Volume 137, Issue 11

11 September 2026

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Snapshot from a simulation of ice floes (circles). The colors represent different transverse velocities.

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Anomalous Statistics of Sea Ice Transport are Explained by Collisional Rules
Bryan Shaddy, P. Alex Greaney, and Bhargav Rallabandi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 114201 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of Hexagonal Close-Packed Water Ice at Conditions in Ice Giant Planetary Interiors

Alexis Forestier, Gunnar Weck, Sandra Ninet, Gaston Garbarino, Mohamed Mezouar, Frédéric Datchi, and Paul Loubeyre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 114101 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Researchers crushed and heated ice between diamond anvils to confirm the existence of a phase of ice that could be present in the warm mantles of ice giants.

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Extensive Spatiotemporal Chaos in Nonreciprocal Flocking

Chul-Ung Woo, Jae Dong Noh, and Heiko Rieger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 118301 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Two intermingled species of active matter can exhibit coherent rotation or disorderly scrambling depending on their mutual interactions.

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Breakdown of Emergent Chiral Order and Defect Chaos in Nonreciprocal Flocks

Charlotte Myin, Suropriya Saha, and Benoît Mahault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 118302 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Two intermingled species of active matter can exhibit coherent rotation or disorderly scrambling depending on their mutual interactions.

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Chiral High-Harmonic Generation via Subcycle Symmetry Engineering

Ya Bai, Hanqing Xu, Ying Ma, Shuo Wang, Jingyuan Niu, Candong Liu, Peng Liu, and Ruxin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116905 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

A crystal with special geometric properties can be optically driven to produce an output beam with any desired polarization.

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Measurements of $Z$ -Boson Pair Entanglement in Decays of Higgs Bosons at the ATLAS Experiment

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111804 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

First measurements of quantum entanglement between two massive vector bosons at the electroweak scale link quantum information concepts with precision measurements.

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Anomalous Statistics of Sea Ice Transport are Explained by Collisional Rules

Bryan Shaddy, P. Alex Greaney, and Bhargav Rallabandi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 114201 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

How fast Arctic ice spreads out and how quickly the floes travel from coarsely resolved environmental data can be predicted by simulating sea ice as a granular medium driven by stochastic winds and using measurements of the local wind and ice properties as input parameters.

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Observation of Individual Vortex Penetration in a Coplanar Superconducting Resonator

Kirill Shulga, Shunsuke Nishimura, Pavel A. Volkov, Miu Hirano, Toshiaki Inada, Ryota Hasegawa, Takeyuki Tsuji, Takayuki Iwasaki, Mutsuko Hatano, Kento Sasaki, and Kensuke Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116001 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

A coplanar superconducting resonator makes possible the direct observation of the real-time entry of individual Abrikosov vortices.

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Slip-Driven $B 1 - B 2$ Phase Transition in Shock-Compressed KCl

Y. Cai, L. Wang, N. B. Zhang, Y. W. Shi, B. X. Bie, M. X. Tang, Y. J. Deng, L. Lu, and S. N. Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116102 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

An ultrafast x-ray diffraction measurement establishes a unified model for $B 1 - B 2$ transition in KCl which can be generalized to other materials.

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Nanomechanical Detection of Vortices in an Electron Fluid

Andrey A. Shevyrin, Askhat K. Bakarov, and Arthur G. Pogosov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116302 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

A nanomechanical resonator provides a simple way to directly measure the torque generated by electron vortices.

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Moiré-Modulated $Γ$ Valley in Twisted Bilayer and Twisted Double-Bilayer ${MoTe}_{2}$

Wanying Chen, Hongyun Zhang, Jinxi Lu, Yu Gu, Qiyun Xu, Fei Wang, Xuanxi Cai, Jiansong Li, Jiayong Xiao, Rui Chen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jose Avila, Pavel Dudin, Matthew D. Watson, Pu Yu, Shengwei Jiang, Wenhui Duan, Tingxin Li, Chong Wang, and Shuyun Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116401 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy measurements on twisted bilayer and double-bilayer MoTe₂, combined with theory, reveal remote electronic bands that follow twist-induced lattice relaxation, establishing a direct link between atomic reconstruction and electronic structure in moiré semiconductors.

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Coexisting Spin, Vibrational, and Orbital Excitations in Conductance Spectra

Arnab Banerjee, Roberto Robles, Nicolás Lorente, Richard Berndt, and Alexander Weismann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116403 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

A simple conductance asymmetry metric helps disentangle coexisting spin, vibrational, and orbital excitations within a single cobaltocene molecule, unlocking new pathways for single-molecule quantum computing.

