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Essay: Semiconductor Sources of Large-Scale Photonic Entanglement for Science and Technology

Pascale Senellart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 120001 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

In this new PRL foward-looking Essay, Pascale Senellart presents her vision of a new generation of devices that combine the precision of atomic physics with the scalability of semiconductor technology, with transformative potential for quantum technologies, quantum sensing, and the exploration of fundamental quantum phenomena.

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Long-Lived Telecom-Heralded Single-Photon Storage in an Absorptive Spin-Rephased Quantum Memory

Alberto E. Rodríguez-Moldes, Félicien Appas, Jonathan Hänni, Jelena V. Rakonjac, Samuele Grandi, and Hugues de Riedmatten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 120803 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Researchers demonstrate a new quantum memory device that will enable faraway nodes in a network to coordinate in time, a key ingredient for a future quantum Internet.

Ultrafast Demagnetization Governed by Spin Fluctuations in CaRuO3/SrTiO3 Superlattice

Yu-Han Gao, Wen-Xiao Shi, Yuan-Sha Chen, Ji-Rong Sun, Qing-Lin Yang, Xu Yang, Zhuo Deng, Peng-Tao Yang, Zheng Chang, Hong-Mei Feng, Wei He, Xiang-Qun Zhang, and Zhao-Hua Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126903 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Contrary to expectations, the magnetization dynamics of a ferromagnet can be accelerated by increasing temperature, laser excitation, or magnetic field—a behavior that holds promise for high-speed spintronics.

Balancing Information and Dissipation with Partially Observed Fluctuating Signals

Giorgio Nicoletti, Ivan Di Terlizzi, and Daniel Maria Busiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 127101 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

A new model shows how cells could optimize biochemical sensing by balancing information gained against energy spent.

Relativistic Effects of PSR J1856–0039 Double Neutron Star System in a 2.36-Hour Compact Orbit

Z. L. Yang, J. L. Han, W. Q. Su, P. F. Wang, C. Wang, T. Wang, D. J. Zhou, Yi Yan, J. Xu, W. C. Jing, N. N. Cai, R. X. Xu, H. G. Wang, and X. P. You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 121401 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

The observation of a binary pulsar system characterized by low neutron star masses with short orbital period enables tests of relativity, and may enable a measurement of Lens-Thirring precession with future observations.

Disorder-Driven Enhancement of Coulomb Repulsion Governs the Superconducting Dome in Ionic-Liquid-Gated Quasi-2D Materials

Giovanni Marini, Pierluigi Cudazzo, and Matteo Calandra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126001 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Disorder-driven fluctuations enhance repulsive Coulomb interaction and form a superconducting dome in ionic-liquid-gated few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides.

Dual Instability of Superconductivity from Oxygen Defects in La3Ni2O7+δ

Peiheng Jiang, Jie Li, Yu-Han Cao, Xiaodong Cao, Zhicheng Zhong, Yi Lu, and Qiang-Hua Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126002 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Oxygen defects suppress superconductivity in the bilayer nickelate La3Ni2O7+δ via a dual mechanism, revealed through density functional theory, dynamical mean-field theory, and functional renormalization group analysis.

Unconventional Anisotropic Charge Dynamics in Bulk 1TTaS2 Induced by Interlayer Dimerization

Achyut Tiwari, Maxim Wenzel, R. Mathew Roy, Christian Prange, Bruno Gompf, and Martin Dressel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126501 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

A Peierls-like interlayer instability establishes stacking as a tuning parameter for hidden, metastable phases in van der Waals quantum materials.

Giant and Helical Exciton Dipole from Berry Curvature in Flat Chern Bands

Kaijie Yang, Huiyuan Zheng, Xiaodong Xu, Di Xiao, and Ting Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126602 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Berry curvature in twisted molybdenum ditelluride drives the oppositely charged particles in an exciton in opposite transverse directions, producing a dipole moment of approximately 150 Debye.

Nonlinear Optical Probing of Ferroic Octupolar Order Parameter in Collinear Altermagnet

P. A. Usachev, R. V. Pisarev, and V. V. Pavlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126902 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Optical second harmonic generation detects ferroic octupolar order in altermagnetic CoF2, establishing nonlinear interactions as signatures of altermagnetism in experiments.

Fastest First-Passage Time for Multiple Searchers with Finite Speed

Denis S. Grebenkov, Ralf Metzler, and Gleb Oshanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 127102 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Classical first-passage theory based on Brownian motion predicts that the mean fastest-arrival time decreases only logarithmically with the number of searchers, however this is an artifact of the unphysical infinite-speed assumption of Brownian dynamics.

