Volume 137, Issue 3

17 July 2026

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Schematics of quantum interference control processes in a semiconductor, showing carriers (orange ovals) injected into the conduction bands (upper brown parabolas) and asymmetrically distributed in momentum space. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

From the article:

Directional Photocurrent Generated by Quantum Interference Control
Yiming Gong, Kai Wang, and Steven T. Cundiff
Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036901 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Truncated Photon

Isak Cecil Onsager Rukan, Jan Gulla, and Johannes Skaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 033601 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Removing a mirror while a single photon is in the process of reflecting creates a quantum state of countless photons, theorists say.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of $C P$ Violation in $B^{0} \to J / ψ ρ (770)^{0}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031803 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

The LHCb collaboration has observed time-dependent $C P$ violation in a new hadronic $B$ meson decay.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Sub-GeV Dark Particles in $η \to π^{0} + Invisible$ Decay

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031804 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

BESIII collaboration performs the first search for a sub-GeV dark scalar in $η \to π^{0} S$ decays using over 10 billion $J / ψ$ events, observing no signal.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlinear Odd Viscoelastic Effect

Ashwat Jain, Wojciech J. Jankowski, M. Mehraeen, and Robert-Jan Slager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036302 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Nonlinear odd viscoelastic effects arise from higher-order quantum geometric tensors in magnetic three-dimensional topological phases in response to distortion fields.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hidden Density-Wave Instability in the Trimer Ruthenate ${Ba}_{4} {Ru}_{3} O_{10}$

Gang Cao, Hengdi Zhao, Adrienne Bond, Tristan R. Cao, Gabriel Schebel, Arabella Quane, Yifei Ni, Yu Zhang, Logan Wall, Rahul Nandkishore, Pedro Schlottmann, Stephan Rosenkranz, and Feng Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036502 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Simultaneous signatures in structure, thermodynamics, and transport reveal a strongly pinned density-wave in an antiferromagnetic oxide previously regarded as a purely magnetic insulator.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Microscopic Evidence for a Zhang-Rice Triplet State in the van der Waals Antiferromagnet, ${NiPS}_{3}$

Beom Hyun Kim, Youjin Lee, Junik Hwang, Junghyun Kim, Je-Geun Park, and Seung-Ho Baek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036505 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Nuclear magnetic resonance measurements verify the Zhang-Rice triplet ground state in the van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS $_{3}$ .

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Directional Photocurrent Generated by Quantum Interference Control

Yiming Gong, Kai Wang, and Steven T. Cundiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036901 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Using higher-order quantum interference, an “electron lighthouse” is created with the capability of optically steering highly directional 2D beams of photocurrent in semiconductors.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pushy Random Walk: A Minimal Model for Transport in Deformable Media

Ofek Lauber Bonomo, Itamar Shitrit, Shlomi Reuveni, and Sidney Redner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 037101 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

In a minimal model of a pushy random walk, a moving tracer can displace obstacles, giving rise to new diffusive behaviors in both 1D and 2D.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Odd Elasticity in Disordered Chiral Active Materials

Cheng-Tai Lee, Tom C. Lubensky, and Tomer Markovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 038301 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

A new theoretical framework for a chiral active solid allowing local internal rotations due to active torques shows how odd elasticity emerges in structurally-disordered materials relevant to biological and synthetic systems.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Connecting Magic Dynamics in Thermofield Double States to Spectral Form Factors

Ning Sun and Pengfei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 030401 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Planckian Bound on Quantum Dynamical Entropy

Xiangyu Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 030402 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Thermal Operations from Informational Equilibrium

Seok Hyung Lie, Jeongrak Son, Paul Boes, Nelly H. Y. Ng, and Henrik Wilming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 030403 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Anomalous Heat Flows and Quantum Otto Engine with (In)definite Causal Order

Qing-Feng Xue, Qi Zhang, Xu-Cai Zhuang, Ying-Jie Zhang, Yun-Jie Xia, Enrico Russo, Giulio Chiribella, Rosario Lo Franco, and Zhong-Xiao Man

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 030404 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

Synchronized Aharonov-Bohm Motifs via Engineered Dissipation

Christopher W. Wächtler and Gloria Platero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 030405 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Timescale for Macroscopic Equilibration in Isolated Quantum Systems: A Rigorous Derivation for Free Fermions