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Engineering Quantum Criticality in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime through a Screening Layer

C. T. Tai, P. T. Madathil, A. Gupta, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116501 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

A universal scaling exponent $κ \approx 0.42$ corresponds to a dynamic exponent $z = 1$ in the integer quantum Hall regime in a bilayer GaAs quantum well device.

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Enhanced Terahertz Emission Enabled by Circular Photogalvanic Effect

Da Tian, Lei Wang, Zhongqiang Chen, Anke Song, Kankan Xu, Zhikang Jiang, Jialiang Huang, Wei Zhang, Lei Wang, Junwei Liu, Qiannan Li, Zhichao Chen, Jingbo Wu, Kebin Fan, Huabing Wang, Jian Chen, Peiheng Wu, Caihong Zhang, Xuefeng Wang, Ke Xia, and Biaobing Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116904 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

The circular photogalvanic effect in topological heterostructures offers a controllable route to enhanced, field-free terahertz emission, distinct from conventional spin-to-charge conversion.

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Self-Organized Hyperuniformity in a Minimal Model of Population Dynamics

Tal Agranov, Natan Wiegenfeld, Omer Karin, and Benjamin D. Simons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 117401 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

A minimal model of population dynamics provides an organic pathway to hyperuniformity that relies on natural competition rather than fine-tuned dynamics and rigid conservation laws.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Exponentially Enhanced Two-Mode Multiboson Entanglement via Phase-Modulated Tunneling

Pritam Chattopadhyay, Abraham G. Kofman, and Gershon Kurizki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 110201 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

What Is the Maximum Density of Microwave Control Lines in a Superconducting Quantum Computer?

Nikolas Klemola Tango, Mar Francis De Guzman, Slawomir Simbierowicz, Yuri Henriqson Accordi, Ville Nuutinen, Massimo Borrelli, and Russell E. Lake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 110202 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Generating Honeycomb-Structured Entanglement with a Reconfigurable Spatially Structured Pump

Yu Guo, Xiaozhou Pan, Shengshuai Liu, Guanjun Zeng, Kai Zhang, and Jietai Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 110203 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Network-Irreducible Multiparty Entanglement in Quantum Matter

Liuke Lyu, Pedro Lauand, and William Witczak-Krempa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 110204 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Parent Hamiltonian and Intrinsic Phase Transition in Non-Hermitian Photonic Systems

Yuntao Xiao, Yuchen Guo, Xiaojian Huang, Huixia Gao, Dengke Qu, Lei Xiao, Kunkun Wang, Shuo Yang, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 110401 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Local Reversibility and Divergent Markov Length in $1 + 1$ -D Directed Percolation

Yu-Hsueh Chen and Tarun Grover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 110402 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Practical Roadmap to Measurement-Altered Criticality in Rydberg Arrays

Stephen Naus, Yue Liu, Sara Murciano, Pablo Sala, Manuel Endres, and Jason Alicea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 110403 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

All Steerable Quantum Correlations Can Provide Thermodynamic Advantages in Cooling

Tanmoy Biswas, Chandan Datta, and Luis Pedro García-Pintos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 110404 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Simple, Efficient, and Generic Postselection Decoding for qLDPC Codes

Haipeng Xie, Nobuyuki Yoshioka, Kento Tsubouchi, and Ying Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 110601 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Fundamental Limits on Quantum Bit Error Rate and Distance in Quantum Key Distribution

Stefano Pirandola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 110801 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Experimental Demonstration of Asynchronous Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Cryptographic Conferencing

Haotao Zhu, Zhenhua Li, Shuai Zhao, Xiaodan Lyu, Shihao Ru, Yizhi Huang, Zitong Xu, Rui Qu, and Weibo Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 110802 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Noise-Symmetry Optimization of Quantum Error-Corrected Metrology

Shuyun Su and Shengshi Pang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 110803 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Experimental Observation of Dynamical Phase Transitions in a Dephased Photonic Quantum Walk

Xiaojian Huang, Lei Xiao, Bingzi Huo, Xiaowei Wang, Stefano Longhi, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 110804 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Bounds on Lorentz Invariance Violation from Muon Fluctuations at the Pierre Auger Observatory

A. Abdul Halim et al. (Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111001 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Lorentz-Violating Scenarios for the Highest-Energy Photons from GRB 221009A

