Volume 136, Issue 20

22 May 2026

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DC nonlinear transport mediated by electrons is governed by the nonequilibrium steady state associated with mechanisms of dissipation: a metallic backgate/bath (beige background), electron-phonon interactions between sites (blue sites), static disorder (red site), and radiation (red waves). Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Dissipation-Shaped Quantum Geometry in Nonlinear Transport
Zhichao Guo, Xing-Yuan Liu, Hua Wang, Li-kun Shi, and Kai Chang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206303 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Photoinduced Metal-to-Insulator Transitions in 2D Moiré Devices

Yiliu Li, Esteban Rojas-Gatjens, Yinjie Guo, Birui Yang, Dihao Sun, Luke Holtzman, Juseung Oh, Katayun Barmak, Cory R. Dean, James C. Hone, Nathaniel Gabor, Eric A. Arsenault, and Xiaoyang Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206502 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

A laser-based approach rapidly injects charge into moiré materials and drives metal-to-insulator transitions.

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Finite-Frequency Fluctuation-Response Inequality

Andreas Dechant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 207101 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Researchers derive a universal limit linking noise and response to perturbations in systems far from equilibrium.

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Fast-Ion Axial Bounce Resonance in a Linear Magnetic Fusion Device

S. Karbashewski, E. M. Granstedt, S. Kamio, M. Onofri, T. DeHaas, Y. Fujiwara, R. E. Groenewald, and A. Veksler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 205101 (2026) - Published 22 May, 2026

A new energetic-particle mode exhibits similarities to drift–bounce resonances in Earth’s magnetosphere and has been observed in a field-reversed plasma configuration using the NORM fusion device.

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Correlation-Driven Ultrafast Exciton Diffusion in Hubbard-Regime Moiré Superlattices

Huan Liu, Haowen Xu, Shihong Chen, Rui Han, Zejun Sun, Mingxin Xu, Shuchun Huang, Xiushuo Zhang, Li Huang, Jianbin Luo, and Dameng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206302 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Ultrafast microscopy reveals that exciton flow in moiré superlattices can be switched on or off by competing Hubbard interactions and correlated electron phases, enabling quantum control of energy transport.

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Dissipation-Shaped Quantum Geometry in Nonlinear Transport

Zhichao Guo, Xing-Yuan Liu, Hua Wang, Li-kun Shi, and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206303 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Nonlinear transport as a probe of quantum geometry is not universal and is contingent on the specific dissipation mechanism, not just its strength.

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Harnessing Plasmonic Heating for Switching in Antiferromagnets

H. Y. Yuan, Yizheng Wu, and Olena Gomonay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206702 (2026) - Published 21 May, 2026

Nanoscale heating engineered through plasmonic excitation enables magnetic information processing and may provide a solution to the problem of heat waste, a major obstacle for green information technologies.

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Raman Optical Activity Induced by Ferroaxial Order in ${NiTiO}_{3}$

Gakuto Kusuno, Takeshi Hayashida, Takayuki Nagai, Hikaru Watanabe, Rikuto Oiwa, Tsuyoshi Kimura, and Takuya Satoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206902 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Raman optical activity, a phenomenon usually observed in systems where inversion or time-reversal symmetry is broken, arises in a centrosymmetric, nonmagnetic crystal due to ferroaxial order.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exciton-Polaritons and Exciton Localization from a First-Principles Interacting Green’s Function Formalism

Zachary N. Mauri, Christopher J. Ciccarino, Jonah B. Haber, Diana Y. Qiu, and Felipe H. da Jornada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206904 (2026) - Published 22 May, 2026

A first-principles formalism naturally describes exciton-polaritons within the highly successful GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation framework at a negligible added computational cost.

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Boundary-Induced Helical Bulk Acoustic Transport in ${LiNbO}_{3}$ Thin Films

Zhe Li, Zhen-Hui Qin, Shu-Mao Wu, Chen-Bei Hao, Fan-Yun Pan, Hao Yan, Yi-Han He, Yan-Chen Zhou, Xue-Jun Yan, Si-Yuan Yu, Cheng He, Ming-Hui Lu, and Yan-Feng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 207001 (2026) - Published 22 May, 2026

Helical, backscattering-resistant acoustic transport in the bulk (not at edges) makes possible the fabrication of efficient, high-throughput on-chip phononic devices.

