Volume 136, Issue 8

27 February 2026

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On the Cover

Fluctuating strong-force fields within the quark-gluon plasma (center) lead to characteristic spin correlations, with parallel alignment between two hyperons (top left) and antiparallel alignment in a hyperon–antihyperon pair (bottom right).

From the article:

Hyperon Spin Correlation in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions
Xin-Li Sheng, Xiang-Yu Wu, Dirk H. Rischke, and Xin-Nian Wang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 082301 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hydrodynamic Interactions Destroy Motility-Induced Phase Separation in Active Suspensions

Tingtao Zhou and John F. Brady

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 088301 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026

Contrary to previous suggestions, hydrodynamic interactions impede the clustering of tiny biological and artificial swimmers.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Lenticular Hexagon-to-Hexagram Shape Transformation: Nano-Origami in Liquid Droplets

Catherine Quilliet, Alexander V. Butenko, and Eli Sloutskin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 084002 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

An oil droplet within a watery fluid becomes nonspherical at certain temperatures—reversibly transforming from a hexagon to a six-pointed star.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Decay of Two-Dimensional Superfluid Turbulence over Pinning Surface

Filip Novotný, Marek Talíř, and Emil Varga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 084003 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Experiments with superfluid helium in nanofluidic channels show that quasi‑2D quantum turbulence decays with a universal fast transient followed by a slower, geometry‑dependent regime.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fluxoid Solitons in Superconducting Tapered Tubes and Bottlenecks

Tim Kokkeler, Mateo Uldemolins, Francisco Lobo, F. Sebastian Bergeret, Elsa Prada, and Pablo San-Jose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086001 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

A fluxoid soliton is a new type of topologically protected state that appears in thin-walled tubular superconductors.

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Hydrogen Vacancy Induced Superconductivity Collapse in A15 Lanthanum Hydride

Israel Osmond, Lewis J. Conway, Mikhail A. Kuzovnikov, Callum Stevens, Tomas Marqueño, Hannah A. Shuttleworth, Andrew Huxley, Chris J. Pickard, Graeme J. Ackland, Ross T. Howie, and Miriam Peña-Alvarez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086102 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

The first direct demonstration that hydrogen content alone drives the superconductor-to-insulator transition in A15-type lanthanum hydride provides a benchmark for tunable high-T $_{c}$ superconductivity at reduced pressures.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-Split Superconductivity in Spin-Orbit Coupled Hybrid Nanowires with Ferromagnetic Barriers

J. Zhao, A. Mazanik, D. Razmadze, Y. Liu, P. Krogstrup, F. S. Bergeret, and S. Vaitiekėnas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086302 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Tunneling spectroscopy on hybrid Josephson junctions (made of a ferromagnetic insulator, a semiconductor, and aluminum) reveals spin-split superconductivity.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Modulation of Superconductivity across a Lifshitz Transition in Alternating-Angle Twisted Quadrilayer Graphene

Isabelle Y. Phinney, Andrew Zimmerman, Zeyu Hao, Patrick J. Ledwith, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086501 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Magnetotransport and electric field both tune and probe the band structure of twisted quadrilayer graphene while simultaneously measuring the superconducting properties of the system.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-Order Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in a Cubic Ferromagnet

Haoran Chen, Yue Chen, Yizi Feng, Ruda Guo, Yuanfei Fan, Hongyue Xu, Tong Wu, Zhongxun Guo, Di Yue, Xiaofeng Jin, Yi Liu, Zhe Yuan, and Yizheng Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086704 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Careful Fourier analysis resolves harmonics of a higher order than 4, up to the 18th order, in cubic iron films.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Manipulating Charge Distribution in Moiré Superlattices by Light

Ruiping Guo, Haowei Chen, Wenhui Duan, Yong Xu, and Chong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086903 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Uniform optical illumination is predicted to induce static but spatially inhomogeneous charge redistribution within a supercell in moiré superlattices.

