Volume 136, Issue 6

13 February 2026

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Pictorial representation of a quantum battery setup encoded in a 16-qubit lattice, with 12 cells activated in the system.

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Quantum Charging Advantage in Superconducting Solid-State Batteries
Chang-Kang Hu, Chilong Liu, Jingchao Zhao, Liuzhu Zhong, Yuxuan Zhou, Mingze Liu, Haolan Yuan, Yongchang Lin, Yue Xu, Guantian Hu, Guixu Xie, Zixing Liu, Ruiyang Zhou, Yougui Ri, Wenxuan Zhang, Ruicheng Deng, Andreia Saguia, Xiayu Linpeng, Marcelo S. Sarandy, Song Liu, Alan C. Santos, Dian Tan, and Dapeng Yu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060401 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Error-Resilient Reversal of Quantum Chaotic Dynamics Enabled by Scramblons

Yu-Chen Li, Tian-Gang Zhou, Shengyu Zhang, Ze Wu, Liqiang Zhao, Haochuan Yin, Xiaoxue An, Hui Zhai, Pengfei Zhang, Xinhua Peng, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060403 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

A combined experimental and theoretical study reveals the emergence of quantum chaos in a complex system, suggesting that it can be described with a universal theoretical framework.

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Analytical and AI-Discovered Stable, Accurate, and Generalizable Subgrid-Scale Closure for Geophysical Turbulence

Karan Jakhar, Yifei Guan, and Pedram Hassanzadeh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 064201 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Researchers have used an artificial-intelligence tool to reveal long-sought equations that describe small-scale features in 2D turbulent systems.

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Radially Locked Sun-Ray Patterns in Reaction-Diffusion-Advection Systems

S. N. Maharana, L. Negrojević, A. Comolli, and A. De Wit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068001 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

A chemical reaction involving a flowing fluid leads to a striking visual pattern—a result that could benefit research on other propagating fronts, such as flames.

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Black Holes as Telescopes: Discovering Supermassive Binaries through Quasiperiodic Lensed Starlight

Hanxi Wang, Miguel Zumalacárregui, and Bence Kocsis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 061403 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

The quasiperiodic lensing of starlight by a supermassive black hole binary system can leave imprints on the light curve of the host galaxy, which can help discover and characterize such binaries.

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Superconducting Dome in ${La}_{3 - x} {Sr}_{x} {Ni}_{2} O_{7 - δ}$ Thin Films

Maosen Wang, Bo Hao, Wenjie Sun, Shengjun Yan, Shengwang Sun, Hongyi Zhang, Zhengbin Gu, and Yuefeng Nie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066002 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

The doping-dependent phase diagram of the bilayer nickelate film, La $_{3 - x}$ Sr $_{x}$ Ni $_{2}$ O $_{7 - δ}$ , when compressively strained features a superconducting dome with an electron-hole crossover.

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Composite Fermion Theory of Fractional Chern Insulator Stability

Xiaodong Hu, Ying Ran, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066504 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

A mean-field theory of fractional Chern insulators based on the dipole picture of composite fermions extends beyond the ideal-band limit.

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Floquet Engineering Spin Triplet States in Unconventional Magnets

Pei-Hao Fu, Sayan Mondal, Jun-Feng Liu, Yukio Tanaka, and Jorge Cayao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066703 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

High-frequency linearly polarized light generates spin-triplet densities and odd-frequency spin-triplet Cooper pairs in $d$ -wave altermagnets, features absent in the static phase.

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Bright Chiral Single-Photon Emission Underpinned by Independent Tailoring of $Q$ and $V$

Kai Liu, Qi-hang Zhang, Zi-hao Dong, Zhi-xiang Li, Chao Zhang, Shao-jie Fu, Xu-hao Hong, Yan-qing Lu, Yan-feng Chen, Jun Du, Xue-jin Zhang, and Yong-yuan Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066901 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Independent tuning of cavity lifetime and field confinement enables record-bright, room-temperature chiral single-photon emission, breaking the prevailing Q-V trade-off in quantum emitters.

