Volume 137, Issue 4

24 July 2026

Browse Issues:

On the Cover

Schematic representation of interaction amplitudes of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (left) and kinetically driven Bose-Hubbard (right) models. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Physics from the Hubbard Model: A Floquet-Engineering Approach
Charles Creffield, Fernando Sols, Marco Schirò, and Nathan Goldman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046302 (2026)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: Pushing the Frontiers of High Energy Density Science toward Unexplored States of Matter

Federica Coppari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 040001 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

In this forward-looking PRL Essay, Federica Coppari presents a compelling perspective on high-energy-density science, centering on the remarkable behavior of matter under extreme conditions—such as very high pressures and a wide range of temperatures—like those found deep inside planets, stars, and fusion reactions.

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Benchmarking a Tunable Quantum Neural Network on Trapped-Ion and Superconducting Hardware

Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina, Xingxin Liu, Richard Barney, Sarah H. Miller, Alaina M. Green, Norbert M. Linke, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 040601 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

By implementing a quantum neural network using two quantum-computing platforms, researchers have taken steps toward determining whether such systems can reliably fulfill their theoretical promise.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Breaking the Speed Limit of Chemical-Structure Imaging with Enhanced Force Sensitivity

Yuuki Yasui and Yoshiaki Sugimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046202 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026

A new atomic force microscope captures the structures of individual molecules and their chemical bonds at record speeds.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Physics from the Hubbard Model: A Floquet-Engineering Approach

Charles Creffield, Fernando Sols, Marco Schirò, and Nathan Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046302 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Ultracold atoms in an optical lattice could emulate a prominent model of quantum matter linked to black holes and high-temperature superconductors.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Rise of Linear Regge Trajectories

Yu-tin Huang, Sara Ricossa, Francesco Riva, and Jie-Da Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 041603 (2026) - Published 24 July, 2026

A bootstrap extremization principle selects the linear Regge spectrum, with the graviton pole uniquely fixing the trajectory in gravitational theories.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Intrinsic Nernst Effect from Berry Curvature in Superconductors

Tzu-Chi Hsieh, Cong Xiao, and Yi-Ting Hsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046002 (2026) - Published 24 July, 2026

The Nernst effect acts as direct probe of Berry curvature to test topological superconductivity in 2D material with spin-orbit coupling.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hidden Dissipation in Topological Insulators: Near-field Radiation from Local Shot Noise

Miaomiao Wei, Bin Wang, Fuming Xu, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046303 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Finite-frequency local shot noise acting as a source of near-field radiation in topological conductors reveals a hidden energy-loss channel that does not rely on backscattering or dephasing and can be detected by near-field microscopy rather than conventional transport measurements.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

NMR Evidence for Spontaneous Electronic Chiral Order in URhSn

Y. Tokunaga, T. Ishitobi, H. Sakai, S. Kambe, H. Harima, A. Nakamura, A. Maurya, D. Li, Y. Homma, F. Honda, D. Aoki, and Y. Shimizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046501 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

The first direct evidence of spontaneous electronic chiral order in URhSn, a strongly correlated material without an inherently chiral lattice structure, fundamentally challenges the prevailing notion that electronic chirality requires a chiral crystal framework.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finite-Momentum Pairing and Superlattice Superconductivity in Valley-Imbalanced Rhombohedral Graphene

Maine Christos, Pietro M. Bonetti, and Mathias S. Scheurer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046505 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Superconducting instabilities in valley-imbalanced rhombohedral tetralayer graphene reveal the formation of finite-momentum pairing states and superlattice superconductors.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Valley-Engineered Landau Polaritons in a van der Waals Semiconductor Microcavity

Xinyue Zhang, Hongming Zhang, Yaofeng Zhu, Hang Zhou, Song Luo, Long Xu, Xin Li, Yuquan Zhou, Yan Liu, Zheng Lv, Yuxin Duan, Zhao Xu, Haodong Cheng, Long Zhang, and Zhanghai Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046904 (2026) - Published 24 July, 2026

Integrating a WSe $_{2}$ monolayer into an optical microcavity generates valley-engineered Landau polaritons, enabling light-mediated valley control of quantum many-body states.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scaling of Relaxation and Entropy in Buckled Colloidal Monolayers

Yongming Zhang, Qingyu Qu, Qian-Yuan Tang, and Xiaoguang Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 048201 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

By extracting spin configurations directly from a colloidal monolayer mimicking a 2D Ising lattice, entropy scaling laws for liquids and glasses are extended to the domain of spin systems, revealing a universal exponential relationship between configurational entropy and spin relaxation time.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Observation of Genuine Tripartite Non-Gaussian Entanglement from a Superconducting Three-Photon Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion Source