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Approximate Normalizations for Approximate Density Functionals

Adam Clay, Kiril Datchev, Wenlan Miao, Adam Wasserman, Kimberly J. Daas, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 088002 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

By applying a dimensionality and potential-dependent normalization instead of normalizing electron density to the number of electrons in DFT calculations yields better results than the same functional evaluated on the exact density.

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Clogging of Cohesive Particles in a Two-Dimensional Hopper

Johnathan Hoggarth, Pablo E. Illing, Eric R. Weeks, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 088201 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Microfluidic experiments demonstrate that clogging in a system of cohesive particles in a hopper is governed by the cohesive length scale, not particle size.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Stabilizer Rényi Entropy and Its Transition in the Coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

Pengfei Zhang, Shuyan Zhou, and Ning Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080201 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

$L$ Entropy: A New Genuine Multipartite Entanglement Measure

Jaydeep Kumar Basak, Vinay Malvimat, and Junggi Yoon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080202 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

How Contextuality and Antidistinguishability Are Related

Maiyuren Srikumar, Stephen D. Bartlett, and Angela Karanjai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080203 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Markovian Approach to $N$ -Photon Correlations beyond the Quantum Regression Theorem

Mateusz Salamon, Oliver Dudgeon, Ahsan Nazir, and Jake Iles-Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080401 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Stabilizer Rényi Entropy Encodes Fusion Rules of Topological Defects and Boundaries

Masahiro Hoshino and Yuto Ashida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080402 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026

Field Digitization Scaling in a $Z_{N} \subset U (1)$ Symmetric Model

Gabriele Calliari, Robert Ott, Hannes Pichler, and Torsten V. Zache

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080403 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Measurement-Driven Quantum Advantages in Shallow Circuits

Chenfeng Cao and Jens Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080601 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Many-Body Anti-Zeno Thermalization and Zeno Determinism in Monitored Hamiltonian Dynamics

Jia-Jin Feng and Quntao Zhuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080602 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Low-Overhead and High-Fidelity Preparation of Logical Non-Clifford States with Multilevel Transversal Injection

Jiaxuan Zhang, Tian-Hao Wei, Xi-Ning Zhuang, Zhao-Yun Chen, Wei-Cheng Kong, Yu-Chun Wu, and Guo-Ping Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080603 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Quantum Algorithms for Fidelity Susceptibility: From Quantum Criticality to Metrology

Yukun Zhang and Xiao Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080604 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Faster Quantum Algorithm for Multiple Observables Estimation

Yuki Koizumi, Kaito Wada, Wataru Mizukami, and Nobuyuki Yoshioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080605 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Approaching the Key Rate Limit in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution Network

Yiming Bian, Yichen Zhang, Song Yu, Zhengyu Li, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080801 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Achieving the Quantum Fisher Information Bound in Pseudo-Hermitian Sensors

Ievgen I. Arkhipov, Franco Nori, and Şahin K. Özdemir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080802 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Correlated Noise Estimation with Quantum Sensor Networks

Anthony J. Brady, Yu-Xin Wang (王语馨), Victor V. Albert, Alexey V. Gorshkov, and Quntao Zhuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 080803 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Does the 220 PeV Event at KM3NeT Point to New Physics?

Vedran Brdar and Dibya S. Chattopadhyay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081001 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Addressing Tensions in $Λ CDM$ Cosmology by an Increase in the Optical Depth to Reionization

Noah Sailer, Gerrit S. Farren, Simone Ferraro, and Martin White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081002 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Probing the Cosmic Neutrino Background through Parametric Fluorescence

Guo-yuan Huang and Shun Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081003 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Detection of Gamma-Ray Halos around Nearby Late-Type Galaxies

M. S. Pshirkov and B. A. Nizamov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081201 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Second-Order Self-Force Potential-Region Binary Dynamics at $O (G^{5})$ in Supergravity

Zvi Bern, Enrico Herrmann, Radu Roiban, Michael S. Ruf, Alexander V. Smirnov, Vladimir A. Smirnov, and Mao Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081401 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Particles and Fields

