Volume 136, Issue 13

3 April 2026

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A minimal surface divides space, creating a spatial analog of Kramers degeneracy. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Spatial Inversion Kramers Degeneracy
Jialu Mu, Biao Yang, and Qinghua Guo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136601 (2026)

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 133402 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Researchers have improved trapping of polyatomic molecules while also controlling their collisions—two important advances for ultracold polyatomic molecular physics.

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Nanoscale Imaging of Magnetotransport around a Circular $p − n$ Junction in Graphene

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136301 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Electrons in graphene follow various spiraling paths when they flow around a circular barrier under the influence of a magnetic field.

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Symmetry-Protected Acoustic “Ghost Tunnels”

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 137001 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

Acoustic waves can be guided through a narrow “tunnel” that lacks walls and thus presents no obstruction to sound traveling across its path.

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Superfluid Fraction of a 2D Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Triangular Lattice

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The superfluid fraction of a 2D Bose-Einstein condensate is experimentally determined for the first time.

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Measurement of the Alfvén Wave Parametric Decay Instability Growth Rate

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The growth rate of the Alfvén wave parametric decay instability, a process that contributes to energy transfer in plasmas, provides a new benchmark for space plasma models of space weather disturbances.

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Spatial Inversion Kramers Degeneracy

Jialu Mu, Biao Yang, and Qinghua Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136601 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

A spatial analogue of Kramers degeneracy in photonics, carving space into two chiral halves with a minimal-surface geometry, leads to global double band degeneracy and helical surface states without spin.

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Emergence of a Fluctuating Ground State in Y-Kapellasite under Pressure

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Hydrostatic pressure drives a magnetically ordered kagome material into a fluctuating ground state that shares key features with quantum spin liquids.

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Fractional Quantum Multiferroics from Coupling of Fractional Quantum Ferroelectricity and Altermagnetism

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Introducing altermagnetism in fractional quantum ferroelectrics yields magnetoelectric coupling that can switch altermagnetic splitting without rotation of the Néel vector via fractional displacements.

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An electrically driven nonlinear mechanism based on resonant tunneling, plasmon-polaritonic bistability, unlocks the potential realization of polaritonic on-chip optical memory and switching.

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Bacterial Turbulence at Compressible Fluid Interfaces

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 138301 (2026) - Published 30 March, 2026

The study of Serratia marcescens at the air-water interface reveals interfacial bacterial turbulence as a distinct class of active turbulence in which the size of the vortices produced scales with the length of the bacteria indicating a microscopic origin.

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Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Exact Duality at Low Energy in a Josephson Tunnel Junction Coupled to a Transmission Line

Luca Giacomelli, Michel H. Devoret, and Cristiano Ciuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 130401 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis Correlations via Nonlinear Hydrodynamics

Jiaozi Wang, Ruchira Mishra, Tian-Hua Yang, Luca V. Delacrétaz, and Silvia Pappalardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 130402 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Transversal Logical Clifford Gates on the Rotated Surface Code with Reconfigurable Neutral Atom Arrays

Zi-Han Chen, Ming-Cheng Chen, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 130601 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Measuring Less to Learn More: Quadratic Speedup in Learning Nonlinear Properties of Quantum States

Yukun Zhang, Yusen Wu, You Zhou, and Xiao Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 130602 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Constraints on Dark Matter Models from Supermassive Black Hole Evolution

John Ellis, Malcolm Fairbairn, Juan Urrutia, and Ville Vaskonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 131001 (2026) - Published 30 March, 2026

Gravitational Waves from Feebly Interacting Particles in a First Order Phase Transition

Ryusuke Jinno, Bibhushan Shakya, and Jorinde van de Vis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 131002 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Impostor among Neutrinos: Dark Radiation Masquerading as Self-Interacting Neutrinos

Anirban Das, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Christina Gao, Subhajit Ghosh, and Taegyun Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 131003 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Gravitational-Wave Induced Freeze-In of Fermionic Dark Matter

Azadeh Maleknejad and Joachim Kopp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 131501 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Particles and Fields

Neutron-Multiplicity Measurement in Muon Capture on Oxygen Nuclei in the Gadolinium-Loaded Super-Kamiokande Detector

S. Miki et al. (The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 131801 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Flavor-Space Analog to the Aharonov-Bohm Effect for a Constant Scalar Matter Potential in Neutrino Flavor Interferometry

