Volume 137, Issue 9

28 August 2026

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On the Cover

Surface of a crystallized polymer film after a fast quench with the polymer bonds color-coded by their local nematic order parameter (darker colors indicate less crystalline order).

From the article:

Molecular Insights on the Thermal Welding of Semicrystalline Polymers
Michele Valsecchi, William S. Fall, Hendrik Meyer, Gary S. Grest, and Sanat K. Kumar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 098101 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Gamma-Ray Spectral Lines from Dark Matter Annihilation with the H.E.S.S. Inner Galaxy Survey

F. Aharonian et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091002 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

A 500-hour survey of the Galactic Center by the H.E.S.S. telescope array has set the most stringent limits to date on TeV dark matter line annihilation cross sections.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Searches for Light Dark Matter and Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering of Solar Neutrinos with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment

D. S. Akerib et al. (LZ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091806 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

The LZ collaboration reports strong evidence (4.5 $σ$ ) for coherent elastic scattering of $^{8}$ B solar neutrinos.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Perturbative Anomalous Exponents from Kolmogorov Multipliers

Alexei A. Mailybaev and Simon Thalabard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 094002 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

A perturbative framework for anomalous scaling in turbulence, built on the statistics of Kolmogorov multipliers rather than correlation-function hierarchies, establishes a new analytical route to intermittency that complements traditional zero-mode methods.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Diffusivity-Free Turbulence in Liquid Metal Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection Experiments

Jewel A. Abbate, Yufan Xu, Tobias Vogt, Susanne Horn, Keith Julien, and Jonathan M. Aurnou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 094101 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Diffusivity-free rotating convection, long theorized to govern planetary and stellar interiors, is experimentally verified for the first time in traditional laboratory-scale Rayleigh-Bénard convection apparatuses.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strain-Tuned Nodal Superconductivity in the Charge-Ordered Kagome Metal ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Yusuke Takeuchi, Akito Kobayashi, Saki Uchida, Takumi Nagao, Seigo Ogawa, Rui Zhou, Shinji Kawasaki, Fei Song, Hao Ni, Yong Zhao, and Guo-qing Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096003 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

The ground state of CsV $_{3}$ Sb $_{5}$ is not a single superconducting state but two degenerate states.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Signature of a Trion in Photoemission

Jinyuan Wu, Zachary H. Withers, Thomas K. Allison, and Diana Y. Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096401 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

A theoretical study reveals that trions can be identified in time-resolved ARPES measurements with distinct signatures for positive and negative trions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Collective Magnetic Excitations in a Photoexcited Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductor

Daniel Jost, Jiarui Li, Jordyn Hales, Jonathan Sobota, Giacomo Merzoni, Leonardo Martinelli, Shuhan Ding, Ke-Jun Xu, Justine Schlappa, Andreas Scherz, Robert Carley, Benjamin E. Van Kuiken, Teguh C. Asmara, Le Phuong Hoang, Laurent Mercadier, Sergii Parchenko, Martin Teichmann, Patrick S. Kirchmann, Giacomo Ghiringhelli, Brian Moritz, Zhi-Xun Shen, Thomas P. Devereaux, Yao Wang, and Wei-Sheng Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096502 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

The first time-resolved observation of collective magnetic excitations in a photoexcited cuprate across energy, momentum, and time proves that light-induced paramagnon dynamics cannot be explained by simple thermalization.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Singular Three-Point Density Correlations in Two-Dimensional Fermi Liquids

Pok Man Tam and Charles L. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096504 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

A singular density correlation that is generic to all two-dimensional Fermi liquids offers an independent method for measuring the Landau parameters that characterize the Fermi-liquid phase using quantum-gas microscopy.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Altermagnetism-Induced Bogoliubov Fermi Surfaces Form Topological Superconductivity

Bo Fu, Chang-An Li, and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096604 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes emerge from two feasible platforms, quasi-1D nanowires and vortex-line heterostructures, when crystal anisotropy and quantum confinement act as tuning parameters.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Dynamical Scaling at Topological Quantum Criticality

Menghua Deng, Sheng Yang, Chen Sun, Fuxiang Li, and Xue-Jia Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096605 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Driven dynamics at topologically nontrivial quantum critical points leads to anomalous boundary and edge scaling beyond the Kibble–Zurek prediction in several quantum spin chain models.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Noise-Induced Replicator Dynamics in Evolutionary Games

Guocheng Wang, Qi Su, Long Wang, and Joshua B. Plotkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 097401 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

In evolutionary game theory, the interplay between strategic evolution and environmental stochasticity gives rise to new dynamical regimes, with implications in fluctuating social, ecological, and economic environments.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Molecular Insights on the Thermal Welding of Semicrystalline Polymers

