Volume 135, Issue 9

29 August 2025

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On the Cover

Schematic of a graphene spin field-effect junction device, measured by a femtosecond pump (purple arrow) probe (red arrow) technique. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Electrical Control of Ultrafast Magnetic Speeds in Graphene Spin Field-Effect Junctions
David Muradas-Belinchón, Suchetana Mukhopadhyay, Francesco Foggetti, Surya N. Panda, Olof Karis, Peter M. Oppeneer, Anjan Barman, and M. Venkata Kamalakar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 097001 (2025)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Neutrino Flavor Transformation in Neutron Star Mergers

Yi Qiu, David Radice, Sherwood Richers, and Maitraya Bhattacharyya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 091401 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

A novel numerical-relativity simulation of binary neutron star mergers finds the neutrino flavor transformations could affect the composition and structure of the merger’s remnant.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Longitudinal Short-Distance Constraints on Hadronic Light-by-Light Scattering and Tensor-Meson Contributions to the Muon $g - 2$

Jonas Mager, Luigi Cappiello, Josef Leutgeb, and Anton Rebhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 091901 (2025) - Published 28 August, 2025

A holographic-QCD-based ansatz suggests that the contribution from a tower of tensor mesons could explain why the values of muon $g - 2$ from the dispersive analysis and lattice QCD differ.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finding the Ultranarrow ${{}^{3}P}_{2} \to {{}^{3}P}_{0}$ Electric Quadrupole Transition in ${Ni}^{12 +}$ Ion for an Optical Clock

Charles Cheung, Sergey G. Porsev, Dmytro Filin, Marianna S. Safronova, Malte Wehrheim, Lukas J. Spieß, Shuying Chen, Alexander Wilzewski, José R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and Piet O. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 093002 (2025) - Published 28 August, 2025

A novel hybrid approach calculates the frequency of a strongly forbidden clock transition in a highly charged ion.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-Injection Locking Dynamics with Raman Actions in Aluminum Nitride Microresonators

Yulei Ding, Yifei Wang, Shunyu Yao, Yanan Guo, Jianchang Yan, Junxi Wang, Changxi Yang, and Chengying Bao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 093801 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

Self-injection locking in an aluminum nitride chip enables stimulated Raman lasers and tunable microcombs via nonlinear Kerr effects and Raman scattering.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electrical Control of Ultrafast Magnetic Speeds in Graphene Spin Field-Effect Junctions

David Muradas-Belinchón, Suchetana Mukhopadhyay, Francesco Foggetti, Surya N. Panda, Olof Karis, Peter M. Oppeneer, Anjan Barman, and M. Venkata Kamalakar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 097001 (2025) - Published 28 August, 2025

Graphene spin field-effect junctions for electric-field control of ultrafast spin dynamics tune magnetic speeds in spintronic devices.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Flow-Driven Stretch Fluctuations Govern the Nonlinear Viscoelasticity of Elongating Associative Polymer Networks

Songyue Liu and Thomas C. O’Connor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 098101 (2025) - Published 28 August, 2025

Associative polymer networks exhibit broad stretch fluctuations under elongational flow, leading to a rate-dependent viscosity.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Minimal Example of Quantum Nonclassicality without Freedom of Choice

Pedro Lauand, Davide Poderini, Rafael Rabelo, and Rafael Chaves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 090201 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

No Practical Quantum Broadcasting: Even Virtually

Yunlong Xiao, Xiangjing Liu, and Zhenhuan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 090202 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

Quantum Bayes’ Rule and Petz Transpose Map from the Minimum Change Principle

Ge Bai, Francesco Buscemi, and Valerio Scarani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 090203 (2025) - Published 28 August, 2025

Probing Topological Entanglement on Large Scales

Robert Ott, Torsten V. Zache, Nishad Maskara, Mikhail D. Lukin, Peter Zoller, and Hannes Pichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 090401 (2025) - Published 25 August, 2025

Enhancing Revivals via Projective Measurements in a Quantum Scarred System

Alessio Paviglianiti and Alessandro Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 090402 (2025) - Published 27 August, 2025

Scheme to Detect the Strong-to-Weak Symmetry Breaking via Randomized Measurements