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Directionality-Induced Jamming in Multiplex Networks

Mateo Bouchet, Alejandro Tejedor, Xiangrong Wang, and Yamir Moreno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 207401 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

In multiplex networks, directed links between layers hinder diffusion and break the system up, preventing it from converging to a steady state.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Exact Floquet Dynamics of Strongly Damped Driven Quantum Systems

Konrad Mickiewicz, Valentin Link, and Walter T. Strunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 200201 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Tunable Lower Critical Fractal Dimension for a Nonequilibrium Phase Transition

Mattheus Burkhard, Luca Giacomelli, and Cristiano Ciuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 200401 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

General Framework for Error Interference in Quantum Simulation

Boyang Chen, Jue Xu, Xiao Yuan, and Qi Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 200601 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Optimizing the Frequency Positioning of Tunable Couplers in a Circuit QED Processor to Mitigate Spectator Effects on Quantum Operations

S. Vallés-Sanclemente, T. H. F. Vroomans, T. R. van Abswoude, T. Stavenga, F. Brulleman, S. L. M. van der Meer, Y. Xin, A. Lawrence, V. Singh, M. A. Rol, and L. DiCarlo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 200801 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Dressed-State Hamiltonian Engineering in a Strongly Interacting Solid-State Spin Ensemble

Haoyang Gao, Nathaniel T. Leitao, Siddharth Dandavate, Lillian B. Hughes Wyatt, Piotr Put, Mathew Mammen, Leigh S. Martin, Hongkun Park, Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 200802 (2026) - Published 22 May, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Numerical Evolution of Self-Gravitating Halos of Self-Interacting Dark Matter

Marc Kamionkowski, Kris Sigurdson, and Oren Slone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 201001 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Constraints on Symmetric Dark Matter from Neutron Star Capture and Collapse

Yuxin Liu, Zhen Liu, Maxim Pospelov, and Sanjay Reddy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 201002 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Ultralight Dark Matter from the Edge of Field Space

Mathias Becker, Francesco D’Eramo, and Ville Vaskonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 201003 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Coherent Freeze-Out of Dark Matter

Steven Ferrante, Maxim Perelstein, and Bingrong Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 201004 (2026) - Published 20 May, 2026

GW231123: A Possible Primordial Black Hole Origin

Valerio De Luca, Gabriele Franciolini, and Antonio Riotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 201401 (2026) - Published 21 May, 2026

Fifth-Force Constraints from UV-Complete Scalar-Tensor Gravity

Alfio M. Bonanno and Emiliano M. Glaviano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 201501 (2026) - Published 20 May, 2026

Particles and Fields

From Weyl Anomaly to Universal Defect Casimir Energy and Rényi Entropy

Zi-Xiao Huang, Ma-Ke Yuan, and Yang Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 201601 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Role of Final-State Interaction Modeling in Neutrino-Energy Reconstruction and Oscillation Measurements

Y. Liu, L. Munteanu, and S. Dolan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 201801 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Precise Measurement of Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry with Entangled Hyperon-Antihyperon Pairs

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 201802 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Nucleon Electric Dipole Moments in Paramagnetic Molecules through Effective Field Theory

Wouter Dekens, Jordy de Vries, Lemonia Gialidi, Javier Menéndez, Heleen Mulder, and Beatriz Romeo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 201803 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Glauber-Theory Calculations of High-Energy Nuclear Scattering Observables Using Variational Monte Carlo Wave Functions

W. Horiuchi, Y. Suzuki, and R. B. Wiringa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 202501 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Efficient Learning Method to Connect Observables

Hang Yu and Takayuki Miyagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 202502 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Measurement of the Ground State Spin and Parity of ${}^{22}{Al}$ Disfavors Halo Formation

E. A. M. Jensen, J. S. Nielsen, B. S. O. Johansson, A. Adams, J. Dopfer, C. S. Sumithrarachchi, L. J. Sun, L. E. Weghorn, T. Wheeler, C. Wrede, M. J. G. Borge, O. Tengblad, M. Madurga, B. Jonson, K. Riisager, and H. O. U. Fynbo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 202503 (2026) - Published 20 May, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

${}^{3}{He} − {}^{21}{Ne}$ Ramsey Comagnetometer with Sub-nHz Frequency Resolution

Shaobo Zhang, Jingyao Wang, George Sun, Johannes J. van de Wetering, and Michael V. Romalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 203201 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Lellouch-Lüscher Relation for Ultracold Few-Atom Systems under Confinement

Jing-Lun Li, Paul S. Julienne, Johannes Hecker Denschlag, and José P. D’Incao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 203401 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Dynamical Control of Quantum Photon-Photon Interaction with Phase Change Material

Chaojie Wang, Xutong Li, Xiuyi Ma, Yuning Zhang, Meng Wu, Weifang Lu, Yuanyuan Chen, Xiubao Sui, and Lixiang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 203601 (2026) - Published 22 May, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Soft-Lubrication Drainage and Rupture in Particle-Driven Vesicles

Yuan-Nan Young, Bryan Quaife, Herve Nganguia, On Shun Pak, Jie Feng, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 204001 (2026) - Published 20 May, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Fast-Ion Axial Bounce Resonance in a Linear Magnetic Fusion Device