Giorgio Galanti and Marco Roncadelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111002 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Updated Constraints on the Injection Energy of Positrons Generating the Galactic 511 keV $γ$ -Ray Line

Souradeep Das, Mark R. Krumholz, Roland M. Crocker, Thomas Siegert, and Laura Eisenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111003 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Not-Quite-Primordial Black Holes

Wenzer Qin, Soubhik Kumar, Priyamvada Natarajan, and Neal Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111004 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Circumstellar Medium of Supernovae as New Probes for Feebly Interacting Particles

Yu Cheng, Chui-Fan Kong, Yen-Hsun Lin, Meng-Ru Wu, and Seokhoon Yun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111005 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Six-Loop Gravitational Interactions at the Sixth Post-Newtonian Order

Giacomo Brunello, Manoj K. Mandal, Pierpaolo Mastrolia, Raj Patil, Matteo Pegorin, Jonathan Ronca, Sid Smith, Jan Steinhoff, and William J. Torres Bobadilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111401 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Particles and Fields

Conformal Defects and Goldstone Bosons in Anti–de Sitter Space

Lorenzo Bianchi, Elia de Sabbata, and Marco Meineri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111601 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Equivariant Localization for Higher Derivative Supergravity

Pietro Benetti Genolini, Florian Gaar, Jerome P. Gauntlett, and James Sparks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111602 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Complete Computation of All Three-Loop Five-Point Massless Planar Integrals

Dmitry Chicherin, Yu Wu, Zihao Wu, Yongqun Xu, Shun-Qing Zhang, and Yang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111603 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Precision Measurement of the Muon Charge Asymmetry from $W$ -Boson Decays in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ in the Forward Region

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111801 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Delayed Charged Lepton Yukawa Equilibration in Minimal Seesaw

Rishav Roshan and Sudipta Show

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111802 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Muonium Spectroscopy as a Quantum Sensor for Axion Dark Matter

Feng Fang, Kim Siang Khaw, Ce Zhang, Qiaoli Yang, Liangwen Chen, Jie Yang, Lei Yang, and Zhiyu Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111803 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

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Measurements of $Z$ -Boson Pair Entanglement in Decays of Higgs Bosons at the ATLAS Experiment

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111804 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

First measurements of quantum entanglement between two massive vector bosons at the electroweak scale link quantum information concepts with precision measurements.

Isotensor $π π π$ Scattering with a $ρ$ -Resonant Subsystem from QCD

Raúl A. Briceño, Maxwell T. Hansen, Andrew W. Jackura, Robert G. Edwards, and Christopher E. Thomas (for the Hadron Spectrum Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111901 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Energy Correlators within Jets in Transversely Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

B. E. Aboona et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111902 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Regge Spectral Generator and Form Factors from Hard Exclusive Amplitudes in Holographic QCD

Guy F. de Téramond, Stanley J. Brodsky, and Hans Günter Dosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111903 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

First Energy-Scan Measurement of $e^{+} e^{-} \to K^{+} K^{-}$ around the $ψ (2 S)$ Resonance

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111904 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Quark and Gluon Tomography of the Helium-4 Nucleus

V. Martínez-Fernández, B. Pire, P. Sznajder, and J. Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111905 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Uncharted Logarithmic Structures in QCD Transverse-Energy Flow

Mrinal Dasgupta, Alexander Fraley, Pier Francesco Monni, and Saad Nabeebaccus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111906 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Investigation of Medium Modifications to ${}^{12}C$ Structure Functions in the Resonance Region

S. Alsalmi et al. (The JUPITER Collaboration: JLab E02-109 E04-001 E06-009)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 112501 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Measured and Theoretical $K α$ X-Ray Emission Linewidths of U, Np, and Pu

Abigail Wessels, Jonathan W. Dean, Daniel T. Becker, Douglas A. Bennett, Matthew H. Carpenter, Mark Croce, Joseph W. Fowler, Johnathon D. Gard, Paul Indelicato, Katrina E. Koehler, J. A. B. Mates, Daniel McNeel, David Mercer, Daniel R. Schmidt, Katherine Schreiber, Daniel S. Swetz, Duc Vo, Sophie Weidenbenner, and Joel N. Ullom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 113001 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Photoelectron Chiral Dichroism Induced by Lasers without Helicity via Excited Chiral Electronic Wave Packets

Gal Bouskila, Avner Fleischer, and Ofer Neufeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 113201 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Spatially Resolved Temperature Measurement Using Rydberg Doppler Broadening Thermometry