Michele Valsecchi, William S. Fall, Hendrik Meyer, Gary S. Grest, and Sanat K. Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 098101 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Unlike glassy plastics, semicrystalline polymers develop higher crystallinity right at the weld line, creating a unique weld that can surprisingly push mechanical failures away from the joint.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Uncovering Hidden Entanglement in Twin Beams

R. L. Rincón Celis, G. Nirala, A. Montaña Guerrero, T. L. Meireles, P. Nussenzveig, M. Martinelli, A. M. Marino, and H. M. Florez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 090201 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Time Correlations from Steady-State Expectation Values

Wojciech Górecki, Simone Felicetti, Lorenzo Maccone, and Roberto Di Candia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 090401 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Nonequilibrium Phases and Quantum Correlations in Synthetic Transport Models

Uddhav Sen, Federico Carollo, and Sascha Wald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 090402 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Equivalence of Stabilizer and Shannon Reńyi Entropies: Exact Results for Quantum Critical Chains

E. A. Ramirez Trino and M. A. Rajabpour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 090403 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Sign Problem Landscape of Dimer, Loop, and Ground-State Sectors of a U(1) Quantum Link Model

Pallabi Dey, Debasish Banerjee, and Emilie Huffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 090404 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Transition in Splitting Probabilities of Quantum Walks

Prashant Singh, David A. Kessler, and Eli Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 090405 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Partial Self-Correction in Layer Codes

Dominic J. Williamson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 090601 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Enhanced Quantum Metrology by Criticality-Assisted Noncommutative Preparation

Ningxin Kong, Matteo G. A. Paris, and Qiongyi He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 090801 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Shortcuts to Analog Preparation of Nonequilibrium Quantum Lakes

Nik O. Gjonbalaj, Rahul Sahay, and Susanne F. Yelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 090802 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Metropolitan Entanglement Distribution between an Atom and a Near-Visible Photon

Maya Büki, Pooja Malik, Florian Fertig, Tobias Frank, Marvin Scholz, Tommy Block, Gianvito Chiarella, Yiru Zhou, Emanuele Distante, Pau Farrera, Gerhard Rempe, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 090803 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Diagnostic Consistency Tests of the Concordance Cosmology

S. M. Koksbang and A. Heinesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091001 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Gamma-Ray Spectral Lines from Dark Matter Annihilation with the H.E.S.S. Inner Galaxy Survey

F. Aharonian et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091002 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

A 500-hour survey of the Galactic Center by the H.E.S.S. telescope array has set the most stringent limits to date on TeV dark matter line annihilation cross sections.

Discovering $μ Hz$ Gravitational Waves and Ultralight Dark Matter with Binary Resonances

Joshua W. Foster, Diego Blas, Adrien Bourgoin, Aurelien Hees, Míriam Herrero-Valea, Alexander C. Jenkins, and Xiao Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091401 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Particles and Fields

Carrollian Holographic Duals Are Nonlocal

Jordan Cotler, Prateksh Dhivakar, and Kristan Jensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091601 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Measurements of the Absolute Branching Fraction of the Semileptonic Decay $Ξ^{-} \to Λ e^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{e}$ and the Axial Charge of $Ξ^{-}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091801 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

First Observation of $D^{0 (+)} \to \bar{K} ω e^{+} ν_{e}$ and Determination of the Branching Fraction of ${\bar{K}}_{1} (1270) \to \bar{K} ω$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091802 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

First Experimental Constraint on the Scalar Current in the $D^{0 (+)} \to \bar{K} ℓ^{+} ν_{ℓ}$ Transition

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091803 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Evidence of $Z Z γ$ Production with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091804 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Evidence of $Z Z γ$ Production and Observation of $4 ℓ γ$ in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091805 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Searches for Light Dark Matter and Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering of Solar Neutrinos with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment

D. S. Akerib et al. (LZ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091806 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

The LZ collaboration reports strong evidence (4.5 $σ$ ) for coherent elastic scattering of $^{8}$ B solar neutrinos.

Probing the Solar ${}^{8}B$ Neutrino Fog with XENONnT

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091807 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Polarization Measurement of $Λ_{c}^{+}$ and ${\bar{Λ}}_{c}^{-}$ Baryons in $p - Ne$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 68.6 GeV$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091901 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Monte Carlo Event Generation with Continuous Normalizing Flows

E. Bothmann, T. Janßen, M. Knobbe, B. Schmitzer, and F. Sinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091902 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Ab Initio Short-Range Nuclear Matrix Elements for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay

A. Todd, T. Shickele, A. Belley, L. Jokiniemi, and J. D. Holt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 092501 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Creation of Ultracold Heteronuclear $p$ -Wave Feshbach Molecules

Fan Jia, Zhichao Guo, Zerong Huang, and Dajun Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 093001 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Probing Atoms by Periodically Modulated Electron Bunches

