Accepted Papers for Phys. Rev. Lett.

Next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to photon-pair production

Michał Czakon, Felix Eschment, Terry Generet, and Rene Poncelet — 2026-09-16T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Michał Czakon, Felix Eschment, Terry Generet, and Rene Poncelet
The production of two isolated photons at the Large Hadron Collider has applications in Higgs-boson phenomenology and in new-physics searches. In fact, measurements would provide more insight if a percent-level theoretical prediction were available. We account for next-to-next-to-next-to-leading ord…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 16, 2026

Dissipative acousto-mechanical parametric interface between high-overtone acoustics and flexural phonons

2026-09-16T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Xun Ji, Huanying Sun, Longhao Wu, Qichun Liu, Yulong Liu, Mika A. Sillanpää, and Tiefu Li
High-overtone bulk acoustic wave resonators (HBARs) promise advanced phononics, yet achieving nonlinearity remains challenging. We demonstrate a radiation-pressure-type parametric interaction between GHz HBARs and low-frequency flexural modes in a suspended silicon nitride membrane, where mechanical…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 16, 2026

Robustness-runtime tradeoff for quantum state transfer

Twesh Upadhyaya, Yifan Hong, T. C. Mooney, and Alexey V. Gorshkov — 2026-09-16T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Twesh Upadhyaya, Yifan Hong, T. C. Mooney, and Alexey V. Gorshkov
Quantum state transfer is the primitive of transporting an unknown state on one site of a lattice to another. Using power-law interactions, recent state transfer protocols achieve speedup by utilizing the intermediate ancilla sites. However, these protocols require the ancillas to be in a perfectly …
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 16, 2026

Step-edge anomaly in topological metals

O. Schweizer, V. Gali, A. Y. Chaou, G. Lemut, P. W. Brouwer, and M. Breitkreiz — 2026-09-16T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): O. Schweizer, V. Gali, A. Y. Chaou, G. Lemut, P. W. Brouwer, and M. Breitkreiz
Bulk–boundary correspondence guarantees the presence of robust, anomalous states on the boundary of topological matter. The edges of a two-dimensional Chern insulator harbor one-dimensional chiral states, which have a conductance n e^2/h, where n is an integer that is solely determined by the bulk. …
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 16, 2026

Compressive splitting in brittle solids: The inverse of wrinkling in sheets

2026-09-15T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Maryam Khodadad, Francois Barthelat, John D. Clayton, George Gazonas, and Kaushik Dayal
Axial splitting is the dominant failure mode of brittle solids under compression, yet its mechanical origin remains unclear. We show that clamped loading platens suppress lateral Poisson expansion, generating boundary-induced tensile stresses at the specimen interior – the compressive analog of wrin…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Nanoscale plate-like domain structures in ferrorotational RbFe(MoO${}_{4}$)${}_{2}$

2026-09-15T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Byeongjun Gil, Myung-Geun Han, Fei-Ting Huang, Alexandre Pofelski, Lewys Jones, Sang-Wook Cheong, Miyoung Kim, and Yimei Zhu
Ferro-rotational (ferroaxial) materials, characterized by spontaneous rotational distortion of structural units, exhibit compelling magnetoelectric properties for energy-efficient data storage and microelectronic applications. However, nanoscale visualization and crystallographic characterization of…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Multiterminal quasi-ballistic Josephson effect in monocrystalline gold

2026-09-15T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): K. B. Polevoy, G. A. Bobkov, D. S. Kalashnikov, A. G. Shishkin, I. V. Trofimov, A. M. Bobkov, E. A. Sedov, E. A. Krivko, M. A. Tarkhov, I. V. Bobkova, and V. S. Stolyarov
We report on the realization of a planar, quasi-ballistic Josephson junction array using a Au micron-sized single-crystal. The system exhibits a nonlocal, multiterminal Josephson effect, where the supercurrent between any two superconducting leads is governed by the phase coherence across the entire…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Twinned dynamical decoupling

Nayden P. Nedev and Nikolay V. Vitanov — 2026-09-15T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Nayden P. Nedev and Nikolay V. Vitanov

Systematic pulse-area errors limit the fidelity of quantum control across many qubit platforms. We introduce twinned dynamical decoupling (TDD), an analytic family of sequences

