Volume 136, Issue 15

17 April 2026

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Schematic of and image from an atom-resolved quantum gas microscope used to measure spatial charge and spin correlations in a strongly interacting two-dimensional Fermi gas, revealing unexpected long-range patterns. Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Observing Spatial Charge and Spin Correlations in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas
Cyprien Daix, Maxime Dixmerias, Yuan-Yao He, Joris Verstraten, Tim de Jongh, Bruno Peaudecerf, Shiwei Zhang, and Tarik Yefsah
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 153402 (2026)

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Observing Spatial Charge and Spin Correlations in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

Cyprien Daix, Maxime Dixmerias, Yuan-Yao He, Joris Verstraten, Tim de Jongh, Bruno Peaudecerf, Shiwei Zhang, and Tarik Yefsah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 153402 (2026) - Published 15 April, 2026

Snapshot measurements of cold-atom gases reveal hidden spin correlations that could force an update of some superconductivity theories.

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Krylov Winding and Emergent Coherence in Operator Growth Dynamics

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Operator growth at finite temperature in quantum chaotic systems relies on coherent spreading in the Krylov basis.

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The first experimental evidence that a 1D nanostructure induces Kekulé spiral order in graphene.

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By conserving in-plane momentum, the quantum twisting microscope directly measures Bogoliubov coherence factors and pairing amplitudes with full momentum resolution, providing information inaccessible to existing probes.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 156601 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

A quantum-many-body-inspired tensor-network algorithm can compute local topological invariants for systems with hundreds of millions of sites by avoiding an explicit storage of Hamiltonian matrices.

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Proof of a Universal Speed Limit on Fast Scrambling in Quantum Systems

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Realistic Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Stabilizer States Enable Universal Quantum Computation

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Shallow Quantum Circuit for Generating Extremely Low-Entangled Approximate State Designs

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 150603 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Semiclassical Geometric Tensor in Multiparameter Quantum Information

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 150801 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Probing Cosmic Ray Composition and Muonphilic Dark Matter via Muon Tomography

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Test of the Gravitational Force Law on Cosmological Scales Using the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 151002 (2026) - Published 15 April, 2026

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A South Pole neutrino experiment has measured radio waves induced by cosmic rays—thus demonstrating that its detection method works.

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Horizon Edge Partition Functions in $Λ > 0$ Quantum Gravity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 151601 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Universal Time Evolution of Holographic and Quantum Complexity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 151602 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Detecting Dark Matter Using Optically Trapped Rydberg Atom Tweezer Arrays

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 151801 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

Probing the Three-Body Force in Hadronic Systems with Specific Charge Parity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 151901 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Accessing Nucleon Transversity with One-Point Energy Correlators

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 151902 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 152301 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Collapse of Nuclear Collectivity along the $N = Z$ Line

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 152501 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

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Transient Phase Sensing in a Three-Photon Rydberg Ladder Scheme

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Photoelectron Holography of a Heteronuclear Molecule

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 153402 (2026) - Published 15 April, 2026

Snapshot measurements of cold-atom gases reveal hidden spin correlations that could force an update of some superconductivity theories.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 153601 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Universal Global Gates for a Fine-Structure Qubit in Strontium-88

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Interlayer Charge-Density-Wave Vector Phase Induced Structural Chirality

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Host-Atom-Driven Transformation of a Honeycomb Oxide into a Dodecagonal Quasicrystal

Martin Haller, Julia Hewelt, V. Y. M. Rajesh Chirala, Loi Vinh Tran, Ankur Bhide, Muriel Wegner, Stefan Förster, and Wolf Widdra

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Imaging Kekulé Spiral Order in Graphene

Can Zhang, Hua Chen, Ying Su, Fudi Zhou, Lili Zhou, Zhaoteng Dong, Mengya Ren, Lijun Zhang, Yu Zhang, and Yeliang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 156401 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

The first experimental evidence that a 1D nanostructure induces Kekulé spiral order in graphene.

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Momentum-Resolved Spectroscopy of Superconductivity with the Quantum Twisting Microscope

Yuval Waschitz, Ady Stern, and Yuval Oreg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 156501 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

False Vacuum Decay in Flat-Band Ferromagnets: Role of Quantum Geometry and Chiral Edge States

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Tensor Network Method for Real-Space Topology in Quasicrystal Chern Mosaics

Tiago V. C. Antão, Yitao Sun, Adolfo O. Fumega, and Jose L. Lado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 156601 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

A quantum-many-body-inspired tensor-network algorithm can compute local topological invariants for systems with hundreds of millions of sites by avoiding an explicit storage of Hamiltonian matrices.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Non-Abelian Chern Band in Rhombohedral Graphene Multilayers

Taketo Uchida, Takuto Kawakami, and Mikito Koshino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 156602 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

Algebraic States in Continuum in $d > 1$ Dimensional Non-Hermitian Systems

Ao Yang, Kai Zhang, and Chen Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 156603 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Selective Ultrafast Optical Excitation of High-Wave-Number Dynamics in a Magnetophotonic Nanostructure

Daniil V. Konkov, Daria O. Ignatyeva, Anastasia E. Bezmenova, Savelii V. Lutsenko, Natalia S. Kaurova, Petr M. Vetoshko, Alexander L. Kudryashov, Grigory N. Goltsman, and Vladimir I. Belotelov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 156701 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Minkowski-Space Modeling of Hyperbolic Lenses

Enrico Maria Renzi, Simon Yves, Sveinung Erland, Diana Strickland, Eitan Bachmat, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 156901 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Terahertz-Driven Parametric Excitation of Raman-Active Phonons in ${LaAlO}_{3}$

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 156902 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Giant Splitting and Universal Behavior of Fabry-Pérot Bound States in the Continuum in Waveguides

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 156904 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

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Tunable Anomalous Diffusion in Subrecoil-Laser-Cooled Atoms

Soma Shiraki, Eli Barkai, and Takuma Akimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 157101 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

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Flows of gravity-driven, shear-thickening fluids form a sharp, vertical front that advances at constant velocity independent of released volume, flow height, and slope.

Universal Persistent Brownian Motions in Confluent Tissues

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 158401 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Dynamics of Wound Closure in Living Nematic Epithelia

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