A. B. Voitkiv, E. Schneidmiller, and T. Pfeifer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 093201 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

First-Order Phase Transition in Atom-Molecule Quantum Degenerate Mixtures with Coherent Three-Body Recombination

G. A. Bougas, A. Vardi, H. R. Sadeghpour, C. Chin, and S. I. Mistakidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 093401 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Optimizing the Dynamical Preparation of Quantum Spin Lakes on the Ruby Lattice

DinhDuy Vu, Dominik S. Kufel, Jack Kemp, Lode Pollet, Chris R. Laumann, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 093402 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Elucidating the Intersystem Crossing of the Nitrogen-Vacancy Center up to Megabar Pressures

Benchen Huang, Srinivas V. Mandyam, Weijie Wu, Bryce Kobrin, Prabudhya Bhattacharyya, Yu Jin, Bijuan Chen, Max Block, Esther Wang, Zhipan Wang, Satcher Hsieh, Chong Zu, Christopher R. Laumann, Norman Y. Yao, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 093801 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Universal Scaling and Many-Body Resurrection of Polaritonic Double-Quantum Coherences

Maxim Sukharev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 093802 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Midair Single-Sided Acoustic Levitation in High-Pressure Regions of Zero-Order Bessel Beams

Yusuke Koroyasu, Christopher Stone, Yoichi Ochiai, Takayuki Hoshi, Bruce W. Drinkwater, and Tatsuki Fushimi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 094001 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Perturbative Anomalous Exponents from Kolmogorov Multipliers

Alexei A. Mailybaev and Simon Thalabard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 094002 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Diffusivity-Free Turbulence in Liquid Metal Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection Experiments

Jewel A. Abbate, Yufan Xu, Tobias Vogt, Susanne Horn, Keith Julien, and Jonathan M. Aurnou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 094101 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Coherently Enhanced Radiation Friction in Laser-Plasma Collisions

E. G. Gelfer, A. M. Fedotov, M. P. Malakhov, O. Klimo, and S. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 095001 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

First Observation of Currents Induced by Alfvén Eigenmodes in a Magnetic Confinement Device

W. W. Heidbrink, X. D. Du, M. E. Austin, K. J. Callahan, C. T. Holcomb, J. B. Lestz, L. Liu, G. R. McKee, L. Schmitz, M. A. Van Zeeland, and Z. Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 095101 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Magnetic Quantum Criticality inside the Superconducting State Revealed by Penetration Depth Scaling with Local $T_{c}$

Yusuke Iguchi, Kaede Inoh, Ryosuke Koizumi, and Makoto Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096001 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Exponential $U (1)$ Symmetry-Breaking Phase as a Disorder-Free Quantum Glass

Yu-Min Hu, Zhaoyu Han, and Biao Lian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096002 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strain-Tuned Nodal Superconductivity in the Charge-Ordered Kagome Metal ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Yusuke Takeuchi, Akito Kobayashi, Saki Uchida, Takumi Nagao, Seigo Ogawa, Rui Zhou, Shinji Kawasaki, Fei Song, Hao Ni, Yong Zhao, and Guo-qing Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096003 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

The ground state of CsV $_{3}$ Sb $_{5}$ is not a single superconducting state but two degenerate states.

Kagomelike Bands in $Graphene / {WSe}_{2}$ Heterostructure Realized by Strong Interlayer Hybridization

Ruo-Han Zhang, Jiang-Hui Pan, Ya-Ning Ren, Chen-Yue Hao, Jia-Qi He, Xiao-Ya Wang, Hao Sheng, Mo-Han Zhang, Xiao-Feng Zhou, Rui Dong, Ji Feng, and Lin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096201 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Observation of Anomalous Charge-Free Bound States in the Continuum

Jue Li, Haoye Qin, Wenjing Lv, Yuzhi Shi, Bo Li, and Qinghua Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096202 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Thermodynamic Model for Thermomigration in Metals

Daniel J. Long, Edmund Tarleton, Alan C. F. Cocks, and Felix Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096301 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Nonperturbative Computation of Thermal Conductivity Based on Path Integral Monte Carlo Methods

Vladislav Efremkin, Stefano Mossa, Jean-Louis Barrat, and Markus Holzmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096302 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Universal Nonpower Law Scaling from a Chaotic Renormalization Group in the Harper-Hofstadter Model

Luke Yeo and Philip J. D. Crowley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096303 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Signature of a Trion in Photoemission

Jinyuan Wu, Zachary H. Withers, Thomas K. Allison, and Diana Y. Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096401 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

A theoretical study reveals that trions can be identified in time-resolved ARPES measurements with distinct signatures for positive and negative trions.