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Determining the Chemical Potential via Universal Density Functional Learning

Florian Sammüller and Matthias Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068202 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Equilibrium chemical potentials can be determined simultaneously across simulation datasets of inhomogeneous classical fluids by leveraging machine-learned classical density functionals.

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Robust Scaling in Human Brain Dynamics Despite Correlated Inputs and Limited Sampling Distortions

Rubén Calvo, Carles Martorell, Adrián Roig, and Miguel A. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068402 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

An analytical and numerical framework, applied to pooled resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging, shows that collective brain activity is slightly subcritical yet close to criticality.

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Diffusive and Enzymatic Modulation of the Dynamic Size Distribution of DNA Droplets

Michio Tateno and Omar A. Saleh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068403 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

An experimental model system of DNA nanoparticles shows that the droplet size distribution can be controlled by the droplets’ phase separation ability.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Maximally Nonprojective Measurements Are Not Always Symmetric Informationally Complete

Gabriele Cobucci, Raphael Brinster, Shishir Khandelwal, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß, Nikolai Wyderka, and Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060201 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Information-Theoretic Derivation of Energy, Speed Bounds, and Quantum Theory

Lorenzo Giannelli and Giulio Chiribella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060202 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Proper and Improper Mixed States Serve as Different Prior Beliefs for Quantum State Retrodiction

Mingxuan Liu, Valerio Scarani, and Ge Bai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060203 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Quantum Charging Advantage in Superconducting Solid-State Batteries

Chang-Kang Hu, Chilong Liu, Jingchao Zhao, Liuzhu Zhong, Yuxuan Zhou, Mingze Liu, Haolan Yuan, Yongchang Lin, Yue Xu, Guantian Hu, Guixu Xie, Zixing Liu, Ruiyang Zhou, Yougui Ri, Wenxuan Zhang, Ruicheng Deng, Andreia Saguia, Xiayu Linpeng, Marcelo S. Sarandy, Song Liu, Alan C. Santos, Dian Tan, and Dapeng Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060401 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Bosonization of Noise Effects in Nonlocal Quantum Dynamics

Michele Fantechi and Marco Merkli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060402 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

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Error-Resilient Reversal of Quantum Chaotic Dynamics Enabled by Scramblons

Yu-Chen Li, Tian-Gang Zhou, Shengyu Zhang, Ze Wu, Liqiang Zhao, Haochuan Yin, Xiaoxue An, Hui Zhai, Pengfei Zhang, Xinhua Peng, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060403 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

A combined experimental and theoretical study reveals the emergence of quantum chaos in a complex system, suggesting that it can be described with a universal theoretical framework.

Signatures of Quantum Phase Transitions in Driven Dissipative Spin Chains

Mostafa Ali, Naushad A. Kamar, Alireza Seif, and Mohammad Maghrebi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060404 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Optimal Quantum Algorithm for Gibbs State Preparation

Cambyse Rouzé, Daniel Stilck França, and Álvaro M. Alhambra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060601 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Chernoff Information Bottleneck for Covert Quantum Target Sensing

Giuseppe Ortolano, Ivano Ruo-Berchera, and Leonardo Banchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060801 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Observation of Criticality-Enhanced Quantum Sensing in Nonunitary Quantum Walks

Lei Xiao, Saubhik Sarkar, Kunkun Wang, Abolfazl Bayat, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060802 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Optical Sensing near the Quantum Limit with Enhanced Dynamic Range by Resolving the Spectra of Interfering Photons

Russell M. J. Brooks, Luca Maggio, Thomas Jaeken, Joseph Ho, Erik M. Gauger, Vincenzo Tamma, and Alessandro Fedrizzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060803 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Experimental Certification of Ensembles of High-Dimensional Quantum States with Independent Quantum Devices

