Volume 136, Issue 18

8 May 2026

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Passive PT dimer experiment using superconducting qubits.

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Probing Sensitivity Near a Quantum Exceptional Point Using Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics
Aziza Almanakly, Réouven Assouly, Harry Hanlim Kang, Michael Gingras, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Hannah Stickler, Mollie E. Schwartz, Kyle Serniak, Max Hays, Jeffrey A. Grover, and William D. Oliver
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 183601 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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First Detection of Ultrahigh Energy Emission from Gamma-Ray Binary LS I $+ 61 °$ 303

Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181001 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

The observation of ultrahigh-energy radiation from a binary star system suggests that such “gamma-ray binaries” could be significant contributors to the cosmic-ray spectrum.

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Experimental Observation of Anomalous Stopping of Mega-ampere Electron Current in Porous Materials

K. Jiang, Z. G. Deng, T. W. Huang, K. J. Luo, P. Chen, M. Y. Yu, L. Xu, S. Li, L. Yang, F. Lu, W. W. Wang, Z. Q. Yuan, H. Peng, R. Li, H. Zhang, S. Z. Wu, H. B. Zhuo, W. Luo, W. M. Zhou, Y. Q. Gu, and C. T. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 185102 (2026) - Published 8 May, 2026

An intense electron beam is stopped more efficiently by a highly porous material than by a less porous material, suggesting new strategies for controlling beams.

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Altermagnetic Proximity Effect

Ziye Zhu, Richang Huang, Xianzhang Chen, Zhou Cui, Xunkai Duan, Jiayong Zhang, Igor Žutić, and Tong Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186702 (2026) - Published 5 May, 2026

According to theory, a property called altermagnetism can be acquired by a nonmagnetic material that is adjacent to an altermagnet.

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Quantum Teleportation over Thermal Microwave Network

W. K. Yam, S. Gandorfer, F. Fesquet, M. Handschuh, K. E. Honasoge, A. Marx, R. Gross, and K. G. Fedorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 180801 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

The deterministic quantum teleportation of microwave coherent states between two spatially-separated dilution refrigerators connected via a superconducting channel operating at temperatures up to 4 Kelvin demonstrates the experimental feasibility of quantum communication over a thermal microwave network.

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Coupling of a Nuclear Transition to a Surface Acoustic Wave

Albert Nazeeri, Chiara Brandenstein, Chengjie Jia, Lorenzo Magrini, and Giorgio Gratta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 183801 (2026) - Published 5 May, 2026

Coupling a film of enriched $^{57}$ Fe to a surface acoustic wave produces a comb of absorption sidebands in the Mossbauer spectrum, consistent with coherent phase modulation of the nuclear transition.

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Observation of Spin-Duality Breaking in Pancharatnam-Berry Metasurfaces

Haoye Qin, Wenjing Lv, Junda Wang, Kaili Sun, Xinyang Mu, Zhanghua Han, Qinghua Song, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 183805 (2026) - Published 8 May, 2026

An experiment shows that geometric phase of Pancharatnam-Berry metasurfaces can be preserved while their intrinsic spin duality is deliberately broken.

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Quantum Spin Liquid Phase in the Shastry-Sutherland Model Revealed by High-Precision Infinite Projected Entangled-Pair States

Philippe Corboz, Yining Zhang, Boris Ponsioen, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186701 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

High-precision tensor network calculations in the 2D thermodynamic limit reveal a narrow quantum spin liquid phase, consistent with previous studies, but based on variational states significantly closer to the exact ground state in the thermodynamic limit.

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Resolving the Arrhenius Paradox by Isochoric Analysis of Rotational Barriers in Molecular Glasses

Marzena Rams-Baron, Alfred Błażytko, Riccardo Casalini, and Marian Paluch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 188202 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

The long-standing Arrhenius paradox in molecular glasses is resolved by showing that activation energy decreases linearly with temperature as a consequence of density-driven variations of the barrier.