Takashi Hara and Tatsuhiko Koike

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 030406 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Experimental Demonstration of Calibration-Free Non-Markovian Noise Suppression

Hongfeng Liu, Zizhao Han, Xinfang Nie, Zhenhuan Liu, and Dawei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 030601 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Volume-Law Protection of Metrological Advantage

Piotr Wysocki, Jan Chwedeńczuk, and Marcin Płodzień

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 030801 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Any Unitary Gate Can Be Certified Device-Independently in a Quantum Network

Shubhayan Sarkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 030802 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Extending Ground-Based Gravitational-Wave Sensitivity to 5 Hz

Amit Singh Ubhi, Lari Koponen, Jiri Smetana, Yulin Xia, Haixing Miao, Emilia Chick, John Bryant, Geraint Pratten, Teng Zhang, Richard Mittleman, Peter Fritschel, Alan V. Cumming, Giles Hammond, and Denis Martynov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031401 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Crust Glass Formation Reveals the Neutron Star Birth Properties in IGR J17480-2446

D. A. Baiko and A. I. Chugunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031402 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Periodic Gravitational Lensing with Oscillating Boson Stars

Xing-Yu Yang (杨星宇), Tan Chen (陈坦), and Rong-Gen Cai (蔡荣根)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031403 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Progenitor of the Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole RBH-1 Identified Using HST and JWST Imaging

Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, and Digvijay Wadekar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031404 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Anomaly in Canonical Semiclassical Gravity

Viqar Husain and Irfan Javed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031501 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Particles and Fields

Hidden Sector Custodial Naturalness

Thede de Boer, Manfred Lindner, and Andreas Trautner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031801 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

Demonstration of Deuterium’s Enhanced Sensitivity to Symmetry Violations Governed by the Standard-Model Extension

A. Nanda, D. Comparat, O. Dulieu, S. Lahs, C. Malbrunot, L. Nowak, M. C. Simon, and E. Widmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031802 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of $C P$ Violation in $B^{0} \to J / ψ ρ (770)^{0}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031803 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

The LHCb collaboration has observed time-dependent $C P$ violation in a new hadronic $B$ meson decay.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Sub-GeV Dark Particles in $η \to π^{0} + Invisible$ Decay

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031804 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

BESIII collaboration performs the first search for a sub-GeV dark scalar in $η \to π^{0} S$ decays using over 10 billion $J / ψ$ events, observing no signal.

Edge of Safety: Charge-Charge Correlation in the Back-to-Back Limit

Pier Francesco Monni, Gherardo Vita, Zhen Xu, and Hua Xing Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031901 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Study of the Reactions $\bar{n} p \to 2 π^{+} π^{-}$ , $2 π^{+} π^{-} π^{0}$ , and $2 π^{+} π^{-} 2 π^{0}$ Using $J / ψ \to p π^{-} \bar{n}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031902 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Atomic Clock Frequency Ratios with Fractional Uncertainty $\leq 3.2 \times 10^{- 18}$

Alexander Aeppli et al. (BACON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 033201 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

Interference and Short-Range Correlation in Fermionic Hubbard Gases

Yan-Song Zhu, Hou-Ji Shao, Yu-Xuan Wang, De-Zhi Zhu, Hao-Nan Sun, Si-Yuan Chen, Chi Zhang, Xing-Can Yao, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 033401 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Truncated Photon

Isak Cecil Onsager Rukan, Jan Gulla, and Johannes Skaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 033601 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Removing a mirror while a single photon is in the process of reflecting creates a quantum state of countless photons, theorists say.

