Volume 136, Issue 11

20 March 2026

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On the Cover

Numerical simulations of the mass density of the gas orbiting the black hole on equatorial slices shortly after merger. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Merger of Spinning, Accreting Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Lorenzo Ennoggi, Manuela Campanelli, Julian Krolik, Scott C. Noble, Yosef Zlochower, and Maria Chiara de Simone
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 111401 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stratification-Dependent Enstrophy-Controlled Regime in Geostrophic Turbulence

Shan-Shan Ding, Hadrien Bobas, Hélène Scolan, Roland M. B. Young, and Peter L. Read

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 114101 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Researchers recreate key features of atmospheric turbulence in a meter-sized rotating cylinder.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Time Crystal Clock and Its Performance

Ludmila Viotti, Marcus Huber, Rosario Fazio, and Gonzalo Manzano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110401 (2026) - Published 18 March, 2026

New theoretical work shows how an unusual state of matter that oscillates between spin states could be used in timekeeping.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Demonstration of Entanglement Pumping with Bosonic Logical Qubits

Jie Zhou, Chuanlong Ma, Yifang Xu, Weizhou Cai, Hongwei Huang, Lida Sun, Guangming Xue, Ziyue Hua, Haifeng Yu, Weiting Wang, Chang-Ling Zou, and Luyan Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110801 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

A hardware-efficient approach for generating and stabilizing entanglement applied to logical qubits protected by quantum error correction provides an experimental demonstration of entanglement pumping.

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Experimental Quantum Channel Purification

Yue-Yang Fei, Zhenhuan Liu, Rui Zhang, Zhenyu Cai, Xu-Fei Yin, Yingqiu Mao, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110804 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

A novel optical architecture utilizing spatial and polarization degrees of freedom efficiently implements sequential Fredkin gates.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Merger of Spinning, Accreting Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Lorenzo Ennoggi, Manuela Campanelli, Julian Krolik, Scott C. Noble, Yosef Zlochower, and Maria Chiara de Simone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 111401 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

State of the art numerical simulations predict telltale photon signatures from mergers of supermassive black holes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence for GeV Emission from the Superluminous Supernova SN 2017egm

Shang Li, Yun-Feng Liang, Neng-Hui Liao, Lei Lei, and Yi-Zhong Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 111402 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

$γ$ -ray emission coming from superluminous supernova SN 2017egm found using 15 years of Fermi-LAT Pass 8 data shows that the peak time and luminosity of the gamma-ray emission are consistent with the prediction of a millisecond magnetar.

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Imaginary Gauge Potentials in a Non-Hermitian Spin-Orbit Coupled Quantum Gas

J. Tao, E. D. Mercado-Gutierrez, M. Zhao, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 113401 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

A continuum analog of the Hatano-Nelson model using a homogeneous spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate shows that repulsive interactions enhance self-acceleration while suppressing the non-Hermitian skin effect.

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Revisiting Dissipation-Driven Phase Transition in a Josephson Junction

Diego Subero, Yu-Cheng Chang, Miguel Monteiro, Ze-Yan Chen, and Jukka P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116301 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

A low-frequency DC transport measurement on a Josephson junction and SQUID connected to a well-defined on-chip resistive environment shows a crossover from superconducting to insulating behavior when the environmental resistance exceeds the quantum value of $R_{Q} = h / 4 e^{2} \approx 6.5$ k $Ω$ .

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All-Dielectric Metaphotonics for Advanced THz Control of Spins

Lucas van Gerven, Daria O. Ignatyeva, Daniil V. Konkov, V. Bilyk, T. Metzger, Denis M. Krichevsky, Svetlana A. Evstigneeva, Petr M. Vetoshko, Vladimir I. Belotelov, and Aleksei V. Kimel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116703 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

A dielectric THz metasurface reshapes and amplifies ultrafast electromagnetic fields to give unprecedented 3D control over spin dynamics.

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Coercivity Landscape Characterizes Dynamic Hysteresis

Miao Chen, Xiu-Hua Zhao, and Yu-Han Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 117102 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

The landscape of coercivity helps identify the scaling laws of hysteresis across dynamical regimes.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Quantum Stroboscopy for Time Measurements

Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone, Lionel Martellini, and Simone Roncallo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110201 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Channel Nonlocality under Decoherence

Albert Rico, Moisés Bermejo Morán, Fereshte Shahbeigi, and Karol Życzkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110202 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Time Crystal Clock and Its Performance

Ludmila Viotti, Marcus Huber, Rosario Fazio, and Gonzalo Manzano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110401 (2026) - Published 18 March, 2026

New theoretical work shows how an unusual state of matter that oscillates between spin states could be used in timekeeping.

Quantum Incompatibility in Parallel versus Antiparallel Spins

Ram Krishna Patra, Kunika Agarwal, Biswajit Paul, Snehasish Roy Chowdhury, Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik, and Manik Banik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110402 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Quantum Simulation with Sum-of-Squares Spectral Amplification

Robbie King, Guang Hao Low, Ryan Babbush, Rolando D. Somma, and Nicholas C. Rubin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110601 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Demonstration of Entanglement Pumping with Bosonic Logical Qubits

Jie Zhou, Chuanlong Ma, Yifang Xu, Weizhou Cai, Hongwei Huang, Lida Sun, Guangming Xue, Ziyue Hua, Haifeng Yu, Weiting Wang, Chang-Ling Zou, and Luyan Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110801 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Microwave Electrometry with Quantum-Limited Resolutions in a Rydberg-Atom Array

Yao-Wen Zhang, De-Sheng Xiang, Ren Liao, Hao-Xiang Liu, Biao Xu, Peng Zhou, Yijia Zhou, Kuan Zhang, and Lin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110802 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

50-km Fiber Interferometer for Testing Gravitational Signatures in Quantum Interference

Haocun Yu, Dorotea Macri, Thomas Morling, Eleonora Polini, Thomas B. Mieling, Peter Barrow, Begüm Kabagöz, Xinghui Yin, Piotr T. Chruściel, Christopher Hilweg, Eric Oelker, Nergis Mavalvala, and Philip Walther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110803 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Quantum Channel Purification

Yue-Yang Fei, Zhenhuan Liu, Rui Zhang, Zhenyu Cai, Xu-Fei Yin, Yingqiu Mao, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110804 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

A novel optical architecture utilizing spatial and polarization degrees of freedom efficiently implements sequential Fredkin gates.

Constant Overhead Entanglement Distillation via Scrambling

Andi Gu, Lorenzo Leone, Kenneth Goodenough, and Sumeet Khatri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110805 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Uncertainty Relations between Quantum Fisher Information and Entanglement Monotones

Shaowei Du, Shuheng Liu, Matteo Fadel, Giuseppe Vitagliano, and Qiongyi He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 110806 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Maximal Parameter Space of Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with Lepton Asymmetries

Kensuke Akita, Koichi Hamaguchi, and Maksym Ovchynnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 111001 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Merger of Spinning, Accreting Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Lorenzo Ennoggi, Manuela Campanelli, Julian Krolik, Scott C. Noble, Yosef Zlochower, and Maria Chiara de Simone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 111401 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

State of the art numerical simulations predict telltale photon signatures from mergers of supermassive black holes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence for GeV Emission from the Superluminous Supernova SN 2017egm

Shang Li, Yun-Feng Liang, Neng-Hui Liao, Lei Lei, and Yi-Zhong Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 111402 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

Ultraviolet Completion of the Big Bang in Quadratic Gravity

Ruolin Liu, Jerome Quintin, and Niayesh Afshordi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 111501 (2026) - Published 18 March, 2026

Particles and Fields

Surprising One-Loop Finiteness of 6D Half-Maximal Supergravities

Yu-tin Huang, Henrik Johansson, Michele Santagata, and Congkao Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 111601 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Towards a Quintic Ginzburg-Landau Description of the (2,7) Minimal Model

Andrei Katsevich, Igor Klebanov, Zimo Sun, and Grigory Tarnopolsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 111602 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

High-Energy Evolution of Power-Suppressed Amplitudes

Maximilian Delto, Alexander Penin, and Lorenzo Tancredi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 111801 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Improved Dark Photon Sensitivity from a Superconducting-Radio-Frequency-Cavity Experiment

Saarik Kalia, Zhen Liu, Bianca Giaccone, Oleksandr Melnychuk, Roman Pilipenko, Asher Berlin, Anson Hook, Sergey Belomestnykh, Crispin Contreras-Martinez, Daniil Frolov, Timergali Khabiboulline, Yuriy Pischalnikov, Sam Posen, Oleg Pronitchev, Vyacheslav Yakovlev, Anna Grassellino, Roni Harnik, and Alexander Romanenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 111802 (2026) - Published 18 March, 2026

Understanding Large Localized $C P$ Violation in $B^{\pm} \to K^{\pm} π^{+} π^{-}$ Using Dispersive Methods

L. A. Heuser, A. Reyes-Torrecilla, C. Hanhart, B. Kubis, P. C. Magalhães, T. Mannel, and J. R. Peláez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 111901 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Study of the Emergence of a Gluon Mass Scale from Center Vortices Using a Wave-Functional Formalism

David R. Junior, Gastão Krein, Luis E. Oxman, and Bruno R. Soares

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 111902 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Sources of Radial-Flow Fluctuations in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Jiangyong Jia (贾江涌)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 112301 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Nuclear Schiff Moment of the Fluorine Isotope ${}^{19}F$

Kia Boon Ng, Stephan Foster, Lan Cheng, Petr Navrátil, and Stephan Malbrunot-Ettenauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 112501 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Stringent Constraints on New Pseudoscalar and Vector Bosons from Precision Hyperfine Splitting Measurements

Cedric Quint, Fabian Heiße, Joerg Jaeckel, Lutz Leimenstoll, Christoph H. Keitel, and Zoltán Harman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 113001 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Gravitational Wave Imprints on Spontaneous Emission

Jerzy Paczos, Navdeep Arya, Sofia Qvarfort, Daniel Braun, and Magdalena Zych

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 113201 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Imaginary Gauge Potentials in a Non-Hermitian Spin-Orbit Coupled Quantum Gas

J. Tao, E. D. Mercado-Gutierrez, M. Zhao, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 113401 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

Observation of Resonant Monopole-Dipole Energy Transfer between Rydberg Atoms and Polar Molecules

J. Zou, R. R. W. Wang, R. González-Férez, H. R. Sadeghpour, and S. D. Hogan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 113402 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Nonlinear Dynamics of X-Ray Superradiant Burst via Cooperative Nuclear Excitations

Juntian Shan, Yue Chang, Lida Zhang, Fan Wang, Jianmin Yuan, Xiangjin Kong, and Yu-Gang Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 113601 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Dual Pathways of Air Cavity Evolution during Droplet Impact on Superhydrophobic Nanoporous Surfaces

Mi Zhou, Yujun Lin, Zhanli Geng, Feiyang Zhang, Limin Zhou, Yue Shen, Lijuan Zhang, Wei Ding, Elmar Bonaccurso, Longquan Chen, Thomas Wallmersperger, Binyu Zhao, and Günter K. Auernhammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 114001 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Composite Orbital Angular Momentum for Super-resolution Ultrasound Imaging

Xinpeng Li, Xue Jiang, and Dean Ta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 114002 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stratification-Dependent Enstrophy-Controlled Regime in Geostrophic Turbulence

Shan-Shan Ding, Hadrien Bobas, Hélène Scolan, Roland M. B. Young, and Peter L. Read

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 114101 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Researchers recreate key features of atmospheric turbulence in a meter-sized rotating cylinder.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Expansion-Driven Self-Magnetization of High-Energy-Density Plasmas

K. V. Lezhnin, S. R. Totorica, J. Griff-McMahon, M. V. Medvedev, H. Landsberger, A. Diallo, and W. Fox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 115101 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Goldstone-Mediated Polar Instability in Hexagonal Barium Titanate

Struan Simpson, Urmimala Dey, Robin Sjökvist, Jonathan Wright, Clemens Ritter, Richard Beanland, Nicholas C. Bristowe, and Mark S. Senn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116101 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

Electrical Switching of the Berry Phase in Bernal Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots

Ke Lv, Qiang Cheng, Yu-Chen Zhuang, Chen-Yue Hao, Xiao-Ya Wang, Ya-Xin Zhao, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ya-Ning Ren, Qing-Feng Sun, and Lin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116201 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Revisiting Dissipation-Driven Phase Transition in a Josephson Junction

Diego Subero, Yu-Cheng Chang, Miguel Monteiro, Ze-Yan Chen, and Jukka P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116301 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Incompressible Quantum Hall Liquid on the Four-Dimensional Sphere

Junwen Zhao, Xue Meng, Wei Zhu, and Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116501 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Non-Hermiticity Induced Universal Anomalies in Kondo Conductance

Wei-Zhu Yi, Yun Chen, Jun-Jun Pang, Hong Chen, Baigeng Wang, and Rui Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116502 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Matrix Product States and First Quantization

Jheng-Wei Li and Xavier Waintal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116503 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Witnessing Spin-Orbital Entanglement Using Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

Zecheng Shen, Shuhan Ding, Zijun Zhao, Francesco A. Evangelista, and Yao Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116504 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Isoperimetric Inequalities in Quantum Geometry

Praveen Pai and Fan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116601 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Quantum Geometric Inequality and Its Classical Wave Verification

Tingzhi Liu (刘亭志), Qicheng Zhang (张起成), and Chunyin Qiu (邱春印)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116602 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Structurally Driven, Reversible Topological Phase Transition in a Distorted Square Net Material

Xian P. Yang, Chia-Hsiu Hsu, Gokul Acharya, Junyi Zhang, Md Shafayat Hossain, Tyler A. Cochran, Bimal Neupane, Zi-Jia Cheng, Santosh Karki Chhetri, Byunghoon Kim, Shiyuan Gao, Yu-Xiao Jiang, Maksim Litskevich, Jian Wang, Yuanxi Wang, Jin Hu, and M. Zahid Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116603 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

Universal Decay of Mutual Information and Conditional Mutual Information in Gapped Pure- and Mixed-State Quantum Matter

Jinmin Yi, Kangle Li, Chuan Liu, Zixuan Li, and Liujun Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116604 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Direct Raman Observation of the Quantum Metric in a Quantum Magnet

Chao-Fan Wang, Han Ge, Jun-Yang Chen, Liusuo Wu, Xiaobin Chen, Jia-Wei Mei, and Mingyuan Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116605 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Spin-Polarized Josephson Supercurrent in Nodeless Altermagnets

Chuang Li, Jin-Xing Hou, Fu-Chun Zhang, Song-Bo Zhang, and Lun-Hui Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116701 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Unified Description of Spin-Lattice Coupling and Thermodynamics in the Pyrochlore Heisenberg Antiferromagnet

Masaki Gen, Hidemaro Suwa, Shusaku Imajo, Chao Dong, Hiroaki Ueda, Makoto Tachibana, Akihiko Ikeda, Koichi Kindo, and Yoshimitsu Kohama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116702 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

All-Dielectric Metaphotonics for Advanced THz Control of Spins

Lucas van Gerven, Daria O. Ignatyeva, Daniil V. Konkov, V. Bilyk, T. Metzger, Denis M. Krichevsky, Svetlana A. Evstigneeva, Petr M. Vetoshko, Vladimir I. Belotelov, and Aleksei V. Kimel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 116703 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

A dielectric THz metasurface reshapes and amplifies ultrafast electromagnetic fields to give unprecedented 3D control over spin dynamics.