Volume 136, Issue 10

13 March 2026

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On the Cover

Simulated volumetric rendering of the instantaneous fluid velocity field (blue for upward, orange for downward) produced by the gravitational settling of heavy particles (spheres) in a Rayleigh-Taylor-like setup.

From the article:

New Form of Mixing in Turbulent Sedimentation
Simone Tandurella, Marco Edoardo Rosti, Stefano Musacchio, and Guido Boffetta
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 104003 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Strengthening Tungsten Diboride toward a Superhard Material by Ordered Vacancy Pairs

Chao Gu, Xiaojun Xiang, Xuefeng Zhou, Xiaohui Yu, Yusheng Zhao, and Shanmin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106101 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Planting vacancies into the atomic lattice of a brittle material increases its toughness and hardness.

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Cooperative Native Contact Formation Facilitates Free Energy Barrier Crossing in Protein Folding

Chi-Jui Feng, Ulrich Baxa, John M. Louis, and Hoi Sung Chung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 108401 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

High-temporal-resolution fluorescence measurements reveal how quickly proteins cross energy barriers separating unfolded and folded states.

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Modeling the Cosmological Lyman- $α$ Forest at the Field Level

Roger de Belsunce, Mikhail M. Ivanov, James M. Sullivan, Kazuyuki Akitsu, and Shi-Fan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 101001 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026

A new mathematical framework based on perturbation theory could yield new insights into cosmic structure and fundamental physics.

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Multimode Single-Ring Photonic Molecule

Jinsheng Lu, Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Vincent Ginis, Marcus Ossiander, Danilo Shchepanovich, and Federico Capasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 103803 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

A new ring-shaped resonator for light can do a job that normally requires at least two rings.

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Flow between Extremal One-Point Energy Correlators in QCD

Marc Riembau and Minho Son

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 101901 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

A calculation shows how the one-point energy correlator flows between its two extremal values corresponding to the quark and hadron degrees of freedom.

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Anisotropic Upper Critical Field beyond the Pauli Limit in a Nickelate Superconductor: Evidence for a Quantum Fluctuation Driven State

Xue-Yan Wang, Cheng-Xue Chen, Zi-Ming Mai, Qiang Zhao, Wen-Long Yang, Fang-Hui Zhu, Mei-Ling Yan, Rui-Fen Dou, Chang-Min Xiong, Haiwen Liu, and Jia-Cai Nie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106002 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

High-field magnetotransport measurements of a nickelate superconductor up to 44 T reveal an anisotropic quantum Griffiths singularity, establishing disorder-enhanced quantum fluctuations as an intrinsic mechanism for protecting superconductivity.

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Polar-Displacement Mechanism for Negative Poisson’s Ratio in Ferroelectric Perovskites

Xue Ma, Jinjing Zhang, Lianhua He, Shuai Yang, Fei Li, and Bin Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106102 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

The negative Poisson’s ratio in ferroelectric perovskites arises from bond-length preserving local polar displacements of atoms under strain.

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Anyon Superconductivity and Plateau Transitions in Doped Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulators

Pavel A. Nosov, Zhaoyu Han, and Eslam Khalaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106501 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026

A unified theory explains the recent discovery of superconductivity and reentrant integer quantum anomalous Hall states in twisted MoTe $_{2}$ in terms of the disorder-broadened Landau-Hofstadter bands of doped anyons.

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Dimensionality-Dependent Exciton Dispersion in a Single-Band Mott Insulator

Zhibin Su, Junjian Mi, Shaohua Yan, Jiade Li, Siwei Xue, Zhiyu Tao, Enling Wang, Xiongfei Shi, Hechang Lei, Zhuan Xu, Jiandong Guo, and Xuetao Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106502 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026

High-resolution electron scattering confirms the dimensional transition of exciton dispersion from parabolic (3D) to massless linear (2D) behavior near the Brillouin zone center.

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Interlayer Exciton Condensates between Second Landau Level Orbitals in Double Bilayer Graphene

Zeyu Hao, A. M. Zimmerman, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106505 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

Using Coulomb drag as an unambiguous probe of interlayer correlation reveals the first direct quantized drag evidence of interlayer exciton condensation beyond N = 0 in double bilayer graphene.