Active Wave Turbulence in Hexatic Phase

Qianhong Yang, Xinxin Zhang, Maoqiang Jiang, Guangpu Zhu, Zhaohui Liu, Sébastien Galtier, and Lailai Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 128301 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

When in dense suspensions, active phoretic disks with physicochemical hydrodynamic interactions remain caged and perform local vibrations, mirroring the weak turbulence of bending waves in vibrating elastic plates.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Symmetry Speeds up Quantum Measurements

Hu Chen, Bujiao Wu, Qian-Xi Zhang, Qi-Ming Ding, Haozhao Wu, Mei-Shi Su, Ya-Li Mao, Xiao Yuan, and Zheng-Da Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 120201 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Structure and Classification of Matrix Product Quantum Channels

Giorgio Stucchi, J. Ignacio Cirac, Rahul Trivedi, and Georgios Styliaris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 120401 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Error-Correction Transitions in Finite-Depth Quantum Channels

Arman Sauliere, Guglielmo Lami, Pedro Ribeiro, Andrea De Luca, and Jacopo De Nardis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 120402 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Active Quantum Matter from Monitored Pure-State Dynamics

Jacob F. Steiner, Felix von Oppen, and Reinhold Egger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 120403 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Non-Hermitian Topological Beam Splitting and Beam Encoding

Tian Tian, Shizhen Wang, Yingnan Yan, Tianhan Zhong, Xiaojun Jia, and Heng Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 120601 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Classical Algorithms for Estimating Expectation Values in Linear Optical Circuits

Youngrong Lim and Changhun Oh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 120602 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

High-Order Dynamical Decoupling in the Weak-Coupling Regime

Leeseok Kim and Milad Marvian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 120801 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Experimental Asynchronous Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Cryptographic Conferencing

Yifeng Du, Yang Hu, Yufeng Liu, Wenhan Yan, Jinghao Zhang, Shining Zhu, and Xiao-Song Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 120802 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Long-Lived Telecom-Heralded Single-Photon Storage in an Absorptive Spin-Rephased Quantum Memory

Alberto E. Rodríguez-Moldes, Félicien Appas, Jonathan Hänni, Jelena V. Rakonjac, Samuele Grandi, and Hugues de Riedmatten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 120803 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Researchers demonstrate a new quantum memory device that will enable faraway nodes in a network to coordinate in time, a key ingredient for a future quantum Internet.

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Constraints on Solar Reflected Dark Matter from XENON1T and XENONnT Data

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 121001 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Magnetic Turbulence Boosts Supernova Signals of Axion-Photon Conversion

Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Ángel Gil Muyor, Georg G. Raffelt, and Edoardo Vitagliano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 121002 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Relativistic Effects of PSR J1856–0039 Double Neutron Star System in a 2.36-Hour Compact Orbit

Z. L. Yang, J. L. Han, W. Q. Su, P. F. Wang, C. Wang, T. Wang, D. J. Zhou, Yi Yan, J. Xu, W. C. Jing, N. N. Cai, R. X. Xu, H. G. Wang, and X. P. You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 121401 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

The observation of a binary pulsar system characterized by low neutron star masses with short orbital period enables tests of relativity, and may enable a measurement of Lens-Thirring precession with future observations.

Novel Ringdown Tests of General Relativity with Black Hole Graybody Factors

Romeo Felice Rosato, Francesco Crescimbeni, Sophia Yi, Emanuele Berti, and Paolo Pani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 121402 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Pitching Cosmic Curveballs: Environmental Effects on Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals with Spinning Secondaries

Leif Lui, Lisa V. Drummond, and Alejandro Torres-Orjuela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 121403 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Particles and Fields

Systematic Search for Conformal Field Theories in Very Small Spaces

Xiang Li, Ting-Chun Lin, and John McGreevy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 121601 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Measurement of Charged-Particle Production in sNN=9.62TeV Proton-Oxygen Collisions as a Probe of Cosmic-Ray Air Showers with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 121901 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Factorization beyond Coherence

Thomas Becher, Patrick Hager, Matthias Neubert, and Dominik Schwienbacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 121902 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Rotating the Color Glass Condensate

Renaud Boussarie, Paul Caucal, Piotr Korcyl, and Yacine Mehtar-Tani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 121903 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Probing Magnetic Hysteresis at Amorphous Glass Interfaces via Quadrupolar-Enhanced Ne21 Spin Relaxation

Xiaoping Li, Wenfeng Fan, Hang Gao, Shimiao Fan, Qi Yuan, Zhihong Wu, and Wei Quan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 123201 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Fluctuation Thermometry of an Atom-Resolved Quantum Gas: Beyond the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem

Maxime Dixmerias, Joris Verstraten, Cyprien Daix, Bruno Peaudecerf, Tim de Jongh, and Tarik Yefsah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 123401 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Rydberg States with a Liquid Core

