Volume 136, Issue 12

27 March 2026

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First-principles atomistic simulations of polarization patterns showing swirling structures in nanocomposites of dielectric BaZrO₃ nanoregions randomly distributed within a ferroelectric BaTiO₃ matrix.

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Intertwined Swirling Polarization States in ${BaTiO}_{3}$ with Embedded ${BaZrO}_{3}$ Nanoregions
R. Machado, F. Di Rino, M. Sepliarsky, and M. G. Stachiotti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126201 (2026)

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Precise Measurement of the Cosmic Ray Helium Spectrum above 0.1 PeV

Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 121001 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

New observations of cosmic rays that distinguish between hydrogen and helium find unexpected complexity in a long-observed spectral feature.

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Evidence for a Spectral Break or Curvature in the Spectrum of Astrophysical Neutrinos from 5 TeV to 10 PeV

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 121002 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

The IceCube observatory at the South Pole has found evidence for a break in the spectrum of cosmic neutrinos, with theoretical implications for their generation.

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Challenging Spontaneous Quantum Collapse with the XENONnT Dark Matter Detector

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120201 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

The XENONnT detector searches for x rays from dynamical quantum collapse models, improving previous constraints by two orders of magnitude

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Entanglement Superactivation in Multiphoton Distillation Networks

Rui Zhang, Yue-Yang Fei, Zhenhuan Liu, Xingjian Zhang, Xu-Fei Yin, Yingqiu Mao, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Otfried Gühne, Xiongfeng Ma, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120801 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Recycling biseparable states unlocks entanglement resources to show multipartite superactivation in quantum networks.

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Precision Spectroscopy of 2S-nS Transitions in Atomic Hydrogen: A Determination of the Proton Charge Radius

R. G. Bullis, W. L. Tavis, M. R. Weiss, J. Orellana Cisneros, A. J. Cheeseman, U. D. Jentschura, and D. C. Yost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 123001 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen produces a new high-precision value for the Rydberg constant and the proton charge radius.

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Loss-Tolerant Detection of Squeezed States in the $2 μ m$ Region

K. M. Kwan, T. G. McRae, J. Qin, D. W. Gould, S. S. Y. Chua, J. Junker, R. Iden, V. B. Adya, M. J. Yap, B. J. J. Slagmolen, D. E. McClelland, and R. L. Ward

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 123601 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Loss-tolerant detection of squeezed light at 2 µm is accomplished by preamplifying the squeezed quadrature before the detection, mitigating the low detection rate, and increasing observed squeezing from 4 dB to 8 dB.

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Orbital-Dependent Coulomb Drag in Electron-Hole Bilayer Graphene Heterostructures

Zuocheng Zhang, Ruishi Qi, Jingxu Xie, Qize Li, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Michael F. Crommie, and Feng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126303 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Strong Coulomb drag is observed between Landau levels with nonzero orbital quantum numbers in a graphene heterostructure device consisting of an electron bilayer adjacent to a hole bilayer.

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Light-Induced Odd-Parity Magnetism in Conventional Antiferromagnetism

Shengpu Huang, Zheng Qin, Fangyang Zhan, Dong-Hui Xu, Da-Shuai Ma, and Rui Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126703 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Odd-parity, $f$ -wave or $p$ -wave, spin splitting in 2D collinear antiferromagnets can be achieved through irradiation of light, and controlled by manipulating the polarization of the incident light and crystalline symmetry.

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Floquet Odd-Parity Collinear Magnets

Tongshuai Zhu, Di Zhou, Huaiqiang Wang, Su-Huai Wei, and Jiawei Ruan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126704 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Odd-parity, f-wave or p-wave, spin splitting in 2D collinear antiferromagnets can be achieved through irradiation of light, and controlled by manipulating the polarization of the incident light and crystalline symmetry.

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Synergistic Motifs in Gaussian Systems

Enrico Caprioglio, Pedro A. M. Mediano, and Luc Berthouze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 127401 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Using an information theoretic measure of synergy, pairwise interactions alone is shown to give rise to synergistic information, with applications to Ising, oscillatory, and empirical networks.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

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Challenging Spontaneous Quantum Collapse with the XENONnT Dark Matter Detector

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120201 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

The XENONnT detector searches for x rays from dynamical quantum collapse models, improving previous constraints by two orders of magnitude

Representability for Quantum Theory beyond Particle-Number Conservation

David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120202 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

General Class of Functionals for Certifying Quantum Incompatibility

Kuan-Yi Lee, Jhen-Dong Lin, Adam Miranowicz, and Yueh-Nan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120203 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Fundamental Limits to Cat Code Qubits from Chaos-Assisted Tunneling

Lionel E. Martínez, Ignacio García-Mata, and Diego A. Wisniacki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120204 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