S. Karbashewski, E. M. Granstedt, S. Kamio, M. Onofri, T. DeHaas, Y. Fujiwara, R. E. Groenewald, and A. Veksler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 205101 (2026) - Published 22 May, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Anisotropic Josephson Coupling of $d$ Vectors in Triplet Superconductors Arising from Frustrated Spin Textures

Grayson R. Frazier, Junyi Zhang, and Yi Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206001 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Magnetochiral Anisotropy in Josephson Diode Effect of All-Metallic Lateral Junctions with Interfacial Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling

Maximilian Mangold, Lorenz Bauriedl, Johanna Berger, Chang Yu-Cheng, Thomas N. G. Meier, Matthias Kronseder, Pertti Hakonen, Christian H. Back, Christoph Strunk, and Dhavala Suri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206002 (2026) - Published 20 May, 2026

Resolving Structural Avalanches in Amorphous Carbon with Arclength Continuation

Fraser Birks, Ibrahim Ghanem, Lars Pastewka, James Kermode, and Maciej Buze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206101 (2026) - Published 20 May, 2026

Domain-Wall-Mediated Polarization Switching in Ferroelectric AlScN: Strain Relief and Field-Dependent Dynamics

Xiangyu Zheng, Charles Paillard, Dawei Wang, Peng Chen, Hong Jian Zhao, Yu Xie, and Laurent Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206102 (2026) - Published 20 May, 2026

$g$ -Factor Theory of Si/SiGe Quantum Dots: Spin-Valley and Giant Renormalization Effects

Benjamin D. Woods, Merritt P. Losert, Robert Joynt, and Mark Friesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206201 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Shear-Mode Raman Imaging of Ferroelectric Switching in Multilayer $3 R − {MoS}_{2}$

Yulu Liu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Xiaoxiang Xi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206202 (2026) - Published 20 May, 2026

Role of Reconstruction in the Inertness of Gold toward Oxygen

Santu Biswas and Matthew M. Montemore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206203 (2026) - Published 21 May, 2026

Disorder-Assisted Spin Filtering at Metal-Ferromagnet Interfaces: An Alternative Route to Anisotropic Magnetoresistance

Ivan Iorsh and Mikhail Titov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206301 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Correlation-Driven Ultrafast Exciton Diffusion in Hubbard-Regime Moiré Superlattices

Huan Liu, Haowen Xu, Shihong Chen, Rui Han, Zejun Sun, Mingxin Xu, Shuchun Huang, Xiushuo Zhang, Li Huang, Jianbin Luo, and Dameng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206302 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dissipation-Shaped Quantum Geometry in Nonlinear Transport

Zhichao Guo, Xing-Yuan Liu, Hua Wang, Li-kun Shi, and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206303 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Nonlinear transport as a probe of quantum geometry is not universal and is contingent on the specific dissipation mechanism, not just its strength.

Gigantic Nonreciprocal Conduction at a Polar-Magnetic Interface of ${GdTiO}_{3} / {EuTiO}_{3}$

N. Takahara, K. S. Takahashi, N. Nagaosa, Y. Tokura, and M. Kawasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206304 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Symmetry-Broken Ground State and Phonon-Mediated Superconductivity in Kagome ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Manex Alkorta, Martin Gutierrez-Amigo, Đorđe Dangić, Chunyu Mark Guo, Philip J. W. Moll, Maia G. Vergniory, and Ion Errea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206401 (2026) - Published 22 May, 2026

Linear Tetramer Formation in Nonmagnetic Pyrochlore Niobate

Shota Nishida, Shunsuke Kitou, Shingo Toyoda, Yuiga Nakamura, Yusuke Tokunaga, and Taka-hisa Arima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206501 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

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Photoinduced Metal-to-Insulator Transitions in 2D Moiré Devices

Yiliu Li, Esteban Rojas-Gatjens, Yinjie Guo, Birui Yang, Dihao Sun, Luke Holtzman, Juseung Oh, Katayun Barmak, Cory R. Dean, James C. Hone, Nathaniel Gabor, Eric A. Arsenault, and Xiaoyang Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206502 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

A laser-based approach rapidly injects charge into moiré materials and drives metal-to-insulator transitions.