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Cooling Mechanism Controls Motility-Induced Phase Separation in Inertial Active Liquids

Manuel Mayo, Lorenzo Caprini, María Isabel García de Soria, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi, Pablo Maynar, Luca Pizzoli, and Andrea Puglisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 188301 (2026) - Published 8 May, 2026

A novel cooling-induced mechanism driving phase separation in inertial active matter exhibits both similarities to and differences from phenomena observed in granular gases.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Coherence as a Resource for Phase Estimation

Felix Ahnefeld, Thomas Theurer, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 180201 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

Experimental Genuine Quantum Nonlocality in the Triangle Network

Ning-Ning Wang, Chao Zhang, Huan Cao, Kai Xu, Bi-Heng Liu, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, Nicolas Gisin, Tamás Kriváchy, and Marc-Olivier Renou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 180202 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Enhanced Quantum Metrology via Saddle-Point Scrambling in Phase Space

Lei Shao, Hai-Jun Xing, and Libin Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 180203 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Giant-Atom Quantum Batteries: Lossless Energy Transfer via Interference Engineering

Ke-Xiong Yan, Yang Liu, Yang Xiao, Jun-Hao Lin, Jie Song, Ye-Hong Chen, Franco Nori, and Yan Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 180401 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Equivalence of Discrete and Continuous Otto-like Engines Assisted by Catalysts: Mapping Catalytic Advantages from the Discrete to the Continuous Framework

Marcin Łobejko, Tanmoy Biswas, and Michał Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 180402 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

Universality of Shallow Global Quenches in Critical Spin Chains

Julia Wei, Méabh Allen, Jack Kemp, Chenbing Wang, Zixia Wei, Joel E. Moore, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 180403 (2026) - Published 8 May, 2026

Quantum-Merlin-Arthur Problems Have Perfect Completeness with an Infinite Counter

Stacey Jeffery and Freek Witteveen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 180601 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

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Quantum Teleportation over Thermal Microwave Network

W. K. Yam, S. Gandorfer, F. Fesquet, M. Handschuh, K. E. Honasoge, A. Marx, R. Gross, and K. G. Fedorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 180801 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

Ultracold Mechanical Quantum Sensor for Tests of New Physics

Andraž Omahen, Simon Storz, Marius Bild, Dario Scheiwiller, Matteo Fadel, and Yiwen Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 180802 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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First Detection of Ultrahigh Energy Emission from Gamma-Ray Binary LS I $+ 61 °$ 303

Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181001 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

The observation of ultrahigh-energy radiation from a binary star system suggests that such “gamma-ray binaries” could be significant contributors to the cosmic-ray spectrum.

Ultraheavy Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays

B. Theodore Zhang, Kohta Murase, Nick Ekanger, Mukul Bhattacharya, and Shunsaku Horiuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181002 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

Positivity of Holographic Energy

Piotr T. Chruściel and Raphaela Wutte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181401 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Neural Post-Einsteinian Test of General Relativity with the Third Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog

Yiqi Xie, Gautham Narayan, and Nicolás Yunes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181402 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Particles and Fields

Holographic Constraint on Scale Separation

Nikolay Bobev, Hynek Paul, and Filippo Revello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181601 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Bootstrapping Six-Gluon QCD Amplitudes

Sérgio Carrôlo, Dmitry Chicherin, Johannes Henn, Qinglin Yang, and Yang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181602 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

High-Precision Bootstrap of Multimatrix Quantum Mechanics

Henry W. Lin and Zechuan Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181603 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

First Evidence for Mixing-Induced $C P$ Violation in $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ ϕ (1020)$ Decays in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181801 (2026) - Published 5 May, 2026

Searches for $B^{0} \to K^{+} π^{-} τ^{+} τ^{-}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-} τ^{+} τ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181802 (2026) - Published 5 May, 2026

Quantum Tomography in Neutral Meson and Antimeson Systems

Kun Cheng, Tao Han, Matthew Low, and Tong Arthur Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181803 (2026) - Published 5 May, 2026

Light New Physics and the $τ$ Lepton Dipole Moments: Prospects at Belle II

Martin Hoferichter and Gabriele Levati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181804 (2026) - Published 5 May, 2026

Constraints on New Vector Boson Mediated Electron-Nucleus Interactions from Spectroscopy Data of Polar Diatomic Molecules

Konstantin Gaul, Lei Cong, and Dmitry Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181805 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Inclusive Search for Anomalous Single-Photon Production in MicroBooNE

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181806 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

Search for Light Pseudoscalar Bosons, Pair-Produced in Higgs Boson Decays in the Four-Electron Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181807 (2026) - Published 8 May, 2026

Method to Obtain Bounds on the Equation of State of Cold Nuclear Matter from Imaginary Chemical Potentials

