Volume 137, Issue 19

6 November 2026

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Calculated electron densities of the fractional Chern insulator ground state with different lattice modulation strengths. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Similarity of Fractional Chern Insulators to Fractional Quantum Hall States: Moiré-Enhanced Gaps and Excitation-Spectrum Correspondence
Siddhartha Sarkar, Yitong Zhang, and Kai Sun
Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 196505 (2026)

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Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Constraints on Supermassive Binary Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn

Yiqin Chen, Shi-Yi Zhao, Xingjiang Zhu, N. D. Ramesh Bhat, Jacob Cardinal Tremblay, Małgorzata Curyło, Valentina Di Marco, George Hobbs, Wenhua Ling, Rami F. Mandow, Richard N. Manchester, Saurav Mishra, Daniel J. Reardon, Sparrow Roch, Christopher J. Russell, Ryan M. Shannon, Jingbo Wang, Shuangqiang Wang, and Andrew Zic (PPTA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191401 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Researchers have used radio observations of rapidly spinning neutron stars to search for signals from supermassive black hole pairs at the dawn of galaxy formation.

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Observation of Vinen Turbulence during Far-from-Equilibrium Bose-Einstein Condensation

Sebastian J. Morris, Martin Gazo, Simon M. Fischer, Haoyu Zhang, Christopher J. Ho, Nigel R. Cooper, Christoph Eigen, and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 193403 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Random tangles of vortex lines have been observed untangling in an ultracold gas.

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First-Principles Calculation of Coherence Length and Penetration Depth Based on Density Functional Theory for Superconductors

Mitsuaki Kawamura, Takuya Nomoto, Niklas Witt, and Ryotaro Arita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 196001 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

A new formalism yields the quantities that characterize a conventional superconductor without adjustable parameters.

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First Measurement of the Strong Interaction Scattering Parameters for the $K^{-} d$ and $K^{+} d$ Systems

D. A. H. Abdallah et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191904 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Close encounters between kaons and deuterons help to elucidate quantum chromodynamics in a challenging mass range.

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Matter-Wave Fabry-Pérot Cavity in the Ultrastrong Driving Regime

Jeremy L. Tanlimco, Eber Nolasco-Martinez, Xiao Chai, S. Nicole Halawani, Eric Zhu, Ivar Martin, and David M. Weld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 193404 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Using sheets of light to corral waves of ultracold atoms, researchers have created an experimental platform for studying the event horizons of black holes.

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Compressive Splitting in Brittle Solids: The Inverse of Wrinkling in Sheets

Maryam Khodadad, Francois Barthelat, John D. Clayton, George Gazonas, and Kaushik Dayal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 196101 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Theory and experiments suggest that the mysterious fractures that appear when a brittle material is compressed result from a hidden buildup of internal tension.

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First Measurement of Compton Scattering on ${}^{3}{He}$ at $HI γ S$

J. Zhou et al. (Compton@HIγS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 192502 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

A direct measurement of elastic Compton scattering on a helium-3 nucleus is a first step towards extracting precision electromagnetic polarizabilities of the neutron.

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Evolution of the Superfluid Density in Infinite-Layer Nickelates

Bai Yang Wang, Shannon P. Harvey, Kyuho Lee, Yijun Yu, Yonghun Lee, Motoki Osada, Chaitanya Murthy, Srinivas Raghu, and Harold Y. Hwang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 196003 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

An experiment enables the first systematic, absolute superfluid-density measurement across the full superconducting dome of an infinite-layer nickelate.

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ac Fingerprints of 2D Electron Hydrodynamics: Superdiffusion and Drude Weight Suppression

Davis Thuillier and Thomas Scaffidi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 196303 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Finite-frequency nonlocal conductivity calculations show that clean 2D Fermi liquids in the tomographic regime realize a dynamical universality class distinct from the conventional Navier–Stokes paradigm.