T 2 n

in which a pulse sequence is paired with its

π

-phase-shifted twin. This

π

-phase step cancels common-mode systematic pul…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Strong-field-driven intermolecular Coulombic decay in NO dimers

2026-09-15T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Jiujiang Wang, Yinsong Tang, Xintai Hao, Xiaorui Xue, Jiaqi Zhou, Xueguang Ren, Xiaoqing Hu, Yong Wu, Jianguo Wang, Yan Yang, Junyang Ma, and Zhenrong Sun
We report the observation of a kinetic-energy-release feature at 3.8 eV in the dissociative double ionization of NO dimers driven by intense femtosecond laser fields. This channel is separated from the 5.6 eV signature of direct Coulomb explosion and is absent under electron-impact ionization. Ab in…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Geometry of in-in correlators

Ross Glew — 2026-09-15T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Ross Glew
We introduce a family of polytopes—in-in zonotopes—whose boundary structure organizes the contributions to scalar equal-time correlators in flat space computed via the in-in formalism. We provide explicit Minkowski sum and facet descriptions of these polytopes, and show that their boundaries factori…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Information bound on navigation speed in smart active matter

Kristian Stølevik Olsen, Mitsusuke Tarama, and Hartmut Löwen — 2026-09-15T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Kristian Stølevik Olsen, Mitsusuke Tarama, and Hartmut Löwen
Intelligent behavior in life-like systems often arises from the ability to gather, process, and act on information. While active matter provides a framework for studying life-like dynamics, it typically omits internal information-processing and decision-making. Here we introduce an adaptive active p…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Spin-axis dynamic locking

Zhiheng Lv, Jiangtao Cai, Dengpan Ma, Yan Xing, and Zhifeng Liu — 2026-09-15T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Zhiheng Lv, Jiangtao Cai, Dengpan Ma, Yan Xing, and Zhifeng Liu
The all-electrical realization of highly spin-polarized currents and their efficient conversion into pure spin currents remains a fundamental challenge in spintronics. Here, we report a spin-axis dynamic locking (SADL) effect in altermagnets that pins the high and dynamically robust spin polarizatio…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

First-principles calculations of internal conversion processes in spin defects

Stefano Paolo Villani, Yu Jin, and Giulia Galli — 2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Stefano Paolo Villani, Yu Jin, and Giulia Galli
Optically active spin defects are foundational for quantum technologies, yet common approximations underestimate their internal conversion (IC) rates by orders of magnitude. We propose a broad, predictive framework to compute IC rates that incorporates multi-configurational effects via many-body wav…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Criticality and Universality of the Generalized Kuramoto Model

Zhongpu Qiu, Tianyi Wu, Sheng Fang, Jun Meng, and Jingfang Fan — 2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Zhongpu Qiu, Tianyi Wu, Sheng Fang, Jun Meng, and Jingfang Fan

We explore synchronization transitions in a generalized Kuramoto model with

n

-dimensional vector oscillators on complete graphs (CG) and on

d

-dimensional lattices. On the CG, we analytically derive universal critical exponents

(β, \overline{ν}) = (1 / 2, 5 / 2)

for all even

n

. Through the Botet–Jullien–Pfeuty relatio…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Escape from heterogeneous diffusion

Hwai-Ray Tung and Sean D. Lawley — 2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Hwai-Ray Tung and Sean D. Lawley
Many physical processes depend on the time it takes a diffusing particle to find a target. Though this classical quantity is now well-understood in various scenarios, little is known if the diffusivity depends on the location of the particle. For such heterogeneous diffusion, the multiplicative nois…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Rocking, rolling, and jumping: Rigid and soft ellipsoids move in many modes

Shih-Yuan Chen and Michelle M. Driscoll — 2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Shih-Yuan Chen and Michelle M. Driscoll
Rotating a nonspherical object introduces rich and surprising dynamics to a classical mechanics problem. It has been shown that a rolling ellipse in air can rock, roll, or jump along a flat surface. Even for a rolling sphere, deformability can significantly alter its mobility compared to a rigid cou…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Exact coherent structures as building blocks of turbulence on spatially extended domains

