Volume 136, Issue 21

29 May 2026

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Orbital-resolved constant-energy contour for Fe_0.3NbS₂ using ARPES. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Electronic Origin of Delicate Antiferromagnetism in ${Fe}_{x} {NbS}_{2}$
Wenxin Li, Jonathan T. Reichanadter, Shan Wu, Ji Seop Oh, Rourav Basak, Shannon C. Haley, Siqi Wang, Joshua E. Chaparro Mata, Elio Vescovo, Donghui Lu, Makoto Hashimoto, Christoph Klewe, Suchismita Sarker, Jessica L. McChesney, Alex Frañó, James G. Analytis, Robert J. Birgeneau, Jeffrey B. Neaton, and Yu He
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 216503 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Large Many-Electron Effects in the Temperature-Dependent Electron-Phonon Renormalization of Semiconductor Band Gaps

Xiaoxun Gong, Zhenglu Li, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 216401 (2026) - Published 26 May, 2026

A computational framework captures the influence of many-body effects on semiconductor band gaps.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quenching of the $π 0 p_{3 / 2} - π 0 p_{1 / 2}$ Spin-Orbit Splitting in ${}^{20}O$ and the Effect of the Tensor Force

J. Lois-Fuentes et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 212501 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

A new experiment settles a controversy over proton and neutron energies in light nuclei.

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Quantum Transition Rates in Arbitrary Physical Processes

Adolfo del Campo, András Grabarits, Dmitrii E. Makarov, and Seong-Ho Shinn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 210202 (2026) - Published 28 May, 2026

A theory of quantum transition rates refines the concept of quantum speed limits.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

One-Loop QCD $β$ Function as an Index

Roland Bittleston and Kevin Costello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 211601 (2026) - Published 29 May, 2026

An index theorem on twistor space provides a simple first-principles derivation of the numerical factors in the one-loop QCD $β$ function.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Intermittent Fluctuations Determine the Nature of Chaos in Turbulence

Aikya Banerjee, Ritwik Mukherjee, Sugan Durai Murugan, Subhro Bhattacharjee, and Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 214001 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

Tracking how two nearly identical turbulent flows decorrelate over time links the dynamical origin of chaotic divergence in fully developed turbulence to intermittent strain-rate fluctuations, suggesting faster than expected mixing and transport in highly turbulent flows

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Tailoring Superconductivity with Two-Level Systems

Joshuah T. Heath, Alexander C. Tyner, S. Pamir Alpay, Peter Krogstrup, and Alexander V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 216001 (2026) - Published 26 May, 2026

First-principles simulations combined with Eliashberg theory reveal that adjusting the two-level system surface density and characteristic frequency can either enhance or suppress the superconducting gap and critical temperature.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic Origin of Delicate Antiferromagnetism in ${Fe}_{x} {NbS}_{2}$

Wenxin Li, Jonathan T. Reichanadter, Shan Wu, Ji Seop Oh, Rourav Basak, Shannon C. Haley, Siqi Wang, Joshua E. Chaparro Mata, Elio Vescovo, Donghui Lu, Makoto Hashimoto, Christoph Klewe, Suchismita Sarker, Jessica L. McChesney, Alex Frañó, James G. Analytis, Robert J. Birgeneau, Jeffrey B. Neaton, and Yu He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 216503 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

A combination of ARPES, XAS, and DFT shows a dramatic eV-scale electronic restructuring in Fe $_{x}$ NbS $_{2}$ , similar to what happens in correlated oxides, and suggests electronic correlations play a central role in the magnetism of Fe-intercalated transition-metal dichalcogenides.

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Anomaly-Free Symmetries with Obstructions to Gauging and Onsiteability

Wilbur Shirley, Carolyn Zhang, Wenjie Ji, and Michael Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 216602 (2026) - Published 28 May, 2026

If a symmetry is not onsiteable, must it be anomalous? In 1+1d lattice Hamiltonian systems, any finite, internal, anomaly-free symmetry can be disentangled into an onsite symmetry, whereas in two-dimensional lattice systems there exist finite-group symmetries that are not onsiteable but nevertheless anomaly-free.