Significant Phonon Chirality Activated by Crystalline Electric Field Excitations in ${KNdSe}_{2}$

Zheng Zhang, Yanzhen Cai, Mingtai Xie, Helin Mei, Weizhen Zhuo, Jianting Ji, Feng Jin, and Qingming Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206503 (2026) - Published 21 May, 2026

Conformal Data for the O(3) Wilson-Fisher Conformal Field Theory from Fuzzy Sphere Realization of the Quantum Rotor Model

Arjun Dey, Loic Herviou, Christopher Mudry, and Andreas Martin Läuchli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206504 (2026) - Published 21 May, 2026

Topology of the Generalized Brillouin Zone of One-Dimensional Models

Heming Wang, Janet Zhong, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206601 (2026) - Published 20 May, 2026

Observation of Metal-Insulator and Spectral Phase Transitions in Aubry-André-Harper Models

Quan Lin, Christopher Cedzich, Qi Zhou, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206602 (2026) - Published 21 May, 2026

Symmetry Classification of Altermagnetism and Emergence of Type-IV Magnetism in Two Dimensions

Mu Tian, Chaoxi Cui, Zeying Zhang, Jingyi Duan, Wanxiang Feng, and Run-Wu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206701 (2026) - Published 21 May, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Harnessing Plasmonic Heating for Switching in Antiferromagnets

H. Y. Yuan, Yizheng Wu, and Olena Gomonay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206702 (2026) - Published 21 May, 2026

Orbital Multiferroicity in Two-Dimensional Triangular Lattice

Jiangyu Zhao, Jiale Wang, Yibo Liu, Xinru Li, Ying Dai, Baibiao Huang, and Yandong Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206703 (2026) - Published 22 May, 2026

Analytic Inverse Design of Temporal Metamaterials via Space-Time Duality

Giuseppe Castaldi, Marino Coppolaro, Massimo Moccia, Carlo Rizza, Nader Engheta, and Vincenzo Galdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206901 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Raman Optical Activity Induced by Ferroaxial Order in ${NiTiO}_{3}$

Gakuto Kusuno, Takeshi Hayashida, Takayuki Nagai, Hikaru Watanabe, Rikuto Oiwa, Tsuyoshi Kimura, and Takuya Satoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206902 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Raman optical activity, a phenomenon usually observed in systems where inversion or time-reversal symmetry is broken, arises in a centrosymmetric, nonmagnetic crystal due to ferroaxial order.

Quasinormal Mode Basis for Open Floquet Photonic Systems

Yuchen Sun, Shanhui Fan, and Guangwei Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206903 (2026) - Published 20 May, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exciton-Polaritons and Exciton Localization from a First-Principles Interacting Green’s Function Formalism

Zachary N. Mauri, Christopher J. Ciccarino, Jonah B. Haber, Diana Y. Qiu, and Felipe H. da Jornada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206904 (2026) - Published 22 May, 2026

A first-principles formalism naturally describes exciton-polaritons within the highly successful GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation framework at a negligible added computational cost.

Realizing On-Demand All-to-All Selective Interactions between Distant Spin Ensembles

C.-X. Run, K.-T. Lin, K.-M. Hsieh, B.-Y. Wu, W.-M. Zhou, G.-D. Lin, A. F. Kockum, and I.-C. Hoi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 206905 (2026) - Published 22 May, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Boundary-Induced Helical Bulk Acoustic Transport in ${LiNbO}_{3}$ Thin Films

Zhe Li, Zhen-Hui Qin, Shu-Mao Wu, Chen-Bei Hao, Fan-Yun Pan, Hao Yan, Yi-Han He, Yan-Chen Zhou, Xue-Jun Yan, Si-Yuan Yu, Cheng He, Ming-Hui Lu, and Yan-Feng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 207001 (2026) - Published 22 May, 2026

Helical, backscattering-resistant acoustic transport in the bulk (not at edges) makes possible the fabrication of efficient, high-throughput on-chip phononic devices.

Directionally Emissive Luminescent Solar Concentrators Enabled by Electrically Aligned Quantum Rods within a Polymer Matrix

Nan Ren, Muhammad Umer, Edoardo Carraro, Andrea Iudica, Chao Wang, Huaiyu Xu, Jian Hu, Qiang Jing, Junlong Xiao, Qinglong Tu, Jishuai Lin, Fengjia Fan, Alberto Vomiero, Margherita Zavelani-Rossi, Yang Song, and Haiguang Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 207002 (2026) - Published 22 May, 2026

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finite-Frequency Fluctuation-Response Inequality

Andreas Dechant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 207101 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Researchers derive a universal limit linking noise and response to perturbations in systems far from equilibrium.

Mpembalike Abnormal Aging Kinetics of Glasses Derived from $β$ Relaxation

Lijian Song, Meng Gao, Wei Xu, Juntao Huo, and Jun-Qiang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 207102 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Directionality-Induced Jamming in Multiplex Networks

Mateo Bouchet, Alejandro Tejedor, Xiangrong Wang, and Yamir Moreno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 207401 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

In multiplex networks, directed links between layers hinder diffusion and break the system up, preventing it from converging to a steady state.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Wavenumber Lock-in in Buckled Elastic Structures: An Analogue to Parametric Instabilities

H. E. Read, G. Risso, A. Djellouli, K. Bertoldi, and A. Lazarus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 208201 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

ERRATA

Erratum: Possible Observation of Quadrupole Waves in Spin Nematics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 156704 (2025)]

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 209901 (2026) - Published 20 May, 2026