Benjamin Jarvis-Frain, Andy Schang, Fernando Quijandría, Ibrahim Nsanzineza, Dmytro Dubyna, C. W. Sandbo Chang, Franco Nori, and C. M. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 040201 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Sufficient Wigner Negativity Implies Genuine Multipartite Entanglement

Lin Htoo Zaw, Jiajie Guo, Qiongyi He, Matteo Fadel, and Shuheng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 040202 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026

Magnetic Correlations in the SU(3) Triangular-Lattice $t − J$ Model at Finite Doping

Annika Böhler, Fabian Grusdt, and Annabelle Bohrdt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 040401 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Measurement-Induced Crossover of Quantum Jump Statistics in Postselection-Free Many-Body Dynamics

Kazuki Yamamoto and Ryusuke Hamazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 040402 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026

Programmable Open Quantum Systems

Mingrui Jing, Mengbo Guo, Lin Zhu, Hongshun Yao, and Xin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 040403 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Benchmarking a Tunable Quantum Neural Network on Trapped-Ion and Superconducting Hardware

Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina, Xingxin Liu, Richard Barney, Sarah H. Miller, Alaina M. Green, Norbert M. Linke, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 040601 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

By implementing a quantum neural network using two quantum-computing platforms, researchers have taken steps toward determining whether such systems can reliably fulfill their theoretical promise.

On-Device Learning of Optimal Probes via Out-of-Time-Order Correlators in Noise-Adaptive Quantum Metrology

Xinyue Long, Xiaodong Yang, Xiangyu Wang, Yufang Feng, Carlos H. S. Vieira, Ran Liu, Xinfang Nie, Jun Li, and Dawei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 040801 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Space-Charge-Limited van der Waals Spin Transistor

Thomas K. M. Graham, Yu-Xuan Wang, Niranjana Renjith Nair, Kseniia Mosina, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zdeněk Sofer, and Brian B. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 040802 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Measurement of the Dispersion-Galaxy Cross-Power Spectrum with the Second CHIME/FRB Catalog

Haochen Wang, Kiyoshi Masui, Shion Andrew, Mohit Bhardwaj, Emmanuel Fonseca, B. M. Gaensler, R. C. Joseph, Victoria M. Kaspi, Bikash Kharel, Adam E. Lanman, Calvin Leung, Lluis Mas-Ribas, Juan Mena-Parra, Kenzie Nimmo, Aaron B. Pearlman, Ue-Li Pen, J. Xavier Prochaska, Ryan Raikman, Kaitlyn Shin, Seth R. Siegel, Kendrick M. Smith, and Ingrid H. Stairs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 041001 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Chase Orbits, Not Time: A Scalable Paradigm for Long-Duration Eccentric Gravitational-Wave Surrogates

Akash Maurya, Prayush Kumar, Scott E. Field, Chandra Kant Mishra, Peter James Nee, Kaushik Paul, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Adhrit Ravichandran, and Vijay Varma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 041401 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

New Approach to Pulsar Timing Array Data Combination

David Wright, Kalista Wayt, Jeffrey S. Hazboun, Xavier Siemens, Rutger van Haasteren, Levi Schult, and Stephen R. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 041402 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Baby Universes from Thermal Pure States in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

Martin Sasieta, Brian Swingle, and Alejandro Vilar López

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 041501 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Particles and Fields

Imprints of Asymptotic Freedom on Confining Strings

Jan Albert and Alexandre Homrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 041601 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Pseudogauge-Invariant Nonequilibrium Density Operator

Francesco Becattini and Carlos Hoyos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 041602 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Rise of Linear Regge Trajectories

Yu-tin Huang, Sara Ricossa, Francesco Riva, and Jie-Da Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 041603 (2026) - Published 24 July, 2026

A bootstrap extremization principle selects the linear Regge spectrum, with the graviton pole uniquely fixing the trajectory in gravitational theories.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Flux Magnetism in a Strongly Interacting Dipolar Lattice Supersolid under Tunable Gauge Fields

Michele Miotto, Pietro Lombardi, Giovanni Ferioli, Joana Fraxanet, Maciej Lewenstein, Luca Tanzi, and Luca Barbiero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 043401 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Program-Synthesis-Driven Autodesign of Universal Unitary Operators

Yifei Zhang, Dong Chen, Fan Wang, Wenrui Zhang, Yan Chen, Dingding Han, Jianmin Yuan, Xiangjin Kong, and Yu-Gang Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 043801 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Integrated Soliton Microcombs beyond the Turnkey Limit