Dmitriy Zhigunov and Jacob Page — 2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Dmitriy Zhigunov and Jacob Page
Exact unstable solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations are thought to underpin the dynamics of turbulence, but are usually computed in minimal computational domains. Here, we extend this dynamical systems approach to spatially extended turbulent flows featuring multiple interacting `substructures’,…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Switching between spin and orbital Hall currents in a single system via ferrovalley order

Zhikuan Wang, Wei Tan, Bin Cui, Zeyu Jiang, and Bing Huang — 2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Zhikuan Wang, Wei Tan, Bin Cui, Zeyu Jiang, and Bing Huang
The spin Hall (SH) and orbital Hall (OH) effects are fundamental mechanisms for generating transverse spin and orbital currents. However, their intrinsic entanglement via spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has made the generation of pure SH or OH currents a longstanding challenge. Here, we demonstrate a stra…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Microscopic signatures of Chern number sign reversal in twisted bilayer WSe${}_{2}$

Ke Lv, Ya-Ning Ren, and Lin He — 2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Ke Lv, Ya-Ning Ren, and Lin He
The observation of quantized Chern numbers in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) homobilayers, including 3.7° twisted MoTe₂ and 1.23° twisted WSe2, represents a landmark breakthrough in moiré physics. A striking and unresolved paradox to emerge from these studies is the unexpected opposit…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Beyond the dilute instanton gas: Resurgence with exact saddles in the double well

Aurélien Dersy and Matthew D. Schwartz — 2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Aurélien Dersy and Matthew D. Schwartz
The path-integral approach to the double well has long been limited by the dilute instanton gas approximation. We show that if the finite Euclidean-time structure is taken seriously by using exact saddles, the dilute gas can be sidestepped, allowing the partition function and energy levels to be com…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Quantum energetic advantage before computational advantage in Boson Sampling

2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Ariane Soret, Nessim Dridi, Stephen C. Wein, Valérian Giesz, Shane Mansfield, and Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau
Understanding the energetic efficiency of quantum computers is essential for assessing their scalability and for determining whether quantum technologies can outperform classical computation beyond runtime alone. In this work, we analyze the energy cost required to solve the Boson Sampling problem, …
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Emergent Andreev reflection from a lattice duality defect

Atsushi Ueda, Tokiro Numasawa, Boris De Vos, and Masataka Watanabe — 2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Atsushi Ueda, Tokiro Numasawa, Boris De Vos, and Masataka Watanabe
Andreev reflection converts an incoming fermion into an outgoing hole and is usually tied to a superconducting interface. We show that an analogous charge-conjugating boundary condition emerges from a purely lattice duality defect. Starting from a Majorana representation of the transverse-field Isin…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

${}^{16}$O(p, $γ$)${}^{17}$F reaction and the C and O isotopic ratios in red giant branch stars

D. Robb et al. — 2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): D. Robb et al.
The / isotopic ratio is a widely used tracer of nucleosynthesis and mixing processes in red giant stars. Its value depends on the rates of the proton-capture reactions responsible for the production and destruction of and among which the reaction plays a central role, as it involves both isotopes. T…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Distributed quantum simulation

Tianfeng Feng, Jue Xu, Wenjun Yu, Zekun Ye, Penghui Yao, and Qi Zhao — 2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Tianfeng Feng, Jue Xu, Wenjun Yu, Zekun Ye, Penghui Yao, and Qi Zhao
Quantum simulation is a promising pathway toward practical quantum advantage by simulating large-scale quantum systems. In this work, we propose communication-efficient distributed quantum simulation protocols by exploring three quantum simulation algorithms, including the product formula, the trunc…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Bidirectional teleportation using scrambling dynamics: A practical protocol

2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Amit Vikram, Edwin Chaparro, Muhammad Miskeen Khan, Andrew Lucas, Chris Akers, and Ana Maria Rey
We show that quantum information scrambling can enable a generic SWAP gate between collective degrees of freedom in systems without universal local control. Our protocol combines a Hayden–Preskill type recovery scheme, associated with the black hole information paradox, with quantum teleportation an…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Contact forces in microgel suspensions

