Volume 136, Issue 24

19 June 2026

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Schematic illustration of trapped $^4$He and $^3$He atoms, depicting the use of laser spectroscopy for probing the difference in their nuclear charge radii.

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Spectroscopy of ${}^{4}{He}$ at 0.25 ppt Uncertainty and Improved Alpha-Helion Charge-Radius Difference Determination
K. Steinebach, J. C. J. Koelemeij, H. L. Bethlem, and K. S. E. Eikema
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 243001 (2026)

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Quantum Mechanics Based on Real Numbers: A Consistent Description

Pedro Barrios Hita, Anton Trushechkin, Hermann Kampermann, Michael Epping, and Dagmar Bruß

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 240202 (2026) - Published 18 June, 2026

By exploiting a physically motivated principle, rather than a mathematical postulate, researchers offer a new perspective on how a real-valued quantum theory can be constructed.

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Spectroscopy of ${}^{4}{He}$ at 0.25 ppt Uncertainty and Improved Alpha-Helion Charge-Radius Difference Determination

K. Steinebach, J. C. J. Koelemeij, H. L. Bethlem, and K. S. E. Eikema

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 243001 (2026) - Published 18 June, 2026

Improved measurements of an electronic transition in helium-4 atoms constrain the size difference between helium-4 and helium-3 nuclei.

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Nonlinear Hall Quantum Oscillations to Probe Topological Brown-Zak Fermions in Graphene Moiré Systems

Jinrui Zhong, Huimin Peng, Yuqing Hu, Qi Feng, Qiuli Li, Shihao Zhang, Qinsheng Wang, Jinhai Mao, Junxi Duan, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 246301 (2026) - Published 15 June, 2026

A new experiment probes the quantum geometry of electronic wave functions involved in a nonlinear Hall response.

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Observation of the Radiative Decay $D_{s 0}^{} (2317)^{+} \to D_{s}^{ +} γ$

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 241901 (2026) - Published 16 June, 2026

An exotic meson’s photon-emitting decay opens a window into the particle’s long-debated structure.

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Memory-Assisted Nonlocal Interferometer toward Long-Baseline Telescopes

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 240801 (2026) - Published 17 June, 2026

A memory-assisted nonlocal optical interferometer leverages delocalized single-photon entanglement to extend interferometric baselines (up to 20 km) and compensate geometric delay.

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Ising Supercriticality and Universal Magnetocalorics in Spiral Antiferromagnet ${Nd}_{3} {BWO}_{9}$

Xinyang Liu, Enze Lv, Xueling Cui, Han Ge, Fangyuan Song, Zhaoming Tian, Gang Su, Kan Zhao, Junsen Xiang, Peijie Sun, and Wei Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 246502 (2026) - Published 17 June, 2026

An emergent Ising supercritical regime in Nd $_{3}$ BWO $_{9}$ with universal thermodynamic behavior extends the liquid-gas analogy to a rare-earth antiferromagnetic compound and shows its potential for sub-Kelvin refrigeration due to critical endpoint and topological excitations.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Binarization-Loophole-Free Observation of High-Dimensional Quantum Nonlocality

Jia-le Miao, Elna Svegborn, Zhuo Chen, Yu Guo, Xiao-Min Hu, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, Armin Tavakoli, and Bi-Heng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 240201 (2026) - Published 16 June, 2026

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Quantum Mechanics Based on Real Numbers: A Consistent Description

Pedro Barrios Hita, Anton Trushechkin, Hermann Kampermann, Michael Epping, and Dagmar Bruß

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 240202 (2026) - Published 18 June, 2026

By exploiting a physically motivated principle, rather than a mathematical postulate, researchers offer a new perspective on how a real-valued quantum theory can be constructed.

Entanglement Transition in Unitary System-Bath Dynamics

Bo Xing, Giuliano Chiriacò, Paola Cappellaro, Rosario Fazio, and Dario Poletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 240401 (2026) - Published 15 June, 2026

Parent Hamiltonians for Stabilizer Quantum Many-Body Scars

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 240402 (2026) - Published 15 June, 2026

Generalized Kramers-Wannier Duality from Bilinear Phase Map

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 240403 (2026) - Published 17 June, 2026

Spin-Boson Mapping of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Sami Boulebnane, Abid Khan, Minzhao Liu, Jeffrey Larson, Dylan Herman, Ruslan Shaydulin, and Marco Pistoia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 240601 (2026) - Published 16 June, 2026

Nonstabilizerness and Error Resilience in Noisy Quantum Circuits

Fabian Ballar Trigueros and José Antonio Marín Guzmán

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 240602 (2026) - Published 18 June, 2026

Quantum State Preparation without Coherent Arithmetic

Sam McArdle, András Gilyén, and Mario Berta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 240603 (2026) - Published 18 June, 2026

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Memory-Assisted Nonlocal Interferometer toward Long-Baseline Telescopes

Bin Wang, Xi-Yu Luo, Bo-Feng Gao, Jian-Long Liu, Chao-Yang Wang, Zi Yan, Qiao-Mu Ke, Da Teng, Ming-Yang Zheng, Yuan Cao, Jun Li, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Qiang Zhang, Xiao-Hui Bao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 240801 (2026) - Published 17 June, 2026

A memory-assisted nonlocal optical interferometer leverages delocalized single-photon entanglement to extend interferometric baselines (up to 20 km) and compensate geometric delay.

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Quantum Semiconductor Heterostructures for meV Axion Dark Matter Detection

Jaanita Mehrani, Tao Xu, Andrey Baydin, Michael J. Manfra, Henry O. Everitt, Andrew J. Long, Kuver Sinha, Junichiro Kono, and Shengxi Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 241001 (2026) - Published 18 June, 2026

Properties of Heavy Cosmic Nuclei Phosphorus, Chlorine, Argon, Potassium, and Calcium: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

A. Aceituno et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 241002 (2026) - Published 17 June, 2026

Leading Effective Field Theory Corrections to the Kerr Metric at All Spins

Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 241401 (2026) - Published 16 June, 2026

Particles and Fields

Duality between Correlation Functions and Wilson Loops in Gauge Theory from Effective Field Theory

Hao Chen, Pier Francesco Monni, Zhaoyan Pang, Gherardo Vita, and Hua Xing Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 241601 (2026) - Published 15 June, 2026

Geometric Bookkeeping Guide to Feynman Integral Reduction and $ϵ$ -Factorized Differential Equations

Iris Bree, Federico Gasparotto, Antonela Matijašić, Pouria Mazloumi, Dmytro Melnichenko, Sebastian Pögel, Toni Teschke, Xing Wang, Stefan Weinzierl, Konglong Wu, and Xiaofeng Xu ( $ϵ$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 241602 (2026) - Published 15 June, 2026

Continuous Family of Conformal Field Theories and Exactly Marginal Operators

Shota Komatsu, Yuya Kusuki, Marco Meineri, and Hirosi Ooguri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 241603 (2026) - Published 16 June, 2026

First Experimental Limit on the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment of the Deuteron

A. Andres et al. (JEDI Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 241801 (2026) - Published 16 June, 2026

Probing Scalar-Neutrino and Scalar-Dark-Matter Interactions with PandaX-4T

Tao Li et al. (PandaX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 241802 (2026) - Published 17 June, 2026

Standard Model Baryon Number Violation at Zero Temperature from Higgs Bubble Collisions

Nabeen Bhusal, Simone Blasi, Martina Cataldi, Aleksandr Chatrchyan, Marco Gorghetto, and Géraldine Servant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 241803 (2026) - Published 18 June, 2026

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Observation of the Radiative Decay $D_{s 0}^{} (2317)^{+} \to D_{s}^{ +} γ$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 241901 (2026) - Published 16 June, 2026

An exotic meson’s photon-emitting decay opens a window into the particle’s long-debated structure.

Nuclear Physics

Trace Anomaly of Cold Dense Matter Constrained by Collective Flow

Bao-An Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 242301 (2026) - Published 15 June, 2026

Evidence of Spin-Interference Effects in Exclusive $J / ψ \to e^{+} e^{-}$ Photoproduction in Ultraperipheral Heavy-Ion Collisions

B. E. Aboona et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 242302 (2026) - Published 17 June, 2026

First Observation of Deuteron- $Λ$ Correlations at RHIC

B. E. Aboona et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 242303 (2026) - Published 18 June, 2026

Role of Spin-Isospin Symmetries in Nuclear $β$ -Decays

Simone Salvatore Li Muli, Tor R. Djärv, Christian Forssén, and Daniel R. Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 242501 (2026) - Published 17 June, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Spectroscopy of ${}^{4}{He}$ at 0.25 ppt Uncertainty and Improved Alpha-Helion Charge-Radius Difference Determination

K. Steinebach, J. C. J. Koelemeij, H. L. Bethlem, and K. S. E. Eikema

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 243001 (2026) - Published 18 June, 2026

Improved measurements of an electronic transition in helium-4 atoms constrain the size difference between helium-4 and helium-3 nuclei.

Observation of Spin-Singlet Butterfly Rydberg Molecules in an Ultracold Atomic Rb Gas

Markus Exner, Rohan Srikumar, Richard Blättner, Peter Schmelcher, H. R. Sadeghpour, Matthew T. Eiles, and Herwig Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 243002 (2026) - Published 18 June, 2026

Probing Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Pairing and Quasiparticle Formation in Ultracold Gases by Rydberg Atom Spectroscopy

Emilio Ramos Rodríguez, Marcel Gievers, and Richard Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 243401 (2026) - Published 16 June, 2026

Generalized Gross-Pitaevskii Equation for 2D Bosons with Attractive Interactions

Michał Suchorowski, Fabian Brauneis, Hans-Werner Hammer, Michał Tomza, and Artem G. Volosniev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 243402 (2026) - Published 18 June, 2026

Quantum Non-Gaussianity Criterion Based on Photon Correlations $g^{(2)}$ and $g^{(3)}$

Christoph Hotter, Clara Henke, Cornelis Jacobus van Diepen, Peter Lodahl, and Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 243601 (2026) - Published 16 June, 2026

Theory of Quantum Comb Enhanced Interferometry

Haowei Shi and Quntao Zhuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 243602 (2026) - Published 16 June, 2026

Universal Two-Excitation Scattering in Two-Dimensional Subwavelength Atomic Arrays

Yidan Wang (王艺丹), Oriol Rubies-Bigorda, Valentin Walther, and Susanne F. Yelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 243603 (2026) - Published 18 June, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Waves in Inhomogeneous Moving Media

Alexandre Tlili and Basile Gallet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 244001 (2026) - Published 18 June, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Laser-Plasma Based Seeded Free Electron Laser in the High-Gain Regime

Marie Labat, Susanne Schöbel, Amin Ghaith, Franziska Marie Herrmann, Maxwell LaBerge, Eléonore Roussel, Ulrich Schramm, Patrick Ufer, Marie-Emmanuelle Couprie, and Arie Irman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 245001 (2026) - Published 16 June, 2026