Volume 137, Issue 5

31 July 2026

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Interference between Bloch oscillations and Zitterbewegung on a photonic frequency chain, arising from coexisting Abelian and non-Abelian electric fields. Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Non-Abelian Electric Field and Zitterbewegung on a Photonic Frequency Chain
Shu Yang (杨树), Bengy Tsz Tsun Wong (黄梓峻), Jinbing Hu (胡金兵), and Yi Yang (杨易)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056901 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Turbulent Nature of the Quasicontinuous Exhaust Regime for Fusion Plasmas

Kaiyu Zhang, Wladimir Zholobenko, Andreas Stegmeir, Michael Faitsch, Konrad Eder, Christoph Pitzal, Frank Jenko, and ASDEX Upgrade Team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 055102 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Supercomputer simulations reveal how turbulence supports a Goldilocks regime for operating a fusion reactor.

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Non-Abelian Electric Field and Zitterbewegung on a Photonic Frequency Chain

Shu Yang (杨树), Bengy Tsz Tsun Wong (黄梓峻), Jinbing Hu (胡金兵), and Yi Yang (杨易)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056901 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

A ring of optical fiber can be made to host phenomena that originated in the realm of high-energy physics.

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Breakthrough in Short-Wavelength Infrared Quantum Efficiency in Te-Hyperdoped Silicon Photodetectors via Light-Trapping Strategies

E. García-Hemme, R. Benítez-Fernández, S. Duarte-Cano, F. Pérez-Zenteno, S. Algaidy, C. Mata-Alonso, S. de Castro-Romero, R. García-Hernansanz, J. Olea, A. del Prado, E. San Andrés, I. Mártil, and D. Pastor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 057002 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

A new light-trapping architecture could lead to CMOS-compatible night-vision technology.

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Non-Gaussianity from Superselection Rules

Nicolas Moulonguet, Eloi Descamps, José Lorgeré, Astghik Saharyan, Arne Keller, and Pérola Milman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050203 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Stellar rank physically emerges from superselection rules and provides an interpretation to non-Gaussianity in terms of intrinsic multimode entanglement.

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Light Dark Matter Search with 7.8 Tonne-Year of Ionization-Only Data in XENONnT

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051003 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

World-leading bounds are placed on sub-keV axionlike and dark-photon dark matter using ionization-only data from a liquid xenon detector.

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Imperfect Blockade in Rydberg Superatoms

Valentin Magro, Sébastien Garcia, and Alexei Ourjoumtsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053605 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

A theory of imperfect Rydberg blockade is developed and experimentally verified, promising higher-quality elements for quantum technologies.

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Realization of the Thermal Haldane Lattice

Jiaxin Li, Chengxin Xu, Shuihua Yang, Zifu Xu, Guoqiang Xu, Lizhou Dai, Kaipeng Liu, Jianfeng Chen, Guangming Tao, Ghim Wei Ho, Tianlong Li, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056301 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

A thermal analogue of the Haldane model supports one-way chiral edge states of heat, extending the framework of Chern insulators to thermal diffusion systems.

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Higher-Order Topology Embedded in First-Order Topological Bands

Jiancheng Zheng, Zhenhang Pu, Jiuyang Lu, Weiyin Deng, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056605 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Traveling edge states and trapped corner states coexist within the exact same energy band of an acoustic crystal, overcoming a long-held rule that deemed them mutually exclusive.