Engineering Quantum Noise Interference with Squeezed Vacuum in Dissipative Optomechanics

Guang-Zheng Ye, Ye Liu, Wan-Jun Su, Yong Li, and Huaizhi Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 033602 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Optical Soliton Cooper Pairs in Mamyshev Oscillators

Chenxiao Hao, Tianhao Xian, Zhenghu Chang, Yahan Du, and Li Zhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 033801 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Synchronization Driven Reciprocity Breaking

Alexander K. Stoychev, Ulrich Kuhl, and Nicolas Noiray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 033802 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Superradiant Parametric Mössbauer Radiation Source

Ze-an Peng, Christoph H. Keitel, and Jörg Evers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 035001 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Detecting Solenoidal Plasma Turbulence via Laser Polarization Rotation

Kenan Qu and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 035101 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Significance of Microtearing Turbulence in Turbulence-Reduced High-Density-Gradient Plasmas in Wendelstein 7-X

H. Cu-Castillo, A. Bañón Navarro, G. Merlo, F. Reimold, T. Romba, O. Ford, S. Bannmann, L. Vanó, M. Wappl, J. Geiger, A. Goodman, A. Zocco, F. Jenko, and W7-X Team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 035102 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

First-Principles Explanation of the Drift Configuration Dependence of the Radial Electric Field and High-Confinement Access in Tokamaks

B. J. Frei, R. Bilato, O. Grover, W. Zholobenko, C. Angioni, M. Bergmann, P. Ulbl, F. Jenko, and the ASDEX Upgrade Team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 035103 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Dynamical Pathway to Radiative Divertor Driven by Transient X-Point Vortex in Tokamaks

H. Yang, N. Fedorczak, G. Ciraolo, E. Serre, H. Bufferand, L. Fèvre, E. Havlickova, N. Lemoine, N. Rivals, P. Tamain, the WEST team, and the WPTE team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 035104 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Microwave Signature of the Emerging Abrikosov Lattice above $H_{c 2}$

Hang Zhou, Zhanghai Chen, A. A. Varlamov, Andreas Glatz, and Yuriy Yerin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036001 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Doping-Induced Polyamorphic Transitions in Fluorite Oxides

Hao Yang, Qiaotong Luan, Qing Zhang, Yongqing Sun, Weijie Zheng, Zhen Wang, Huan-hua Wang, Xiaohui Liu, Zheng Wen, and Zhaoru Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036101 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Hidden Chiral Ferroelectricity in ${AgNbO}_{3}$ Perovskite

Ying Song, Lingzhi Cao, Jinming Zhai, Zhilong Yang, Yali Yang, Laurent Bellaiche, and Jiangang He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036102 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Chirality Cannot Be Ferroic in Phase Transitions Leading to Enantiomorphic Space-Group Pairs

F. Gómez-Ortiz, S. Mamoudou Taganga, Emma E. McCabe, A. H. Romero, and E. Bousquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036103 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Deep Indentation of Soft Thin Films Beyond the $10 %$ Rule

Huang Lu and Zhaohe Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036201 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

Ellipticity-Controlled Bright-Dark Coherence Transition in Monolayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Kang Lan, Xiangji Cai, Zhongxiao Man, Shijie Xie, Ning Hao, Ping Zhang, and Jiyong Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036202 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Kondo Effect in Nonreciprocal Response

Hajime Murata and Hiroaki Ishizuka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036301 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlinear Odd Viscoelastic Effect

Ashwat Jain, Wojciech J. Jankowski, M. Mehraeen, and Robert-Jan Slager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036302 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Nonlinear odd viscoelastic effects arise from higher-order quantum geometric tensors in magnetic three-dimensional topological phases in response to distortion fields.

Symmetric Localization of $ν_{tot} = 4 / 3$ Fractional Topological Insulator Edges

Yang-Zhi Chou and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036501 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hidden Density-Wave Instability in the Trimer Ruthenate ${Ba}_{4} {Ru}_{3} O_{10}$

Gang Cao, Hengdi Zhao, Adrienne Bond, Tristan R. Cao, Gabriel Schebel, Arabella Quane, Yifei Ni, Yu Zhang, Logan Wall, Rahul Nandkishore, Pedro Schlottmann, Stephan Rosenkranz, and Feng Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036502 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Simultaneous signatures in structure, thermodynamics, and transport reveal a strongly pinned density-wave in an antiferromagnetic oxide previously regarded as a purely magnetic insulator.