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Beyond Poisson: First-Passage Asymptotics of Renewal Shot Noise

J. Brémont

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 107101 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

A framework for analyzing extreme events in non-Markovian systems with relaxation, from neuronal spiking to gene expression bursts, shows how burstiness universally modulates the baseline Arrhenius scaling, establishing a link between microscopic arrival statistics and macroscopic extreme-event kinetics.

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Competing Magnetic Anisotropy and Domain-Wall Density for Optimizing Magnetization-Induced Water-Oxidation Enhancement

Anke Yu, Durgesh Kumar, Zizhao Gong, Leonhard Tannesia, Hasibur Rahaman, Pengfei Song, Tianze Wu, Ramu Maddu, Pinkesh Kumar Mishra, Xiao Renshaw Wang, S. N. Piramanayagam, and Zhichuan J. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 108001 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Optimal spin-related enhancement of oxygen evolution reaction activity is shown to emerge from the balance between perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and the density of magnetic domain walls.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Sequential Sharing of Quantum Nonlocality via Projective Measurements

Bingzi Huo, Kunkun Wang, Dengke Qu, Junjing Xing, Xiang Zhan, Xiaojian Huang, Huixia Gao, Lei Xiao, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 100201 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Tropical Contraction of Tensor Networks as a Bell Inequality Optimization Toolset

Mengyao Hu and Jordi Tura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 100202 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Temporal Entanglement Transitions in the Periodically Driven Ising Chain

Karun Gadge, Abhinav Prem, and Rishabh Jha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 100203 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Generation and Read-Out of Many-Body Bell Correlations with a Probe Qubit

Marcin Płodzień and Jan Chwedeńczuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 100204 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Symmetry Fragmentation

Thomas Iadecola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 100401 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Nonperturbative Switching Rates in Bistable Open Quantum Systems: From Driven Kerr Oscillators to Dissipative Cat Qubits

Léon Carde, Ronan Gautier, Nicolas Didier, Alexandru Petrescu, Joachim Cohen, and Alexander McDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 100402 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Imaginary-Time Mpemba Effect in Quantum Many-Body Systems

Wei-Xuan Chang, Shuai Yin, Shi-Xin Zhang, and Zi-Xiang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 100403 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Coherence-Induced Deep Thermalization Transition in Random Permutation Quantum Dynamics

Chang Liu, Matteo Ippoliti, and Wen Wei Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 100404 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Quantum Annealing Algorithms for Estimating Ising Partition Functions

Haowei Li, Zhiyuan Yao, and Xingze Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 100601 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Auxiliary-Free Replica Shadows: Efficient Estimation of Multiple Nonlinear Quantum Properties

Qing Liu, Zihao Li, Xiao Yuan, Huangjun Zhu, and You Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 100602 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

Long-Distance Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution with Continuous Variables

Tianxiang Zhan, Huasheng Li, Peng Huang, Haoze Chen, Jiaqi Han, Zijing Wu, Hao Fang, Hanwen Yin, Zehao Zhou, Huiting Fu, Feiyu Ji, Piao Tan, Yingming Zhou, Xueqin Jiang, Tao Wang, Jincai Wu, Cheng Ye, Yajun Miao, Wei Qi, and Guihua Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 100801 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Entanglement and Private Information in Many-Body Thermal States

Samuel J. Garratt and Max McGinley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 100802 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Modeling the Cosmological Lyman- $α$ Forest at the Field Level

Roger de Belsunce, Mikhail M. Ivanov, James M. Sullivan, Kazuyuki Akitsu, and Shi-Fan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 101001 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026

A new mathematical framework based on perturbation theory could yield new insights into cosmic structure and fundamental physics.

Bounds on Screened Dark Energy from Near-Earth Space-Based Measurements

Fabiano Feleppa, Welmoed Marit de Graaf, Philippe Brax, and Gaetano Lambiase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 101002 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Stochastic Siren: Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background Measurements of the Hubble Constant

Bryce Cousins, Kristen Schumacher, Adrian Ka-Wai Chung, Colm Talbot, Thomas Callister, Daniel E. Holz, and Nicolás Yunes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 101003 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Diverse Properties of Electron Forbush Decreases Revealed by the Dark Matter Particle Explorer

F. Alemanno et al. (DAMPE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 101004 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

Megahertz Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star Mergers

Diego Blas, Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, David Mateos, and Mikel Sanchez-Garitaonandia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 101401 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026

Torsional Carroll Gravity

Patrick Concha, Nelson Merino, Lucrezia Ravera, and Evelyn Rodríguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 101402 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026

Particles and Fields

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Flow between Extremal One-Point Energy Correlators in QCD

Marc Riembau and Minho Son

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 101901 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

A calculation shows how the one-point energy correlator flows between its two extremal values corresponding to the quark and hadron degrees of freedom.