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Probing Multipolar Order in the Candidate Altermagnet ${MnF}_{2}$ through the Elastocaloric Effect under Strain

Rahel Ohlendorf, Luca Buiarelli, Hilary M. L. Noad, Andrew P. Mackenzie, Rafael M. Fernandes, Turan Birol, Jörg Schmalian, and Elena Gati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056702 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

The first unambiguous bulk confirmation of altermagnetism in MnF $_{2}$ is achieved by combining symmetry-guided strain and magnetic-field tuning with highly sensitive elastocaloric measurements and first-principles theory.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Nonunique Decompositions of Mixed States and Deterministic Energy Transfers

Zihan Wang, Fei Meng, and Oscar Dahlsten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050201 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Thirty-Six Quantum Officers Are Entangled

Simeon Ball and Robin Simoens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050202 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

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Non-Gaussianity from Superselection Rules

Nicolas Moulonguet, Eloi Descamps, José Lorgeré, Astghik Saharyan, Arne Keller, and Pérola Milman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050203 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Stellar rank physically emerges from superselection rules and provides an interpretation to non-Gaussianity in terms of intrinsic multimode entanglement.

Tight and Self-Testing Multipartite Quantum Bell Inequalities from the Renormalization Group

Paolo Abiuso, Julian Fischer, and Miguel Navascués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050204 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Deterministic Equations for Feedback Control of Open Quantum Systems

Alberto J. B. Rosal, Patrick P. Potts, and Gabriel T. Landi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050401 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Bottlenecks in Quantum Channels and Finite Temperature Phases of Matter

Tibor Rakovszky, Benedikt Placke, Nikolas P. Breuckmann, and Vedika Khemani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050402 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Universality Emerging in a Universality: Derivation of the Ericson Transition in Stochastic Quantum Scattering and Experimental Validation

Simon Köhnes, Jiongning Che, Barbara Dietz, and Thomas Guhr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050403 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Kicked-Ising Quantum Battery

Sebastián V. Romero, Xi Chen, and Yue Ban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050404 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

High-Temperature Limit Penalizing High-Frequency Quantum Fluctuations

Graeme Pleasance, Erik Aurell, and Francesco Petruccione

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050405 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Boosting Work Extraction in Quantum Batteries via Continuous Environment Monitoring

Gabriele Cenedese, Giuliano Benenti, Dario Ferraro, and Marco G. Genoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050406 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Fock Space Prethermalization and Time-Crystalline Order on a Quantum Processor

Zehang Bao et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050407 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Anticoncentration Is (Almost) All You Need

Markus Heinrich, Jonas Haferkamp, Ingo Roth, and Jonas Helsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050601 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Topological Robustness of Orbital Angular Momentum Entanglement in Stochastic Channels

Tatjana Kleine, Pedro Ornelas, Cade Peters, Zhenyu Guo, Bereneice Sephton, Isaac Nape, Yijie Shen, and Andrew Forbes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050602 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Observing Quantum Correlation Dynamics in Tunable Superconducting Bose-Hubbard Simulators

Z. T. Wang, Si-Yun Zhou, Yun-Hao Shi, Kaixuan Huang, Z. H. Yang, Jingning Zhang, Kui Zhao, Yueshan Xu, Hao Li, S. K. Zhao, Yulong Feng, Guangming Xue, Yu Liu, Wei-Guo Ma, Cai-Ping Fang, Hao-Tian Liu, Yong-Yi Wang, Kai Xu, Haifeng Yu, Heng Fan, and S. P. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050603 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Experimental Realization of Thermal Reservoirs with Tunable Temperature in a Trapped-Ion Spin-Boson Simulator

Visal So, Mingjian Zhu, Midhuna Duraisamy Suganthi, Abhishek Menon, George Tomaras, Roman Zhuravel, Han Pu, and Guido Pagano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050604 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Levitated Nano-accelerometer Sensitized by Quantum Quench

M. Kamba, S. Otabe, K. Funo, T. Sagawa, and K. Aikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050801 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Measurement of the Cosmic Ray Nickel Energy Spectrum from 10 GeV/n to 2 TeV/n with the DAMPE Space Mission

F. Alemanno et al. (DAMPE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051001 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Boiling After the Dust Settles: Constraining First-Order Phase Transitions During Dark Energy Domination

Seth Koren, Yuhsin Tsai, and Runqing Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051002 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Light Dark Matter Search with 7.8 Tonne-Year of Ionization-Only Data in XENONnT

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051003 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

World-leading bounds are placed on sub-keV axionlike and dark-photon dark matter using ionization-only data from a liquid xenon detector.