All Incompatible Sets of Measurements Can Generate Nonlocality Using Quantum Inputs

Andrés F. Ducuara, Patryk Lipka-Bartosik, Cristian E. Susa, and Paul Skrzypczyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120205 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Engineering Long-Range and Multibody Interactions via Global Kinetic Constraints

Runmin Wu, Bing Yang, Pieter W. Claeys, and Hongzheng Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120401 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Time-Dependent Neural Galerkin Method for Quantum Dynamics

Alessandro Sinibaldi, Douglas Hendry, Filippo Vicentini, and Giuseppe Carleo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120402 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Bound on Entanglement in Neural Quantum States

Nisarga Paul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120403 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Adiabatic Echo Protocols for Robust Quantum Many-Body State Preparation

Zhongda Zeng, Giuliano Giudici, Aruku Senoo, Alexander Baumgärtner, Adam M. Kaufman, and Hannes Pichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120404 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Intrinsic Heralding and Optimal Decoders for Non-Abelian Topological Order

Dian Jing, Pablo Sala, Liang Jiang, and Ruben Verresen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120405 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Quasiprobability Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation

Kohei Yoshimura and Ryusuke Hamazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120406 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Probing False Vacuum Decay and Bubble Nucleation in a Rydberg Atom Array

Yu-Xin Chao, Peiyun Ge, Zhen-Xing Hua, Chen Jia, Xiao Wang, Xinhui Liang, Zongpei Yue, Rong Lu, Meng Khoon Tey, Xiao Wang, and Li You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120407 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Using a Self-Kerr Nonlinearity for Magic State Preparation in Grid Codes

Jérémie Boudreault, Ross Shillito, Jean-Baptiste Bertrand, and Baptiste Royer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120601 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

High-Accuracy Temporal Prediction via Experimental Quantum Reservoir Computing in Correlated Spins

Yanjun Hou, Juncheng Hua, Ze Wu, Wei Xia, Yuquan Chen, Xiaopeng Li, Zhaokai Li, Xinhua Peng, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120602 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Frustration-Free Control and Absorbing-State Transport in Entangled State Preparation

T. Dörstel, T. Iadecola, J. H. Wilson, and M. Buchhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120603 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

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Entanglement Superactivation in Multiphoton Distillation Networks

Rui Zhang, Yue-Yang Fei, Zhenhuan Liu, Xingjian Zhang, Xu-Fei Yin, Yingqiu Mao, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Otfried Gühne, Xiongfeng Ma, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 120801 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Recycling biseparable states unlocks entanglement resources to show multipartite superactivation in quantum networks.

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Precise Measurement of the Cosmic Ray Helium Spectrum above 0.1 PeV

Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 121001 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

New observations of cosmic rays that distinguish between hydrogen and helium find unexpected complexity in a long-observed spectral feature.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Evidence for a Spectral Break or Curvature in the Spectrum of Astrophysical Neutrinos from 5 TeV to 10 PeV

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 121002 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

The IceCube observatory at the South Pole has found evidence for a break in the spectrum of cosmic neutrinos, with theoretical implications for their generation.

Nonlinear Gravitational Memory in the Post-Minkowskian Expansion

Alessandro Georgoudis, Vasco Goncalves, Carlo Heissenberg, and Julio Parra-Martinez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 121401 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Thermoelectric Conduction in General Relativity: A Causal, Stable, and Well-Posed Theory

L. Gavassino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 121402 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Testing Wormhole-Mediated Entanglement with Hydrogen

Irfan Javed and Edward Wilson-Ewing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 121501 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Particles and Fields

Holographic Black Hole Formation and Scrambling in Time-Ordered Correlators

Pratyusha Chowdhury, Felix M. Haehl, Adrián Sánchez-Garrido, and Ying Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 121601 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Smooth String Vacua in a Gravitationally Nonperturbative Regime

Mirjam Cvetič and Max Wiesner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 121602 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Improved Limit on the Effective Electron Neutrino Mass with the ECHo-1k Experiment

F. Adam et al. (ECHo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 121801 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Wideband Search for Axionlike Dark Matter Using Octupolar Nuclei in a Crystal

Mingyu Fan, Bassam Nima, Aleksandar Radak, Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez, and Amar Vutha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 121802 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Torsion Balance Experiments Enable Direct Detection of Sub-eV Dark Matter

Shigeki Matsumoto, Jie Sheng, Chuan-Yang Xing, and Lin Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 121803 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

First Search for Dark Sector $e^{+} e^{-}$ Explanations of the MiniBooNE Anomaly at MicroBooNE

A. M. Abdullahi et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 121804 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Simple Scaling Laws for Energy Correlators in Nuclear Matter