Accurate Ground States of SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory in $2 + 1 D$ and $3 + 1 D$

Thomas Spriggs, Eliska Greplova, Juan Carrasquilla, and Jannes Nys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 101902 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Improved Calculation of Radiative Corrections to $τ \to π π ν_{τ}$ Decays

Gilberto Colangelo, Martina Cottini, Martin Hoferichter, and Simon Holz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 101903 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Electromagnetic Tomography of Radial Flow in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Lipei Du and Ulrich Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 102301 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Guiding Fast Ion Beam by Suppressing Secondary Ions

Yingli Xue, Junliang Liu, Mingwu Zhang, Daniel Fischer, Guoxing Xia, Nikolaus Stolterfoht, Reinhold Schuch, Yehong Wu, Bian Yang, Xiaoxiao Li, Caojie Shao, Wei Wang, Zhangyong Song, Xing Fang, Cheng Qian, Liangting Sun, Hongwei Zhao, Guoqing Xiao, Xiaohong Cai, and Deyang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 103001 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Dynamical Phase Evolution of Coulomb-Focused Electrons in Strong-Field Ionization Probed by a Standing Light Wave

Yuan Gu, Hao Liang, Weiran Zheng, Aofan Lin, Jiaye Zhang, Zichen Li, Juan Du, Lei Ying, Peilun He, Jan-Michael Rost, Sina Jacob, Maksim Kunitski, Till Jahnke, Sebastian Eckart, Kang Lin, and Reinhard Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 103201 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Probing Coherences and Itinerant Magnetism in a Dipolar Lattice Gas

Thomas Lauprêtre, Jose Daniel Bernal, Youcef Baamara, Ana Maria Rey, Laurent Vernac, and Bruno Laburthe-Tolra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 103401 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Hydrodynamic Attractor in Periodically Driven Ultracold Quantum Gases

Aleksas Mazeliauskas and Tilman Enss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 103402 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Geometrical Frustration, Power Law Tunneling and Nonlocal Gauge Fields from Scattered Light

Pavel P. Popov, Joana Fraxanet, Luca Barbiero, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 103403 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Photonic Cyclic Orbit Bound to a Single Weyl Point

Zhongfu Li, Qingyang Mo, Oubo You, Qingdong Yang, Shaojie Ma, Xinhua Wen, Yuanjiang Xiang, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 103801 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Chiral Cavities Made from Lattices of Highly Electromagnetically Chiral Scatterers

Lukas Rebholz, Carsten Rockstuhl, and Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 103802 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

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Multimode Single-Ring Photonic Molecule

Jinsheng Lu, Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Vincent Ginis, Marcus Ossiander, Danilo Shchepanovich, and Federico Capasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 103803 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

A new ring-shaped resonator for light can do a job that normally requires at least two rings.

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Elastic Turbulence in Highly Entangled Polymers and Wormlike Micelles

Theo A. Lewy, Suzanne M. Fielding, Peter D. Olmsted, and Rich R. Kerswell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 104001 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Practical Kinetic Models for Dense Fluids

Ilya Karlin and Seyed Ali Hosseini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 104002 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

New Form of Mixing in Turbulent Sedimentation

Simone Tandurella, Marco Edoardo Rosti, Stefano Musacchio, and Guido Boffetta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 104003 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Separating Greenhouse-Gas Driven Forcing from Natural Fluctuations in the Time Series for Global Mean Temperatures

Cyrus C. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 104201 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Kinetic Range of Strong Electric Field Turbulence Associated with Magnetotail Reconnection

Tien Vo, Robert Ergun, Alexandros Chasapis, Yi Qi, Neha Pathak, Harriet George, Giuseppe Consolini, Simone Benella, Daniele Belardinelli, and Trevor Bowen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 105201 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Designing Lattice Spin Models and Magnon Gaps with Supercurrents

Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen, Martin Tang Bruland, and Jacob Linder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106001 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

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Anisotropic Upper Critical Field beyond the Pauli Limit in a Nickelate Superconductor: Evidence for a Quantum Fluctuation Driven State

Xue-Yan Wang, Cheng-Xue Chen, Zi-Ming Mai, Qiang Zhao, Wen-Long Yang, Fang-Hui Zhu, Mei-Ling Yan, Rui-Fen Dou, Chang-Min Xiong, Haiwen Liu, and Jia-Cai Nie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106002 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strengthening Tungsten Diboride toward a Superhard Material by Ordered Vacancy Pairs

Chao Gu, Xiaojun Xiang, Xuefeng Zhou, Xiaohui Yu, Yusheng Zhao, and Shanmin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106101 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Planting vacancies into the atomic lattice of a brittle material increases its toughness and hardness.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polar-Displacement Mechanism for Negative Poisson’s Ratio in Ferroelectric Perovskites

Xue Ma, Jinjing Zhang, Lianhua He, Shuai Yang, Fei Li, and Bin Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106102 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

The negative Poisson’s ratio in ferroelectric perovskites arises from bond-length preserving local polar displacements of atoms under strain.

Altermagnetic Spin Precession and Spin Transistor

Li-Shuo Liu, Kai Shao, Hai-Dong Li, Xiangang Wan, Wei Chen, and D. Y. Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106301 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Observation of Quasisteady Dark Excitons and Gapped State in a Doped Semiconductor

Shangkun Mo, Yunfei Bai, Chunlong Wu, Xingxia Cui, Guangqiang Mei, Qiang Wan, Renzhe Li, Cao Peng, Keming Zhao, Dingkun Qin, Shuming Yu, Hao Zhong, Xingzhe Wang, Enting Li, Yiwei Li, Limin Cao, Min Feng, Sheng Meng, and Nan Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106401 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Type-II Antiferroelectricity

Yang Wang, Zhi-Ming Yu, Chaoxi Cui, Yilin Han, Tingli He, Weikang Wu, Run-Wu Zhang, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106402 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Miniband Generation by Surface Acoustic Waves

Eli Meril, Unmesh Ghorai, Tobias Holder, and Rafi Bistritzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106403 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Machine Learning-Enabled Ab Initio Study of the Isotope Effect in ${SrTi}^{18} O_{3}$

Jonathan Schmidt and Nicola A. Spaldin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106404 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anyon Superconductivity and Plateau Transitions in Doped Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulators

Pavel A. Nosov, Zhaoyu Han, and Eslam Khalaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106501 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026

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Dimensionality-Dependent Exciton Dispersion in a Single-Band Mott Insulator

Zhibin Su, Junjian Mi, Shaohua Yan, Jiade Li, Siwei Xue, Zhiyu Tao, Enling Wang, Xiongfei Shi, Hechang Lei, Zhuan Xu, Jiandong Guo, and Xuetao Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106502 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026

High-resolution electron scattering confirms the dimensional transition of exciton dispersion from parabolic (3D) to massless linear (2D) behavior near the Brillouin zone center.

Kekulé Order from Diffuse Nesting near Higher-Order Van Hove Points

Jonas Beck, Jonathan Bodky, Matteo Dürrnagel, Ronny Thomale, Julian Ingham, Lennart Klebl, and Hendrik Hohmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106503 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Dual Spin Excitation Components in ${FeSe}_{0.67} {Te}_{0.33}$

Hao Zhang, Hongliang Wo, Yimeng Gu, Zeyu Kao, Gaofeng Ding, Kazuki Iida, Kazuhiko Ikeuchi, and Jun Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106504 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

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Interlayer Exciton Condensates between Second Landau Level Orbitals in Double Bilayer Graphene

Zeyu Hao, A. M. Zimmerman, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106505 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

Using Coulomb drag as an unambiguous probe of interlayer correlation reveals the first direct quantized drag evidence of interlayer exciton condensation beyond N = 0 in double bilayer graphene.