Yong-Nan Sun, Meng-Yun Ma, Qi-Ping Su, Zhe Sun, Chui-Ping Yang, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060804 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Private Remote Phase Estimation over a Lossy Quantum Channel

Farzad Kianvash, Marco Barbieri, and Matteo Rosati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060805 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Entanglement-Enhanced Quantum Sensing via Optimal Global Control with Neutral Atoms in a Cavity

Vineesha Srivastava, Sven Jandura, Gavin K. Brennen, and Guido Pupillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060806 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Role of Symmetry in Generalized Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference and Quantum Metrology

Éloi Descamps, Arne Keller, and Pérola Milman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060807 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Superconducting Integrated On-Demand Quantum Memory with Microwave Pulse Preservation

Aleksei R. Matanin, Nikita S. Smirnov, Anton I. Ivanov, Victor I. Polozov, Daria A. Moskaleva, Elizaveta I. Malevannaya, Margarita V. Androschuk, Yulia A. Agafonova, Denis E. Shirokov, Aleksander V. Andriyash, and Ilya A. Rodionov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060808 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Ten-Dimensional Neural Network Emulator for the Nonlinear Matter Power Spectrum

Yanhui Yang (杨焱辉), Simeon Bird, Ming-Feng Ho (何銘峰), and Mahdi Qezlou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 061001 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Explaining the PeV Neutrino Fluxes at KM3NeT and IceCube with Quasiextremal Primordial Black Holes

Michael J. Baker, Joaquim Iguaz Juan, Aidan Symons, and Andrea Thamm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 061002 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Emergent Turbulence in Nonlinear Gravity

Sizheng Ma, Luis Lehner, Huan Yang, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, and Mark A. Scheel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 061401 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

CMB and Energy Conservation Limits on Nanohertz Gravitational Waves

David Wright, John T. Giblin, Jr., and Jeffrey Hazboun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 061402 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

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Black Holes as Telescopes: Discovering Supermassive Binaries through Quasiperiodic Lensed Starlight

Hanxi Wang, Miguel Zumalacárregui, and Bence Kocsis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 061403 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

The quasiperiodic lensing of starlight by a supermassive black hole binary system can leave imprints on the light curve of the host galaxy, which can help discover and characterize such binaries.

Coherent State Description of Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Holes

Sugumi Kanno, Jiro Soda, and Akira Taniguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 061404 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Particles and Fields

Exact Chiral Symmetries of $3 + 1 D$ Hamiltonian Lattice Fermions

Lei Gioia and Ryan Thorngren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 061601 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

New Nonsupersymmetric Tachyon-Free Strings

Zihni Kaan Baykara, Houri-Christina Tarazi, and Cumrun Vafa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 061602 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Bulk Spacetime Encoding via Boundary Ambiguities

Zhenkang Lu, Cheng Ran, and Shao-Feng Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 061603 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Self-Similar Inverse Cascade from Generalized Symmetries

Yuji Hirono, Kohei Kamada, Naoki Yamamoto, and Ryo Yokokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 061604 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

Superconducting Cloud Chamber

Bo Gao, Jie Sheng, and Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 061801 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

First Observation of the ${\bar{B}}_{s}^{0} \to Λ_{c}^{+} {\bar{Λ}}_{c}^{-}$ Decay and Evidence for the ${\bar{B}}^{0} \to Λ_{c}^{+} {\bar{Λ}}_{c}^{-}$ Decay

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 061802 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Lattice Calculation of the Sn Isotopes near the Proton Dripline

Fabian Hildenbrand, Serdar Elhatisari, Ulf-G. Meißner, Helen Meyer, Zhengxue Ren, Andreas Herten, and Mathis Bode

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 062501 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Chern Theorem and Topological Matter in Fast-Rotating Atomic Nuclei

Mike Guidry and Yang Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 062502 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Isotope Shift Spectroscopy in Mercury Vapors: A Promising Alternative to Ytterbium for New Physics Search