Carlota Andres, Fabio Dominguez, Jack Holguin, Cyrille Marquet, and Ian Moult

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 122301 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Observation of Charmonium Sequential Suppression in Heavy-Ion Collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

B. E. Aboona et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 122302 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Measurement of $D^{0}$ Meson Photoproduction in Ultraperipheral Heavy Ion Collisions

V. Chekhovsky et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 122303 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Nuclear Radii of Proton-Unbound Systems

Y. R. Lin (林雅茹), S. M. Wang (王思敏), and W. Nazarewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 122501 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Precision Spectroscopy of 2S-nS Transitions in Atomic Hydrogen: A Determination of the Proton Charge Radius

R. G. Bullis, W. L. Tavis, M. R. Weiss, J. Orellana Cisneros, A. J. Cheeseman, U. D. Jentschura, and D. C. Yost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 123001 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen produces a new high-precision value for the Rydberg constant and the proton charge radius.

Impact of Thermal Fields on Rydberg Atom Radio Frequency Sensors

Channprit Kaur, Pinrui Shen, Donald Booth, Andrew Todd, and James P. Shaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 123201 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

On-the-Fly Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics Reveals Dissociation Mechanisms of Multiply Charged Molecules

Dong Liu, Chenkai Zhang, Xintai Hao, Xiaorui Xue, Maomao Gong, Songbin Zhang, Jiaqi Zhou, Chuncai Kong, Zhimao Yang, Xueguang Ren, and Tao Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 123202 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Nonadiabatic Strong-Field Photoionization Revisited

Spencer Walker, Abdulaziz Alqasem, Abraham Camacho Garibay, Cosmin I. Blaga, Alexandra S. Landsman, and Louis F. DiMauro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 123203 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Chirality-Induced Spin Currents in a Fermi Gas

Camen A. Royse and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 123401 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Origin and Emergent Features of Many-Body Dynamical Localization

Ang Yang, Zekai Chen, Yanliang Guo, Manuele Landini, Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, and Lei Ying

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 123402 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

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Loss-Tolerant Detection of Squeezed States in the $2 μ m$ Region

K. M. Kwan, T. G. McRae, J. Qin, D. W. Gould, S. S. Y. Chua, J. Junker, R. Iden, V. B. Adya, M. J. Yap, B. J. J. Slagmolen, D. E. McClelland, and R. L. Ward

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 123601 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Shot-to-Shot Displacement Noise in State-Expansion Protocols with Inverted Potentials

Giuseppe Paolo Seta, Louisiane Devaud, Lorenzo Dania, Lukas Novotny, and Martin Frimmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 123602 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Temperature-Dependent Single- and Double-Quantum Relaxation of Negatively Charged Boron Vacancies in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Lin-Ke Xie, Wei Liu, Kaiyu Huang, Nai-Jie Guo, Jun-You Liu, Yu-Hang Ma, Ya-Qi Wu, Yi-Tao Wang, Zhao-An Wang, Xiao-Dong Zeng, Jia-Ming Ren, Chun Ao, Shuo Deng, Haifei Lu, Jian-Shun Tang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 123603 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Unified Model for Breathing Solitons in Fiber Lasers: Mechanisms across Below- and Above-Threshold Regimes

Ying Zhang, Bo Yuan, Junsong Peng, Xiuqi Wu, Yulin Sheng, Yuxuan Ren, Christophe Finot, Sonia Boscolo, and Heping Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 123801 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Self-Replication of Turbulent Puffs: On the Edge between Chaotic Saddles

Anton Svirsky, Tobias Grafke, and Anna Frishman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 124001 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids

Thamires A. Lima, Nicolas J. Alvarez, Stuart E. Smith, Kazem V. Edmond, Manesh Gopinadhan, and Emmanuel Ulysse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 124002 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Turbulence-Driven Edge-Localized-Mode-Free High-Confinement Mode with Divertor Detachment in a Metal-Wall Tokamak

G. S. Xu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 125101 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Impact of Resonant Magnetic Perturbations on the Toroidal Location of the Runaway Electron Final Loss Strike Point

C. Marini, E. M. Hollmann, X. Bai, S. W. Tang, J. L. Herfindal, D. Shiraki, C. J. Lasnier, T. Cote, N. Eidietis, and N. Leuthold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 125102 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Loop Current Order on the Kagome Lattice

Jun Zhan, Hendrik Hohmann, Matteo Dürrnagel, Ruiqing Fu, Sen Zhou, Ziqiang Wang, Ronny Thomale, Xianxin Wu, and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126001 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Magnus-Driven Hall Transport in a Smectic Vortex State