Ze Wang, Tianyu Xu, Yuanlei Wang, Kaixuan Zhu, Xinrui Luo, Haoyang Luo, Junqi Wang, Bo Ni, Yiwen Yang, Qihuang Gong, Yun-Feng Xiao, Bei-Bei Li, and Qi-Fan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 043802 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Zeptosecond $γ$ -Ray Pulses Generation via FEL-Driven Microbunching and Laser-Compton Scattering

Jinke Xiong, Hanghua Xu, Liangliang Ji, Chao Feng, and Zhentang Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 043803 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Dynamical Hysteresis in the Dissipation in Turbulent Flows

M. Ahmad, P. D. Mininni, M. Obligado, and J. A. Farnsworth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 044001 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Flow-Induced Intermittent Transport Shapes Colloid Filtration in Complex Media

Filippo Miele, Ankur Deep Bordoloi, Pietro de Anna, Marco Dentz, Hervé Tabuteau, Verónica L. Morales, Partha Kumar Das, and Sascha Hilgenfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 044002 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

How Zonal Fields Suppress Reversed Shear Alfvén Eigenmode in Tokamak Plasmas

Ruirui Ma, Pengfei Liu, Liu Chen, Fulvio Zonca, and Zhiyong Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 045101 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Interaction of Strong Electromagnetic Waves with Unmagnetized Pair Plasmas

Navin Sridhar, Emanuele Sobacchi, Lorenzo Sironi, Masanori Iwamoto, Daniel Grošelj, and Brandon K. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 045102 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Radiation Reaction Effects on Coherent Emission in Relativistic Magnetized Shocks

Yu Zhang, Yuan-Pei Yang, and Liang-Liang Ji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 045201 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Superfluidity in the Second Layer of ${}^{4}{He}$ on Graphite

Jun Usami and Hiroshi Fukuyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046001 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Intrinsic Nernst Effect from Berry Curvature in Superconductors

Tzu-Chi Hsieh, Cong Xiao, and Yi-Ting Hsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046002 (2026) - Published 24 July, 2026

The Nernst effect acts as direct probe of Berry curvature to test topological superconductivity in 2D material with spin-orbit coupling.

Four Regimes of Primary Radiation Damage in Tungsten

J. Byggmästar, V-M. Yli-Suutala, A. Fellman, J. Åström, J. Westerholm, and F. Granberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046101 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Displacive Quantum Critical Point in Superconducting Hydrides: The Case of $H_{3} S$

Marco Cherubini, Abhishek Raghav, and Michele Casula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046102 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Velocity-Independent Dry Friction on Mica: Realization of Ideal Amontons-Coulomb Friction

Hiroshi Sakuma, Diane E. Moore, David A. Lockner, and Toshihiro Kogure

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046201 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Breaking the Speed Limit of Chemical-Structure Imaging with Enhanced Force Sensitivity

Yuuki Yasui and Yoshiaki Sugimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046202 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026

A new atomic force microscope captures the structures of individual molecules and their chemical bonds at record speeds.

Heavy-Fermion Phase Diagram in Magic-Angle Twisted Trilayer Graphene

Le Zhang, Wenqiang Zhou, Xinjie Fang, Zhen Zhan, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Yi-feng Yang, and Shuigang Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046301 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Physics from the Hubbard Model: A Floquet-Engineering Approach

Charles Creffield, Fernando Sols, Marco Schirò, and Nathan Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046302 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Ultracold atoms in an optical lattice could emulate a prominent model of quantum matter linked to black holes and high-temperature superconductors.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hidden Dissipation in Topological Insulators: Near-field Radiation from Local Shot Noise

Miaomiao Wei, Bin Wang, Fuming Xu, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046303 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Deep-Learning Density Functional Theory Hamiltonian in Real Space

Zilong Yuan, Zechen Tang, Honggeng Tao, Xiaoxun Gong, Zezhou Chen, Yuxiang Wang, He Li, Yang Li, Zhiming Xu, Minghui Sun, Boheng Zhao, Chen Si, Chong Wang, Wenhui Duan, and Yong Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046401 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

NMR Evidence for Spontaneous Electronic Chiral Order in URhSn

Y. Tokunaga, T. Ishitobi, H. Sakai, S. Kambe, H. Harima, A. Nakamura, A. Maurya, D. Li, Y. Homma, F. Honda, D. Aoki, and Y. Shimizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046501 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Simulating Fermionic Fractional Chern Insulators with Infinite Projected Entangled-Pair States

Hao Chen, Titus Neupert, and Juraj Hasik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046502 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Bridging Constrained Random-Phase Approximation and Linear Response Theory for Computing Hubbard Parameters

Alberto Carta, Iurii Timrov, Sophie Beck, and Claude Ederer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046503 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Polaron-Driven Switching of Octupolar Order in Doped $5 d^{2}$ Double Perovskite

Dario Fiore Mosca, Lorenzo Celiberti, Leonid V. Pourovskii, and Cesare Franchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046504 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finite-Momentum Pairing and Superlattice Superconductivity in Valley-Imbalanced Rhombohedral Graphene

Maine Christos, Pietro M. Bonetti, and Mathias S. Scheurer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046505 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Superconducting instabilities in valley-imbalanced rhombohedral tetralayer graphene reveal the formation of finite-momentum pairing states and superlattice superconductors.