K. N. Trivedi, M. Carminati, Èlia Solé Cardona, T. Bonaccorsi, R. Donofrio, B. Bégoc, and O. Morsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 113401 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Low-Entropy Arrays of Microwave-Shielded Molecules Prepared by Interaction Blockade

Tijs Karman, Sebastian Will, and Zoe Z. Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 113402 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Hybrid Qubit-Oscillator Module from Motional States of Two Interacting Atoms

Jaeyong Hwang, Tianrui Xu, Sean R. Muleady, Steven K. Pampel, Gur Lubin, Dawson P. Hewatt, Cindy A. Regal, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 113403 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Generalized Hydrodynamics of Bloch Oscillations in the Absence of a Lattice

Stefano Scopa, Philip Zechmann, Michael Knap, Jacopo De Nardis, and Alvise Bastianello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 113404 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Measuring and Correcting Nanosecond Pulse Distortions in Quantum-Dot Spin Qubits

Jiheng Duan, Fernando Torres-Leal, and John M. Nichol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 113601 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

General Double-Zero-Index Photonic Crystals

Zebin Zhu, Dong Zhao, Ziyao Wang, Xucheng Yang, Liyong Jiang, and Zhen Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 113801 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Programmable Branched Flow of Light

Shan-shan Chang, Daxing Xiong, Ze-huan Zheng, Li-Wei Wang, Yan-qing Lu, Lu-Jian Chen, Jian-Hua Jiang, and Jin-hui Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 113802 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Bound States in the Continuum with Vectorial Topological Charge

Wen-Jin Zhang, Ze-Peng Zhuang, Xiao-Dong Chen, and Jian-Wen Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 113803 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Observation of Hexagonal Close-Packed Water Ice at Conditions in Ice Giant Planetary Interiors

Alexis Forestier, Gunnar Weck, Sandra Ninet, Gaston Garbarino, Mohamed Mezouar, Frédéric Datchi, and Paul Loubeyre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 114101 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Researchers crushed and heated ice between diamond anvils to confirm the existence of a phase of ice that could be present in the warm mantles of ice giants.

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Anomalous Statistics of Sea Ice Transport are Explained by Collisional Rules

Bryan Shaddy, P. Alex Greaney, and Bhargav Rallabandi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 114201 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Subangstrom Free-Electron Laser Operation with Undulator Deflection Parameter Reaching the Subunity Regime

Eduard Prat, Christopher Arrell, Marco Calvi, Nicole Hiller, Pavle Juranić, Christoph Kittel, Sven Reiche, Thomas Schietinger, Didier Voulot, and Tobias Weilbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 115001 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

High-Energy-Density Plasma Nanorod by Collisionless Absorption of Ultrafast Laser Pulse Inside Dielectrics

Kazem Ardaneh, Remi Meyer, Mostafa Hassan, Remo Giust, Chen Xie, Benoit Morel, Ismail Ouadghiri-Idrissi, Luca Furfaro, Luc Froehly, Arnaud Couairon, Guy Bonnaud, and Francois Courvoisier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 115101 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Generalized Lawson-Cordey-Mills Accessibility of Fusion Ignition

Luis F. Delgado-Aparicio, Masayuki Ono, and Jonathan E. Menard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 115102 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Waiting Time Distribution and Multifractality Analysis of Solar Flares

S. Mestici, M. Berretti, F. Berrilli, and R. Benzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 115201 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Observation of Individual Vortex Penetration in a Coplanar Superconducting Resonator

Kirill Shulga, Shunsuke Nishimura, Pavel A. Volkov, Miu Hirano, Toshiaki Inada, Ryota Hasegawa, Takeyuki Tsuji, Takayuki Iwasaki, Mutsuko Hatano, Kento Sasaki, and Kensuke Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116001 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

A coplanar superconducting resonator makes possible the direct observation of the real-time entry of individual Abrikosov vortices.