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Disentangling Anomaly-Free Symmetries of Quantum Spin Chains

Sahand Seifnashri and Wilbur Shirley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 216603 (2026) - Published 28 May, 2026

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Beating Hermitian Speed Limits for Entanglement Generation via Exceptional Points in a Trapped-Ion System

W. F. Yuan, B. B. Liu, N. Li, G. Y. Ding, W. Q. Ding, H. J. Du, J. C. Li, G. Chen, H. Jing, F. Zhou, Shi-Lei Su, and M. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 210201 (2026) - Published 28 May, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Transition Rates in Arbitrary Physical Processes

Adolfo del Campo, András Grabarits, Dmitrii E. Makarov, and Seong-Ho Shinn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 210202 (2026) - Published 28 May, 2026

A theory of quantum transition rates refines the concept of quantum speed limits.

Universality of Stochastic Control of Quantum Chaos with Measurement and Feedback

Andrew A. Allocca, Devesh K. Verma, Sriram Ganeshan, and Justin H. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 210401 (2026) - Published 26 May, 2026

Quantum Mpemba Effect Induced by Non-Markovian Exceptional Points

Ze-Zhou Zhang, Hong-Gang Luo, and Wei Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 210402 (2026) - Published 28 May, 2026

Layer Codes as Partially Self-Correcting Quantum Memories

Shouzhen Gu, Libor Caha, Shin Ho Choe, Zhiyang He, Aleksander Kubica, and Eugene Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 210601 (2026) - Published 29 May, 2026

High-Fidelity Controlled-Phase Gate for Binomial Codes via Geometric Phase Engineering

Yifang Xu, Yilong Zhou, Lida Sun, Hongwei Huang, Zi-Jie Chen, Lintao Xiao, Bo Zhang, Chuanlong Ma, Ziyue Hua, Weiting Wang, Guangming Xue, Haifeng Yu, Weizhou Cai, Chang-Ling Zou, and Luyan Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 210602 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

Quantum-Enhanced Sensing Enabled by Scrambling-Induced Genuine Multipartite Entanglement

Guantian Hu, Wenxuan Zhang, Zhihua Chen, Liuzhu Zhong, Jingchao Zhao, Chilong Liu, Zixing Liu, Yue Xu, Yongchang Lin, Yougui Ri, Guixu Xie, Mingze Liu, Haolan Yuan, Yuxuan Zhou, Yu Zhang, Chang-Kang Hu, Song Liu, Dian Tan, and Dapeng Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 210801 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

Adaptively Secure Unitary Designs with Constant Non-Clifford Cost

Lennart Bittel and Lorenzo Leone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 210802 (2026) - Published 28 May, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

SENSEI: A Search for Diurnal Modulation in Sub-GeV Dark Matter Scattering

Itay M. Bloch et al. (SENSEI Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 211001 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

Dynamical Love Numbers for Black Holes and Beyond from Shell Effective Field Theory

D. Kosmopoulos, D. Perrone, and M. Solon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 211401 (2026) - Published 26 May, 2026

Effective Density Matrix for Vacua in Asymptotically Flat Gravity

Temple He, Prahar Mitra, and Kathryn M. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 211501 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

One-Loop QCD $β$ Function as an Index

Roland Bittleston and Kevin Costello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 211601 (2026) - Published 29 May, 2026

An index theorem on twistor space provides a simple first-principles derivation of the numerical factors in the one-loop QCD $β$ function.

Nuclear Physics

Can the Strong Interactions between Hadrons Be Determined Using Femtoscopy?

