Volume 136, Issue 23

12 June 2026

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Excited state of ⁸⁰Zr exhibiting tetrahedral symmetry.

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Mass Probe of Tetrahedral Symmetry in Atomic Nuclei
F. F. Xu (许方方) and P. W. Zhao (赵鹏巍)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 232503 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Magneto-Optical Trapping of a Metal Hydride Molecule

Jinyu Dai, Benjamin Riley, Qi Sun, Debayan Mitra, and Tanya Zelevinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 233403 (2026) - Published 10 June, 2026

Researchers have used laser cooling and trapping to isolate calcium monohydride, a key step toward producing ultracold atomic hydrogen.

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Nanomechanical Sensor Resolving Impulsive Forces below Its Zero-Point Fluctuations

Martynas Skrabulis, Martin Colombano Sosa, Nicola Carlon Zambon, Andrei Militaru, Massimiliano Rossi, Martin Frimmer, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 233604 (2026) - Published 12 June, 2026

Researchers boosted the sensitivity for measurements of the motion of a levitated nanoparticle, with potential uses in dark matter searches.

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Evidence for Atomic-Scale Vibron-Mediated Electron Bunching

A. Maiti, M. Amato, V. S. Stolyarov, H. Aubin, J. Estève, F. Pistolesi, M. Aprili, and F. Massee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236501 (2026) - Published 10 June, 2026

Atomic-scale measurements show that vibrational excitations can cause electrons to move in bunches.

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Learning the Action for Long-Time-Step Simulations of Molecular Dynamics

Filippo Bigi, Johannes Spies, and Michele Ceriotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 237301 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Machine learning can reduce the number of time steps needed to accurately predict the progress of a dynamically evolving system.

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First Measurement of Time-Dependent $C P$ Violation in the Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Decay $B^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 231904 (2026) - Published 12 June, 2026

The decay of a $b$ quark to a strange quark and a pair of leptons reveals the first indications of time-dependent $C P$ violation.

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Nanoscale Coherent Phonons with Broadband Frequency Tunability

Zhengpu Zhao (赵正朴), Da Wu (吴达), Chuwei Zhang (张楚惟), Duanyun Cao (曹端云), Haotian Zheng (郑浩天), Yuqing Huang (黄玉清), Qin Wang (王钦), En-Ge Wang (王恩哥), Chaoyu Guo (郭钞宇), and Ying Jiang (江颖)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236201 (2026) - Published 8 June, 2026

Broadband-tunable coherent phonon tips probe functional materials at nanoscale to investigate a variety of optical, electronic, thermodynamic, and mechanical properties.

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Room-Temperature Intrinsic Nonlinear Planar Hall Effect in ${TaIrTe}_{4}$

Chang Jiang, Fan Yang, Yu Zhao, Jinshan Yang, Peng Yu, Huiying Liu, Yuda Zhang, Zehao Jia, Xiangyu Cao, Li Tian, Jingyi Yan, Zheng Liu, Zhongkai Liu, Xian-Lei Sheng, Cong Xiao, Shengyuan A. Yang, Shaoming Dong, and Faxian Xiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236302 (2026) - Published 12 June, 2026

A room-temperature intrinsic nonlinear planar Hall effect in the nonmagnetic topological semimetal TaIrTe $_{4}$ reveals how an in-plane magnetic field generates a Berry-connection-polarizability dipole through an orbital mechanism.

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Topological Transition and Emergence of Elasticity of Dislocation in Skyrmion Lattice: Beyond Kittel’s Magnetic-Polar Analogy

Kohta Kasai, Akihiro Uematsu, Yu Wang, Tao Xu, Chang Liu, Susumu Minami, and Takahiro Shimada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236703 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Skyrmion dislocations exhibit intrinsic core structures possessing large skyrmion deformation and topological phase transitions.

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Observation of Switchable Chiral Magnons in an Altermagnet

Zheyuan Liu, Hodaka Kikuchi, Zijun Wei, Shinichiro Asai, Mechthild Enderle, Ursula B. Hansen, Vasile O. Garlea, Manh D. Le, Gøran J. Nilsen, Igor A. Zaliznyak, and Takatsugu Masuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236705 (2026) - Published 12 June, 2026

Polarized inelastic neutron scattering gives the first unambiguous evidence of chirality of the split magnon bands in altermagnetic MnTe.