Energy-Dependent Shifts of Medium-Scale Anisotropies in Very-High-Energy Cosmic Rays Observed by LHAASO-KM2A

Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051004 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Testing Local Lorentz Invariance with Laser Tracking of the LAGEOS and LAGEOS II Satellites

David Lucchesi, Massimo Visco, Roberto Peron, José C. Rodriguez, Massimo Bassan, Giuseppe Pucacco, Luciano Anselmo, Graham Appleby, Marco Cinelli, Alessandro Di Marco, Marco Lucente, Carmelo Magnafico, Carmen Pardini, and Feliciana Sapio (SaToR-G Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051401 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Multimessenger Signatures of Tilted, Self-Gravitating, Black Hole Disks

Milton Ruiz, Antonios Tsokaros, and Stuart L. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051402 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Renormalization of the Quantum Stress Tensor Fluctuations and the Limits of Semiclassical Gravity

Alejandro Perez and Daniel Sudarsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051501 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Particles and Fields

Loss of Asymptotic Freedom in the Two-Dimensional $O (N)$ Nonlinear Sigma Model: Complex Conformal Field Theory and Realization in Heisenberg Spin Chains

Christopher Yang and Thomas Scaffidi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051601 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Probing Stringy Horizons with Pole Skipping in Nonmaximal Chaotic Systems

Ping Gao and Hong Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051602 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Evidence for the Rare Decay $B^{+} \to \bar{Λ} p μ^{+} μ^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051801 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

New High-Sensitivity Search for Neutron to Mirror-Neutron Oscillations at the PSI Ultracold Neutron Source

N. J. Ayres, Z. Berezhiani, G. Bison, K. Bodek, V. Bondar, P.-J. Chiu, M. Daum, C. B. Doorenbos, S. Emmenegger, K. Kirch, V. Kletzl, J. Krempel, B. Lauss, D. Pais, I. Rienäcker, D. Ries, D. Rozpędzik, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg, K. S. Tanaka, J. Zejma, N. Ziehl, and G. Zsigmond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051802 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Test of Lepton Flavor Universality with $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Decays at Large Dilepton Invariant Mass

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051803 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Search for $K_{L} \to π^{0} π^{0} γ γ$ and $K_{L} \to π^{0} π^{0} X$ where $X \to γ γ$ at the KOTO Experiment

J. Redeker et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051804 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Search for the Decay $B^{+} \to K^{+} τ^{+} τ^{-}$ Using Data from the Belle and Belle II Experiments

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051805 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Direct Measurement of the In-Medium $η^{'}$ Mass Spectrum through the $γ γ$ Decay Channel

Y. Matsumura et al. (LEPS2/BGOegg Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051901 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Pion $β$ Decay and $τ \to π π ν_{τ}$ beyond Leading Logarithms

Vincenzo Cirigliano, Martin Hoferichter, and Nicola Valori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051902 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Evidence for $J / ψ$ Suppression in Incoherent Photonuclear Production

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 052301 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Dissecting Jet Modification in the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Multipoint Energy Correlators

João Barata, Ian Moult, Andrey V. Sadofyev, and João M. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 052302 (2026) - Published 31 July, 2026

$r$ -Process Nucleosynthesis with Ab Initio Nuclear Masses around the $N = 82$ Shell Closure

J. Kuske, T. Miyagi, A. Arcones, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 052701 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Study of Key ${}^{57}{Ni} (p, γ) {}^{58}{Cu}$ Resonances to Understand ${}^{44}{Ti}$ Nucleosynthesis in Supernovae

S. R. Carmichael et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 052702 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Mass of Helium-4 from the Cyclotron Frequency Ratio ${}^{4}{He}^{+} / {{}^{12}C}^{3 +}$

