Volume 137, Issue 10

4 September 2026

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As the length of the gas cell in a laser wakefield accelerator increases from 3 to 40 mm, camera images (top) of the resulting x-ray beam and tracks (bottom) of the electron energy reveal that beyond ~10 mm, a second burst of lower-energy electrons appears, increasing the x-ray flux.

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High-Flux X-Ray Emission due to Injection into a Laser-Wakefield Accelerator beyond Its Depletion Length
J. C. Wood, K. Põder, N. C. Lopes, J. M. Cole, S. Alatabi, A. J. Hughes, P. Foster, C. Kamperidis, O. Kononenko, S. P. D. Mangles, D. Neely, C. A. J. Palmer, D. R. Rusby, G. Sarri, M. J. V. Streeter, D. R. Symes, J. R. Warwick, and Z. Najmudin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 105001 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Experimental Evidence for Coronal Mass Ejection Suppression in Strong Stellar Magnetic Fields

S. N. Chen, K. Burdonov, W. Yao, J. D. Alvarado-Gómez, C. Argiroffi, J. Béard, S. Bolanõs, R. Bonito, A. Ciardi, I. Cohen, O. Cohen, J. J. Drake, S. Orlando, and J. Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 105201 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Using high-power lasers to drive highly magnetized plasmas, researchers have probed the stellar processes that control coronal mass ejections.

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Fundamental Impossibility of a Superradiant Neutrino Laser

Yu-Kun Lu, Hanzhen Lin (林翰桢), and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101804 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Two studies find that fundamental quantum constraints rule out a previously proposed neutrino-laser scheme.

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Can Bose-Einstein Condensates Enhance Radioactive Decay?

Hanzhen Lin (林翰桢), Yu-Kun Lu, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101805 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Two studies find that fundamental quantum constraints rule out a previously proposed neutrino-laser scheme.

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Search for Associated Production of a Higgs Boson and Two Vector Bosons via Vector-Boson Scattering at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101806 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

The first search for production of a Higgs boson along with a pair of vector bosons yields constraints on Higgs self-coupling constants.

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Topological Arrest of Ballooning Modes in Nonaxisymmetric Toroidal Plasmas

Amitava Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 105101 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Nonlinear stability in magnetically confined plasmas is governed not only by local linear growth, but is fundamentally a connectivity property of the flux surface, governed by a topological percolation threshold.

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Phonon-Assisted Broadband Light Emission in Strain-Gradient-Modulated Diamond Nanoribbons

Yuxuan Zhang, Shuo Qiao, Anliang Lu, Xiaohui Sun, Jun Lyu, Jinlong Du, Yang Lu, and Lin Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106201 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Strain-gradient engineering provides a doping-free route to modulate broadband optical emission in microfabricated diamond.

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Giant Thermopower Changes Related to the Resistivity Maximum and Colossal Magnetoresistance in ${EuCd}_{2} P_{2}$

Judith Grafenhorst, Sarah Krebber, Kristin Kliemt, Cornelius Krellner, Elena Hassinger, and Ulrike Stockert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106302 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

The electronic properties of materials exhibiting giant thermopower with a thermopower that exceeds 2000 μV/K, such as EuCd $_{2}$ P $_{2}$ , are strongly temperature dependent.

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Europium Valence in Pressurized EuO

Christoph J. Sahle, Alessandro Mirone, Robert P. C. Bauer, Harald Müller, Sylvain Petitgirard, Kari O. Ruotsalainen, Michael Hanfland, and John S. Tse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106401 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

A direct spectroscopic probe of the 4 $f$ states across a pressure-induced phase transition in EuO reveals the absence of spectral changes, confirming the stability of the Eu valence in agreement with the DFT calculations.

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Electronic Tuning of the Soft-Phonon Transport Anomaly in ${Ta}_{2} Ni (S_{x} {Se}_{1 - x})_{5}$

Yuan-Shan Zhang, Masahiko Isobe, Hidenori Takagi, and Dennis Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106503 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Tuning the electronic structure of the excitonic insulator candidate Ta $_{2}$ NiSe $_{5}$ via sulfur substitution reveals that its highly directional phonon transport anomaly is directly driven by electronic fluctuations, suggesting that electronic interactions and lattice effects cooperatively contribute to its phase transition.