Unfolding Bloch States in Disordered Systems

T. Thuy Hoang, Kunihiro Yananose, Sungjong Woo, Seongjin Ahn, Dong Han, Xian-Bin Li, and Junhyeok Bang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096402 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Non-Bloch Edge Dynamics of Non-Hermitian Systems

Wen-Tan Xue, Yu-Min Hu, Fei Song, and Zhong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096403 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Limits of Validity for Migdal-Eliashberg Theory: Role of Polarons and Bipolarons

Nikolay Prokof’ev, Ilya Esterlis, Artem Abanov, and Andrey Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096501 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Collective Magnetic Excitations in a Photoexcited Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096502 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Correlated Insulator at the Surface of the Polar Metal ${Ca}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$

Daniel Halliday, Izidor Benedičič, Andela Zivanovic, Masahiro Naritsuka, Brendan Edwards, Tommaso Antonelli, Naoki Kikugawa, Dmitry A. Sokolov, Craig Polley, Andrew P. Mackenzie, Georg Held, Phil D. C. King, and Peter Wahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096503 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Singular Three-Point Density Correlations in Two-Dimensional Fermi Liquids

Pok Man Tam and Charles L. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096504 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Shining Light on Collective Modes in Moiré Fractional Chern Insulators

Nisarga Paul, Ahmed Abouelkomsan, Aidan Reddy, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096505 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Bad Metal Behavior and Lifshitz Transition of a Nagaoka Ferromagnet

Jonas Arnold, Peter Kopietz, and Andreas Rückriegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096506 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Emergence and Transition of Incompressible Phases in Decorated Landau Levels

Bo Peng, Yuzhu Wang, and Bo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096601 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Layer-Number Parity Induced Topological Phase Transition

Kai Chen, Junyan Guan, Jiamin Guo, He Gao, Zhongming Gu, and Jie Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096602 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Material Realization of Spinless, Covalent-Type Dirac Semimetals in Three Dimensions

Yuki Tanaka, Rinsuke Yamada, Manabu Sato, Noriyuki Kabeya, Masaki Kondo, Noriaki Kimura, Masashi Tokunaga, Motoaki Hirayama, and Max Hirschberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096603 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Altermagnetism-Induced Bogoliubov Fermi Surfaces Form Topological Superconductivity

Bo Fu, Chang-An Li, and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096604 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Dynamical Scaling at Topological Quantum Criticality

Menghua Deng, Sheng Yang, Chen Sun, Fuxiang Li, and Xue-Jia Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096605 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Driven dynamics at topologically nontrivial quantum critical points leads to anomalous boundary and edge scaling beyond the Kibble–Zurek prediction in several quantum spin chain models.

Absence of Quasi-Majorana False Positives in Full-Shell Hybrid Nanowires

Carlos Payá, César Robles, Pablo San-Jose, and Elsa Prada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096606 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Spin Dynamics of the Spin-1 Triangular Lattice Heisenberg Antiferromagnet $K_{2} Ni ({SeO}_{3})_{2}$

Chaebin Kim, Sathvik Nallapati, E. A. Ghioldi, Long Chen, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Haidong Zhou, Shang-Shun Zhang, Cristian D. Batista, and Martin Mourigal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096701 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Activating Stress-Induced Dipole Rotation in Ferroelectric Polymers

Cenling Huang, Feihong Du, Shengtao Zhu, Xiaoxu Wang, Yezhan Lin, Fang Wang, Xueqi Wang, Tiannan Yang, Xiaoshi Qian, and Xin Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096801 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Full Minimal Coupling GW-Bethe-Salpeter-Equation Framework for Circular Dichroism in Solids: Applications to Chiral 2D Perovskites

Xian Xu and Diana Y. Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096901 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Granular Büttiker-Landauer Motor

O. Devauchelle, P. Popović, P. Szymczak, A. Abramian, and A. Lazarus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 097101 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Dynamic Redundancy and Mortality in Stochastic Search

Samantha Linn and Aanjaneya Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 097102 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Arbitrary Mechanical Memory Encoding via Nonlinear Waves in Bistable Metamaterials

Audrey A. Watkins, Giovanni Bordiga, Mingxing Mu, Vincent Tournat, and Katia Bertoldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 097201 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Experimental Observation of Ballistic Correlations in Integrable Turbulence

Elias Charnay, Adrien Escoubet, François Copie, Stéphane Randoux, Thibault Bonnemain, Alvise Bastianello, and Pierre Suret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 097202 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Noise-Induced Replicator Dynamics in Evolutionary Games

Guocheng Wang, Qi Su, Long Wang, and Joshua B. Plotkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 097401 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Molecular Insights on the Thermal Welding of Semicrystalline Polymers

Michele Valsecchi, William S. Fall, Hendrik Meyer, Gary S. Grest, and Sanat K. Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 098101 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Unlike glassy plastics, semicrystalline polymers develop higher crystallinity right at the weld line, creating a unique weld that can surprisingly push mechanical failures away from the joint.