Stefania Gravina, Antonio Castrillo, and Livio Gianfrani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 063001 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Steering Reaction Flux by Coupling Product Channels

Dominik Dorer, Shinsuke Haze, Jing-Lun Li, José P. D’Incao, Eberhard Tiemann, Paul S. Julienne, Markus Deiß, and Johannes Hecker Denschlag

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 063401 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Emergence of Second-Order Coherence in Superfluorescence

Constanze Bach, Felix Tebbenjohanns, Christian Liedl, Philipp Schneeweiss, and Arno Rauschenbeutel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 063402 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Cavity Controls Core-to-Core Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

S.-X. Wang, Z.-Q. Zhao, X.-Y. Wang, T.-J. Li, Y. Su, Y. Uemura, F. Alves Lima, A. Khadiev, B.-H. Wang, J. M. Ablett, J-P. Rueff, H.-C. Wang, O. J. L. Fox, W.-B. Li, L.-F. Zhu, and X.-C. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 063601 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Exceptional Point Superradiant Lasing with Ultranarrow Linewidth

Min Du, Qian Bin, Qing-Yang Qiu, Franco Nori, and Xin-You Lü

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 063602 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

All-Optically Operated Atto-Newton Force Sensing with a Centimeter-Milligram-Scale Torsion Pendulum

Sheng-Guo Guan, Yan-Bei Cheng, Jing Sun, Zheng-Lu Duan, and Jian-Xin Le

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 063603 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Kerr-Induced Noise Quenching in Pulse Pumped Microcavity Solitons

Ziqi Wei, Daewon Suk, Changrui Liu, Changxi Yang, Hansuek Lee, and Chengying Bao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 063801 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

On-Chip Laser-Driven Free-Electron Spin Polarizer

Clarisse Woodahl, Melanie Murillo, Charles Roques-Carmes, Aviv Karnieli, David A. B. Miller, and Olav Solgaard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 063802 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Separate Exact Laws of Kinetic and Magnetic Energy Cascade in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

C. Li, Y. Yang, W. H. Matthaeus, B. Jiang, Sean Oughton, M. Wan, and S. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 064001 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

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Analytical and AI-Discovered Stable, Accurate, and Generalizable Subgrid-Scale Closure for Geophysical Turbulence

Karan Jakhar, Yifei Guan, and Pedram Hassanzadeh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 064201 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Researchers have used an artificial-intelligence tool to reveal long-sought equations that describe small-scale features in 2D turbulent systems.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Energy Bunching from Subcycle Ionization Injection in Laser Wakefield Acceleration

A. Angella, E. Löfquist, C. Gustafsson, V. Poulain, F. D’Souza, C. Guo, A. Persson, P. Eng-Johnsson, C.-G. Wahlström, and O. Lundh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 065001 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Muon Knight Shift as a Precise Probe of the Superconducting Symmetry of ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

Hisakazu Matsuki, Rustem Khasanov, Jonas A. Krieger, Thomas J. Hicken, Kosuke Yuchi, Jake S. Bobowski, Giordano Mattoni, Atsutoshi Ikeda, Ryutaro Okuma, Hubertus Luetkens, and Yoshiteru Maeno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066001 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

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Superconducting Dome in ${La}_{3 - x} {Sr}_{x} {Ni}_{2} O_{7 - δ}$ Thin Films

Maosen Wang, Bo Hao, Wenjie Sun, Shengjun Yan, Shengwang Sun, Hongyi Zhang, Zhengbin Gu, and Yuefeng Nie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066002 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Unified Model for the Solution of Interstitials in Refractory High-Entropy Alloys

Qianxi Zhu, Wang Gao, and Qing Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066101 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Rate Equation for the Transfer of Interstitials across Interfaces between Equilibrated Crystals

Jörg Weissmüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066201 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Frequency-Domain Berry Curvature Effect on Time Refraction