Superconductivity in Noncentrosymmetric Rhombohedral ${NbSe}_{2}$

Zhengxian Li, Xiaoyu Shen, Shaozheng Wang, Kai Liu, Yating Sha, Tianyang Wang, Feng Liu, Qingchen Duan, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Peng Chen, Shiyong Wang, Ruidan Zhong, Dong Qian, Yufan Li, Shengwei Jiang, Noah F. Q. Yuan, and Guorui Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116002 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Charge- $2 e$ Superconductivity from a Disordered Pair Density Wave

Julian May-Mann, Akshat Pandey, Zhengyan Darius Shi, and Steven A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116003 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Phonons Reflect Dynamic Spin-State Order in ${LaCoO}_{3}$

Alsu Ivashko, Taishun Manjo, Maximilian Kauth, Yuliia Tymoshenko, Adrian M. Merritt, Klaus-Peter Bohnen, Rolf Heid, Michael Merz, Andreas Eich, John-Paul Castellan, Alexandre Ivanov, Nathaniel Schreiber, Hong Zheng, J. F. Mitchell, Martin Meven, Jitae T. Park, Daisuke Ishikawa, Yuiga Nakamura, Alfred Q. R. Baron, and Frank Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116101 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

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Slip-Driven $B 1 - B 2$ Phase Transition in Shock-Compressed KCl

Y. Cai, L. Wang, N. B. Zhang, Y. W. Shi, B. X. Bie, M. X. Tang, Y. J. Deng, L. Lu, and S. N. Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116102 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

An ultrafast x-ray diffraction measurement establishes a unified model for $B 1 - B 2$ transition in KCl which can be generalized to other materials.

Polaronic Lattice State Hybridization in Reduced Oxide Surface Reconstructions

Ning Xu, Sergey V. Levchenko, Yong Wang, and Zhong-Kang Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116201 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Negative Refraction of Terahertz Phonons via Interfacial Momentum Compensation

Hao Chen, Zhong-Ke Ding, Yuan Yao, Chang-Hao Ding, Nannan Luo, Jiang Zeng, Li-Ming Tang, and Ke-Qiu Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116301 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

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Nanomechanical Detection of Vortices in an Electron Fluid

Andrey A. Shevyrin, Askhat K. Bakarov, and Arthur G. Pogosov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116302 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

A nanomechanical resonator provides a simple way to directly measure the torque generated by electron vortices.

Superballistic Transport of Thermal Photons in Confined Many-Body Systems

Jian Dong, Junming Zhao, Philippe Ben-Abdallah, and Linhua Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116303 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

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Moiré-Modulated $Γ$ Valley in Twisted Bilayer and Twisted Double-Bilayer ${MoTe}_{2}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116401 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Controllable Quantum Phase Transitions and Frustrated Spin Responses in Multiferroic FeS Nanotubes

Chi Ding, Tao Yang, Qing Lu, Yu Han, Yijie Zhu, Junjie Wang, Rui Wang, Hui-Tian Wang, Dingyu Xing, and Jian Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116402 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

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Coexisting Spin, Vibrational, and Orbital Excitations in Conductance Spectra

Arnab Banerjee, Roberto Robles, Nicolás Lorente, Richard Berndt, and Alexander Weismann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116403 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Engineering Quantum Criticality in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime through a Screening Layer

C. T. Tai, P. T. Madathil, A. Gupta, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116501 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

A universal scaling exponent $κ \approx 0.42$ corresponds to a dynamic exponent $z = 1$ in the integer quantum Hall regime in a bilayer GaAs quantum well device.

Competing Ordering Modes in the Distorted Quantum Kagome Material Clinoatacamite ${Cu}_{2} Cl {(OH)}_{3}$

L. Stödter, C. Kastner, H. O. Jeschke, M. Reehuis, E. Chan, M.-H. Lemée-Cailleau, K. Beauvois, B. Ouladdiaf, F. Yokaichiya, F. Bert, T. J. Hicken, J. A. Krieger, H. Luetkens, J. L. Allen, R. Feyerherm, M. Tovar, D. Menzel, A. U. B. Wolter, B. Büchner, K. C. Rule, F. J. Litterst, U. K. Rößler, and S. Süllow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116701 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Magnetization Plateaux as a Roadmap to Quantum Spin Liquids

Anna Keselman, Xinyuan Xu, Hao Zhang, Cristian D. Batista, and Oleg A. Starykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116702 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Approaching Kasteleyn Transition in Frustrated Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnets

Katarína Karl’ová, Afonso Rufino, Taras Verkholyak, Nils Caci, Stefan Wessel, Jozef Strečka, Frédéric Mila, and Andreas Honecker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116703 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Hyperspin Altermagnets

Hai-Yang Ma, Yuanchang Li, Hu Xu, Shengbai Zhang, and Jin-Feng Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116704 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Emergent Surface Altermagnetism

Yuzhong Hu, Pan Zhou, Baoru Pan, Songmin Liu, Binchang Zhou, and Lizhong Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116705 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Strong Coupling between Propagating Spin Waves and Microwave Photons in a Superconducting Resonator