Langer’s Nucleation Rate Reproduced on the Lattice

Joonas Hirvonen and Oliver Gould

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081601 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

$AdS \times S$ Mellin Bootstrap, Hidden 10D Symmetry and Five-Point Kaluza-Klein Functions in $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Bruno Fernandes, Vasco Gonçalves, Zhongjie Huang (黄中杰), Yichao Tang (唐一朝), Joao Vilas Boas, and Ellis Ye Yuan (袁野)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081602 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Hawking Radiation from the Double Copy

Anton Ilderton, William Lindved, and Karthik Rajeev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081603 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Double Copy Root of Hawking Thermality

John Joseph M. Carrasco and Yaxi Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081604 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Chasing the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model via Electroweak Corrections at $e^{+} e^{-}$ Colliders

Pia Bredt, Tatsuya Banno, Marius Höfer, Syuhei Iguro, Wolfgang Kilian, Yang Ma, Jürgen Reuter, and Hantian Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081801 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Observation of $t W Z$ Production at the CMS Experiment

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081802 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026

Detecting the QCD Axion via the Ferroaxionic Force with Piezoelectric Materials

Asimina Arvanitaki, Jonathan Engel, Andrew A. Geraci, Alexander Hepburn, Amalia Madden, and Ken Van Tilburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081803 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Small- $x$ Factorization in the Target Fragmentation Region

Paul Caucal and Farid Salazar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081901 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Dihadron Fragmentation and the Confinement Transition in Energy Correlators

Kyle Lee and Iain W. Stewart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081902 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Quantum Scaling in Energy Correlators beyond the Confinement Transition

Cyuan-Han Chang, Hao Chen, Xiaohui Liu, David Simmons-Duffin, Feng Yuan, and Hua Xing Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081903 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Factorization and Resummation for the Near-Side Energy-Energy Correlators

Yuxun Guo, Feng Yuan, and Wenbin Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081904 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Dihadron Fragmentation Framework for Near-Side Energy-Energy Correlators

Zhong-Bo Kang, Andreas Metz, Daniel Pitonyak, and Congyue Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081905 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Hyperon Spin Correlation in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions

Xin-Li Sheng, Xiang-Yu Wu, Dirk H. Rischke, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 082301 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Identifying $α$ -Cluster Configurations in ${}^{20}{Ne}$ via Ultracentral $Ne + Ne$ Collisions

Pei Li (李沛), Bo Zhou (周波), and Guo-Liang Ma (马国亮)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 082302 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Global Framework for Emulation of Nuclear Calculations

Antoine Belley, Jose M. Munoz, and Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 082501 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Detailed View at Magnetic Dipole Strengths: The Case of Semimagic $^{50} Ti$

B. Kelly, M. Spieker, U. Friman-Gayer, L. T. Baby, T. Beck, A. L. Conley, S. W. Finch, J. Isaak, Krishichayan, E. Litvinova, H. Pai, N. Pietralla, D. Savran, W. Tornow, N. Tsoneva, A. Volya, and V. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 082502 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Discovery of an $I^{π} = 1 0^{+}$ Isomer in ${}^{150}{Yb}$ : Nature of the Longest $10^{+}$ Isomeric Chain

W. Q. Zhang et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 082503 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Charge Transfer in the Dissociative Single Ionization of an Ar-Kr Dimer

Junyang Ma, Hao Huang, Hongcheng Ni, Yan Yang, and Zhenrong Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 083201 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Circular RABBITT Goes under Threshold: A Sensitive Probe of Discrete Excitations in Noble Gas Atoms

Vladislav V. Serov, Jia-Bao Ji, Meng Han, Kiyoshi Ueda, Hans Jakob Wörner, and Anatoli S. Kheifets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 083202 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Landé $g$ Factor Measurement of $^{48} {Ti}^{+}$ Using Simultaneous Comagnetometry and Quantum Logic Spectroscopy

Till Rehmert, Maximilian J. Zawierucha, Sergey G. Porsev, Kai Dietze, Piet O. Schmidt, Dmytro Filin, Charles Cheung, Marianna S. Safronova, and Fabian Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 083203 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Anomalous Fluctuations of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices

Zahra Jalali-Mola, Niklas Käming, Luca Asteria, Utso Bhattacharya, Ravindra W. Chhajlany, Klaus Sengstock, Maciej Lewenstein, Tobias Grass, and Christof Weitenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 083401 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Dimer-Projection Contact and the Clock Shift of a Unitary Fermi Gas

Kevin G. S. Xie, Colin J. Dale, Kiera Pond Grehan, Maggie Fen Wang, Tilman Enss, Paul S. Julienne, Zhenhua Yu, and Joseph H. Thywissen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 083402 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Fermion Mediated Pairing in the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida to Efimov Transition Regime

Geyue Cai, Henry Ando, Sarah McCusker, and Cheng Chin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 083403 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Two-Body Contact Dynamics in a Bose Gas near a Fano-Feshbach Resonance

Alexandre Journeaux, Julie Veschambre, Maxime Lecomte, Ethan Uzan, Jean Dalibard, Félix Werner, Dmitry S. Petrov, and Raphael Lopes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 083404 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Pauli Crystal Superradiance

Daniel Ortuño-Gonzalez, Rui Lin, Justyna Stefaniak, Alexander Baumgärtner, Gabriele Natale, Tobias Donner, and R. Chitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 083405 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Holes in Sheets: Double-Threshold Rupture of Draining Liquid Films

Ayush K. Dixit, Chunheng Zhao, Stéphane Zaleski, Detlef Lohse, and Vatsal Sanjay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 084001 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Lenticular Hexagon-to-Hexagram Shape Transformation: Nano-Origami in Liquid Droplets

Catherine Quilliet, Alexander V. Butenko, and Eli Sloutskin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 084002 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

An oil droplet within a watery fluid becomes nonspherical at certain temperatures—reversibly transforming from a hexagon to a six-pointed star.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Decay of Two-Dimensional Superfluid Turbulence over Pinning Surface

Filip Novotný, Marek Talíř, and Emil Varga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 084003 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Experiments with superfluid helium in nanofluidic channels show that quasi‑2D quantum turbulence decays with a universal fast transient followed by a slower, geometry‑dependent regime.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Control of Nonlinear Compton Scattering in a Squeezed Vacuum

Antonino Di Piazza and Kenan Qu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 085001 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Angular Momentum Dynamics of Vortex Particles in Accelerators

D. Karlovets, D. Grosman, and I. Pavlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 085002 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Laboratory Observation of Transition from Collisional Slow to Collisionless Fast Reconnection

Peiyun Shi, Jongsoo Yoo, Hantao Ji, Sayak Bose, and Masaaki Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 085101 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Ion Mix Can Invert Centrifugal Confinement

E. J. Kolmes, I. E. Ochs, and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 085102 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Flow Crossover and Parallel Outflow during Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection

Theerasarn Pianpanit, Kittipat Malakit, Pakkapawn Prapan, David Ruffolo, Peera Pongkitiwanichakul, Piyawat Suetrong, Michael A. Shay, and Paul A. Cassak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 085201 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fluxoid Solitons in Superconducting Tapered Tubes and Bottlenecks

Tim Kokkeler, Mateo Uldemolins, Francisco Lobo, F. Sebastian Bergeret, Elsa Prada, and Pablo San-Jose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086001 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

A fluxoid soliton is a new type of topologically protected state that appears in thin-walled tubular superconductors.