Condensed Spin Excitation of Quantized Dirac Fermions in the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Semimetal ${BaMnBi}_{2}$

Masashi Kumazaki, Azimjon Temurjonov, Takaaki Jinno, Yukihiro Watanabe, Taku Matsuhita, Yoshiaki Kobayashi, and Yasuhiro Shimizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106601 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026

Topological Excitonic Insulators in Electron Bilayers Modulated by Twisted Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Yongxin Zeng, Allan H. MacDonald, and Nemin Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106602 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Gain-and-Loss-Free Metamaterials Exhibiting Non-Hermitian Non-Bloch Effects

Maopeng Wu, Mingze Weng, Zhonghai Chi, Siyong Zheng, Fubei Liu, Ce Shang, Baile Zhang, Qian Zhao, Yonggang Meng, and Ji Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106603 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Implementing Non-Abelian Hatano-Nelson Model in Electric Circuits

Xiangru Chen, Jien Wu, Xingyu Chen, Zhenhang Pu, Yejian Hu, Jiuyang Lu, Manzhu Ke, Weiyin Deng, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106604 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Algebraic Loop Liquid in the Pyrochlore ${CsNiCrF}_{6}$

A. Hemmatzade, C. Balz, J. Ollivier, E. Lhotel, N. Colonna, A. dos Santos Rufino, G. J. Nilsen, Ø. S. Fjellvåg, M. Medarde, S. T. Bramwell, M. J. Harris, P. M. Derlet, and T. Fennell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106701 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

Disentangling Electronic and Ionic Nonlinear Polarization Effects in Bulk THz Kerr Response

Chao Shen, Maximilian Frenzel, Sebastian F. Maehrlein, and Zhanybek Alpichshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106901 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Giant Helicity-Dependent Second Harmonic Generation in Type-2 Weyl Semimetal

Aindrila Sinha, K. P. Mithun, D. V. S. Muthu, and A. K. Sood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106902 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Broadband Dipole Absorption in Dispersive Photonic Time Crystals

Thomas F. Allard, Jaime E. Sustaeta-Osuna, Francisco J. García-Vidal, and Paloma A. Huidobro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106903 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

First-Principles Calculation of the Shift Current Bulk Photovoltaic Effect from Carrier Recombination

Aaron M. Schankler, Yutian Bao, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106904 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

Nonlocal Correlation Effects in dc and Optical Conductivity of the Hubbard Model

Nagamalleswararao Dasari, Hugo U. R. Strand, Martin Eckstein, Alexander I. Lichtenstein, and Evgeny A. Stepanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 106905 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Beyond Poisson: First-Passage Asymptotics of Renewal Shot Noise

J. Brémont

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 107101 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Anomalous Diffusion and Run-and-Tumble Motion of a Chemotactic Particle in Low Dimensions

Jacopo Romano and Andrea Gambassi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 107102 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Competing Magnetic Anisotropy and Domain-Wall Density for Optimizing Magnetization-Induced Water-Oxidation Enhancement

Anke Yu, Durgesh Kumar, Zizhao Gong, Leonhard Tannesia, Hasibur Rahaman, Pengfei Song, Tianze Wu, Ramu Maddu, Pinkesh Kumar Mishra, Xiao Renshaw Wang, S. N. Piramanayagam, and Zhichuan J. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 108001 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Optimal spin-related enhancement of oxygen evolution reaction activity is shown to emerge from the balance between perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and the density of magnetic domain walls.

Emergence of Local Ordering and Mesoscale Giant Number Fluctuations in Active Turbulence

Kirti Kashyap, Kolluru Venkata Kiran, and Anupam Gupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 108301 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cooperative Native Contact Formation Facilitates Free Energy Barrier Crossing in Protein Folding

Chi-Jui Feng, Ulrich Baxa, John M. Louis, and Hoi Sung Chung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 108401 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

High-temporal-resolution fluorescence measurements reveal how quickly proteins cross energy barriers separating unfolded and folded states.

Out-of-Equilibrium Selection Pressure Enhances Inference from Protein Sequence Data

Nicola Dietler, Cyril Malbranke, and Anne-Florence Bitbol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 108402 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Quantification of Information Flow by Dual Reporter System and Its Application to Bacterial Chemotaxis

Kento Nakamura, Hajime Fukuoka, Akihiko Ishijima, and Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 108403 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026