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Chern-Simons-Matter Conformal Field Theory on the Fuzzy Sphere: Higgs Transition of the Kalmeyer-Laughlin Chiral Spin Liquid

Zheng Zhou (周正), Chong Wang (王翀), and Yin-Chen He (何寅琛)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106504 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Exact diagonalization provides strong numerical evidence that the Higgs transition between a Kalmeyer-Laughlin chiral spin liquid and a trivially gapped phase is continuous and governed by a conformal field theory.

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Collinear $p$ -Wave Magnetism and Hidden Orbital Ferrimagnetism

Valentin Leeb and Johannes Knolle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106701 (2026) - Published 31 August, 2026

Counter examples to the commonly accepted proof that collinear magnets always have an inversion symmetric band structure along with a symmetry analysis when the proof breaks down challenges the existing classification of collinear magnets.

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Kinetic Kagome Magnetism: From Self-Trapping RVB Polarons to Semiclassical Correlations

Yufei Pei, Shuai A. Chen, Claudio Castelnovo, and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106702 (2026) - Published 31 August, 2026

A study of the counter-Nagaoka problem of a single hole in an infinite- $U$ Hubbard model on the kagome lattice reveals a new type of polaron, a resonating-valence-bond polaron that morphs into semiclassical order as polarization is reduced.

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Orbital Magnetization and Magnetic Susceptibility of Interacting Electrons

Jian Kang, Minxuan Wang, and Oskar Vafek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106703 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Within the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation, the orbital magnetization for interacting electrons takes a form similar to the noninteracting case, while the orbital magnetic susceptibility acquires an additional interaction-dependent term.

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Q-Factor Matching for Femtosecond Near-Field Enhancement in Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Metasurfaces

Yaolong Li, Xu Shi, Yuxin Zhang, Lin Qiao, Hong Yang, Shufeng Wang, Guowei Lyu, Yasutaka Matsuo, Xiaoyong Hu, Qihuang Gong, and Hiroaki Misawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106902 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Matching the cavity resonance lifetime to the driving laser pulse yields significantly greater near-field enhancement in ultrafast nanophotonics than maximizing the cavity quality factor alone.

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Colloidal Suspensions Can Have Nonzero Angles of Repose below the Minimal Value for Athermal Frictionless Particles

Jesús Fernández, Loïc Vanel, and Antoine Bérut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 108201 (2026) - Published 31 August, 2026

In dense colloidal suspensions composed of particles sensitive to Brownian motion, a gravitational Peclet number governs an intermediate angle of repose where gravity and thermal agitation strike a balance.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Experimental Multipartite Entanglement Detection with Minimal-Size Correlations

Dian Wu, Fei Shi, Jia-Cheng Sun, Bo-Wen Wang, Xue-Mei Gu, Giulio Chiribella, Qi Zhao, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 100201 (2026) - Published 31 August, 2026

Analytically Continuing the Randomized Measurement Toolbox

Akash Vijay, Ayush Raj, Jonah Kudler-Flam, Benoît Vermersch, Andreas Elben, and Laimei Nie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 100202 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Entanglement Structure and Matrix Inequalities from Isotypic Measurements

Albert Rico, Dmitry Grinko, Robin Krebs, and Lin Htoo Zaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 100203 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Many-Body Cages: Disorder-Free Glassiness from Flat Bands in Fock Space and Many-Body Rabi Oscillations

Tom Ben-Ami, Markus Heyl, and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 100401 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Symmetry-Driven Thermalization via Finite de Finetti Theorems

Uttam Singh and Nicolas J. Cerf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 100402 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Two-Tooth Bosonic Quantum Comb for Temporal-Correlation Sensing

Shaojiang Zhu, Xinyuan You, Alexander Romanenko, and Anna Grassellino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 100403 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Qubit Syndrome Measurements with a High-Fidelity Rb-Cs Rydberg Gate

