Volume 135, Issue 7

15 August 2025

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Schematic of a platinum-nickel oxide heterostructure emitting terahertz radiation (green line) in response to laser excitation (red arrows) in the presence of a magnetic field (black arrow). Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Separating Terahertz Spin and Charge Contributions from Ultrathin Antiferromagnetic Heterostructures
T. W. J. Metzger, P. Fischer, T. Kikkawa, E. Saitoh, A. V. Kimel, and D. Bossini
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 076702 (2025)

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Structural Evidence for the Spin Collapse in High Pressure Solid Oxygen

Federico Aiace Gorelli, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Gaston Garbarino, Mohamed Mezouar, Julien Haines, and Mario Santoro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 076101 (2025) - Published 12 August, 2025

New evidence supports the idea that solid oxygen switches under pressure to an exotic entangled state.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Separating Terahertz Spin and Charge Contributions from Ultrathin Antiferromagnetic Heterostructures

T. W. J. Metzger, P. Fischer, T. Kikkawa, E. Saitoh, A. V. Kimel, and D. Bossini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 076702 (2025) - Published 12 August, 2025

An experimental approach that combines high external magnetic fields with symmetry analysis is able to separate spin and charge contributions in terahertz emission spectroscopy of antiferromagnets.

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Coherent Dynamics of Molecular Vibrations in Single Plasmonic Nanogaps

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Dipolar interactions among molecules in a plasmonic nanocavity extend vibrational coherence by counteracting dephasing from cavity coupling.

LETTERS

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Structural Evidence for the Spin Collapse in High Pressure Solid Oxygen

Federico Aiace Gorelli, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Gaston Garbarino, Mohamed Mezouar, Julien Haines, and Mario Santoro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 076101 (2025) - Published 12 August, 2025

New evidence supports the idea that solid oxygen switches under pressure to an exotic entangled state.

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Separating Terahertz Spin and Charge Contributions from Ultrathin Antiferromagnetic Heterostructures

T. W. J. Metzger, P. Fischer, T. Kikkawa, E. Saitoh, A. V. Kimel, and D. Bossini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 076702 (2025) - Published 12 August, 2025

An experimental approach that combines high external magnetic fields with symmetry analysis is able to separate spin and charge contributions in terahertz emission spectroscopy of antiferromagnets.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 076901 (2025) - Published 15 August, 2025

Dipolar interactions among molecules in a plasmonic nanocavity extend vibrational coherence by counteracting dephasing from cavity coupling.

ERRATA

Erratum: Thermal Area Law in Long-Range Interacting Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 020402 (2025)]

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