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Fast and Continuous Detection of Single Microwave Photons via Photoassisted Quasiparticle Tunneling to a Superconducting Island

J. Basset, O. Stanisavljević, J. Gabelli, M. Aprili, and J. Estève

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 237001 (2026) - Published 10 June, 2026

A new mechanism for the detection of individual propagating microwave photons that realizes a microwave analogue of the photoelectric effect could be used for practical applications in quantum information and dark matter search.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Observation of Five Distinct Localization Phases in a 1D Floquet System

Yao Qin, Chao Yang, Jiankun Zhu, Weitao Wu, Zhixin Duan, Rufang Zhao, Yuxiang Guo, Jizhou Wu, Sheng-Jun Yang, Yucheng Wang, and Jingyun Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 230401 (2026) - Published 8 June, 2026

Exotic Critical States as Fractional Fermi Seas in the One-Dimensional Bose Gas

Alvise Bastianello, Yi Zeng, Sudipta Dhar, Zekui Wang, Xudong Yu, Milena Horvath, Grigori E. Astrakharchik, Yanliang Guo, Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, and Manuele Landini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 230402 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Magic Barrier before Thermalization

Lukas Ebner, Berndt Müller, Andreas Schäfer, Leonhard Schmotzer, Clemens Seidl, and Xiaojun Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 230403 (2026) - Published 11 June, 2026

Real-Time Sign-Problem-Suppressed Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithm for Noisy Quantum Circuit Simulations

Tong Shen and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 230601 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Coupling a ${}^{73}{Ge}$ Nuclear Spin to an Electrostatically Defined Quantum Dot in Silicon

Paul Steinacker, Gauri Goenka, Rocky Yue Su, Tuomo Tanttu, Wee Han Lim, Santiago Serrano, Tim Botzem, Jesus D. Cifuentes, Shao Qi Lim, Jeffrey C. McCallum, Brett C. Johnson, Fay E. Hudson, Kok Wai Chan, Christopher C. Escott, Andre Saraiva, Chih Hwan Yang, Vincent Mourik, Andrea Morello, Andrew S. Dzurak, and Arne Laucht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 230602 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Retrocausal Capacity of a Quantum Channel: Communicating through Noisy Closed Timelike Curves

Kaiyuan Ji, Seth Lloyd, and Mark M. Wilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 230801 (2026) - Published 11 June, 2026

Adaptable Route to Fast Coherent State Transport via Bang-Bang-Bang Protocols

Ya-Tang Yu, Hsin-Lien Lee, Shao-Hung Chung, Ting Hsu, Guin-Dar Lin, Ying-Cheng Chen, and H. H. Jen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 230802 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Efficient Implementation of a Single-Qutrit Gate Set via Coherent Control

Xiang-Min Yu, Xiang Deng, Wen Zheng, Wei Xin, Tao Zhang, Hanxin Che, Kun Zhou, Haoyu Zhou, Yangyang Ge, Zhenchuan Zhang, Wanli Huang, Haoyang Cai, Xianke Li, Jie Zhao, Xinsheng Tan, Yu Zhang, Shao-Xiong Li, and Yang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 230803 (2026) - Published 12 June, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Energy Distribution of the Galactic Center Excess’s Sources

Florian List, Yujin Park, Nicholas L. Rodd, Eve Schoen, and Florian Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 231001 (2026) - Published 12 June, 2026

Newman-Janis Algorithm from Taub-Newman-Unti-Tamburino Instantons

Joon-Hwi Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 231401 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Primordial-Black-Hole-Based Pathways to Little Red Dots

Valerio De Luca, Loris Del Grosso, Gabriele Franciolini, Konstantinos Kritos, Emanuele Berti, Daniel J. D’Orazio, and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 231402 (2026) - Published 12 June, 2026

Lorentz Violation in Emergent Gravity and Its Cosmological Consequences

Raymond Isichei and João Magueijo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 231501 (2026) - Published 8 June, 2026