J. Miles, M. T. Lichtman, A. M. Scott, J. Scott, S. A. Norrell, M. J. Bedalov, D. A. Belknap, D. C. Cole, S. Y. Eubanks, M. Gillette, P. Gokhale, J. Goldwin, M. Iliev, R. A. Jones, K. W. Kuper, D. Mason, P. T. Mitchell, J. D. Murphree, N. A. Neff-Mallon, T. W. Noel, A. G. Radnaev, I. V. Vinogradov, and M. Saffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 100601 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Entanglement-Enhanced Quantum Metrology via Alternating In-Phase and Quadrature Modulation

Jihao Ma, Jiahao Huang, and Chaohong Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 100801 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Spectator Leakage Suppression via Invariant Subspace Engineering for cz Gates in Superconducting Quantum Circuits

Peng Wang, Bin-Han Lu, Tian-Le Wang, Sheng Zhang, Zhao-Yun Chen, Hai-Feng Zhang, Ren-Ze Zhao, Xiao-Yan Yang, Ze-An Zhao, Zhuo-Zhi Zhang, Xiang-Xiang Song, Yu-Chun Wu, Peng Duan, and Guo-Ping Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 100802 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Room-Temperature Storage of Entanglement in a Silicon Carbide Quantum Node

Shuo Ren, Rui-Jian Liang, Qi-Cheng Hu, Zhen-Xuan He, Ji-Yang Zhou, Wu-Xi Lin, Zhi-He Hao, Tao Tu, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 100803 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Novel Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Estimator for Electron-Electron Correlations

Neha Anil Kumar, Mesut Çal𝚤şkan, Selim C. Hotinli, Kendrick Smith, and Marc Kamionkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101001 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Distinguishing the Nature of Dark Matter by Mapping Cosmic Filaments from Lyman-Alpha Emission

Yizhou Liu, Liang Gao, Shihong Liao, Kai Zhu, Yingjie Jing, and Huijie Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101002 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Emergence of Critical Phenomena from the Black Hole Interior

Caiying Shao, Jun-Qi Guo, Yu Tian, and Hongbao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101401 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Particles and Fields

Giant Graviton Integrated Correlators at Finite Coupling and All Orders in $1 / N$

Augustus Brown, Daniele Dorigoni, and Congkao Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101601 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Limiting the Parameter Space for Unstable eV-Scale Neutrinos Using IceCube Data

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101801 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Unconventional Materials for Light Dark Matter Detection

Yonit Hochberg, Dino Novko, Rotem Ovadia, and Antonio Politano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101802 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Search for New Physics via Low-Energy Electron Recoils with a 4.2 Tonne-Year Exposure from the LZ Experiment

D. S. Akerib et al. (The LZ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101803 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

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Fundamental Impossibility of a Superradiant Neutrino Laser

Yu-Kun Lu, Hanzhen Lin (林翰桢), and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101804 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Two studies find that fundamental quantum constraints rule out a previously proposed neutrino-laser scheme.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Can Bose-Einstein Condensates Enhance Radioactive Decay?

Hanzhen Lin (林翰桢), Yu-Kun Lu, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101805 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Two studies find that fundamental quantum constraints rule out a previously proposed neutrino-laser scheme.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Associated Production of a Higgs Boson and Two Vector Bosons via Vector-Boson Scattering at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101806 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

The first search for production of a Higgs boson along with a pair of vector bosons yields constraints on Higgs self-coupling constants.

Measurement of Reactor Antineutrino Oscillations with 1.46 Kilotonne-Years of Data at SNO+

M. Abreu et al. (SNO+ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101807 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Infrared Singularities of Multileg Amplitudes with a Massive Particle at Three Loops

Einan Gardi and Zehao Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101901 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Emergence of Thermal Recoil Jets in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions

Peng Jing, Yichao Dang, Lejing Zhang, Yang He, Shanshan Cao, Li Yi, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 102301 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Identification of ${}^{17}{Na}$ Ground State and Mirror Symmetry Violation with ${}^{17}C$

L. Ni et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 102501 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Best Reaction Target to Determine Proton Distribution Radii of Atomic Nuclei