Ning Sun, Pengfei Zhang, and Lei Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 090403 (2025) - Published 29 August, 2025

Error-Corrected Fermionic Quantum Processors with Neutral Atoms

Robert Ott, Daniel González-Cuadra, Torsten V. Zache, Peter Zoller, Adam M. Kaufman, and Hannes Pichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 090601 (2025) - Published 25 August, 2025

Spectral Gap Optimization for Enhanced Adiabatic State Preparation

Kshiti Sneh Rai, Jin-Fu Chen, Patrick Emonts, and Jordi Tura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 090602 (2025) - Published 29 August, 2025

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Neutrino Flavor Transformation in Neutron Star Mergers

Yi Qiu, David Radice, Sherwood Richers, and Maitraya Bhattacharyya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 091401 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

A novel numerical-relativity simulation of binary neutron star mergers finds the neutrino flavor transformations could affect the composition and structure of the merger’s remnant.

Equation of State of Decompressed Quark Matter, and Observational Signatures of Quark-Star Mergers

Zhiqiang Miao, Zhenyu Zhu, and Dong Lai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 091402 (2025) - Published 28 August, 2025

Particles and Fields

Quasinormal Modes of Nonthermal Fixed Points

Matisse De Lescluze and Michal P. Heller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 091601 (2025) - Published 28 August, 2025

Temperature-Resistant Order in $2 + 1$ Dimensions

Zohar Komargodski and Fedor K. Popov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 091602 (2025) - Published 29 August, 2025

Tying Knots in Particle Physics

Minoru Eto, Yu Hamada, and Muneto Nitta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 091603 (2025) - Published 29 August, 2025

Reflected Multientropy and Its Holographic Dual

Ma-Ke Yuan, Mingyi Li, and Yang Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 091604 (2025) - Published 29 August, 2025

First Measurement of the Decay Dynamics in the Semileptonic Transition of $D^{+ (0)}$ into the Axial-Vector Meson ${\bar{K}}_{1} (1270)$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 091801 (2025) - Published 25 August, 2025

Measurement of $W W Z$ and $Z H$ Production Cross Sections at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ and 13.6 TeV

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 091802 (2025) - Published 25 August, 2025

Muon Colliders and the Neutrino Slice

Luc Bojorquez-Lopez, Matheus Hostert, Carlos A. Argüelles, and Zhen Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 091803 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

Axion Dark Matter Search with Sensitivity near the Kim-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov Benchmark Using the ${TM}_{020}$ Mode

Sungjae Bae, Junu Jeong, Younggeun Kim, SungWoo Youn, Jinsu Kim, Arjan F. van Loo, Yasunobu Nakamura, Seonjeong Oh, Taehyeon Seong, Sergey Uchaikin, Jihn E. Kim, and Yannis K. Semertzidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 091804 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Longitudinal Short-Distance Constraints on Hadronic Light-by-Light Scattering and Tensor-Meson Contributions to the Muon $g - 2$

Jonas Mager, Luigi Cappiello, Josef Leutgeb, and Anton Rebhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 091901 (2025) - Published 28 August, 2025

A holographic-QCD-based ansatz suggests that the contribution from a tower of tensor mesons could explain why the values of muon $g - 2$ from the dispersive analysis and lattice QCD differ.

Nuclear Physics

Observation of the Charged-Particle Multiplicity Dependence of $σ_{ψ (2 S)} / σ_{J / ψ}$ in $p$ -Pb Collisions at 8.16 TeV

V. Chekhovsky et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 092301 (2025) - Published 25 August, 2025

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Amplification of Spontaneous Emission from Doubly Excited He Atoms

J. Turnšek, Š. Krušič, A. Mihelič, K. Bučar, L. Foglia, R. Mincigrucci, M. Krstulović, M. Coreno, G. Bonano, K. C. Prince, C. Callegari, A. Simoncig, Z. Ebrahimpour, E. Paltanin, A. Benediktovitch, R. Osellame, A. G. Ciriolo, R. Martínez Vázquez, C. Vozzi, E. Principi, and M. Žitnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 093001 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finding the Ultranarrow ${{}^{3}P}_{2} \to {{}^{3}P}_{0}$ Electric Quadrupole Transition in ${Ni}^{12 +}$ Ion for an Optical Clock

Charles Cheung, Sergey G. Porsev, Dmytro Filin, Marianna S. Safronova, Malte Wehrheim, Lukas J. Spieß, Shuying Chen, Alexander Wilzewski, José R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and Piet O. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 093002 (2025) - Published 28 August, 2025

A novel hybrid approach calculates the frequency of a strongly forbidden clock transition in a highly charged ion.