Shiyue Deng, Yang Gao, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066301 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Quantum Storage with Flat Bands

Carlo Danieli, Jie Liu, Rudolf A. Römer, and Rodrigo A. Vicencio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066302 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Marginal Metals and Kosterlitz-Thouless-Type Phase Transition in Disordered Altermagnets

Chang-An Li, Bo Fu, Huaiming Guo, Björn Trauzettel, and Song-Bo Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066303 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Anomalous Localization of Light in One-Dimensional Lévy Photonic Lattices

Alejandro Ramírez-Yañez, Thomas Gorin, Rodrigo A. Vicencio, and Víctor A. Gopar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066304 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Quantum versus Classical Thermal Transport at Low Temperatures

Zhixing Zou, Jiangbin Gong, Jiao Wang, Giulio Casati, and Giuliano Benenti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066305 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Intervalley-Coupled Twisted Bilayer Graphene from Substrate Commensuration

Bo-Ting Chen, Michael G. Scheer, and Biao Lian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066401 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Universal Crossover in the Three-Channel Charge Kondo Model at High Transparency

Nicolas Paris, Nicolas Dupuis, and Christophe Mora

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066501 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Parity Breaking and Sublattice Dichotomy in Monolayer FeSe Superconductor

Cui Ding, Zhipeng Xu, Xiaotong Jiao, Yinqi Hu, Wenxuan Zhao, Lexian Yang, Kun Jiang, Lili Wang, Jin-Feng Jia, Jiangping Hu, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066502 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Quasi-One-Dimensional Spin Excitations in the Iron Pnictide ${NaFe}_{0.53} {Cu}_{0.47} As$

Yifan Wang, David W. Tam, Weiyi Wang, R. A. Ewings, J. Ross Stewart, Masaaki Matsuda, Chongde Cao, Changle Liu, Rong Yu, Pengcheng Dai, and Yu Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066503 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Composite Fermion Theory of Fractional Chern Insulator Stability

Xiaodong Hu, Ying Ran, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066504 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

A mean-field theory of fractional Chern insulators based on the dipole picture of composite fermions extends beyond the ideal-band limit.

Topology of Ultralocalized Insulators and Superconductors

Bastien Lapierre, Luka Trifunovic, Titus Neupert, and Piet W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066601 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Realization of a Bulk-Insulating Ferromagnetic Topological Crystalline Insulator and Its Multicarrier Surface Dirac-Cone Transport

Yoshihiro Fukushima, Satoru Ichinokura, Taisuke Sasaki, and Toru Hirahara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066602 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Ultrasensitive Magnetometer Based on Cusp Points of the Photon-Magnon Synchronization Mode

Xinlin Mi, Jinwei Rao, Lijun Yan, Xudong Wang, Bingbing Lyu, Bimu Yao, Shishen Yan, and Lihui Bai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066701 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Magnetoelastic Coupling-Driven Chiral Spin Textures: A Skyrmion-Antiskyrmion-like Array

Gyungchoon Go and Se Kwon Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066702 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Floquet Engineering Spin Triplet States in Unconventional Magnets

Pei-Hao Fu, Sayan Mondal, Jun-Feng Liu, Yukio Tanaka, and Jorge Cayao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066703 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

High-frequency linearly polarized light generates spin-triplet densities and odd-frequency spin-triplet Cooper pairs in $d$ -wave altermagnets, features absent in the static phase.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bright Chiral Single-Photon Emission Underpinned by Independent Tailoring of $Q$ and $V$

Kai Liu, Qi-hang Zhang, Zi-hao Dong, Zhi-xiang Li, Chao Zhang, Shao-jie Fu, Xu-hao Hong, Yan-qing Lu, Yan-feng Chen, Jun Du, Xue-jin Zhang, and Yong-yuan Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066901 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Independent tuning of cavity lifetime and field confinement enables record-bright, room-temperature chiral single-photon emission, breaking the prevailing Q-V trade-off in quantum emitters.

