Volume 137, Issue 1

3 July 2026

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Far-field lasing pattern from the q = −4 microcavity. The overlaid line segments represent polarization vectors.

From the article:

High- $Q$ Nonlocal Resonances in Mirror-Enhanced Plasmonic Lattices
Xiaoqiong Bi, Chenghao Bai, Zhuang Li, Yangjian Cai, and Xianyu Ao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 016901 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Extended Mean-Field Theories for Networks of Real Neurons

Luca Di Carlo, Francesca Mignacco, Christopher W. Lynn, and William Bialek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 018401 (2026) - Published 30 June, 2026

An extended version of mean-field theory accurately captures activity patterns seen in networks of biological neurons.

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Resolving Spin State Discrepancies of Small Cationic Iron Clusters by Far-Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopy

Kevin Anthony Kaw, Ozan Lacinbala, Deepak Pradeep, Joost M. Bakker, Ewald Janssens, Peter Lievens, and Piero Ferrari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 013002 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

A technique combining spectroscopy and computational simulations allows the geometry and spin magnetic moment of iron nanoclusters to be determined more precisely.

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Observation and Modulation of the Quantum Mpemba Effect on a Superconducting Quantum Processor

Yueshan Xu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 010402 (2026) - Published 29 June, 2026

Observation and modulation of the quantum Mpemba effect on an all-to-all connected, tunable-coupling superconducting processor.

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Continuous Ring of Unidirectional Guided Resonances Induced by Isotropic Interband Coupling

Zengping Su, Wei Li, Jue Li, Haoye Qin, Yongkang Wang, Wenjing Lv, Mengyao Li, Bo Li, and Qinghua Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 016201 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Topologically protected, continuous ring of unidirectional guided resonances that locks vortex laser emission into a single direction is constructed by engineering isotropic interband coupling in a bilayer photonic crystal.

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Direct Visualization of Gate-Tunable Flat Bands in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene

Souvik Sasmal, Ryan Muzzio, Ahmed Khalifa, Paulina Majchrzak, Alfred J. H. Jones, I-Hsuan Kao, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Simranjeet Singh, Eli Rotenberg, Aaron Bostwick, Chris Jozwiak, Søren Ulstrup, Shubhayu Chatterjee, and Jyoti Katoch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 016402 (2026) - Published 30 June, 2026

The evolution of moiré minibands under varying carrier density and displacement field may be directly visualized using microfocused angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.

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Origin of Misleading Convergence in Self-Consistent Many-Electron Theories: Fundamental Aspects and Practical Implications

Herbert Eßl, Matthias Reitner, Evgeny Kozik, and Alessandro Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 016502 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Formally disentangling the issue of misleading convergence observed in iterative many-body schemes from the branching of the Luttinger-Ward functional provides a rigorous, model-independent procedure converging to a physical solution.

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Ab Initio Free-Energy Surfaces for Coupled Ion-Electron Transfer

Ethan Abraham, Martin Z. Bazant, and Troy Van Voorhis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 018001 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

A physically consistent formalism provides a first-principles route to electrochemical current-overpotential relations by computing finite-temperature coupled ion-electron transfer free-energy surfaces from constrained $a b$ $i n i t i o$ trajectories.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Measurement- and Feedback-Driven Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions on a Quantum Processor

Zhiyi Wu, Xuandong Sun, Songlei Wang, Jiawei Zhang, Xiaohan Yang, Ji Chu, Jingjing Niu, Youpeng Zhong, Xiao Chen, Zhi-Cheng Yang, and Dapeng Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 010401 (2026) - Published 29 June, 2026

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Observation and Modulation of the Quantum Mpemba Effect on a Superconducting Quantum Processor

Yueshan Xu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 010402 (2026) - Published 29 June, 2026

Observation and modulation of the quantum Mpemba effect on an all-to-all connected, tunable-coupling superconducting processor.

