grošelj, and Fabio Bacchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 065201 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

Charged Particle Cross-Field Transport due to Geometric Jumps of Adiabatic Invariant

S. R. Kamaletdinov, A. V. Artemyev, A. I. Neishtadt, and V. Angelopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 065202 (2025) - Published 8 August, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Emergent Universal Drag Law in a Model of Superflow

M. T. M. Christenhusz, A. Safavi-Naini, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, T. W. Neely, and M. T. Reeves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066001 (2025) - Published 8 August, 2025

Elastic Amplification from Negative Capacitance

Mónica Graf, Natalya S. Fedorova, Hugo Aramberri, and Jorge Íñiguez-González

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066101 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

Visualization of Intervalley Coherent Phase in ${PtSe}_{2} / bilayer$ Graphene Heterojunction

Kai Fan, Ting-Fei Guo, Bohao Li, Wen-Xuan Qiu, Jian-Wang Zhou, Wen-Hao Zhang, Chao-Fei Liu, Fengcheng Wu, and Ying-Shuang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066201 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

Polarons and Exciton Polarons in Two-Dimensional Polar Materials

V. Shahnazaryan, A. Kudlis, and I. V. Tokatly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066202 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

Electrically Induced Bulk and Edge Excitations in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime

Quentin France, Yunhyeon Jeong, Akinori Kamiyama, Takaaki Mano, Ken-ichi Sasaki, Masahiro Hotta, and Go Yusa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066203 (2025) - Published 5 August, 2025

Cold Self-Lubrication of Sliding Ice

Achraf Atila, Sergey V. Sukhomlinov, and Martin H. Müser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066204 (2025) - Published 7 August, 2025

Persistent Spin Grids with a Spin-Orbit-Coupled 2D Electron Gas

A. V. Poshakinskiy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066205 (2025) - Published 8 August, 2025

Phase-Biased Andreev Diffraction Grating

Magnus R. Lykkegaard, Anders Enevold Dahl, Tyler Lindemann, Michael J. Manfra, Karsten Flensberg, and Charles M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066301 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

Mapping Delocalization of Impurity Bands across Archetypal Mott-Anderson Transition

M. Parzer, F. Garmroudi, A. Riss, T. Mori, A. Pustogow, and E. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066302 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

Metastability in Coexisting Competing Orders

Yasamin Masoumi, Alberto de la Torre, and Gregory A. Fiete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066501 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

Creating Currents of Electric Skyrmion Bubbles

Jorge Íñiguez-González and Hugo Aramberri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066601 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

Magnetic and Ferroelectric Phase Diagram of Twisted ${CrI}_{3}$ Layers

Haoshen Ye and Shuai Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066701 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025

Dynamically Induced Multiferroic Polarization

Carolina Paiva, Michael Fechner, and Dominik M. Juraschek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066702 (2025) - Published 5 August, 2025

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Strong Kitaev Interaction in ${BaCo}_{2} ({AsO}_{4})_{2}$

Pavel A. Maksimov, Shengtao Jiang (蒋晟韬), L. P. Regnault, and A. L. Chernyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066703 (2025) - Published 7 August, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Time-Varying Strong Coupling and the Induced Time Diffraction of Magnon Modes

Jinwei Rao, Yi-Pu Wang, Zhijian Chen, Bimu Yao, Kaixin Zhao, Chunke Wei, Congyi Wang, Runze Li, Lihui Bai, and Wei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066704 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation and Control of Chiral Spin Frustration in BiYIG Thin Films

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066705 (2025) - Published 8 August, 2025

Chiral spin frustration can be identified and controlled via scanning nitrogen-vacancy magnetometry and spin pumping.

Multistate Geometry of Shift Current and Polarization

Alexander Avdoshkin, Johannes Mitscherling, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066901 (2025) - Published 5 August, 2025

Coherent Coulomb Intra- and Intervalley Many-Body Effects in Single-Layer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Thomas Deckert, Henry Mittenzwey, Oleg Dogadov, Micol Bertolotti, Giulio Cerullo, Daniele Brida, Andreas Knorr, and Stefano Dal Conte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 066902 (2025) - Published 8 August, 2025

Observation of Coherent Perfect Acoustic Absorption at an Exceptional Point

Yi-Fei Xia, Zi-Xiang Xu, Yu-Ting Yan, An Chen, Jing Yang, Bin Liang, Jian-Chun Cheng, and Johan Christensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 067001 (2025) - Published 6 August, 2025

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coulomb Sensing of Single Ballistic Electrons

J. D. Fletcher, W. Park, P. See, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, H.-S. Sim, and M. Kataoka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 067002 (2025) - Published 7 August, 2025

An electron on a ballistic trajectory can be detected with trillionth-of-a-second timing resolution through its long-range interaction with another electron.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Joint Distribution of Nuclear and Cytoplasmic mRNA Levels in Stochastic Models of Gene Expression: Analytical Results and Parameter Inference

Yiling Wang, Juraj Szavits-Nossan, Zhixing Cao, and Ramon Grima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 068401 (2025) - Published 4 August, 2025