Anyon Dispersion from Nonuniform Magnetic Field on the Sphere

Mina-Lou Schleith, Tomohiro Soejima (副島智大), and Eslam Khalaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046506 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026

Relaxation toward an Ideal Chern Band through Coupling to a Markovian Bath

Bruno Mera and Tomoki Ozawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046601 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Exact Fractionalized Ground States in an Extended Spin-1 Kitaev Chain

Alwyn Jose Raja and R. Ganesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046701 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Chiral Magnon Mixing by Symmetry-Breaking in Collinear Ferrimagnets

Dhurba R. Jaishi, Tyler J. Slade, S. X. M. Riberolles, Bing Li, Tianxiong Han, D. M. Pajerowski, D. L. Abernathy, Barry Winn, Melissa Graves-Brook, B. G. Ueland, and R. J. McQueeney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046702 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

High Temperature Ferromagnetism in Epitaxial Monolayers of Co-Doped ${Fe}_{5} {GeTe}_{2}$

Jules Courtin, Fatima Ibrahim, Davide Benettin, Djordje Dosenovic, Roberto Sant, Pâmella Vasconcelos Borges Pinho, Vincent Polewczyk, Alain Marty, Isabelle Gomes de Moraes, Matthieu Jamet, Denis Jalabert, Fadi Choueikani, Philippe Ohresser, Nicholas B. Brookes, Hanako Okuno, Mairbek Chshiev, and Frédéric Bonell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046703 (2026) - Published 21 July, 2026

Unconventional Altermagnetism in Quasicrystals: A Hyperspatial Projective Construction

Yiming Li, Mingxiang Pan, Jun Leng, Yuxiao Chen, and Huaqing Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046704 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Altermagnetism in Quasicrystals

Rui Chen, Bin Zhou, and Dong-Hui Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046705 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Experimental Realization of Synthetic Magnonic Lattice via Floquet Engineering

Amin Pishehvar, Jayakrishnan M. P. Nair, Zhaoyou Wang, Zixin Yan, Yu Jiang, Liang Jiang, Benedetta Flebus, and Xufeng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046706 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026

Anomalous Reflection Phase of Slot Plasmons in an $AlGaN / GaN$ Plasmonic Crystal

A. R. Khisameeva, D. A. Khudaiberdiev, I. M. Moiseenko, P. A. Gusikhin, A. S. Astrakhantseva, A. Shuvaev, A. Pimenov, D. A. Svintsov, I. V. Kukushkin, and V. M. Muravev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046901 (2026) - Published 20 July, 2026

Ultrafast Formation of a Photoinduced Hidden State Driven by a Bond-Order Wave in a Metal-Organic Framework

Samiran Banu, Tatsuya Amano, Takahisa Kato, Kou Takubo, Yoichi Okimoto, Shinya Koshihara, Yohei Kawakami, Hirotake Itoh, Wataru Kosaka, Hitoshi Miyasaka, Shinichiro Iwai, Akira Takahashi, and Tadahiko Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046902 (2026) - Published 22 July, 2026

Observation of Radiation-Loss-Based Non-Hermitian Point Gap in Photonic Crystals

Yuto Moritake, Nozomi Ogawa, Issei Takeda, Yusuke Ohinata, Takahiro Uemura, Taiki Yoda, Kenta Takata, Eiichi Kuramochi, Hisashi Sumikura, and Masaya Notomi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046903 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Valley-Engineered Landau Polaritons in a van der Waals Semiconductor Microcavity

Xinyue Zhang, Hongming Zhang, Yaofeng Zhu, Hang Zhou, Song Luo, Long Xu, Xin Li, Yuquan Zhou, Yan Liu, Zheng Lv, Yuxin Duan, Zhao Xu, Haodong Cheng, Long Zhang, and Zhanghai Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046904 (2026) - Published 24 July, 2026

Integrating a WSe $_{2}$ monolayer into an optical microcavity generates valley-engineered Landau polaritons, enabling light-mediated valley control of quantum many-body states.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

ERRATA

Erratum: Rate Equation for the Transfer of Interstitials across Interfaces between Equilibrated Crystals [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 066201 (2026)]

Jörg Weissmüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 049901 (2026) - Published 23 July, 2026