Commensurate-Incommensurate Mott Transition without Magnetic Field: Emergence of Nematic Luttinger Liquid in XXZ Chain

Julien Fitouchi and Natalia Chepiga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036503 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

Antiferromagnetism and Stripe Channel Order in the $SU (N)$ -Symmetric Two-Channel Kondo Lattice Model

Elyasaf Y. Cohen, Fakher F. Assaad, and Snir Gazit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036504 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Microscopic Evidence for a Zhang-Rice Triplet State in the van der Waals Antiferromagnet, ${NiPS}_{3}$

Beom Hyun Kim, Youjin Lee, Junik Hwang, Junghyun Kim, Je-Geun Park, and Seung-Ho Baek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036505 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Nuclear magnetic resonance measurements verify the Zhang-Rice triplet ground state in the van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS $_{3}$ .

Spin-Triplet Paired Wigner Crystal Stabilized by Quantum Geometry

Dmitry Zverevich, Alex Levchenko, and Ilya Esterlis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036506 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Even Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Zeroth Landau Level of ABA Trilayer Graphene

Tanima Chanda, Simrandeep Kaur, Harsimran Singh, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Manish Jain, Udit Khanna, Ajit C. Balram, and Aveek Bid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036601 (2026) - Published 15 July, 2026

Stimulated Magnonic Frequency Combs

Xueyu Guo, Tianci Gong, Guibin Lan, Mengying Guo, Xiufeng Han, Guoqiang Yu, Peng Yan, and Qi Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036701 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Signatures of Altermagnetism in ${BiFeO}_{3}$

Sajid Husain, Maya Ramesh, Qian Song, Sergei Prokhorenko, Shashank Kumar Ojha, Surya Narayan Panda, Xinyan Li, Yousra Nahas, Yogesh Kumar, Pushpendra Gupta, Tenzin Chang, Alan Ji-in Jung, Rogério de Sousa, James G. Analytis, Lane W. Martin, Zhi Yao, Yimo Han, Sang-Wook Cheong, Laurent Bellaiche, Manuel Bibes, Darrell G. Schlom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036702 (2026) - Published 13 July, 2026

Pseudochiral Phonons from Octupolar Magnetic Order

Ruairidh Sutcliffe, Kathleen Hart, Swati Chaudhary, and Arun Paramekanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036703 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

Photoinduced Switching of Magnetization in the Epsilon-Near-Zero Regime

Héloïse Damas, Carl S. Davies, Petr M. Vetoshko, Vladimir I. Belotelov, Andrzej Stupakiewicz, and Andrei Kirilyuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036704 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Harnessing Spin-Texture Dynamics for Low-Noise, High-Sensitivity Magnetic Sensors

Kang Wang, Teng Xu, Meng Shi, Xinxiang Sun, Yizhou Liu, Huali Yang, Run-Wei Li, and Haifeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036705 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Geometric Pathway for Tuning Ferroelectric Properties via Polar State Reconfiguration

Hao-Cheng Thong, Bo Wu, Fan Hu, Pedro B. Groszewicz, Chen-Bo-Wen Li, Jun Chen, Mao-Hua Zhang, Dragan Damjanovic, Ben Xu, and Ke Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036801 (2026) - Published 14 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Directional Photocurrent Generated by Quantum Interference Control

Yiming Gong, Kai Wang, and Steven T. Cundiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036901 (2026) - Published 16 July, 2026

Using higher-order quantum interference, an “electron lighthouse” is created with the capability of optically steering highly directional 2D beams of photocurrent in semiconductors.

Emergent Trion Resonance Driven by Lattice Reconstruction in a Moiré Superlattice

Zhida Liu, Haonan Wang, Xiaohui Liu, Yue Ni, Hongtao Yan, Frank Y. Gao, Saba Arash, Hyunsue Kim, Dong Seob Kim, Xiangcheng Liu, Xiaoxiao Yu, Yongxin Zeng, Jiamin Quan, Di Huang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Edoardo Baldini, Keji Lai, Allan H. MacDonald, Chih-Kang Shih, Jamie Warner, Li Yang, and Xiaoqin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036902 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026

Probing Dielectric Screening in van der Waals Heterostructures via Pressure-Tuned Exciton Rydberg Series

Shalini Badola, Adlen Smiri, Thomas Pelini, Aditi Moghe, Tristan Riccardi, Amit Pawbake, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Iann C. Gerber, and Clément Faugeras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036903 (2026) - Published 17 July, 2026