Jun-Yao Xu (徐俊瑶) et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 102502 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Critical Quantum Metrology beyond Adiabaticity in Collectively Pumped Superradiance

Yoav Shimshi and Ephraim Shahmoon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 103601 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Quantum Magnetometry with Orientation beyond Steady-State Limits in Cavity-Magnon Systems

Zheng Liu, Ding-hui Xu, Yi-jia Yang, Yu-qiang Liu, and Chang-shui Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 103602 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Optimizing Optomechanical Detection by Spatially Mapping and Masking Measurement Inefficiency

Youssef Tawfik, Shan Hao, and Thomas P. Purdy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 103603 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Generation of Fully Phase-Controlled Two-Photon Entangled States

Ian Ford, Adrien Amour, and Matthias Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 103604 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Passive Quantum State Transfer in a Dispersion-Engineered Waveguide

Zeyu Kuang, Oliver Diekmann, Lorenz Fischer, Stefan Rotter, and Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 103605 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Spin-1 Weyl Points in Isotropic Chiral Metamaterials

Ekin Gunes Ozaktas and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 103801 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Close Encounters between Periodic Light and Periodic Arrays of Quantum Emitters

Frieder Lindel, Carlos J. Sánchez Martínez, Johannes Feist, and Francisco J. García-Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 103802 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Optical Thermodynamics beyond the Weak Nonlinearity Limit

Emily Kabat, Shrohan Mohapatra, P. G. Kevrekidis, and Tsampikos Kottos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 103803 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

High-Flux X-Ray Emission due to Injection into a Laser-Wakefield Accelerator beyond Its Depletion Length

J. C. Wood, K. Põder, N. C. Lopes, J. M. Cole, S. Alatabi, A. J. Hughes, P. Foster, C. Kamperidis, O. Kononenko, S. P. D. Mangles, D. Neely, C. A. J. Palmer, D. R. Rusby, G. Sarri, M. J. V. Streeter, D. R. Symes, J. R. Warwick, and Z. Najmudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 105001 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Resonant Excitation of Surface Plasmon for Wakefield Acceleration by Beating GW Lasers on Smooth Cylindrical Surface

Bifeng Lei, Hao Zhang, Alexandre Bonatto, Bin Liu, Javier Resta-López, Matt Zepf, Guoxing Xia, and Carsten Welsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 105002 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Arrest of Ballooning Modes in Nonaxisymmetric Toroidal Plasmas

Amitava Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 105101 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Evidence for Coronal Mass Ejection Suppression in Strong Stellar Magnetic Fields

S. N. Chen, K. Burdonov, W. Yao, J. D. Alvarado-Gómez, C. Argiroffi, J. Béard, S. Bolanõs, R. Bonito, A. Ciardi, I. Cohen, O. Cohen, J. J. Drake, S. Orlando, and J. Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 105201 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Using high-power lasers to drive highly magnetized plasmas, researchers have probed the stellar processes that control coronal mass ejections.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Fermi-Level Reduction Drives Vacancy-Mediated Dislocation Motion

Zhi-Qiao Li, Wen-Tao Zhang, Jing-Jing Chen, Lu-Hua Wang, Xu-Jun Su, and Ke Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106101 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Nucleation, Creep, and Dynamic Tensile Fracture Are Described by Extended LEFM

Yuval Paz, Meng Wang, Mokhtar Adda-Bedia, and Jay Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106102 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

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Phonon-Assisted Broadband Light Emission in Strain-Gradient-Modulated Diamond Nanoribbons

Yuxuan Zhang, Shuo Qiao, Anliang Lu, Xiaohui Sun, Jun Lyu, Jinlong Du, Yang Lu, and Lin Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106201 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Strain-gradient engineering provides a doping-free route to modulate broadband optical emission in microfabricated diamond.