Particles and Fields

First Search for $B \to X_{s} ν \bar{ν}$ Decays

M. Abumusabh et al. (The Belle II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 231801 (2026) - Published 10 June, 2026

Search for Feebly Interacting Particles in $B$ Decays with Missing Energy at Belle

M. Abumusabh et al. (The Belle and Belle II Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 231802 (2026) - Published 12 June, 2026

Unveiling Light-Quark Yukawa Flavor Structure via Dihadron Fragmentation at Lepton Colliders

Qing-Hong Cao, Xin-Kai Wen, Bin Yan, and Shu-Tao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 231901 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Analytical Soft Functions for Heavy-Quark Final States at Hadron Colliders

Ze Long Liu and Pier Francesco Monni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 231902 (2026) - Published 10 June, 2026

Precise Measurement of the Chromoelectric Dipole Moment of the Charm Quark

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 231903 (2026) - Published 11 June, 2026

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First Measurement of Time-Dependent $C P$ Violation in the Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Decay $B^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 231904 (2026) - Published 12 June, 2026

The decay of a $b$ quark to a strange quark and a pair of leptons reveals the first indications of time-dependent $C P$ violation.

Nuclear Physics

$D$ -Meson Production via Sequential Hadronization in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

Zi-Xuan Xu, Wei Dai, Ben-Wei Zhang, Jiaxing Zhao, and Pengfei Zhuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 232301 (2026) - Published 12 June, 2026

New Ground State in ${}^{149}{La}$ Removes Two-Neutron-Separation-Energy Anomaly in Lanthanum Isotopes

S. Kimura, M. Wada, H. Haba, Y. Hirayama, H. Ishiyama, Y. Ito, T. Niwase, M. Rosenbusch, P. Schury, H. Ueno, Y. X. Watanabe, and Y. Yamanouchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 232501 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Search for Double Beta Decays of ${}^{134}{Xe}$ with EXO-200 Phase II

S. Al Kharusi et al. (EXO-200 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 232502 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Mass Probe of Tetrahedral Symmetry in Atomic Nuclei

F. F. Xu (许方方) and P. W. Zhao (赵鹏巍)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 232503 (2026) - Published 10 June, 2026

Beta-Delayed Neutron Emission of $N = 84$ ${}^{132}{Cd}$

M. Madurga et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 232504 (2026) - Published 11 June, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Momentum-Resolved Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy as a Probe of Nonlinear Quantum Field Dynamics

Duilio De Santis, Alex Gómez-Salvador, Nataliia Bazhan, Sebastian Erne, Maximilian Prüfer, Claudio Guarcello, Davide Valenti, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 233401 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Efimov Effect in Ultracold Microwave-Shielded Polar Molecules

Shayamal Singh and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 233402 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

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Magneto-Optical Trapping of a Metal Hydride Molecule

Jinyu Dai, Benjamin Riley, Qi Sun, Debayan Mitra, and Tanya Zelevinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 233403 (2026) - Published 10 June, 2026

Researchers have used laser cooling and trapping to isolate calcium monohydride, a key step toward producing ultracold atomic hydrogen.

Pound-Drever-Hall Method for Superconducting-Qubit Readout

Ibukunoluwa Adisa, Won Chan Lee, Kevin C. Cox, and Alicia J. Kollár

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 233601 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Hybrid SU(1,1) Interferometry in Optomechanics

Chao Meng, Emil Zeuthen, and Polina R. Sharapova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 233602 (2026) - Published 11 June, 2026

Cavity-Free Mode Control of Superfluorescence from Thermal Gas

H. Maeda and K. Kitano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 233603 (2026) - Published 11 June, 2026

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Nanomechanical Sensor Resolving Impulsive Forces below Its Zero-Point Fluctuations

Martynas Skrabulis, Martin Colombano Sosa, Nicola Carlon Zambon, Andrei Militaru, Massimiliano Rossi, Martin Frimmer, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 233604 (2026) - Published 12 June, 2026

Researchers boosted the sensitivity for measurements of the motion of a levitated nanoparticle, with potential uses in dark matter searches.