Maria Fernandez Davila, Moisés Medina Restrepo, Cristian A. Navarro, and Edmund G. Myers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053001 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Sub-Hertz Optical Transitions in Excited ${Yb}^{+}$

Patrick McMillin, Hassan Farhat, William Liu, and Wesley C. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053002 (2026) - Published 31 July, 2026

Nonreciprocal and Long-Range Three-Body Interactions in Bose-Einstein Condensates Induced by Optical Feedback

Yi-Qing Zhang, Liang-Jun He, Han Pu, Zheng-Wei Zhou, and Yong-Chang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053201 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Timing Ultrafast Charge Transfer via Fano Interference beyond the Core-Hole Clock

Ji-Cai Liu, Nicolas Velasquez, Victor Kimberg, Sayantan Sarkar, Oksana Travnikova, Iyas Ismail, Renaud Guillemin, Man Zhang, Pavel Krasnov, Marcella Iannuzzi, Michael Odelius, Ralph Püttner, Maria Novella Piancastelli, Marc Simon, Faris Gel’mukhanov, and Tatiana Marchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053202 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Observation of Sine-Gordon-like Solitons in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

Yannick Deller, Alexander Schmutz, Raphael Schäfer, Alexander Flamm, Florian Schmitt, Ido Siovitz, Thomas Gasenzer, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Helmut Strobel, and Markus K. Oberthaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053401 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Universality in Ionic Three-Body Systems Near an Ion-Atom Feshbach Resonance

Jacek Gębala, Michał Tomza, and José P. D’Incao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053402 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Optomechanical Disk Resonator in the Quantum Ground State of Motion

Andrea Barbero, Samuel Pautrel, Bertrand Evrard, Jérémy Bon, Romain Dezert, Martina Morassi, Aristide Lemaître, Adrien Borne, and Ivan Favero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053601 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Hybrid Acousto-Optical Double Dressing of a Two-Level System

Yuan Zhan, Zixuan Wang, Richard P. Mirin, Kevin L. Silverman, and Shuo Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053602 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Superradiant Phase Is a Finite Size Effect in Two-photon Processes

Fabrizio Ramírez, David Villaseñor, Nahum Vázquez, and Jorge G. Hirsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053603 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Coherent Regime of Kapitza-Dirac Effect with Electrons

Kamila Moriová, Petr Koutenský, Neli Laštovičková Streshkova, Marius Constantin Chirita Mihaila, Zbyněk Šobáň, Jaromír Kopeček, Andreas Schertel, and Martin Kozák

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053604 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Imperfect Blockade in Rydberg Superatoms

Valentin Magro, Sébastien Garcia, and Alexei Ourjoumtsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053605 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

A theory of imperfect Rydberg blockade is developed and experimentally verified, promising higher-quality elements for quantum technologies.

Constant-Amplitude $2 π$ Phase Modulation from Topological Pole-Zero Winding

Alex Krasnok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053801 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Static Friction of Liquid Marbles

Yui Takai, Kei Mukoyama, Pritam Kumar Roy, Guillaume Lagubeau, David Quéré, Samuel Poincloux, and Timothée Mouterde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 054001 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Coherent Attosecond Pulses Generated by a Relativistic Electron Beam Interacting with an Intense Laser at a Grazing Angle

H. Peng, T. W. Huang, C. N. Wu, K. Jiang, R. Li, C. Riconda, S. Weber, and C. T. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 055101 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Turbulent Nature of the Quasicontinuous Exhaust Regime for Fusion Plasmas

Kaiyu Zhang, Wladimir Zholobenko, Andreas Stegmeir, Michael Faitsch, Konrad Eder, Christoph Pitzal, Frank Jenko, and ASDEX Upgrade Team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 055102 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Supercomputer simulations reveal how turbulence supports a Goldilocks regime for operating a fusion reactor.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Mechanism for Nodal Topological Superconductivity on ${PtBi}_{2}$ Surface

