Volume 136, Issue 16

24 April 2026

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Artistic 3D representation of a graphene lattice illustrating the pseudomagnetic field induced by nonlinear strain. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Quantum Transport Spectroscopy of Pseudomagnetic Field in Graphene
Divya Sahani, Sunit Das, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Amit Agarwal, and Aveek Bid
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166604 (2026)

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 161002 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

Recently detected gamma rays are best accounted for by relativistic protons accelerated by a millennia-old supernova.

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Observation of Suppressed Charged-Particle Production in Ultrarelativistic Oxygen-Oxygen Collisions

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 162301 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider have observed evidence that indicates that even light nuclei can produce an exotic state of matter called quark–gluon plasma.

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Compatible Instability: Gauge Constraints of Elasticity Inherited by Electronic Nematic Criticality

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166501 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

A 19th-century theory of elasticity inspires a new way to analyze a quantum phase transition that has become central to modern quantum materials research.

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Emergent Chirality and Enantiomeric Selectivity in Layered ${NbOX}_{2}$ Crystals

Martin Gutierrez-Amigo, Claudia Felser, Ion Errea, and Maia G. Vergniory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166605 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

Theorists have identified a phase that could facilitate the switching of a crystal between its right-handed and left-handed versions.

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Time-domain Measurement of Auger Electron Dynamics in Xenon and Krypton Atoms after Giant Resonance Photoionization

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 163201 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

Attosecond soft-X-ray pump-probe spectroscopy of xenon and krypton atoms reveals two previously unobserved dynamical features in xenon that are inconsistent with lifetimes inferred from energy-domain measurements.

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Quantum Signatures of Proper Time in Optical Ion Clocks

Gabriel Sorci, Joshua Foo, Dietrich Leibfried, Christian Sanner, and Igor Pikovski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 163602 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

High-precision clocks based on quantum systems will work in a regime where a quantum description of proper time might be necessary.

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Quantum Transport Spectroscopy of Pseudomagnetic Field in Graphene

Divya Sahani, Sunit Das, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Amit Agarwal, and Aveek Bid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166604 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

A quantitative detection of strain-induced pseudomagnetic fields in graphene resolves a challenge in Dirac materials by showing that valley-antisymmetric gauge fields imprint a universal, symmetry-protected beating signature on the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in the magnetotransport.

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Orbital Magnetization of Correlated States in Twisted Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Xiaoyu Liu, Chong Wang, Haoran Chen, Xiao-Wei Zhang, Ting Cao, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166606 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

The modern theory of orbital magnetization, derived for noninteracting electrons, applied to strongly correlated states remains valid for Hartree–Fock states, so can be used to interpret magnetization in interacting moiré systems.

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Floquet Spin Splitting and Spin Generation in Antiferromagnets

Bo Li, Ding-Fu Shao, and Alexey A. Kovalev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166701 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Polarized light lifts spin degeneracy in conventional antiferromagnets without requiring spin-orbit coupling and generates steady-state pure spin current.

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Understanding Mechanisms of Molecular Rare Events from Start to Finish

Rik S. Breebaart, Gianmarco Lazzeri, Roberto Covino, and Peter G. Bolhuis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 168001 (2026) - Published 24 April, 2026

A novel path sampling strategy combined with deep learning computes the full committor function in complex systems with high free energy barriers.

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Experimental Verification of Multicopy Activation of Genuine Multipartite Entanglement

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 160201 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

Harnessing Nonconvex Quantum Correlations of Independent Qubits

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 160202 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Spectral Decomposition and High-Accuracy Green’s Functions: Overcoming the Nyquist-Shannon Limit via Complex-time Krylov Expansion

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 160401 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Measurement-Induced Entanglement in Conformal Field Theory

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 160402 (2026) - Published 24 April, 2026

Taming Rydberg Decay with Measurement-Based Quantum Computation

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 160601 (2026) - Published 24 April, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Cosmological Analysis with Calibrated Neural Quantile Estimation and Approximate Simulators

He Jia (贾赫)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 161001 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

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Evidence of Cosmic-Ray Acceleration up to Sub-PeV Energies in the Supernova Remnant IC 443

Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 161002 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

Recently detected gamma rays are best accounted for by relativistic protons accelerated by a millennia-old supernova.