Thomas D. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181901 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Relativistic Spin Hydrodynamics with Antisymmetric Spin Tensors and an Extension of the Bargmann-Michel-Telegdi Equation

Shuo Fang, Kenji Fukushima, Shi Pu, and Dong-Lin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 182301 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Ab Initio Calculations of $β$ -Decay Half-Lives for $N = 50$ Neutron-Rich Nuclei

Zhen Li, Takayuki Miyagi, and Achim Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 182501 (2026) - Published 5 May, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Vorticity-Crystalline Order Coupling in Supersolids: Excitations and Reentrant Phases

M. Schubert, K. Mukherjee, P. Stürmer, and S. M. Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 183401 (2026) - Published 8 May, 2026

Probing Sensitivity Near a Quantum Exceptional Point Using Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics

Aziza Almanakly, Réouven Assouly, Harry Hanlim Kang, Michael Gingras, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Hannah Stickler, Mollie E. Schwartz, Kyle Serniak, Max Hays, Jeffrey A. Grover, and William D. Oliver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 183601 (2026) - Published 5 May, 2026

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Coupling of a Nuclear Transition to a Surface Acoustic Wave

Albert Nazeeri, Chiara Brandenstein, Chengjie Jia, Lorenzo Magrini, and Giorgio Gratta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 183801 (2026) - Published 5 May, 2026

Tailoring Spin-Orbit Interaction in High Harmonic Generation via Geometric Phase

Jianing Zhang, Xiulan Liu, Olga Smirnova, Misha Ivanov, and Liang-You Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 183802 (2026) - Published 5 May, 2026

Circularly Polarized Quasimonochromatic High Harmonic Generation

Xiaosong Zhu, Jie Long, Hailang Wei, Chunyang Zhai, Pengfei Lan, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 183803 (2026) - Published 5 May, 2026

Airy Resonances in Photonic Crystal Superpotentials

Zeyu Zhang, Brian Gould, Maria Barsukova, and Mikael C. Rechtsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 183804 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

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Observation of Spin-Duality Breaking in Pancharatnam-Berry Metasurfaces

Haoye Qin, Wenjing Lv, Junda Wang, Kaili Sun, Xinyang Mu, Zhanghua Han, Qinghua Song, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 183805 (2026) - Published 8 May, 2026

An experiment shows that geometric phase of Pancharatnam-Berry metasurfaces can be preserved while their intrinsic spin duality is deliberately broken.

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Metric Geometry Governs Optimal Control in Driven Stokes Flows: Magnetic Driving and Beyond

Kyle I. McKee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 184001 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Evidence of Nonlinear Coupling in the Edge Harmonic Oscillation Sustaining Quiescent High Confinement in a Tokamak Plasma

R. A. Myers, J. S. Sarff, B. E. Chapman, K. J. McCollam, M. D. Pandya, R. Xie, Z. Li, D. L. Brower, J. Chen, X. Chen, and W. X. Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 185101 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

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Experimental Observation of Anomalous Stopping of Mega-ampere Electron Current in Porous Materials

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 185102 (2026) - Published 8 May, 2026

An intense electron beam is stopped more efficiently by a highly porous material than by a less porous material, suggesting new strategies for controlling beams.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Observation of a Pronounced Hebel-Slichter Peak in the Spin-Lattice Relaxation Rate and Implications for Gap and Pairing Symmetry in ${LaNiGa}_{2}$

P. Sherpa, R. Hingorani, A. Menon, I. Vinograd, C. Chaffey, A. P. Dioguardi, R. Yamamoto, M. Hirata, F. Ronning, J. R. Badger, P. Klavins, R. R. P. Singh, V. Taufour, and N. J. Curro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186001 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Josephson Effect in Fibonacci Superconductors from Topological Supragap States

Ignacio Sardinero, Jorge Cayao, Keiji Yada, Yukio Tanaka, and Pablo Burset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186002 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

Linear Magnetoresistance in a Strange Metal

Jaewon Kim and Shubhayu Chatterjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186301 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

Viscous Heat Backflow and Temperature Resonances in Extreme Thermal Conductors

Jan Dragašević, Bogdan Rajkov, and Michele Simoncelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186302 (2026) - Published 8 May, 2026

Distinct Behaviors of Inner and Outer ${CuO}_{2}$ Planes in Quadruple-Layer Cuprate $(Cu, C) {Ba}_{2} {Ca}_{3} {Cu}_{4} O_{11 + δ}$