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Similarity of Fractional Chern Insulators to Fractional Quantum Hall States: Moiré-Enhanced Gaps and Excitation-Spectrum Correspondence

Siddhartha Sarkar, Yitong Zhang, and Kai Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 196505 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

The excitation spectrum of fractional Chern insulators is identical to their fractional quantum Hall counterparts except for an enhancement factor, making it possible to predict their excitation spectrum from the Landau-level problem.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Exploring Noisy Quantum Thermodynamical Processes via the Depolarizing-Channel Approximation

Jian Li, Xiaoyang Wang, Marcus Huber, Nicolai Friis, and Pharnam Bakhshinezhad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 190401 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Witnessing Short- and Long-Range Nonstabilizerness via the Information Lattice

Yuliya Bilinskaya, Miguel F. Martínez, Soumi Ghosh, Thomas Klein Kvorning, Claudia Artiaco, and Jens H. Bardarson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 190402 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Chiral Entangled-State Generation through Dissipative Quantum Dynamics

Huixia Gao, Konghao Sun, Yiwen Han, Lei Xiao, Dengke Qu, Kunkun Wang, Xiang Zhan, Wei Yi, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 190403 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Universal Relaxation Speedup in Nonequilibrium Quantum Many-Body Systems through Transient Resetting

Parvinder Solanki, Igor Lesanovsky, and Gabriele Perfetto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 190404 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Hidden Gauge Freedom in Complex-Pole Hierarchical Equations of Motion

Tianchu Li and Andrés Montoya-Castillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 190405 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

On-Demand Millisecond Storage of Spectrotemporal Modes at Telecom Wavelength

Anuj Sethia, Nasser Gohari Kamel, and Daniel Oblak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 190801 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Searching for Axion Dark Matter via Superconductor-Spin Hybrid Magnetometers

Runqi Kang, Jian Zhang, Liangliang Rong, and Xing Rong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191001 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

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Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Constraints on Supermassive Binary Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191401 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Researchers have used radio observations of rapidly spinning neutron stars to search for signals from supermassive black hole pairs at the dawn of galaxy formation.

Detecting Tidal Resonances in Binary Neutron Stars

Fabian Gittins, Harsh Narola, Thibeau Wouters, Peter T. H. Pang, Tanja Hinderer, and Chris Van Den Broeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191402 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Exact Solution of Two-Dimensional Palatini Gauss-Bonnet Theory on a Strip

Máximo Bañados and Marc Henneaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191403 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Particles and Fields

Dimensional Reduction Is Supersymmetric at Three Loops

Mrigankamauli Chakraborty and Sven-Olaf Moch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191602 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Framing Anomaly in Lattice Chern-Simons-Maxwell Theory

Ze-An Xu and Jing-Yuan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191603 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Path to Quantum Simulations of Topological Phases: $(2 + 1) D$ Quantum Electrodynamics with Wilson Fermions

Sriram Bharadwaj, Emil Rosanowski, Simran Singh, Alice Di Tucci, Changnan Peng, Karl Jansen, Lena Funcke, and Di Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191604 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

First Measurement of the Masses of the $ϒ_{1} (1 D)$ and $ϒ_{3} (1 D)$ States and the Energy Dependence of the Cross Sections for $e^{+} e^{-} \to ϒ_{J} (1 D) η$ and $e^{+} e^{-} \to ϒ_{J} (1 D) π^{+} π^{-}$

M. Abumusabh et al. (The Belle and Belle II Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191901 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Observation of the Rare Decay $η \to μ^{+} μ^{-} e^{+} e^{-}$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191902 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

First Amplitude Analysis of $D^{0} \to K^{-} π^{0} e^{+} ν_{e}$ and Observation of $D^{0} \to K_{2}^{*} (1430)^{-} e^{+} ν_{e}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191903 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

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First Measurement of the Strong Interaction Scattering Parameters for the $K^{-} d$ and $K^{+} d$ Systems

D. A. H. Abdallah et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191904 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Close encounters between kaons and deuterons help to elucidate quantum chromodynamics in a challenging mass range.

Bag Parameters for Heavy Meson Lifetimes from a Lattice QCD Calculation at the $SU (3)_{F}$ -symmetric Point

Matthew Black, Robert V. Harlander, Jonas T. Kohnen, Fabian Lange, Antonio Rago, Andrea Shindler, and Oliver Witzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191905 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Building Far-from-Equilibrium Effective Field Theories Using Shift Symmetries

Xin An, Robbe Brants, Michal P. Heller, and Yi Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 192301 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Heavy Quark Transport Is Non-Gaussian beyond Leading Logarithm

Jean F. Du Plessis and Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 192302 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Classification of Scissors Rotational Bands in Deformed Nuclei

