Volume 137, Issue 20 (partial)

13 November 2026

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Hydrodynamics of the Viscous Electron Fluid in Cadmium

Xiaodong Guo, Xiaokang Li, Benoît Fauqué, Alaska Subedi, Lingxiao Zhao, Zengwei Zhu, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 206301 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Measurements on micrometer-scale cadmium samples provide definitive evidence of an unusual charge-transport regime in a 3D metal.

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Kovacs Memory Effect in a Thin Granular Layer: Experimental Evidence and Its Physical Origin

Francisco Vega Reyes, Álvaro Rodríguez-Rivas, Pablo Maynar, and M. Isabel García de Soria

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 208201 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

A memory phenomenon known as the anomalous Kovacs effect has been experimentally observed in a granular system for the first time.

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All-Order Structure of Static Gravitational Interactions and the Seventh Post-Newtonian Potential

Giacomo Brunello, Manoj K. Mandal, Pierpaolo Mastrolia, Raj Patil, Matteo Pegorin, Sid Smith, and Jan Steinhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 201401 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

The symmetry of the post-Newtonian static sector enables the construction of the post-Newtonian two-body potential at any odd order, and the construction of the static contribution at the seventh post-Newtonian order for the first time.

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Interferometric Readout of Momentum-Space Topology in a Programmable Dissipative Photonic Circuit

Andrea Cataldo, Emil J. Bergholtz, Daniel Leykam, Jun Gao, and Ali W. Elshaari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 206601 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

A programmable photonic circuit uses unitary dilation and interferometry to directly measure momentum-space topological invariants in strongly dissipative non-Hermitian systems.

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Universal Criticality of Entropy Production in Chemical Reaction Networks

Kyota Tamano and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 207101 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

In homogeneous reversible chemical reactions, a prototypical nonequilibrium phenomenon, entropy-production fluctuations represent a sharper probe of nonequilibrium criticality than entropy-production response to variations in the chemical species concentrations.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Page Curve for Local-Operator Entanglement from Free Probability

Neil Dowling and Silvia Pappalardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 200401 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Hilbert Space Fragmentation from Generalized Symmetries

Thea Budde, Marina Kristć Marinković, and Joao C. Pinto Barros

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 200402 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Interpreting Liouvillian Eigenmodes: Quantized Orbits in Dissipative Systems

Ashlin V. Thomas, Felix Fritzsch, Masudul Haque, and Shovan Dutta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 200404 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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All-Order Structure of Static Gravitational Interactions and the Seventh Post-Newtonian Potential

Giacomo Brunello, Manoj K. Mandal, Pierpaolo Mastrolia, Raj Patil, Matteo Pegorin, Sid Smith, and Jan Steinhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 201401 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Particles and Fields

Dark-Matter-Induced Nuclear Deexcitation at the Short-Baseline Near Detector with Ab Initio Nuclear Theory

Bhaskar Dutta, Debopam Goswami, Baishan Hu, Wei-Chih Huang, and Vishvas Pandey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 201801 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Is the Large Uncertainty of $δ_{C P}$ Fundamentally Encoded in the Neutrino Quantum State?

Michela Ignoti, Claudia Frugiuele, Matteo G. A. Paris, and Marco G. Genoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 201802 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Long-Range and Short-Range Longitudinal Flow Decorrelations in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Jiangyong Jia (贾江涌), Shengli Huang (黄胜利), Chunjian Zhang (张春健), and Somadutta Bhatta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 202301 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Lower Limit on the Double-Alpha Decay of ${}^{224}{Ra}$

P. Belli, R. Bernabei, F. Cappella, V. Caracciolo, R. Cerulli, F. A. Danevich, V. Yu. Denisov, A. Incicchitti, D. V. Kasperovych, V. R. Klavdiienko, A. Leoncini, and V. I. Tretyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 202501 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonequilibrium Equation of State for a Turbulent 2D Bose Gas

Yi Jiang, Nikolai Maslov, Andrey Karailiev, Christoph Eigen, Martin Gazo, and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 203401 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Rapid Cavity-Based Midcircuit Measurement and Feedforward in a Neutral Atom Array

Tsai-Chen Lee, Jacquelyn Ho, Yue-Hui Lu, Tai Xiang, Nathaniel B. Vilas, Zhenjie Yan, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 203601 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Optomechanical Limit on Intracavity Intensities from Bulk Mirror Vibrations

L. Maisenbacher, A. Singh, I. M. Pope, and H. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 203603 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Nonthermal Particle Acceleration by Magnetic Pumping in Pulsating Plasmas

Giuseppe Arrò, Vladimir Zhdankin, and Fabio Bacchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 205201 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Excitonic-Superconducting Coexistence and Emergent Nematic Superconductivity Driven by Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Fei Yang, Ruigang Li, Junwei Liu, and Binghai Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 206001 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Atomistic Simulation of Subcritical Crack Growth in Glass in Vacuum

Swati Gupta, Mark A. Wilson, Scott J. Grutzik, and Derek H. Warner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 206101 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

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Hydrodynamics of the Viscous Electron Fluid in Cadmium

Xiaodong Guo, Xiaokang Li, Benoît Fauqué, Alaska Subedi, Lingxiao Zhao, Zengwei Zhu, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 206301 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Measurements on micrometer-scale cadmium samples provide definitive evidence of an unusual charge-transport regime in a 3D metal.

Emergent-Gravity Hall Effect from Quantum Geometry

Hiroki Yoshida and Takehito Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 206302 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Many-Body-Driven Ultrafast Exciton Relaxation Enabled by Phonon-Activated Coulomb Coupling

Xiang Jiang and Jin Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 206401 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

First-Principles Effective Mass in the Three-Dimensional Uniform Electron Gas

Pengcheng Hou, Daniel Cerkoney, Zhiyi Li, Tao Wang, Xiansheng Cai, Lei Wang, Gabriel Kotliar, Youjin Deng, and Kun Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 206501 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interferometric Readout of Momentum-Space Topology in a Programmable Dissipative Photonic Circuit

Andrea Cataldo, Emil J. Bergholtz, Daniel Leykam, Jun Gao, and Ali W. Elshaari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 206601 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

A programmable photonic circuit uses unitary dilation and interferometry to directly measure momentum-space topological invariants in strongly dissipative non-Hermitian systems.