Pressure-Tunable Hyperbolic Plasmons in Black Phosphorus Films

Yuwei Liu, Chong Wang, Junwei Ma, Yuqing Zheng, Wenqi Bi, Hao Sun, Xiangkai Meng, Shenyang Huang, Xiang Li, Hugen Yan, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066902 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Enhancement of Indistinguishable-Photon Emission from a GaAs Quantum Dot via Charge-Noise Suppression

Priyabrata Mudi, Avijit Barua, Kartik Gaur, Steffen Wilksen, Alexander Steinhoff, Setthanat Wijitpatima, Sarthak Tripathi, Julian Ritzmann, Andreas D. Wieck, Sven Rodt, Christopher Gies, Arne Ludwig, and Stephan Reitzenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066903 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Cross-Process Interference in Single-Cycle Electron Emission from Metal Needle Tips

Anne Herzig, Peter Hommelhoff, Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Thomas Fennel, and Lennart Seiffert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066904 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Phononic Casimir Effect in Planar Materials

Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez, Dai-Nam Le, and Lilia M. Woods

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066905 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Entropic Balance with Feedback Control: Information Equalities and Tight Inequalities

N. Ruiz-Pino and A. Prados

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 067101 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Macroscopic Fluctuation-Response Theory and Its Use for Gene Regulatory Networks

Timur Aslyamov, Krzysztof Ptaszyński, and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 067102 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Gibbs Measures from Deep Shaped Multilayer Perceptrons

Boris Hanin and Alexander Zlokapa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 067301 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Radially Locked Sun-Ray Patterns in Reaction-Diffusion-Advection Systems

S. N. Maharana, L. Negrojević, A. Comolli, and A. De Wit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068001 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

A chemical reaction involving a flowing fluid leads to a striking visual pattern—a result that could benefit research on other propagating fronts, such as flames.

Unlocking Hidden Topological Multistability via Biphasic Correlated Order Evolution

Jin-Bing Wu, Zhenghao Guo, Baoming Shi, Daoxing Luo, Lei Zhang, Yan-Qing Lu, and Wei Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068101 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Experimental Measurement of Negative Grain-Boundary Triple Line Tension

Xiuming Xiao and Ziren Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068201 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Determining the Chemical Potential via Universal Density Functional Learning

Florian Sammüller and Matthias Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068202 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Equilibrium chemical potentials can be determined simultaneously across simulation datasets of inhomogeneous classical fluids by leveraging machine-learned classical density functionals.

Shear-Rate Dependent Surface Tension of Glass-Forming Fluids

Linnea Heitmeier and Thomas Voigtmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068203 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Gravity-Driven Flux of Particles through Apertures

Ram Sudhir Sharma, Alexandre Leonelli, Kevin Zhao, Eckart Meiburg, and Alban Sauret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068204 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Anomalous Diffusion in Driven Electrolytes due to Hydrodynamic Fluctuations

Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068301 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Entropy Production in Non-Gaussian Active Matter: A Unified Fluctuation Theorem and Deep Learning Framework

Yuanfei Huang, Chengyu Liu, Bing Miao, and Xiang Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068302 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Unifying Constraints Linking Protein Folding and Native Dynamics Decoded from AlphaFold

Zecheng Zhang, Weitong Ren, Liangxu Xie, Yuxiang Zheng, Xingyue Guan, Jun Wang, Wenfei Li, and Qian-Yuan Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068401 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Robust Scaling in Human Brain Dynamics Despite Correlated Inputs and Limited Sampling Distortions

Rubén Calvo, Carles Martorell, Adrián Roig, and Miguel A. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068402 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

An analytical and numerical framework, applied to pooled resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging, shows that collective brain activity is slightly subcritical yet close to criticality.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Diffusive and Enzymatic Modulation of the Dynamic Size Distribution of DNA Droplets

Michio Tateno and Omar A. Saleh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 068403 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

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COMMENTS

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ERRATA

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