Juan Carlos Acosta Matos, P. Giannakeas, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 123402 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Motion-Induced Directionality of Collective Emission in a Nonchiral Waveguide

Yoan Spahn, Jens Hartmann, Benedikt Saalfrank, Michael Fleischhauer, Thomas Halfmann, and Thorsten Peters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 123601 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Quantum Criticality from Spectral Collapse in the Two-Photon Rabi Model

Jiong Li, Jun-Ling Wang, Qing-Hu Chen, and Hai-Qing Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 123602 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Orbit-Resolved Imaging of Paired Resonances in a Wave-Chaotic Microcavity

Ruo-Kai Zheng, Qi-Tao Cao, Qihuang Gong, and Yun-Feng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 123801 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Resolution and Robustness Bounds for Reconstructive Spectrometers

Changyan Zhu, Hsuan Lo, Jianbo Yu, Qi Jie Wang, and Y. D. Chong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 123802 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Aerosol Generation by the Splashing of Low Viscosity Drops Impacting Liquid Layers

Guillaume Riboux and José M. Gordillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 124001 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Universal Spin Control of Leptons and Ions via a Laser-Driven Unipolar Surface Wave

F. M. Jiang, X. F. Li, Y. S. Zeng, Y. F. Bai, C. P. Liu, J. X. Li, Y. Tian, and R. X. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 125001 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Disorder-Driven Enhancement of Coulomb Repulsion Governs the Superconducting Dome in Ionic-Liquid-Gated Quasi-2D Materials

Giovanni Marini, Pierluigi Cudazzo, and Matteo Calandra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126001 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Disorder-driven fluctuations enhance repulsive Coulomb interaction and form a superconducting dome in ionic-liquid-gated few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides.

Dual Instability of Superconductivity from Oxygen Defects in La3Ni2O7+δ

Peiheng Jiang, Jie Li, Yu-Han Cao, Xiaodong Cao, Zhicheng Zhong, Yi Lu, and Qiang-Hua Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126002 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Oxygen defects suppress superconductivity in the bilayer nickelate La3Ni2O7+δ via a dual mechanism, revealed through density functional theory, dynamical mean-field theory, and functional renormalization group analysis.

Thermodynamic Evidence of Tetracritical Topology in the HT Phase Diagram of UTe2 for Hb

Michal Vališka, Tetiana Haidamak, Andrej Cabala, Petr Proschek, Vladimír Sechovský, Andreas Hauspurg, and Sergei Zherlitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126003 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Superconductivity in the Repulsive Hubbard Model on Different Geometries Induced by Density-Assisted Hopping

Franco T. Lisandrini, Edmond Orignac, Roberta Citro, Ameneh Sheikhan, and Corinna Kollath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126004 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Self-Organized Defect Phases along Dislocations in Irradiated Alloys

N. Saunders, R. S. Averback, and P. Bellon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126201 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Unconventional Anisotropic Charge Dynamics in Bulk 1TTaS2 Induced by Interlayer Dimerization

Achyut Tiwari, Maxim Wenzel, R. Mathew Roy, Christian Prange, Bruno Gompf, and Martin Dressel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126501 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

A Peierls-like interlayer instability establishes stacking as a tuning parameter for hidden, metastable phases in van der Waals quantum materials.

Quantum-Geometry-Driven Exact Ferromagnetic Ground State in a Nearly Flat Band

Taisei Kitamura, Hiroki Nakai, Hosho Katsura, and Ryotaro Arita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126502 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Probing Ground-State Degeneracies of a Strongly Interacting Fermi-Hubbard Model with Superconducting Correlations

Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf, Sebastian Miles, Qingzhen Wang, A. Mert Bozkurt, Ivan Kulesh, Yining Zhang, Christian G. Prosko, Michael Wimmer, and Srijit Goswami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126503 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Extending Topological Bound on Quantum Weight beyond Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases

Yi-Chun Hung, Yugo Onishi, Hsin Lin, Liang Fu, and Arun Bansil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126601 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Giant and Helical Exciton Dipole from Berry Curvature in Flat Chern Bands

Kaijie Yang, Huiyuan Zheng, Xiaodong Xu, Di Xiao, and Ting Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126602 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Berry curvature in twisted molybdenum ditelluride drives the oppositely charged particles in an exciton in opposite transverse directions, producing a dipole moment of approximately 150 Debye.