Diverse Polymorphism in Ruddlesden-Popper Chalcogenides

Prakriti Kayastha, Erik Fransson, Paul Erhart, and Lucy Whalley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086101 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hydrogen Vacancy Induced Superconductivity Collapse in A15 Lanthanum Hydride

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086102 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Oscillatory Instability of Quasistatic Fluid-Driven Fracturing in Porous Materials

WenLong Xu, Quan Wang, Bo Li, Meng Wang, Hao Yu, and HengAn Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086103 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Casimir Stress Concentration

Yuquan Zhou, Zhuhua Zhang, Xiaofei Liu, and Wanlin Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086201 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Low-Temperature Wear of Silica Induced by Diamond Single Asperities

Jennifer Konrad, Yiming Song, Dirk Dietzel, and André Schirmeisen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086202 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Single-Atom Magnets on Thermally Stable Adsorption Sites: Dy on NaCl(100)

M. Pivetta, M. Blanco-Rey, S. Reynaud, R. Baltic, A. Rary-Zinque, S. Toda Cosi, F. Patthey, B. V. Sorokin, A. Singha, F. Donati, A. Barla, L. Persichetti, P. Gambardella, A. Arnau, F. Delgado, S. Rusponi, and H. Brune

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086203 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Minimal Theory of Strange Carriers

Simone Fratini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086301 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-Split Superconductivity in Spin-Orbit Coupled Hybrid Nanowires with Ferromagnetic Barriers

J. Zhao, A. Mazanik, D. Razmadze, Y. Liu, P. Krogstrup, F. S. Bergeret, and S. Vaitiekėnas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086302 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Tunneling spectroscopy on hybrid Josephson junctions (made of a ferromagnetic insulator, a semiconductor, and aluminum) reveals spin-split superconductivity.

Van Hove Singularities, Superconductivity, and the Josephson Diode Effect in ${NiTe}_{2}$ and ${PdTe}_{2}$

Emily C. McFarlane, Antonio Sanna, Matthew J. Gilbert, Jonas A. Krieger, Mihir Date, Gabriele Domaine, Banabir Pal, Anirban Chakraborty, Pranava K. Sivakumar, Procopios C. Constantinou, Anna Hartl, Enrico G. Della Valle, Camilla Pellegrini, Vladimir N. Strocov, Stuart S. P. Parkin, and Niels B. M. Schröter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086401 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Modulation of Superconductivity across a Lifshitz Transition in Alternating-Angle Twisted Quadrilayer Graphene

Isabelle Y. Phinney, Andrew Zimmerman, Zeyu Hao, Patrick J. Ledwith, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086501 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Magnetotransport and electric field both tune and probe the band structure of twisted quadrilayer graphene while simultaneously measuring the superconducting properties of the system.

Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Dirac Quantum Criticality in Imaginary Time

Yin-Kai Yu, Zhi Zeng, Yu-Rong Shu, Zi-Xiang Li, and Shuai Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086502 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Topological Chiral Superconductivity in the Triangular-Lattice Hofstadter-Hubbard Model

Feng Chen, Wen O. Wang, Jia-Xin Zhang, Leon Balents, and D. N. Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086503 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Kinetic Energy Driven Ferromagnetic Insulator

Jinyuan Ye, Yuchi He, and Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086504 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Anyonic Membranes and Pontryagin Statistics

Yitao Feng (冯逸韬), Hanyu Xue (薛寒玉), Yuyang Li (李雨阳), Meng Cheng (程蒙), Ryohei Kobayashi (小林良平), Po-Shen Hsin (辛柏伸), and Yu-An Chen (陳昱安)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086601 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Dynamics of Current-Induced Switching in the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect

Alina Rupp, Daniel Rosenbach, Torsten Röper, Dominik Hoborka, Alexey A. Taskin, Yoichi Ando, and Erwann Bocquillon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086602 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Selective Chiral Multistate Switching via the Dynamic Interplay of Diabolic and Exceptional Points

Dengke Qu, Ievgen I. Arkhipov, Huixia Gao, Kunkun Wang, Lei Xiao, Franco Nori, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086603 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots as a Quantum Simulator of Haldane Topological Quantum Matter

Daniel Miravet, Hassan Allami, Marek Korkusiński, and Paweł Hawrylak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086604 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Topological Devil’s Staircase in a Constrained Kagome Ising Antiferromagnet

Afonso Rufino, Samuel Nyckees, Jeanne Colbois, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086701 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Incommensurate Magnetism Drives Singular Angular Magnetoresistance in the Magnetic Weyl Semimetal CeAlGe