Kristian Mæland, Giorgio Sangiovanni, and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056001 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Kapitza Pendulum Route to Supercurrent Tunnel Diodes

Yuriy Yerin, Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler, A. A. Varlamov, Francesco Giazotto, Jeroen van den Brink, and Mario Cuoco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056002 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Fermi-Surface-Sheet Dependent Electron-Phonon Coupling in a Borocarbide Superconductor ${YNi}_{2} B_{2} C$

Taichi Terashima, Hiroyuki Takeya, and Hisatomo Harima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056003 (2026) - Published 31 July, 2026

Universal Critical Dynamics of Vortex Shedding in Quantum Fluids

Niccolò Geracitano, Francesco Viola, Paolo Luchini, and Vincenzo Citro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056004 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Incipient Modulated Phase in ${Sr}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {TiO}_{3}$

Benoît Fauqué, Daniel A. Chaney, Philippe Bourges, Stéphane Raymond, Frédéric Bourdarot, Arno Hiess, Paul Steffens, Benoît Baptiste, Luigi Paolasini, Alexeï Bosak, Kamran Behnia, and Yasuhide Tomioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056101 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Disorder-Free Solitonlike Energy Transport in Moiré-Engineered Phononic Flat Bands

Chunjiang Li, Tiancheng Zhang, Jiahao Cheng, Xuzhe Zhao, Shuang Zhang, Nicholas X. Fang, Junqiao Wu, Jiachen Li, and Kaichen Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056102 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Third-Order Nonlinear Transport in a Percolative Two-Dimensional Superconductor

Wenjun Liu, Chenghe Wang, Xiubin Li, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Tao Zhang, Xiao-Xiao Zhang, and Jing Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056201 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Thermal Switching of Electron Transfer at a ${VO}_{2}$ Heterointerface for Accelerated Oxygen Evolution

Mengfei Lu, Yu Du, Shicheng Yan, and Zhigang Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056202 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Realization of the Thermal Haldane Lattice

Jiaxin Li, Chengxin Xu, Shuihua Yang, Zifu Xu, Guoqiang Xu, Lizhou Dai, Kaipeng Liu, Jianfeng Chen, Guangming Tao, Ghim Wei Ho, Tianlong Li, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056301 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

A thermal analogue of the Haldane model supports one-way chiral edge states of heat, extending the framework of Chern insulators to thermal diffusion systems.

Quantum Kinetic Uncertainty Relations in Mesoscopic Conductors at Strong Coupling

Gianmichele Blasi, Ricard Ravell Rodríguez, Mykhailo Moskalets, Rosa López, and Géraldine Haack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056302 (2026) - Published 31 July, 2026

First-Principles Predictions of Carrier Mobility with Record Accuracy Using GW Perturbation Theory

Nick Pant, Sabyasachi Tiwari, Steven G. Louie, Zhenglu Li, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056303 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Unveiling the Hidden Spin-Polarized Bi(110) Surface States by Spin-Resolved Photoemission

Taichi Okuda, Tatsuya Shishidou, Munisa Nurmamat, Kazuki Sumida, Eike Schwier, Koji Miyamoto, and Michael Weinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056401 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Atomic Resolution in Near-Edge Core-Loss Mapping Beyond the Conventional Delocalization Limit

Jiayi Wu, Juri Barthel, Leslie J. Allen, and Mitsutaka Haruta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056402 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Theory of Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy of Altermagnetic Mott Insulators

Lorenzo Lanzini, Purnendu Das, and Michael Knap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056501 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Monte Carlo Sampling for Wave Functions Requiring Symmetrization or Antisymmetrization

Koyena Bose, Steven H. Simon, and Ajit C. Balram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056502 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Exactly Solvable Topological Phase Transition in a Quantum Dimer Model