Vortex Nucleations in Spinor Bose Condensates under Localized Synthetic Magnetic Fields

L.-R. Liu, S.-C. Wu, T.-W. Liu, H.-Y. Hsu, T.-K. Shen, S.-K. Yip, Y. Kawaguchi, and Y.-J. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 093401 (2025) - Published 25 August, 2025

Cavity-Enabled Real-Time Observation of Individual Atomic Collisions

Matthew L. Peters, Guoqing Wang (王国庆), David C. Spierings, Niv Drucker, Beili Hu, Meng-Wei Chen, Yu-Ting Chen, and Vladan Vuletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 093402 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

Observation of Near-Critical Kibble-Zurek Scaling in Rydberg Atom Arrays

Tao Zhang, Hanteng Wang, Wenjun Zhang, Yuqing Wang, Angrui Du, Ziqi Li, Yujia Wu, Chengshu Li, Jiazhong Hu, Hui Zhai, and Wenlan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 093403 (2025) - Published 27 August, 2025

Incoherent Measurement of a Sub-10 kHz Optical Linewidth

Félix Montjovet-Basset, Jayash Panigrahi, Diana Serrano, Alban Ferrier, Emmanuel Flurin, Patrice Bertet, Alexey Tiranov, and Philippe Goldner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 093601 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

All-Optical Radio-Frequency Phase Detection for Rydberg Atom Sensors Using Oscillatory Dynamics

Matthias Schmidt, Stephanie M. Bohaichuk, Vijin Venu, Ruoxi Wang, Harald Kübler, and James P. Shaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 093602 (2025) - Published 29 August, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-Injection Locking Dynamics with Raman Actions in Aluminum Nitride Microresonators

Yulei Ding, Yifei Wang, Shunyu Yao, Yanan Guo, Jianchang Yan, Junxi Wang, Changxi Yang, and Chengying Bao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 093801 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

Self-injection locking in an aluminum nitride chip enables stimulated Raman lasers and tunable microcombs via nonlinear Kerr effects and Raman scattering.

Identifying and Anticipating the Threshold Bifurcation of a Complex Laser with Permutation Entropy

Juan Gancio, Cristina Masoller, and Mathias Marconi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 093802 (2025) - Published 29 August, 2025

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Flowing Menisci: Coupled Dynamics and Liquid Exchange with Soap Films

Alexandre Vigna-Brummer, Antoine Monier, Isabelle Cantat, Christophe Brouzet, and Christophe Raufaste

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 094001 (2025) - Published 29 August, 2025

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Analysis of the Blowout Plasma Wakefields Produced by Drive Beams with Elliptical Symmetry

P. Manwani, Y. Kang, J. Mann, B. Naranjo, G. Andonian, and J. B. Rosenzweig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 095001 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

Unified Phenomenology and Test-Particle Simulations of Ion Heating in Low- $β$ Plasmas

Zade Johnston, Jonathan Squire, and Romain Meyrand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 095201 (2025) - Published 25 August, 2025

Condensed Matter and Materials

Evidence for the Meissner Effect in the Nickelate Superconductor ${La}_{3} {Ni}_{2} O_{7 − δ}$ Single Crystal Using Diamond Quantum Sensors

Lin Liu, Jianning Guo, Deyuan Hu, Guizhen Yan, Yuzhi Chen, Lunxuan Yu, Meng Wang, Xiao-Di Liu, and Xiaoli Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 096001 (2025) - Published 25 August, 2025

Thermomodulated Intrinsic Josephson Effect in Kagome ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Tian Le, Zhuokai Xu, Jinjin Liu, Ruiya Zhan, Zhiwei Wang, and Xiao Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 096002 (2025) - Published 29 August, 2025