Frozen-In Gravitational Fields

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 161401 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Radiating Black Holes in General Relativity Need Not Be Singular

Francesco Di Filippo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 161402 (2026) - Published 24 April, 2026

Particles and Fields

Subleading Color Corrections at Three Loops to the $tr (ϕ^{2})$ Three-Point Form Factor in $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Xin Guan, Bernhard Mistlberger, and Michael Ruf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 161601 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

Precision Measurement of $C P$ Violation and Branching Fractions in $B^{\pm} \to K_{S}^{0} h^{\pm}$ ( $h = π$ , $K$ ) Decays and Search for the Rare Decay $B_{c}^{\pm} \to K_{S}^{0} K^{\pm}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 161801 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

First Measurement of the $D_{s}^{+} \to K^{0} μ^{+} ν_{μ}$ Decay

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 161802 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Electromagnetic Form Factors and Structure of the $T_{b b}$ Tetraquark from Lattice QCD

Ivan Vujmilovic, Sara Collins, Luka Leskovec, and Sasa Prelovsek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 161901 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

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Observation of Suppressed Charged-Particle Production in Ultrarelativistic Oxygen-Oxygen Collisions

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 162301 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider have observed evidence that indicates that even light nuclei can produce an exotic state of matter called quark–gluon plasma.

Precise ${}^{136}{Xe}$ Double Beta Decay Measurement in PandaX-4T with Implications on the Nuclear Matrix Elements and Majorons

Zhe Yuan et al. (PandaX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 162501 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

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Time-domain Measurement of Auger Electron Dynamics in Xenon and Krypton Atoms after Giant Resonance Photoionization

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 163201 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

Phase-Dependent Squeezing in Dual-Comb Interferometry

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 163601 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

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Quantum Signatures of Proper Time in Optical Ion Clocks

Gabriel Sorci, Joshua Foo, Dietrich Leibfried, Christian Sanner, and Igor Pikovski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 163602 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

High-precision clocks based on quantum systems will work in a regime where a quantum description of proper time might be necessary.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 163801 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

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Subyield Dynamics in Yield-Stress Materials

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 164001 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Universal Low-Temperature Depletion of Superfluid Density in the Absence of Galilean Symmetry

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166001 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

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Compatible Instability: Gauge Constraints of Elasticity Inherited by Electronic Nematic Criticality

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166501 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

A 19th-century theory of elasticity inspires a new way to analyze a quantum phase transition that has become central to modern quantum materials research.

Novel Quantum Spin Liquid States in the $S = \frac{1}{2}$ Three-Dimensional Compound $Y_{3} {Cu}_{2} {Sb}_{3} O_{14}$

Saikat Nandi, Rounak Das, M. Hemmida, M. U. Akbar, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, Jörg Sichelschmidt, Sagar Mahapatra, Marlis Schuller, N. Büttgen, J. M. Wilkinson, M. P. Saravanan, Indra Dasgupta, and A. V. Mahajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166502 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Elastic Response and Instabilities of Anomalous Hall Crystals

Félix Desrochers, Mark R. Hirsbrunner, Joe Huxford, Adarsh S. Patri, T. Senthil, and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166503 (2026) - Published 24 April, 2026

Racetrack Computing with a Topological Boundary Ratchet

Parisa Omidvar, Markus Bestler, Sima Zahedi Fard, Oded Zilberberg, and Marc Serra-Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166601 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Observation of Higher-Dimensional Point-Gap Bulk-Boundary Correspondence

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166602 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Hall-on-Toric State: Descendant Laughlin State in the Chiral $Z_{p}$ Toric Code

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166603 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

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Quantum Transport Spectroscopy of Pseudomagnetic Field in Graphene

Divya Sahani, Sunit Das, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Amit Agarwal, and Aveek Bid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166604 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

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Emergent Chirality and Enantiomeric Selectivity in Layered ${NbOX}_{2}$ Crystals

Martin Gutierrez-Amigo, Claudia Felser, Ion Errea, and Maia G. Vergniory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166605 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

Theorists have identified a phase that could facilitate the switching of a crystal between its right-handed and left-handed versions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbital Magnetization of Correlated States in Twisted Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Xiaoyu Liu, Chong Wang, Haoran Chen, Xiao-Wei Zhang, Ting Cao, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166606 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Floquet Spin Splitting and Spin Generation in Antiferromagnets

Bo Li, Ding-Fu Shao, and Alexey A. Kovalev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 166701 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Polarized light lifts spin degeneracy in conventional antiferromagnets without requiring spin-orbit coupling and generates steady-state pure spin current.