Fran Ivan Vrban, Antonio Šiber, and Primož Ziherl — 2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Fran Ivan Vrban, Antonio Šiber, and Primož Ziherl
Within a model where micrometer-size soft colloidal particles are viewed as liquid drops, we theoretically study the contact interaction between them. We compute the exact deformation energy across a broad range of indentations and for various model parameters, and we show that it can be reproduced …
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Micromotion area as proxy for anomalous Floquet topological systems

Luca Asteria, Klaus Sengstock, André Eckardt, and Christof Weitenberg — 2026-09-14T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Luca Asteria, Klaus Sengstock, André Eckardt, and Christof Weitenberg
Driven Floquet systems can realize topological phases with no static counterparts. This so-called anomalous Floquet topology breaks the bulk-boundary correspondence based on the Chern number. The number of edge modes in each band gap is instead determined by another integer index, a winding number, …
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Orbitronics: orbit-spin interconversions for long range orbital propagation enabled by spin current

2026-09-11T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Melissa Yactayo, A. Pezo, J. L. Ampuero, M. Tian, L. Badie, J. Quispe-Marcatoma, C. V. Landauro, Y. Xu, Sébastien Petit-Watelot, Michel Hehn, A. Fert, and J. -C. Rojas-Sánchez
Orbitronics assumes long-range orbital currents, like spin currents in spintronics. However, recent theories and experiments challenge this view, showing rather local characters for orbital polarization and importance of orbit-spin conversions. In our work, angular momentum is created by ferromagnet…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

First simultaneous analysis of transverse momentum dependent and collinear parton distributions in the proton

2026-09-11T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): P. C. Barry, A. Prokudin, T. Anderson, C. Cocuzza, L. Gamberg, W. Melnitchouk, E. Moffat, D. Pitonyak, J. -W. Qiu, N. Sato, A. Vladimirov, and R. M. Whitehill

We present the first simultaneous global QCD analysis of unpolarized transverse momentum dependent (TMD) and collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton. Our study incorporates data from deep-inelastic scattering, Drell-Yan, inclusive weak boson,

W

+,charm, and jet production involvi…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Unitarity bounds and sum rules in the standard model effective field theory

Luigi C. Bresciani, Paride Paradisi, and Andrea Sainaghi — 2026-09-11T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Luigi C. Bresciani, Paride Paradisi, and Andrea Sainaghi
We present a comprehensive reassessment of perturbative unitarity bounds in the dimension-six Standard Model Effective Field Theory, exploiting a new formalism based on spinor-helicity techniques to derive partial-wave unitarity bounds for generic N → M scattering amplitudes. We find that, in severa…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Observation of the transition from reversible to irreversible decoherence of mesoscopic quantum superpositions

2026-09-11T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Ri-Hua Zheng, Jia-Hao Lü, Fan Wu, Yan Xia, Li-Hua Lin, Zhen-Biao Yang, and Shi-Biao Zheng
The decoherence of superpositions of classically-distinguishable states (cat states) is crucial for understanding quantum-to-classical transitions and quantum measurements. So far, irreversible decoherence processes of mesoscopic cat states have been demonstrated in several experiments. We here repo…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Observation of the rare decay $η$ $→$ ${μ}^{+}{μ}^{−}$e${}^{+}$e${}^{−}$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. — 2026-09-11T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): A. Hayrapetyan et al.

A first observation of the rare decay

η

\to

μ^{+} μ^{-}

^{+}

^{-}

is reported by the CMS Collaboration at the CERN LHC. The result is based on a proton-proton collision data sample at

\sqrt{s}

= 13.6 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 38.0 fb

^{- 1}

, acquired in 2022 using a high-rate dimuon trigger. Using the

η

…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Real-space hybrid topological singularities in structured elastic waves

2026-09-11T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Tong Fu, Pengfei Zhao, Liyou Luo, Zhiling Zhou, Dong Liu, Wanyue Xiao, Jensen Li, and Shubo Wang
Real-space singularities govern a broad spectrum of wave phenomena, yet they remain largely unexplored in elastic wave systems. Here, we report hybrid topological singularities that emerge on the surfaces of finite-sized solids due to the full vectorial character of elastic waves. These textures fus…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Optical readout of the magnetic state using terahertz electric fields

2026-09-11T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): T. G. H. Blank, C. Bauer, M. X. Na, E. A. Mashkovich, A. K. Zvezdin, A. M. Kalashnikova, and A. V. Kimel