Optical Tautochrone and Squeezing Dynamics in Nonuniform Lattices

Ioannis Kiorpelidis, Matthias Heinrich, Alexander Szameit, Georgios A. Siviloglou, and Konstantinos G. Makris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 233801 (2026) - Published 11 June, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Electrical Switching of Strain Gradients and 90° Domain Walls via Hidden Polar-Acoustic Coupling in ${PbTiO}_{3}$

Yajun Zhang, Konstantin Shapovalov, Xu He, Chang Liu, Huadong Yong, Xingyi Zhang, Jie Wang, Kun Zhou, and Philippe Ghosez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236101 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Quantifying Lattice Strains in Elastically Deformed Covalent Crystals

Jiayi Li, Heyi Wang, Juzheng Chen, Qian Zhang, Fanling Meng, Yiling Lian, Man Kit Cheng, Pak San Yip, Kefan Guo, Wenjun Liang, Yu Deng, and Yang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236102 (2026) - Published 11 June, 2026

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Nanoscale Coherent Phonons with Broadband Frequency Tunability

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236201 (2026) - Published 8 June, 2026

Broadband-tunable coherent phonon tips probe functional materials at nanoscale to investigate a variety of optical, electronic, thermodynamic, and mechanical properties.

Role of Anionic Lone-Pair-Like Electrons in Producing Minimum Lattice Thermal Conductivity

Hongwei Ming, Jiahui Wang, Shike Xu, Bushra Jabar, Yunpeng Zheng, Zhong-Zhen Luo, and Zhigang Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236301 (2026) - Published 10 June, 2026

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Room-Temperature Intrinsic Nonlinear Planar Hall Effect in ${TaIrTe}_{4}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236302 (2026) - Published 12 June, 2026

Crystal-Field-Tuned Spin-Flip Luminescence in ${NiPS}_{3}$

Léonard Schué, Nashra Pistawala, Hebatalla Elnaggar, Yannick Klein, Christophe Bellin, Johan Biscaras, Fausto Sirotti, Yves Lassailly, Fabian Cadiz, Luminita Harnagea, and Abhay Shukla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236401 (2026) - Published 11 June, 2026

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Evidence for Atomic-Scale Vibron-Mediated Electron Bunching

A. Maiti, M. Amato, V. S. Stolyarov, H. Aubin, J. Estève, F. Pistolesi, M. Aprili, and F. Massee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236501 (2026) - Published 10 June, 2026

Atomic-scale measurements show that vibrational excitations can cause electrons to move in bunches.

Controlling the Subpicosecond Coherent Spin and Valley Dynamics with Anomalous Magnetic Proximity Effect

Qian Hu, Yong Tan, Qirui Cui, Yuqing Huang, Wenkai Zhu, Xiaomin Zhang, Yujing Wang, Yue Wang, Xuan Qian, Jing Zhang, Zhongming Wei, Jingbi You, Yang Ji, Lixia Zhao, Qihua Xiong, and Kaiyou Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236701 (2026) - Published 8 June, 2026

Proper Theory of Magnon Orbital Angular Momentum at Equilibrium

Junyu Tang and Ran Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236702 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

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Topological Transition and Emergence of Elasticity of Dislocation in Skyrmion Lattice: Beyond Kittel’s Magnetic-Polar Analogy

Kohta Kasai, Akihiro Uematsu, Yu Wang, Tao Xu, Chang Liu, Susumu Minami, and Takahiro Shimada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236703 (2026) - Published 9 June, 2026

Skyrmion dislocations exhibit intrinsic core structures possessing large skyrmion deformation and topological phase transitions.

Chiral Spin Liquid Instability of the Kitaev Honeycomb Model with Crystallographic Defects

Arnab Seth, Fay Borhani, and Itamar Kimchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236704 (2026) - Published 8 June, 2026

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Observation of Switchable Chiral Magnons in an Altermagnet

Zheyuan Liu, Hodaka Kikuchi, Zijun Wei, Shinichiro Asai, Mechthild Enderle, Ursula B. Hansen, Vasile O. Garlea, Manh D. Le, Gøran J. Nilsen, Igor A. Zaliznyak, and Takatsugu Masuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 236705 (2026) - Published 12 June, 2026

Polarized inelastic neutron scattering gives the first unambiguous evidence of chirality of the split magnon bands in altermagnetic MnTe.

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