Yi Li, Jinho Lim, Xingzhi Wang, Tomas Polakovic, Carissa Kiehl, Moojune Song, Phuoc Cao Van, Ralu Divan, Ulrich Welp, Charudatta Phatak, Jong-Ryul Jeong, Kab-Jin Kim, Jian-Min Zuo, Axel Hoffmann, and Valentine Novosad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116706 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Generalized Theory of Domain-Wall Width in Multisublattice Heisenberg Magnets

José M. Lendínez, Marta Yanguas, Theodor Griepe, Michael Saur, Rubén M. Otxoa, Levente Rózsa, and Unai Atxitia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116707 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Mechanical Sensing of Metamagnetic Tricriticality in Two-Dimensional ${CrI}_{3}$

Feng Liu, Tong Luo, Xiaokai Wu, Jiayong Xiao, Xiao Yan Xu, Shengwei Jiang, Kin Fai Mak, and Jie Shan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116708 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Autferroics-Based True Random Number Generators with Enhanced Performance

Jun-Jie Zhang, Shuai Dong, and Boris I. Yakobson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116801 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Spontaneous Raman Scattering under Vibrational Strong Coupling: The Critical Role of Polariton Spatial Mode Coherence

Maxime Dherbécourt, Joël Bellessa, Clémentine Symonds, Guillaume Weick, and David Hagenmüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116901 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Near-Field Photon Nernst Effect

Alireza Kalantari Dehaghi and Linxiao Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116902 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Ordered Electromagnetic Dissipation via Admittance Scaling

Yingjian Sun, Haoran Liang, Yixing Huang, Weijie Li, and Ying Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116903 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

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Enhanced Terahertz Emission Enabled by Circular Photogalvanic Effect

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116904 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

The circular photogalvanic effect in topological heterostructures offers a controllable route to enhanced, field-free terahertz emission, distinct from conventional spin-to-charge conversion.

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Chiral High-Harmonic Generation via Subcycle Symmetry Engineering

Ya Bai, Hanqing Xu, Ying Ma, Shuo Wang, Jingyuan Niu, Candong Liu, Peng Liu, and Ruxin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116905 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

A crystal with special geometric properties can be optically driven to produce an output beam with any desired polarization.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Tensor-Network Markov-Chain Monte Carlo: Efficient Sampling of Three-Dimensional Spin Glasses

Tao Chen, Jing Liu, Youjin Deng, and Pan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 117101 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

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Self-Organized Hyperuniformity in a Minimal Model of Population Dynamics

Tal Agranov, Natan Wiegenfeld, Omer Karin, and Benjamin D. Simons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 117401 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

A minimal model of population dynamics provides an organic pathway to hyperuniformity that relies on natural competition rather than fine-tuned dynamics and rigid conservation laws.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Spin-to-Charge Conversion Driven by Inverse Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity

Tian-Yi Zhang, Peng-Yi Liu, Ai-Min Guo, and Qing-Feng Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 118001 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Hybrid Topological Defects in Ferroelectric Nematic Fluids

Shengzhu Yi, Chao Zhou, Zening Hong, Xinming Chu, Zhongjie Ma, Mingjun Huang, Satoshi Aya, Rui Zhang, and Qi-Huo Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 118101 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Extent of Nonequilibrium Sets Relaxation Barriers in Dewetting Polymer Films

Mithun Madhusudanan, Federico Caporaletti, Jotypriya Sarkar, Rohit V. Menon, Sivasurender Chandran, Ronald P. White, Jane E. G. Lipson, Simone Napolitano, and Mithun Chowdhury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 118102 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Microscopic Theory of a Fluctuation-Induced Dynamical Crossover in Supercooled Liquids

Corentin C. L. Laudicina, Liesbeth M. C. Janssen, and Grzegorz Szamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 118201 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

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Extensive Spatiotemporal Chaos in Nonreciprocal Flocking

Chul-Ung Woo, Jae Dong Noh, and Heiko Rieger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 118301 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Two intermingled species of active matter can exhibit coherent rotation or disorderly scrambling depending on their mutual interactions.

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Breakdown of Emergent Chiral Order and Defect Chaos in Nonreciprocal Flocks

Charlotte Myin, Suropriya Saha, and Benoît Mahault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 118302 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Two intermingled species of active matter can exhibit coherent rotation or disorderly scrambling depending on their mutual interactions.

Flocking Beyond One Species: Novel Phase Coexistence in a Generalized Two-Species Vicsek Model

Eloise Lardet, Letian Chen, and Thibault Bertrand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 118303 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026