A single-cycle terahertz (THz) pulse applied to single-crystal holmium iron garnet Ho

_{3}

_{5}

_{12}

strongly perturbs the magneto-optical Faraday effect – an effect conventionally employed for optical readout of the magnetic state. This ultrafast perturbation sets in when cooling below the magnetization co…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Engineered diabatic transition under arbitrarily slow evolution via phase-difference manipulation

Oubo You, Zhaoqi Jiang, Jinhui Shi, Qing Dai, Chunying Guan, and Shuang Zhang — 2026-09-11T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Oubo You, Zhaoqi Jiang, Jinhui Shi, Qing Dai, Chunying Guan, and Shuang Zhang
The quantum adiabatic theorem states that a gapped system follows its instantaneous eigenstate during sufficiently slow evolution. We demonstrate that adiabaticity can fail even in arbitrarily slow, resonance-free processes. Introducing Instantaneous Transition Accumulation (ITA) and Instantaneous T…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Machine learning topological defect formation: When are the defects made?

Fumika Suzuki, Ying Wai Li, and Wojciech H. Zurek — 2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Fumika Suzuki, Ying Wai Li, and Wojciech H. Zurek
Topological defects that form in a nonequilibrium second-order phase transition are presumably seeded by fluctuations of the order parameter in the vicinity of the critical point. Motivated by this conjecture that underlies the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM), we investigate whether machine learning (M…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Probing the Higgs-top Yukawa interaction in the $t\stackrel{‾}{t}H$ and $tH$ processes using $H→γγ$ with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad et al. — 2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): G. Aad et al.

A study of the structure of the coupling between the Higgs boson and the top quark is performed using events from

t \overline{t} H

and

t H

production in the

H \to γ γ

decay channel, with 164 fb

^{- 1}

of proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of

\sqrt{s}

= 13.6 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Local relaxation and scale-dependent alignment in compressible, magnetized turbulence

James R. Beattie and Amitava Bhattacharjee — 2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): James R. Beattie and Amitava Bhattacharjee

Driven net- and no-net-flux MHD turbulence simulations up to

10, 368^{3}

reveal sign-mixed velocity–magnetic, velocity–vorticity, and magnetic–current aligned patches below the energy equipartition scale. The first two angles scale as

λ^{1 / 8}

and

λ^{1 / 16}

, while magnetic–current alignment varies weakly with s…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Optimal shadow estimation with minimal measurement settings

Zhiyao Yang, Datong Chen, and Huangjun Zhu — 2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Zhiyao Yang, Datong Chen, and Huangjun Zhu

Shadow estimation is a powerful framework for predicting quantum properties from randomized measurements. While

3

-design protocols achieve optimal worst-case performance, the minimal number of measurement bases required for such optimality has remained open. Here we prove that

Θ (d^{2})

measurement base…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Gapped topological spin-orbital liquid on the honeycomb lattice

Masahiko G. Yamada — 2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Masahiko G. Yamada
We perform large-scale density matrix renormalization group simulations of the SU(4) Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice to address the long-standing question of its ground state in an unbiased and quantitatively controlled manner. We find reliable numerical evidence that the ground state is a…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Radiowave-induced resistance oscillations

2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): E. Bell, A. Zhakenuly, C. Hnatovsky, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, S. Studenikin, and M. A. Zudov
Microwave-induced resistance oscillations (MIROs) [1] occur when a 2D electron gas is subjected to radiation of frequency ω = 2πf and varying magnetic field B. MIROs are periodic in 1/B, with the period determined by the radiation frequency ω, and their amplitude scales with the radiation power. Ste…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Hidden simplicity in AdS spinning Mellin amplitudes via scaffolding

Song He, Xiang Li, Yuyu Mo, and Dongyu Yang — 2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Song He, Xiang Li, Yuyu Mo, and Dongyu Yang

We uncover surprising hidden simplicity in Mellin amplitudes for tree-level AdS holographic correlators for AdS gluon'' (spin 1) operators. We define Mellin amplitudes with $n$ spinning operators via the so-calledscaffolding’’ of

2 n

-scalar ones with specific projection operators for each spin state,…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Path to quantum simulations of topological phases:(2+1)D quantum electrodynamics with Wilson fermions