José Bernabéu and Catalina Espinoza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 131802 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Novel Limits on Dark Photon Mixing from Radiation Safety

Wen Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 131803 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

Gluon Polarimetry with Energy-Energy Correlators

Yu-Kun Song, Shu-Yi Wei, Lei Yang, and Jian Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 131901 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Nucleon Energy Correlators as a Probe of Light-Quark Dipole Operators at the Electron-Ion Collider

Yingsheng Huang, Xuan-Bo Tong, and Hao-Lin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 131902 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Hyperpolarized Molecular Nuclear Spins Achieve Magnetic Amplification

Shengbang Zhou, Qing Li, Yi Ren, Jingyan Xu, Raphael Kircher, Danila A. Barskiy, Dmitry Budker, Min Jiang, and Xinhua Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 133201 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

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Superfluid Fraction of a 2D Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Triangular Lattice

F. Rabec, G. Brochier, S. Wattellier, G. Chauveau, Y. Li, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 133401 (2026) - Published 30 March, 2026

The superfluid fraction of a 2D Bose-Einstein condensate is experimentally determined for the first time.

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High Compression Blue-Detuned Magneto-Optical Trap of Polyatomic Molecules

Christian Hallas, Grace K. Li, Nathaniel B. Vilas, Paige Robichaud, Loïc Anderegg, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 133402 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Researchers have improved trapping of polyatomic molecules while also controlling their collisions—two important advances for ultracold polyatomic molecular physics.

Gauge-Tunable Uniform Delocalization of Higher-Order Topological Photonic Modes

Shiqi Li, Yu He, Yunlang Wang, Shiyin Jia, Haotian Li, Renwen Huang, Hui Huang, Hongling Cai, Minghui Lu, Biye Xie, Peng Zhan, and Zhenlin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 133801 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Dynamic Focusing to Suppress Emittance Transfer in Crab-Crossing Flat Beam Collisions

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 135001 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Thomson Scattering with Gain

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 135101 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

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Measurement of the Alfvén Wave Parametric Decay Instability Growth Rate

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 135201 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Angular Momentum Fluctuations in the Phonon Vacuum of Symmetric Crystals

Rule Yi, Violet Williams, and Benedetta Flebus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136101 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Determining the Dielectric Constant of Solid-Liquid Interfaces

Somaiyeh Dadashi, Narendra M. Adhikari, Hao Li, Stefan M. Piontek, Zheming Wang, Kevin M. Rosso, and Eric Borguet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136201 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

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Nanoscale Imaging of Magnetotransport around a Circular $p − n$ Junction in Graphene

Zachary J. Krebs, Wyatt A. Behn, Keenan J. Smith, Margaret A. Fortman, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Pathak S. Parashar, Michael M. Fogler, and Victor W. Brar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136301 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Electrons in graphene follow various spiraling paths when they flow around a circular barrier under the influence of a magnetic field.

Soft Phonon Charge-Density-Wave Formation in the Kagome Metal ${KV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Yifan Wang, Chenchao Xu, Zhimian Wu, Huachen Rao, Zhaoyang Shan, Yi Liu, Guanghan Cao, Michael Smidman, Ming Shi, Huiqiu Yuan, Tao Wu, Xianhui Chen, Chao Cao, and Yu Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136401 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

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Spatial Inversion Kramers Degeneracy

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136601 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Quantum Critical Dynamics Induced by Topological Zero Modes

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Emergence of a Fluctuating Ground State in Y-Kapellasite under Pressure

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136701 (2026) - Published 30 March, 2026

Hydrostatic pressure drives a magnetically ordered kagome material into a fluctuating ground state that shares key features with quantum spin liquids.

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Fractional Quantum Multiferroics from Coupling of Fractional Quantum Ferroelectricity and Altermagnetism

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136702 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Charge-Density Ripples Modulated by Nuclear Quantum Effects in High-Harmonic Generation in Solids

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136901 (2026) - Published 30 March, 2026

High-Order Perfect Absorption in the Absence of Exceptional Point

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136902 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Near-Field Gain and Far-Field Control via a Plasmonic Time Crystal Slab

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136903 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

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Electrically Driven Plasmon-Polaritonic Bistability in Dirac Electron Tunneling Transistors

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 136904 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

An electrically driven nonlinear mechanism based on resonant tunneling, plasmon-polaritonic bistability, unlocks the potential realization of polaritonic on-chip optical memory and switching.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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