Hiroyoshi Nobukane, Kyosuke Takahashi, Noriaki Matsunaga, Motoi Kimata, and Satoshi Tanda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126002 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Intertwined Swirling Polarization States in ${BaTiO}_{3}$ with Embedded ${BaZrO}_{3}$ Nanoregions

R. Machado, F. Di Rino, M. Sepliarsky, and M. G. Stachiotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126201 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Fluctuation-Induced Giant Magnetoresistance in Charge-Neutral Graphene

A. Levchenko, E. Kirkinis, and A. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126301 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Fast Ionic Transport Governed by Collective Vibrational Dynamics

Yixin Xu, Xing Xiang, Zhigang Li, Yanglong Lu, and Yanguang Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126302 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

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Orbital-Dependent Coulomb Drag in Electron-Hole Bilayer Graphene Heterostructures

Zuocheng Zhang, Ruishi Qi, Jingxu Xie, Qize Li, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Michael F. Crommie, and Feng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126303 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Strong Coulomb drag is observed between Landau levels with nonzero orbital quantum numbers in a graphene heterostructure device consisting of an electron bilayer adjacent to a hole bilayer.

Imaging Heat Transport in Suspended Diamond Nanostructures with Integrated Spin Defect Thermometers

V. Goblot, K. Wu, E. Di Lucente, Y. Zhu, E. Losero, Q. Jobert, C. Jaramillo Concha, N. Quack, N. Marzari, M. Simoncelli, and C. Galland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126304 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Biorthogonal Neural Network Approach to 2D Non-Hermitian Systems

Massimo Solinas, Brandon Barton, Yuxuan Zhang, Jannes Nys, and Juan Carrasquilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126501 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Effective Enhancement of the Electron-Phonon Coupling Driven by Nonperturbative Electronic Density Fluctuations

E. Moghadas, M. Reitner, T. Wehling, G. Sangiovanni, S. Ciuchi, and A. Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126502 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Phonon Induced Energy Relaxation in Quantum Critical Metals

Haoyu Guo and Debanjan Chowdhury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126503 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Phase Space Fractons

Ylias Sadki, Abhishodh Prakash, S. L. Sondhi, and Daniel P. Arovas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126504 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Antisymmetric Raman Response

Mattia Udina and Indranil Paul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126505 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Geometry-Driven Lattice of Photonic Spin-Meron Tubes in Free Space

Anand Hegde, Komal Gupta, Yanan Dai, and Chen-Bin Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126601 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Field-Free Electrical Switching of Perpendicular Magnetization via Domain-Wall-Free Textures in Ferrimagnets

Xueqiang Feng, Zhizhong Zhang, Yuze Xie, Zhenyi Zheng, Jinkai Wang, Zuojun Song, Bowen Yang, Kelian Lin, Guo Liu, Yu He, Bo Li, Weisheng Zhao, and Yue Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126701 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Electrically Gated Laser-Induced Spin Dynamics in Magnetoelectric Iron Garnet at Room Temperature

T. T. Gareev, N. E. Khokhlov, L. Körber, A. P. Pyatakov, and A. V. Kimel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126702 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

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Light-Induced Odd-Parity Magnetism in Conventional Antiferromagnetism

Shengpu Huang, Zheng Qin, Fangyang Zhan, Dong-Hui Xu, Da-Shuai Ma, and Rui Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126703 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Floquet Odd-Parity Collinear Magnets

Tongshuai Zhu, Di Zhou, Huaiqiang Wang, Su-Huai Wei, and Jiawei Ruan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126704 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Element-Selective Probing of Ultrafast Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Order Dynamics in Fe/CoO Bilayers

Chowdhury S. Awsaf, Sangeeta Thakur, Markus Weißenhofer, Jendrik Gördes, Marcel Walter, Mohamad-Assaad Mawass, Niko Pontius, Christian Schüßler-Langeheine, Peter M. Oppeneer, and Wolfgang Kuch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 126705 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Subthermal Mean Transverse Energies Induced by Electron Refraction on the Jump in Mass at the Surface of Multialkali Photocathodes

S. A. Rozhkov, V. V. Bakin, H. E. Scheibler, V. S. Rusetsky, D. V. Gorshkov, D. A. Kustov, V. A. Golyashov, V. L. Alperovich, and O. E. Tereshchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 127001 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Synergistic Motifs in Gaussian Systems

Enrico Caprioglio, Pedro A. M. Mediano, and Luc Berthouze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 127401 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

Using an information theoretic measure of synergy, pairwise interactions alone is shown to give rise to synergistic information, with applications to Ising, oscillatory, and empirical networks.

Empirical Validation of the Polarization Transition in a Double-Random Field Model of Elections

Jan Korbel, Remah Dahdoul, and Stefan Thurner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 127402 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Volume 136, Issue 12

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Condensed Matter and Materials

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics