Volume 136, Issue 25

26 June 2026

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Hourly skymaps of relative TeV-scale cosmic-ray intensity centered at the zenith, recorded by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory on November 4, 2021. Black arrows indicate the direction and magnitude of large-scale anisotropy near the arrival of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection.

From the article:

Transient Large-Scale Anisotropy in TeV Cosmic Rays due to an Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection
Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251002 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Transient Large-Scale Anisotropy in TeV Cosmic Rays due to an Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection

Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251002 (2026) - Published 26 June, 2026

A solar storm hitting Earth appears to have reduced the amount of incoming high-energy cosmic rays, suggesting a new way of measuring solar activity.

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Strings from Almost Nothing

Clifford Cheung, Grant N. Remmen, Francesco Sciotti, and Michele Tarquini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251601 (2026) - Published 22 June, 2026

Using a “bootstrap” approach, researchers show that a small set of assumptions may naturally lead to a string-theory description of certain high-energy processes.

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Curvature-Induced Magnon Frequency Combs

Hao Zhao, Qianjun Zheng, and Peng Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256708 (2026) - Published 25 June, 2026

A tiny bump in a magnetic film exposed to microwaves can engender spin waves with precisely spaced frequencies.

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Memories of Amplitude and Direction Coexist and Compete in Non-Brownian Suspensions

Surendra Padamata and Nathan C. Keim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 258201 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

A new experiment elucidates the ability of some particle–fluid mixtures to behave in ways that depend on their previous flow.

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Geometric Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

Éric Cancès, Théo Duez, Jari van Gog, Asbjørn Bækgaard Lauritsen, Mathieu Lewin, and Julien Toulouse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256401 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

A geometric reformulation of time-dependent density-functional theory better describes nonequilibrium systems.

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Black Hole Mergers beyond General Relativity: A Self-Force Approach

Ayush Roy, Lorenzo Küchler, Adam Pound, and Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251404 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

A modular framework within the self-force formalism that applies to a large class of effective field theories of gravity in order to perform tests of general relativity with binary black hole mergers is critical for tests of general relativity that make use of the upcoming space-based gravitational wave detectors such as LISA.

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Thermodynamics of Black Holes, Far from Equilibrium

Abhay Ashtekar, Daniel E. Paraizo, and Jonathan Shu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251405 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

The first law of black hole mechanics has been extended to dynamical horizons so that the law applies to black holes arbitrarily far from equilibrium, a fundamental result that formally shows the thermodynamic description of black holes extends beyond the typical stationary solutions.

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Dissipation due to Bulk Localized Low-Energy Modes in Strongly Disordered Superconductors

Anton V. Khvalyuk and Mikhail V. Feigel’man

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256001 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Microwave dissipation in strongly disordered superconductors is driven by localized collective modes within rare weak spots, a theoretical insight which provides a fresh strategy to enhance coherence times in quantum devices.

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Pattern Formation during Melting of Lamellar Eutectics

Rahul Nellissery Rajan, Rajesh Kumari Rajendran, Guillaume Boussinot, Kamal Sbargoud, Sabine Bottin-Rousseau, and Silvère Akamatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256301 (2026) - Published 26 June, 2026

A rich diversity of patterns emerge during melting of a two-phase eutectic solid.

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Real-Space Dynamic Electron Correlation in Beryllium

Rudra B. Bista, Yuya Shinohara, Wojciech Dmowski, Chae Woo Ryu, Jung Ho Kim, Mary Upton, Hlynur Gretarsson, Martin Sundermann, and Takeshi Egami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256402 (2026) - Published 26 June, 2026

The size of the exchange-correlation hole in beryllium is about 2 Å, but it extends up to about 5 Å at the plasmon excitation energy, demonstrating that electron correlations are affected significantly by electron dynamics.

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Spontaneous Ratchet Currents and Transition Dynamics in Active Wetting

Noah Grodzinski, Robert L. Jack, and Michael E. Cates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 257101 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Active wetting is a true surface phase transition that has remarkable similarities to critical wetting transitions in equilibrium, but it also features important differences, such as dynamical transition pathways that would be forbidden for passive fluids.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Probing Quantum States over Spacetime through Interferometry

Seok Hyung Lie and Hyukjoon Kwon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 250201 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Shake before Use: Universal Enhancement of Quantum Thermometry by Unitary Driving

Emanuele Tumbiolo, Lorenzo Maccone, Chiara Macchiavello, Matteo G. A. Paris, and Giacomo Guarnieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 250401 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Trion Formation and Ordering in the Attractive SU(3) Fermi-Hubbard Model

Jonathan Stepp, Eduardo Ibarra-García-Padilla, Richard T. Scalettar, and Kaden R. A. Hazzard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 250402 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Dissipative Phase Transition of Interacting Nonreciprocal Fermions

Rafael D. Soares, Matteo Brunelli, and Marco Schirò

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 250403 (2026) - Published 26 June, 2026

Continuous Time Crystals as a $P T$ Symmetric State and the Emergence of Critical Exceptional Points

Yuma Nakanishi, Ryo Hanai, and Tomohiro Sasamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 250404 (2026) - Published 26 June, 2026

Crystalline Spectral Form Factors

Dmitrii A. Trunin and David A. Huse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 250405 (2026) - Published 26 June, 2026

Squeezing-Enhanced Sensing at an Exceptional Point

Changqing Wang, Deyuan Hu, Silvia Zorzetti, Anna Grassellino, Alexander Romanenko, and Zheshen Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 250801 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Clifford Hierarchy Stabilizer Codes: Transversal Non-Clifford Gates and Magic States

Ryohei Kobayashi, Guanyu Zhu, and Po-Shen Hsin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 250802 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Superbunching from Coherently Driven Atoms in a Waveguide

Zeidan Zeidan, Therese Karmstrand, Maryam Khanahmadi, and Göran Johansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 250803 (2026) - Published 26 June, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Search for Dark Matter Induced Airglow in Planetary Atmospheres

Carlos Blanco, Rebecca K. Leane, Marianne Moore, and Joshua Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251001 (2026) - Published 25 June, 2026

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Transient Large-Scale Anisotropy in TeV Cosmic Rays due to an Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection

Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251002 (2026) - Published 26 June, 2026

A solar storm hitting Earth appears to have reduced the amount of incoming high-energy cosmic rays, suggesting a new way of measuring solar activity.

Flexible Gravitational-Wave Parameter Estimation with Transformers

Annalena Kofler, Maximilian Dax, Stephen R. Green, Jonas Wildberger, Nihar Gupte, Jakob H. Macke, Jonathan Gair, Alessandra Buonanno, and Bernhard Schölkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251401 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Critical Phenomenon inside Asymptotically Flat Black Holes with Spontaneous Scalarization

Li Li, Ze Sun, and Fu-Guo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251402 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Black Hole Thermodynamics without Black Hole Solutions

Meng-Nan Yang, Guan-Yi Lu, and H. Lü

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251403 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

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Black Hole Mergers beyond General Relativity: A Self-Force Approach

Ayush Roy, Lorenzo Küchler, Adam Pound, and Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251404 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

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Thermodynamics of Black Holes, Far from Equilibrium

Abhay Ashtekar, Daniel E. Paraizo, and Jonathan Shu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251405 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Quantum Damping of Cosmological Shear: A New Prediction from Loop Quantum Cosmologies

Wen-Cong Gan, Leila L. Graef, Rudnei O. Ramos, Gustavo S. Vicente, and Anzhong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251501 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Particles and Fields

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Strings from Almost Nothing

Clifford Cheung, Grant N. Remmen, Francesco Sciotti, and Michele Tarquini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251601 (2026) - Published 22 June, 2026

Using a “bootstrap” approach, researchers show that a small set of assumptions may naturally lead to a string-theory description of certain high-energy processes.

Nonperturbative $S$ -Matrix Renormalization

Laurent Freidel, José Padua-Argüelles, Susanne Schander, and Marc Schiffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251602 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Short Strings in Three-Dimensional Anti–de Sitter Space: From Weak to Strong Coupling

Simon Ekhammar, Nikolay Gromov, Bogdan Stefański, Jr., and Charles Thull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251603 (2026) - Published 25 June, 2026

Proposal for Direct Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter via Charged Lepton Flavor Violation

Innes Bigaran, Patrick J. Fox, Yann Gouttenoire, Roni Harnik, Gordan Krnjaic, Tony Menzo, and Jure Zupan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251801 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Test of $C P$ Symmetry in the Neutral Decays of $Λ$ via $J / ψ \to Λ \bar{Λ}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251802 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Four-Jet Rate in Electron-Positron Annihilation at Order $α_{s}^{4}$

Xuan Chen, Dmitry Chicherin, Elliot Fox, Nigel Glover, Matteo Marcoli, Vasily Sotnikov, Huiting Sun, Hantian Zhang, and Simone Zoia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251901 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Search for the $Y (2175)$ in the Photoproduction Cross Section Measurement of $γ p \to ϕ π^{+} π^{-} p$ at GlueX

F. Afzal et al. (The GlueX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251902 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Precise QCD Predictions for Hadron-in-Jet Production in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Collisions

Leonardo Bonino, Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder, Thomas Gehrmann, Alexander Huss, Francesco Merlotti, and Giovanni Stagnitto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 251903 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Low-Energy Dipole Strength Distribution in ${}^{102}{Ru}$ : Coexistence of Scissors and Octupole Resonances

A. Saracino, A. D. Ayangeakaa, Q. B. Chen, S. Frauendorf, S. R. Johnson, R. V. F. Janssens, E. Churchman, S. W. Finch, D. Gribble, F. E. Idoko, X. K.-H. James, T. M. Kowalewski, M. Lee, A. Psaltis, and K. Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 252501 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Intrinsic Generation of Angular Momenta and Entanglement in Fission

B. Li, D. D. Zhang, D. Vretenar, T. Nikšić, P. W. Zhao, and J. Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 252502 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Identification of Resonant States in the ${}^{45}V (p, γ) {}^{46}{Cr}$ Reaction and Their Influence on the Production of ${}^{44}{Ti}$ in Core-Collapse Supernovae

C. Cousins, G. Lotay, D. T. Doherty, D. Seweryniak, C. Sarma, C. M. Campbell, L. Canete, M. P. Carpenter, W. N. Catford, K. A. Chipps, J. Henderson, A. R. L. Kennington, T. Lauritsen, J. Li, M. Moukaddam, C. Müller-Gatermann, C. O’Shea, S. D. Pain, C. J. Paxman, B. J. Reed, P. H. Regan, W. Reviol, M. Siciliano, G. L. Wilson, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 252701 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spin Interferometry in a Beam of Ultracold Molecules

R. A. Jenkins, M. T. Ziemba, F. J. Collings, X. S. Zheng, F. Castellini, E. Wursten, J. Lim, B. E. Sauer, and M. R. Tarbutt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 253401 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Enhancement of Damping in a Turbulent Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate

Junghoon Lee, Jongmin Kim, Jongheum Jung, and Y. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 253402 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Crosstalk Insensitive Trapped-Ion Entanglement through Coupling Matrix Engineering

Vikram Kashyap, Caleb Walton, and Sara Mouradian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 253601 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Enhancing Nonreciprocity through Squeezing-Induced Symmetry Breaking

B.-B. Liu, D.-Y. Wang, J. Tang, G. Chen, H. Jing, Shi-Lei Su, and F. Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 253602 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

On-Chip Generation of Copolarized and Spectrally Separable Photon Pairs

Xiaojie Wang, Lin Zhou, Yue Li, Sakthi Sanjeev Mohanraj, Xiaodong Shi, Zhuoyang Yu, Ran Yang, Xu Chen, Guangxing Wu, Hao Hao, Sihao Wang, Veerendra Dhyani, and Di Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 253801 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Novel Chiroptical Spectroscopy Technique

Jorge Olmos-Trigo, Cristina Sanz-Fernández, and Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 253802 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Thermodynamic Irreversibility in Optical Bistability

G. Keijsers, R. M. de Boer, B. Verdonschot, K. J. H. Peters, and S. R. K. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 253803 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Fluid Flow and Spatiotemporal Chaos in Chemically Active Emulsions

Charu Datt, Jonathan Bauermann, Nazmi Burak Budanur, and Frank Jülicher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 254001 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Relating Rates of Global Change, Evolutionary Adaptation, and Extinction

Daniel H. Rothman and Sergei Petrovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 254201 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

How the Oblique Drift Instability Alters Solar Wind Heating and Constrains the Distribution of Solar Wind Observations

Mihailo M. Martinović, Kristopher G. Klein, Leon Ofman, Yogesh, Gregory G. Howes, Jaye L. Verniero, Peter H. Yoon, Daniel Verscharen, and Benjamin L. Alterman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 255201 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dissipation due to Bulk Localized Low-Energy Modes in Strongly Disordered Superconductors

Anton V. Khvalyuk and Mikhail V. Feigel’man

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256001 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Observation of Linear Scaling of Superconductivity with Crystal Orientation at $a − {LaAlO}_{3} / {KTaO}_{3}$ Interfaces

Xueshan Cao, Meng Zhang, Yishuai Wang, Ming Qin, Yi Zhou, and Yanwu Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256002 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Revisiting the Charge-Density-Wave Superlattice of $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$

Wei Wang, Patrick Liu, Lijun Wu, Jing Tao, Genda Gu, Binghai Yan, Alfred Zong, and Yimei Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256101 (2026) - Published 25 June, 2026

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Pattern Formation during Melting of Lamellar Eutectics

Rahul Nellissery Rajan, Rajesh Kumari Rajendran, Guillaume Boussinot, Kamal Sbargoud, Sabine Bottin-Rousseau, and Silvère Akamatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256301 (2026) - Published 26 June, 2026

A rich diversity of patterns emerge during melting of a two-phase eutectic solid.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Geometric Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

Éric Cancès, Théo Duez, Jari van Gog, Asbjørn Bækgaard Lauritsen, Mathieu Lewin, and Julien Toulouse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256401 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

A geometric reformulation of time-dependent density-functional theory better describes nonequilibrium systems.

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Real-Space Dynamic Electron Correlation in Beryllium

Rudra B. Bista, Yuya Shinohara, Wojciech Dmowski, Chae Woo Ryu, Jung Ho Kim, Mary Upton, Hlynur Gretarsson, Martin Sundermann, and Takeshi Egami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256402 (2026) - Published 26 June, 2026

Many-Body Perturbation Theory for Driven Dissipative Quasiparticle Flows and Fluctuations

Thomas Blommel, Enrico Perfetto, Gianluca Stefanucci, and Vojtech Vlcek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256403 (2026) - Published 26 June, 2026

Real-Space Topology and Charge Order in the Haldane-Holstein Model

Sebastião dos A. Sousa-Júnior, Julián Faúndez, Tarik P. Cysne, Richard T. Scalettar, and Rubem Mondaini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256501 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Emergent Spacetime Supersymmetry at 2D Fractionalized Quantum Criticality

Zhengzhi Wu, Zhou-Quan Wan, Shao-Kai Jian, and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256502 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Dynamics of Superconducting Pairs in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

G. Sordi, E. M. O’Callaghan, C. Walsh, M. Charlebois, P. Sémon, and A.-M. S. Tremblay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256503 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Edge Reconstruction in a Quantum Spin Hall Insulator

Rahul Soni, Matthias Thamm, Gonzalo Alvarez, Bernd Rosenow, and Adrian Del Maestro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256504 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Ferromagnetism versus Antiferromagnetism in Narrow-Band Systems: Competition between Quantum Geometry and Band Dispersion

Haoyu Hu, Oskar Vafek, Kristjan Haule, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256505 (2026) - Published 26 June, 2026

Emergent Dynamical Kondo Coherence and Competing Magnetic Order in a Correlated Kagome Flat-Band Metal ${CsCr}_{6} {Sb}_{6}$

Xiangqi Liu, Xuefeng Zhang, Jiachen Jiao, Renjie Zhang, Kaiwen Chen, Ying Wang, Yunguan Ye, Zhenhai Yu, Chengyu Jiang, Xia Wang, Bei Jiang, Yaobo Huang, Lei Shu, Baiqing Lv, Gang Li, and Yanfeng Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256601 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Topological Slot in Phononic Crystals

Qing Wang, Yinfei Zhang, Gangqiao Shao, Han Liu, Weiyin Deng, Hailong He, Liping Ye, Jiuyang Lu, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256602 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Acoustic Non-Abelian Topological Insulator Induced by Artificial SU(2) Gauge Fields

Haonan Wang, Hui Liu, Zhancheng Li, Yuanshuo Liu, Weiyin Deng, Hua Cheng, Zhengyou Liu, and Shuqi Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256603 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Machine-Learned Tuning to Protected States by Probing Noise Resilience

Rodrigo A. Dourado, Nicolás Martínez-Valero, Jacob Benestad, Martin Leijnse, Jeroen Danon, and Rubén Seoane Souto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256604 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Exciton-Anyon Binding in Fractional Chern Insulators: Spectral Fingerprints

Tianhong Lu and Luiz H. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256605 (2026) - Published 26 June, 2026

Direct Observation of Sublattice-Dependent Magnetic Ordering and Strong Electron-Magnon Coupling in ${Fe}_{5} {GeTe}_{2}$

R. Xu, X. H. Chen, X. L. Li, Y. Z. Wang, J. H. Yao, Z. S. Zhao, S. Liao, S. W. Su, P. Li, Z. T. Liu, D. W. Shen, F. M. Li, Y. L. Wang, D. L. Feng, and J. Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256701 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Ultrafast Magneto-Optical Fingerprints of Altermagnetism in MnTe

Xu Yang, Xingkai Cheng, Zhuo Deng, Yu-Han Gao, Qing-Lin Yang, Zheng Chang, Peng-Tao Yang, Hong-Mei Feng, Xiang-Qun Zhang, Wei He, Junwei Liu, and Zhao-Hua Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256702 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Spectroscopic Demarcation of Emergent Photons and Spinons in a Dipolar-Octupolar Quantum Spin Liquid

Bin Gao, Zhengbang Zhou, Tingjun Zhang, Andrey Podlesnyak, Sang-Wook Cheong, Yong Baek Kim, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256703 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Observation of Altermagnetic Order Switching in Bulk MnTe by Polarized Neutron Diffraction

Zheyuan Liu, Shinichiro Asai, Shingo Takahashi, Hiraku Saito, Taro Nakajima, and Takatsugu Masuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256704 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

Hearing the Light: Stray-Field Noise from the Emergent Photon in Quantum Spin Ice

Gautam K. Naik, Jonathan N. Hallén, Nishan C. Jayarama, Roderich Moessner, and Chris R. Laumann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256705 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Block-Type Antiferromagnetism in Single Chain Quasi-One-Dimensional $K_{3} {Fe}_{2} {Se}_{4}$

Fei Gao, Nikhil Dhale, Ling-Fang Lin, Keith M. Taddei, Yang Zhang, Clarina Dela Cruz, Elbio Dagotto, and Bing Lv

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256706 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

Close Proximity to a Quantum Phase Transition in ${TmZn}_{2} {GaO}_{5}$

Matthew Ennis, Rabindranath Bag, Tessa Cookmeyer, Matthew B. Stone, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Tao Hong, Leon Balents, and Sara Haravifard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256707 (2026) - Published 24 June, 2026

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Curvature-Induced Magnon Frequency Combs

Hao Zhao, Qianjun Zheng, and Peng Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 256708 (2026) - Published 25 June, 2026

A tiny bump in a magnetic film exposed to microwaves can engender spin waves with precisely spaced frequencies.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Memories of Amplitude and Direction Coexist and Compete in Non-Brownian Suspensions

Surendra Padamata and Nathan C. Keim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 258201 (2026) - Published 23 June, 2026

A new experiment elucidates the ability of some particle–fluid mixtures to behave in ways that depend on their previous flow.

Curvature Instability of an Active Gel Growing on a Wavy Membrane

Kristiana Mihali, Dennis Wörthmüller, and Pierre Sens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 258401 (2026) - Published 25 June, 2026