Tomographic Characterization of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Reciprocal Space

Francesco Di Colandrea, Fabrizio Pavan, Sarvesh Bansal, Paola Savarese, Grazia Di Bello, Giulio De Filippis, Carmine Antonio Perroni, Donato Farina, and Filippo Cardano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126603 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Topological Flat Bands and Fractional Chern Insulators in Rashba Systems with Tunable Superlattice Potentials

Bokai Liang, Wei Qin, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126604 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Non-Abelian Route to Z2 Non-Hermitian Skin Effects

Huiyan Tang, Yaxuan Zhang, Ziteng Wang, Liqin Tang, Daohong Song, Jingjun Xu, Weixuan Zhang, Hrvoje Buljan, Xiangdong Zhang, and Zhigang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126605 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Magnetic Skyrmion Interacting with Optical Skyrmion

Lan Bo, Jian Chen, Xichao Zhang, Yan Zhou, Chengwei Qiu, and Masahito Mochizuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126701 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Nanoscale Mapping of Magnetic Orientations with Complex X-Ray Magnetic Linear Dichroism

Marina Raboni-Ferreira, Benedikt J. Daurer, Jeffrey Neethirajan, Andreas Apseros, Sandra Ruiz-Gómez, Burkhard Kaulich, Majid Kazemian, and Claire Donnelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126702 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Direct Observation of Antimagnons with Inverted Dispersion

Hanchen Wang, Junfeng Hu, Wenjie Song, Artim L. Bassant, Jinlong Wang, Haishen Peng, Emir Karadža, Paul Noël, William Legrand, Richard Schlitz, Jilei Chen, Song Liu, Dapeng Yu, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Rembert A. Duine, Pietro Gambardella, and Haiming Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126703 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Room-Temperature Generation and Electric-Current-Driven Manipulation of Isolated Fractional Antiskyrmions in a Chiral Magnet

Zhidong He, Zhan Wang, Yunxiang Yang, Yunchi Zhao, Jun Shen, Tongyun Zhao, Ying Zhang, and Bao-gen Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126704 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Crosstalk and Oersted Field Interference Resolve the Hidden Spin-Wave Puzzle in Hematite

Yihang Duan, Shangyuan Wang, and Ka Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126705 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Directional-Locked Switching in Sliding Ferroelectrics Driven by Improper Mechanism

Hongwei Wang, Gan Jin, Minzhi Dai, Er Pan, Baomin Wang, Changming Ke, Shi Liu, Ri He, and Run-Wei Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126801 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Effective Residual Interaction Kernel Approach for Optical Spectra

Marc Aichner, Matteo Gatti, and Lucia Reining

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126901 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Nonlinear Optical Probing of Ferroic Octupolar Order Parameter in Collinear Altermagnet

P. A. Usachev, R. V. Pisarev, and V. V. Pavlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126902 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Optical second harmonic generation detects ferroic octupolar order in altermagnetic CoF2, establishing nonlinear interactions as signatures of altermagnetism in experiments.

Ultrafast Demagnetization Governed by Spin Fluctuations in CaRuO3/SrTiO3 Superlattice

Yu-Han Gao, Wen-Xiao Shi, Yuan-Sha Chen, Ji-Rong Sun, Qing-Lin Yang, Xu Yang, Zhuo Deng, Peng-Tao Yang, Zheng Chang, Hong-Mei Feng, Wei He, Xiang-Qun Zhang, and Zhao-Hua Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126903 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Contrary to expectations, the magnetization dynamics of a ferromagnet can be accelerated by increasing temperature, laser excitation, or magnetic field—a behavior that holds promise for high-speed spintronics.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Balancing Information and Dissipation with Partially Observed Fluctuating Signals

Giorgio Nicoletti, Ivan Di Terlizzi, and Daniel Maria Busiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 127101 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

A new model shows how cells could optimize biochemical sensing by balancing information gained against energy spent.

Fastest First-Passage Time for Multiple Searchers with Finite Speed

Denis S. Grebenkov, Ralf Metzler, and Gleb Oshanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 127102 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Classical first-passage theory based on Brownian motion predicts that the mean fastest-arrival time decreases only logarithmically with the number of searchers, however this is an artifact of the unphysical infinite-speed assumption of Brownian dynamics.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Active Wave Turbulence in Hexatic Phase

Qianhong Yang, Xinxin Zhang, Maoqiang Jiang, Guangpu Zhu, Zhaohui Liu, Sébastien Galtier, and Lailai Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 128301 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

When in dense suspensions, active phoretic disks with physicochemical hydrodynamic interactions remain caged and perform local vibrations, mirroring the weak turbulence of bending waves in vibrating elastic plates.

Orientation Reconstruction of Proteins using Coulomb Explosions

Tomas André, Alfredo Bellisario, Wilma Kraft, Nicuşor Tîmneanu, and Carl Caleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 128401 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

ERRATA

Erratum: Universal Precision Limits in General Open Quantum Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 190401 (2026)]

Tan Van Vu, Ryotaro Honma, and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 129901 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

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