Laura Shou, Jeet Shah, Matthew Lerner-Brecher, Amol Aggarwal, Alexei Borodin, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056503 (2026) - Published 30 July, 2026

Mode Conservation and Conversion in Polyatomic Phononic Crystals with Temporal Interfaces

Mahmoud M. Samak and Osama R. Bilal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056601 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

Latent-Geometry Correspondence: Unraveling Hidden Symmetry Groups with Graph Theory

Xinyu Zhang, Ruotao Ye, Malte Röntgen, Menglin L. N. Chen, Su-Huai Wei, Shuang Zhang, and Wenlong Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056602 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Breakdown of Self-Averaging at Quantum Hall Transitions

Emuna Rimon, Eytan Grosfeld, and Yevgeny Bar Lev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056603 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Manipulating Topological Boundary States: From Corner-Bound to Arbitrarily Positioned Extended States

Yating Yang, Di Zhu, Jien Wu, Yuzhen Yang, Han Jia, Zhongbo Yan, Weiyin Deng, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056604 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Higher-Order Topology Embedded in First-Order Topological Bands

Jiancheng Zheng, Zhenhang Pu, Jiuyang Lu, Weiyin Deng, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056605 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Traveling edge states and trapped corner states coexist within the exact same energy band of an acoustic crystal, overcoming a long-held rule that deemed them mutually exclusive.

$D$ -Wave Phonon Angular Momentum Texture in Altermagnets by Magnon-Phonon Hybridization

Hannah Bendin, Alexander Mook, Ingrid Mertig, and Robin R. Neumann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056701 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

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Probing Multipolar Order in the Candidate Altermagnet ${MnF}_{2}$ through the Elastocaloric Effect under Strain

Rahel Ohlendorf, Luca Buiarelli, Hilary M. L. Noad, Andrew P. Mackenzie, Rafael M. Fernandes, Turan Birol, Jörg Schmalian, and Elena Gati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056702 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Competing States in the $S = 1 / 2$ Triangular-Lattice $J_{1} − J_{2}$ Heisenberg Model: A Dynamical Density-Matrix Renormalization Group Study

Shengtao Jiang (蒋晟韬), Steven R. White, Steven A. Kivelson, and Hong-Chen Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056703 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Unconventional Unidirectional Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in Epitaxial IrMn/FeNi Bilayer

Haiming Xu, Yong Xiao, Chuangwen Wu, Xiao Deng, Mingyu Wei, Yu Liu, Yining Wang, Yang Cao, Chenglong Jia, Yalu Zuo, Hao Wu, Tao Zhu, Junwei Zhang, Yong Peng, Dingfu Shao, Guoqiang Yu, Xiaoxi Liu, Desheng Xue, Jingsheng Chen, Dezheng Yang, Baoshan Cui, and Li Xi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056704 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Non-Abelian Electric Field and Zitterbewegung on a Photonic Frequency Chain

Shu Yang (杨树), Bengy Tsz Tsun Wong (黄梓峻), Jinbing Hu (胡金兵), and Yi Yang (杨易)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056901 (2026) - Published 27 July, 2026

A ring of optical fiber can be made to host phenomena that originated in the realm of high-energy physics.

Panoramic Observation of Hyperbolic Exciton Polaritons in CrSBr

Weizhe Zhang, Qi Wang, Hefei Zhao, Zheng Guan, Ruizhe Gu, Dingyang Zhang, Zhiwen Zhuang, Qihuang Gong, Zuxin Chen, and Wenjing Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056902 (2026) - Published 28 July, 2026

Dual-Circular Raman Optical Activity of Axial Multipolar Order

Hikaru Watanabe, Rikuto Oiwa, Hitoshi Mori, and Ryotaro Arita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056903 (2026) - Published 29 July, 2026

Fröhlich-Type Polarons in Isotopically Enriched Hexagonal Boron Nitride

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