Evgeny Epelbaum, Sven Heihoff, Ulf-G. Meißner, and Alexander Tscherwon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 212301 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

Probing the Quark-Gluon Plasma through $p_{T}$ -Differential Radial Flow of Heavy Quarks

Maria Lucia Sambataro, Salvatore Plumari, Santosh K. Das, and Vincenzo Greco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 212302 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quenching of the $π 0 p_{3 / 2} - π 0 p_{1 / 2}$ Spin-Orbit Splitting in ${}^{20}O$ and the Effect of the Tensor Force

J. Lois-Fuentes et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 212501 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

A new experiment settles a controversy over proton and neutron energies in light nuclei.

Precision Extraction of the Deuteron Electric Polarizability via the Baldin Sum Rule with Full Low-Energy Coverage

Zi-Rui Hao, Gong-Tao Fan, Qian-Kun Sun, Hong-Wei Wang, Hang-Hua Xu, Long-Xiang Liu, Yue Zhang, Jiunn-Wei Chen, Yu-Xuan Yang, Sheng Jin, Kai-Jie Chen, Zhen-Wei Wang, Xiang-Fei Wang, Meng-Ke Xu, Zhi-Cai Li, Pu Jiao, Meng-Die Zhou, Shan Ye, Yu-Long Shen, Yin-Ji Chen, Hao Zhang, Jian-Jun He, Wen-Qing Shen, and Yu-Gang Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 212502 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Quantum Trajectory Separation and Attosecond Mapping in Liquid High-Harmonic Generation

Wanchen Tao, Ruisi Zhang, Qihe Guo, Lixin He, Tao-Yuan Du, Xingdong Guan, Pengfei Lan, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 213201 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

Coherent Ionization of Atoms by Dense Beams of Extreme Relativistic Electrons

S. Kim, C. Müller, and A. B. Voitkiv

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 213202 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

Lattice Unitarity: Saturated Collisional Resistivity in Hubbard Metals

Frank Corapi, Robyn T. Learn, Benjamin Driesen, Antoine Lefebvre, Xavier Leyronas, Frédéric Chevy, Cora J. Fujiwara, and Joseph H. Thywissen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 213401 (2026) - Published 26 May, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Intermittent Fluctuations Determine the Nature of Chaos in Turbulence

Aikya Banerjee, Ritwik Mukherjee, Sugan Durai Murugan, Subhro Bhattacharjee, and Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 214001 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

Physical Mechanism behind the Early Onset of the Ultimate State in Supergravitational Centrifugal Thermal Convection

Lei Ren, Jun Zhong, Rushi Lai, and Chao Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 214002 (2026) - Published 28 May, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Generalized Scaling of Focal Temperature in Converging Shock Waves

Sourabh Bhardwaj, Nicholas Apazidis, and Michael Liverts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 215101 (2026) - Published 28 May, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tailoring Superconductivity with Two-Level Systems

Joshuah T. Heath, Alexander C. Tyner, S. Pamir Alpay, Peter Krogstrup, and Alexander V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 216001 (2026) - Published 26 May, 2026

Electron-Phonon Origins of Unconventional Resistivity in Moderately Correlated Perovskite Oxides

Jennifer Coulter, Fabian B. Kugler, Harrison LaBollita, Antoine Georges, and Cyrus E. Dreyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 216301 (2026) - Published 27 May, 2026

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Large Many-Electron Effects in the Temperature-Dependent Electron-Phonon Renormalization of Semiconductor Band Gaps

Xiaoxun Gong, Zhenglu Li, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 216401 (2026) - Published 26 May, 2026

A computational framework captures the influence of many-body effects on semiconductor band gaps.

Electronic Layer Decoupling Driven by Density-Wave Order in ${La}_{4} {Ni}_{3} O_{10}$

Ziqiang Guan (管梓强), Sophia F. R. TenHuisen, M. Tepie, Yifeng Zhao (赵祎峰), Ezra Day-Roberts, Harrison LaBollita, Alexander M. Young, Xiaomeng Cui (崔宵萌), Xinglong Chen (陈幸龙), Filippo Glerean, Carl Audric Guia, Mark P. M. Dean, Philip Kim, J. F. Mitchell, Antia S. Botana, Christopher C. Homes, and Matteo Mitrano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 216501 (2026) - Published 26 May, 2026