Nature of Metallic and Insulating Domains in the Charge-Density-Wave System $1 {T − TaSe}_{2}$

M. Straub, F. Petocchi, C. Witteveen, F. B. Kugler, A. Hunter, Y. Alexanian, G. Gatti, S. Mandloi, C. Polley, G. Carbone, J. Osiecki, F. O. von Rohr, A. Georges, F. Baumberger, and A. Tamai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 096501 (2025) - Published 25 August, 2025

Non-Hermitian Origin of Detachable Boundary States in Topological Insulators

Daichi Nakamura, Ken Shiozaki, Kenji Shimomura, Masatoshi Sato, and Kohei Kawabata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 096601 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

Probing $k$ -Space Alternating Spin Polarization via the Anomalous Hall Effect

Rui Chen, Zi-Ming Wang, Ke Wu, Hai-Peng Sun, Bin Zhou, Rui Wang, and Dong-Hui Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 096602 (2025) - Published 28 August, 2025

Robustness of Vacancy-Bound Non-Abelian Anyons in the Kitaev Model in a Magnetic Field

Bo Xiao, Gonzalo Alvarez, and Gábor B. Halász

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 096603 (2025) - Published 28 August, 2025

Observation of High-Decay-Rate Topological Corner States in Diffusive Thermal Metamaterials

Minghong Qi, Yanxiang Wang, Hongzhu Li, Pei-Chao Cao, Rui Xi, Xue-Feng Zhu, Fei Gao, Hongsheng Chen, Cheng-Wei Qiu, and Ying Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 096604 (2025) - Published 29 August, 2025

Field-Driven Band Asymmetry and Nonreciprocal Transport in a Helimagnet

Darius-Alexandru Deaconu, Aneesh Agarwal, Rodion Vladimirovich Belosludov, Robert-Jan Slager, and Mohammad Saeed Bahramy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 096701 (2025) - Published 25 August, 2025

Signatures of Fluctuation-Driven Magnetic Topological Charge in Pt-Ferromagnetic Insulator Bilayers

Sanyum Channa, Houssam Sabri, Xin Yu Zheng, Tian-Yue Chen, Haowen Ren, Qiuchen Wu, Kun Wang, Yuntian Li, Zbigniew Galazka, Ian R. Fisher, Xia Hong, Andrew D. Kent, Jiadong Zang, and Yuri Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 096702 (2025) - Published 29 August, 2025

Determining Energy Dispersion of Spin Excitations with Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

J. C. G. Henriques, Chenxiao Zhao, G. Catarina, Pascal Ruffieux, Roman Fasel, and J. Fernández-Rossier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 096703 (2025) - Published 29 August, 2025

Structural Contribution to Light-Induced Gap Suppression in ${Ta}_{2} {NiSe}_{5}$

Zijing Chen, Chenhang Xu, Chendi Xie, Weichen Tang, Qiaomei Liu, Dong Wu, Qing Xu, Tao Jiang, Pengfei Zhu, Xiao Zou, Jun Li, Zhiwei Wang, Nanlin Wang, Dong Qian, Alfred Zong, and Dao Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 096901 (2025) - Published 26 August, 2025

Moiré-Orbital-Resolved Excitonic Mott Insulating States and Their Optical and Electric Control in van der Waals Heterostructures

Lanyu Huang, Cuihuan Ge, Boyi Xu, Yufan Wang, Siyao Li, Xinyi Luo, Haipeng Zhao, Danliang Zhang, Zhouxiaosong Zeng, Qingjun Tong, Dong Li, Xiaoli Zhu, Kai Braun, Tingge Gao, Xiao Wang, and Anlian Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 096902 (2025) - Published 27 August, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electrical Control of Ultrafast Magnetic Speeds in Graphene Spin Field-Effect Junctions

David Muradas-Belinchón, Suchetana Mukhopadhyay, Francesco Foggetti, Surya N. Panda, Olof Karis, Peter M. Oppeneer, Anjan Barman, and M. Venkata Kamalakar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 097001 (2025) - Published 28 August, 2025

Graphene spin field-effect junctions for electric-field control of ultrafast spin dynamics tune magnetic speeds in spintronic devices.