Sheng-Nan Wang, Yu Zhang, and P. Van Isacker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 192501 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

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First Measurement of Compton Scattering on ${}^{3}{He}$ at $HI γ S$

J. Zhou et al. (Compton@HIγS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 192502 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

A direct measurement of elastic Compton scattering on a helium-3 nucleus is a first step towards extracting precision electromagnetic polarizabilities of the neutron.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory of Electrons and Quantum Nuclei

Chen Li, Ryan Requist, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 193001 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Ultrafast Dissociation of Water Producing Atomic Oxygen following Excitation above the O 1s Threshold

Florian Trinter, Stephan Thürmer, Qi Zhou (周琪), Uwe Hergenhahn, Bernd Winter, Olle Björneholm, Maxim Tchaplyguine, Ludger Inhester, and Gunnar Öhrwall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 193002 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Fermi-Pressure-Assisted Superradiant Transition with a Mesoscopic Fermi Gas in a Cavity

Francesca Orsi, Ekaterina Fedotova, Rohit Prasad Bhatt, Mae Eichenberger, Léa Dubois, and Jean-Philippe Brantut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 193401 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Adiabatic Preparation of a Fractional Quantum Hall Fluid by Coherently Pumping Atoms from a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Alberto Tabarelli de Fatis, Christof Weitenberg, Alexander Schnell, André Eckardt, and Iacopo Carusotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 193402 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

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Observation of Vinen Turbulence during Far-from-Equilibrium Bose-Einstein Condensation

Sebastian J. Morris, Martin Gazo, Simon M. Fischer, Haoyu Zhang, Christopher J. Ho, Nigel R. Cooper, Christoph Eigen, and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 193403 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Random tangles of vortex lines have been observed untangling in an ultracold gas.

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Matter-Wave Fabry-Pérot Cavity in the Ultrastrong Driving Regime

Jeremy L. Tanlimco, Eber Nolasco-Martinez, Xiao Chai, S. Nicole Halawani, Eric Zhu, Ivar Martin, and David M. Weld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 193404 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Using sheets of light to corral waves of ultracold atoms, researchers have created an experimental platform for studying the event horizons of black holes.

Fate of an Impurity Strongly Interacting with a Thermal Bose Gas

Jiří Etrych, Sebastian J. Morris, Simon M. Fischer, Gevorg Martirosyan, Christopher J. Ho, Moritz Drescher, Manfred Salmhofer, Zoran Hadzibabic, Tilman Enss, and Christoph Eigen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 193405 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

From Coherent to Fermionized Microwave Photons in a Superconducting Transmission Line

Alberto Tabarelli de Fatis, Stephanie Matern, Gianluca Rastelli, and Iacopo Carusotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 193601 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Symbolic Quantum-Trajectory Method for Multichannel Dicke Superradiance

Raphael Holzinger, Nico S. Bassler, Julian Lyne, Susanne F. Yelin, and Claudiu Genes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 193602 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Spatiotemporal Architecture of Energy Transfer in Wall-Bounded Turbulence

Miya C. Y. Coimbra and Beverley J. McKeon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 194001 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

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First-Principles Calculation of Coherence Length and Penetration Depth Based on Density Functional Theory for Superconductors

Mitsuaki Kawamura, Takuya Nomoto, Niklas Witt, and Ryotaro Arita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 196001 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

A new formalism yields the quantities that characterize a conventional superconductor without adjustable parameters.

Kekulé Superconductivity Induced by Quantum Geometry in Haldane Phases

Yafis Barlas, Fan Zhang, and Enrico Rossi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 196002 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

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Evolution of the Superfluid Density in Infinite-Layer Nickelates

Bai Yang Wang, Shannon P. Harvey, Kyuho Lee, Yijun Yu, Yonghun Lee, Motoki Osada, Chaitanya Murthy, Srinivas Raghu, and Harold Y. Hwang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 196003 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

An experiment enables the first systematic, absolute superfluid-density measurement across the full superconducting dome of an infinite-layer nickelate.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Compressive Splitting in Brittle Solids: The Inverse of Wrinkling in Sheets

Maryam Khodadad, Francois Barthelat, John D. Clayton, George Gazonas, and Kaushik Dayal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 196101 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Theory and experiments suggest that the mysterious fractures that appear when a brittle material is compressed result from a hidden buildup of internal tension.