Quantized Transconductance Emerges from Nonsymmetric Quantum Fluctuations

K. Mertiri and Yuli V. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106301 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Giant Thermopower Changes Related to the Resistivity Maximum and Colossal Magnetoresistance in ${EuCd}_{2} P_{2}$

Judith Grafenhorst, Sarah Krebber, Kristin Kliemt, Cornelius Krellner, Elena Hassinger, and Ulrike Stockert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106302 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

The electronic properties of materials exhibiting giant thermopower with a thermopower that exceeds 2000 μV/K, such as EuCd $_{2}$ P $_{2}$ , are strongly temperature dependent.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Europium Valence in Pressurized EuO

Christoph J. Sahle, Alessandro Mirone, Robert P. C. Bauer, Harald Müller, Sylvain Petitgirard, Kari O. Ruotsalainen, Michael Hanfland, and John S. Tse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106401 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Light-Induced Transient Polarization Reversal in Rhombohedrally Stacked Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides via an Electronic Mechanism

Xiangzhou Zhu, Stefano Mocatti, and Matteo Calandra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106402 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Competition between Geometrical Frustration and the Kondo Effect in CePdAl Revealed by High-Resolution Magnetization

Yusei Shimizu, Shota Nakamura, Yoichi Ikeda, Yohei Kono, Shunichiro Kittaka, Toshiro Sakakibara, and Yosikazu Isikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106501 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Emergent Gauge Flux and Spin Ordering in Magnetized Triangular Spin Liquids: Applications to Hofstadter-Hubbard Model

Jiahao Yang (杨家豪), Hao Tian, Si-Yu Pan, and Gang v. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106502 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic Tuning of the Soft-Phonon Transport Anomaly in ${Ta}_{2} Ni (S_{x} {Se}_{1 - x})_{5}$

Yuan-Shan Zhang, Masahiko Isobe, Hidenori Takagi, and Dennis Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106503 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Chern-Simons-Matter Conformal Field Theory on the Fuzzy Sphere: Higgs Transition of the Kalmeyer-Laughlin Chiral Spin Liquid

Zheng Zhou (周正), Chong Wang (王翀), and Yin-Chen He (何寅琛)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106504 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Terahertz Magneto-Photocurrents in the Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ Probe Its Topological Surface States

Chihun In, Genaro Bierhance, Deepti Jain, Tom S. Seifert, Oliver Gueckstock, Roberto Mantovan, Seongshik Oh, and Tobias Kampfrath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106601 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

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Collinear $p$ -Wave Magnetism and Hidden Orbital Ferrimagnetism

Valentin Leeb and Johannes Knolle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106701 (2026) - Published 31 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Kinetic Kagome Magnetism: From Self-Trapping RVB Polarons to Semiclassical Correlations

Yufei Pei, Shuai A. Chen, Claudio Castelnovo, and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106702 (2026) - Published 31 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbital Magnetization and Magnetic Susceptibility of Interacting Electrons

Jian Kang, Minxuan Wang, and Oskar Vafek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106703 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Symmetry Classification of Nonrelativistic Hidden Spin Polarization in Noncollinear Magnets

Yuzhong Hu, Pan Zhou, Baoru Pan, PengBo Lyu, and Lizhong Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106704 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Quantum Geometry of Altermagnetic Magnons Probed by Light

Rundong Yuan, Wojciech J. Jankowski, Ka Shen, and Robert-Jan Slager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106901 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Q-Factor Matching for Femtosecond Near-Field Enhancement in Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Metasurfaces

Yaolong Li, Xu Shi, Yuxin Zhang, Lin Qiao, Hong Yang, Shufeng Wang, Guowei Lyu, Yasutaka Matsuo, Xiaoyong Hu, Qihuang Gong, and Hiroaki Misawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106902 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Matching the cavity resonance lifetime to the driving laser pulse yields significantly greater near-field enhancement in ultrafast nanophotonics than maximizing the cavity quality factor alone.

Dynamical Breaking of Inversion Symmetry, Strong Second Harmonic Generation, and Nonequilibrium Ferroelectricity with Nonlinear Phonons

Egor I. Kiselev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106903 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Colloidal Suspensions Can Have Nonzero Angles of Repose below the Minimal Value for Athermal Frictionless Particles

Jesús Fernández, Loïc Vanel, and Antoine Bérut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 108201 (2026) - Published 31 August, 2026