X. Yao, P. Chen, R. Verma, X. Zhao, H.-Y. Yang, L. DeBeer-Schmitt, A. A. Aczel, C.-M. Wu, D. Alba Venero, T. Ohhara, K. Munakata, M. Takahashi, Y. Noda, A. Bansil, B. Singh, P. Nikolić, F. Tafti, and J. Gaudet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086702 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Interaction-Driven Altermagnetic Magnon Chiral Splitting

Zhejunyu Jin, Zhaozhuo Zeng, Jie Liu, Tianci Gong, Ying Su, Kai Chang, and Peng Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086703 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-Order Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in a Cubic Ferromagnet

Haoran Chen, Yue Chen, Yizi Feng, Ruda Guo, Yuanfei Fan, Hongyue Xu, Tong Wu, Zhongxun Guo, Di Yue, Xiaofeng Jin, Yi Liu, Zhe Yuan, and Yizheng Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086704 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Careful Fourier analysis resolves harmonics of a higher order than 4, up to the 18th order, in cubic iron films.

Suppression of Thermal Conductivity via Singlet-Dominated Scattering in ${TmFeO}_{3}$

M. L. McLanahan, D. Lederman, and A. P. Ramirez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086705 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Spatially Resolved Optical Responses of a Superconducting Nanowire Microwave Resonator

Rento Hirotsuru, Hodaka Kurokawa, Kazuyo Takaki, Hirotaka Terai, and Hideo Kosaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086901 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Laser-Driven Structural Transformation from a Bulk Crystal to a Layered Material

Shuang Liu, Oren Cohen, Ofer Neufeld, and Peng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086902 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Manipulating Charge Distribution in Moiré Superlattices by Light

Ruiping Guo, Haowei Chen, Wenhui Duan, Yong Xu, and Chong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086903 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Uniform optical illumination is predicted to induce static but spatially inhomogeneous charge redistribution within a supercell in moiré superlattices.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Universal Percolation Threshold Mixing Law in Fractured Porous Media: Unifying Shape and Size Polydispersity and Dimensionality Coupling

Hui Yuan, Huisu Chen, Mingqi Li, Jianjun Lin, and Lin Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 087101 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Quantum Transport in Interacting Spin Chains: Exact Derivation of the Tracy-Widom Distribution

Kazuya Fujimoto and Tomohiro Sasamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 087102 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026

$q$ -Gaussian Crossover in Overlap Spectra toward 3D Edwards-Anderson Criticality

Yaprak Önder, Abbas Ali Saberi, and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 087103 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Kinetics of Stacking-Order Evolution during Heterogeneous Ice Formation

Xudan Huang, Zifeng Yuan, Chon-Hei Lo, Huacong Sun, Lei Liao, Hongbo Han, Wenxi Li, Wenlong Wang, Zhi Xu, Lei Liu, Xuedong Bai, Limei Xu, Enge Wang, and Lifen Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 088001 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

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Approximate Normalizations for Approximate Density Functionals

Adam Clay, Kiril Datchev, Wenlan Miao, Adam Wasserman, Kimberly J. Daas, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 088002 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

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Clogging of Cohesive Particles in a Two-Dimensional Hopper

Johnathan Hoggarth, Pablo E. Illing, Eric R. Weeks, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 088201 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Microfluidic experiments demonstrate that clogging in a system of cohesive particles in a hopper is governed by the cohesive length scale, not particle size.

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Hydrodynamic Interactions Destroy Motility-Induced Phase Separation in Active Suspensions

Tingtao Zhou and John F. Brady

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 088301 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026

Contrary to previous suggestions, hydrodynamic interactions impede the clustering of tiny biological and artificial swimmers.

XY Model with Persistent Noise

Xia-qing Shi, Hugues Chaté, and Benoît Mahault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 088302 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026

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Erratum: Medium-Enhanced Polaron Repulsion in a Dilute Bose Mixture [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 113402 (2025)]

Jesper Levinsen, Olivier Bleu, and Meera M. Parish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 089901 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026