Xingtian Sun, Suppanut Sangphet, Nan Guo, Yu Fan, Yutong Chen, Minyinan Lei, Xue Ming, Xiyu Zhu, Hai-Hu Wen, Haichao Xu, Rui Peng, and Donglai Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186401 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Thermoelectricity of Moiré Heavy Fermions in ${MoTe}_{2} / {WSe}_{2}$ Bilayers

Yichi Zhang, Wenjin Zhao, Zhongdong Han, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jie Shan, and Kin Fai Mak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186501 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Superconductivity Reinforces Charge-Density-Wave Phase Coherence across Cuprates

H. Lee, C.-T. Kuo, M. Fujita, C.-C. Kao, and J.-S. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186502 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

Twisted Quantum Doubles Are Sign Problem-Free

Leyna Shackleton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186503 (2026) - Published 8 May, 2026

Topological Constraint on Crystalline Current

Tomohiro Soejima (副島智大), Junkai Dong (董焌锴), Ophelia Evelyn Sommer, Daniel E. Parker, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186601 (2026) - Published 5 May, 2026

Quantum-Geometric Dipole: A Topological Boost to Flavor Ferromagnetism in Flat Bands

Lei Chen, Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Jennifer Cano, and Valentin Crépel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186602 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

3D $Z$ -Classified Higher-Order Topological Insulator Induced by Multiple Orbitals

Shi-Feng Li, Cui-Yu-Yang Zhou, Yi-Fan Zhu, Xin-Ye Zou, Jian-Chun Cheng, and Badreddine Assouar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186603 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

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Quantum Spin Liquid Phase in the Shastry-Sutherland Model Revealed by High-Precision Infinite Projected Entangled-Pair States

Philippe Corboz, Yining Zhang, Boris Ponsioen, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186701 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

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Altermagnetic Proximity Effect

Ziye Zhu, Richang Huang, Xianzhang Chen, Zhou Cui, Xunkai Duan, Jiayong Zhang, Igor Žutić, and Tong Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186702 (2026) - Published 5 May, 2026

According to theory, a property called altermagnetism can be acquired by a nonmagnetic material that is adjacent to an altermagnet.

Ab Initio Theory of Optical Activity in $α$ -Quartz in the $G W$ -Bethe-Salpeter-Equation Framework

Xiaoming Wang and Yanfa Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186901 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Driving Thermal Vacuum Photons by Time-Modulated Media

Changjian Zhang, Tian Yuan, Hongxing Xu, and Deng Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186902 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Role of Nonequilibrium Populations in Dark-Exciton Formation

Paul Werner, Wiebke Bennecke, Jan Philipp Bange, Giuseppe Meneghini, David Schmitt, Marco Merboldt, Anna M. Seiler, AbdulAziz AlMutairi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, G. S. Matthijs Jansen, Junde Liu, Daniel Steil, Stephan Hofmann, R. Thomas Weitz, Ermin Malic, Stefan Mathias, and Marcel Reutzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186903 (2026) - Published 8 May, 2026

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Symmetry-Based Nonlinear Fluctuating Hydrodynamics in One Dimension

Yuki Minami, Hiroyoshi Nakano, and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 187101 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Size-Specific Transport of Colloidal Particles Using Magnetic Fields

Sebastian Wohlrab, Lara Schelter, Aneena Rinu Perayil, Piotr Kuświk, Maciej Urbaniak, Feliks Stobiecki, Arne J. Vereijken, Arno Ehresmann, Thomas M. Fischer, and Daniel de las Heras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 188201 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

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Resolving the Arrhenius Paradox by Isochoric Analysis of Rotational Barriers in Molecular Glasses

Marzena Rams-Baron, Alfred Błażytko, Riccardo Casalini, and Marian Paluch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 188202 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

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Cooling Mechanism Controls Motility-Induced Phase Separation in Inertial Active Liquids

Manuel Mayo, Lorenzo Caprini, María Isabel García de Soria, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi, Pablo Maynar, Luca Pizzoli, and Andrea Puglisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 188301 (2026) - Published 8 May, 2026

A novel cooling-induced mechanism driving phase separation in inertial active matter exhibits both similarities to and differences from phenomena observed in granular gases.

ERRATA

Erratum: Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Randomness Certification from Incompatibility [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 060201 (2025)]

Yi Li, Yu Xiang, Jordi Tura, and Qiongyi He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 189901 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026