Heisenberg-Scaling Characterization of a Two-Channel Optical Network via Two-Port Homodyne Detection

Atmadev Rai, Paolo Facchi, and Vincenzo Tamma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 010801 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

First Galaxy Ultraviolet Luminosity Function Limits on Dark Matter–Proton Scattering

Hovav Lazare, Ely D. Kovetz, Kimberly K. Boddy, and Julian B. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 011001 (2026) - Published 30 June, 2026

Dark Secrets of Baryons: Illuminating Dark Matter–Baryon Interactions with JWST

Souradeep Das, Ranjini Mondol, Abhijeet Singh, and Ranjan Laha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 011002 (2026) - Published 30 June, 2026

Particles and Fields

Observation of $Ξ (1530)^{0}$ Polarization and Determination of Its Electric and Magnetic Moments in $ψ (3686) \to Ξ (1530)^{0} \bar{Ξ} (1530)^{0}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 011901 (2026) - Published 29 June, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Multifaceted Decay of ${}^{116}{Cs}$

J. Dey, U. Datta, O. Tengblad, P. Das, A. Rahaman, B. K. Agrawal, S. Chakraborty, A. Gottberg, M. Kowalska, K. Mahata, S. Mandal, M. Madurga, E. Nacher, E. Rapisarda, N. Warr, W. Sengupta, C. Sharma, and T. Stora (ISOLDE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 012501 (2026) - Published 29 June, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Controlling Isomer Population Using a Dual-Oscillator Infrared Free-Electron Laser

América Y. Torres-Boy, Anoushka Ghosh, Myles B. T. Osenton, Akash C. Behera, Sandy Gewinner, Marco De Pas, Heinz Junkes, Wieland Schöllkopf, Alexander Paarmann, Gert von Helden, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 013001 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

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Resolving Spin State Discrepancies of Small Cationic Iron Clusters by Far-Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopy

Kevin Anthony Kaw, Ozan Lacinbala, Deepak Pradeep, Joost M. Bakker, Ewald Janssens, Peter Lievens, and Piero Ferrari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 013002 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

A technique combining spectroscopy and computational simulations allows the geometry and spin magnetic moment of iron nanoclusters to be determined more precisely.

Microscopic Rydberg Electron Orbit Manipulation with Optical Tweezers

Homar Rivera-Rodríguez, Matthew T. Eiles, Tilman Pfau, and Florian Meinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 013401 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Neural-Network-Assisted Bayesian Qubit Readout at the Single-Photon Level for Scalable Atomic Quantum Processors

Yaoting Zhou, Weisen Wang, Zhuangzhuang Tian, Bin Huang, Huancheng Chen, Donghao Li, Zhongxiao Xu, Li Chen, and Heng Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 013601 (2026) - Published 30 June, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Two-Band Superconductivity in Few-Layer ${NbSe}_{2}$ and ${TaS}_{2}$

Shahar Simon, Maya Klang, Oded Millo, and Hadar Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 016001 (2026) - Published 29 June, 2026

Elinvar Effect by Nanoscale Displacive Phase Transformation in Martensites

Die Liu, Yao Liu, Junming Gou, Tianyu Ma, and Xiaobing Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 016101 (2026) - Published 29 June, 2026

Direct Observation of Structural Disorder Near Critical Point in ${BaTiO}_{3}$ Crystal

Min-Chul Kang, Joshua Townsend, Sergey Lisenkov, Inna Ponomareva, Xiaoli Tan, and Lin Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 016102 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

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Continuous Ring of Unidirectional Guided Resonances Induced by Isotropic Interband Coupling

Zengping Su, Wei Li, Jue Li, Haoye Qin, Yongkang Wang, Wenjing Lv, Mengyao Li, Bo Li, and Qinghua Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 016201 (2026) - Published 1 July, 2026

Realization of Dissipation-Enhanced Topological Valley Transport in Phononic Crystal

He Gao, Jiamin Guo, Yinjie Su, Zhongming Gu, Haoran Xue, and Jie Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 016301 (2026) - Published 30 June, 2026

Quantum-Geometry-Induced Anomalous Chiral Transport and Hidden Symmetry Breaking in Centrosymmetric $2 M − {WS}_{2}$

Hang Cui, Shao-Bo Liu, Erqing Wang, Mingxiang Pan, Yuqiang Fang, Ning Ma, Wenlong Liu, Di Chen, Yu Zhang, Yuanjun Song, Tingting Hao, Jiankun Li, Jian Cui, Ya Feng, Haiwen Liu, Fuqiang Huang, Huaqing Huang, X.-C. Xie, and Jian-Hao Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 016302 (2026) - Published 30 June, 2026

Embedding Independent Length Scale of Flat Bands

Seokju Lee, Seung Hun Lee, and Bohm-Jung Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 016401 (2026) - Published 30 June, 2026

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Direct Visualization of Gate-Tunable Flat Bands in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 016402 (2026) - Published 30 June, 2026

The evolution of moiré minibands under varying carrier density and displacement field may be directly visualized using microfocused angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.