2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Sriram Bharadwaj, Emil Rosanowski, Simran Singh, Alice Di Tucci, Changnan Peng, Karl Jansen, Lena Funcke, and Di Luo

Quantum simulation offers a powerful approach to studying quantum field theories, particularly (2+1)D quantum electrodynamics (QED

_{3}

) with Wilson fermions, which hosts a rich landscape of physical phenomena. A key challenge in lattice formulations is the proper realization of topological phases and t…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Thermodynamic uncertainty relation with quantum feedback

Ryotaro Honma and Tan Van Vu — 2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Ryotaro Honma and Tan Van Vu
Fluctuations are intrinsic to microscopic systems and impose fundamental limits on nonequilibrium precision, as captured by the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR), which links current fluctuations to entropy production. While feedback control is expected to further suppress fluctuations, its r…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Reduced gravitational wave signal reopens the ultralight primordial black hole window

Yann Gouttenoire, Nicholas Leister, and Pedro Schwaller — 2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Yann Gouttenoire, Nicholas Leister, and Pedro Schwaller
The hot Big Bang may have emerged from evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) lighter than 10^9 g. Standard monochromatic treatments predict nearly simultaneous evaporation, abrupt reheating, and a large Poltergeist scalar-induced gravitational wave signal. We confront this expectation with th…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Real-time string dynamics in a 2+1D Non-Abelian lattice gauge theory: String breaking, glueball formation, baryon blockade, and tension reduction

Giovanni Cataldi, Simone Orlando, and Jad C. Halimeh — 2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Giovanni Cataldi, Simone Orlando, and Jad C. Halimeh
Understanding flux string dynamics can provide insight into quark confinement and hadronization. First-principles quantum and numerical simulations have mostly focused on toy-model Abelian lattice gauge theories (LGTs). With the advent of state-of-the-art quantum simulation experiments, it is timely…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Bound states in the continuum for high-Q light emission in photonic-phononic nonlocal metasurfaces

Soheil Farazi and Srinivas Tadigadapa — 2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Soheil Farazi and Srinivas Tadigadapa
Thermal radiation is inherently broadband and incoherent, limiting its utility in applications requiring spectral selectivity such as molecular spectroscopy and free-space optical communications. Bound states in the continuum provide a powerful route to confine light in open photonic systems and rea…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Detecting tidal resonances in binary neutron stars

2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Fabian Gittins, Harsh Narola, Thibeau Wouters, Peter T. H. Pang, Tanja Hinderer, and Chris Van Den Broeck
As a binary neutron star inspirals due to the emission of gravitational waves, the rising tidal frequency resonantly excites vibrational modes. These oscillations are seismological probes of the rich stellar interior, yet it remains to be established whether gravitational-wave interferometers can me…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Observation of Vinen turbulence during far-from-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation

2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Sebastian J. Morris, Martin Gazo, Simon M. Fischer, Haoyu Zhang, Christopher J. Ho, Nigel R. Cooper, Christoph Eigen, and Zoran Hadzibabic
Relaxation of far-from-equilibrium quantum fluids, intimately related to the emergence of long-range order, is theoretically associated with the decay of a turbulent isotropic tangle of vortex lines. We observe and study such decaying quantum turbulence in a homogeneous 3D atomic Bose gas. Using mat…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Ultrafast modulation of electron-phonon couplings and phonon-mediated superconductivity

Yang Yang, Da-Qiang Chen, Xuan-De Bu, Chao Lian, and Sheng Meng — 2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Yang Yang, Da-Qiang Chen, Xuan-De Bu, Chao Lian, and Sheng Meng
Ultrafast modulation of electron-phonon couplings via laser excitation has been experimentally demonstrated, yet a clear microscopic understanding remains elusive. Here we establish the first framework combining time-dependent density functional theory, density functional perturbation theory, and Mi…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Two-dimensional transverse-momentum subtraction and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD

2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Liang Dong, Shen Fang, Jun Gao, Hai Tao Li, Ding Yu Shao, Hua Xing Zhu, and Yu Jiao Zhu

Identified hadron production is essential for the study of nucleon structure and QCD hadronization at high energies. We present the first calculation of unpolarized semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N

^{3}

LO) in perturbative QCD. Our calculation i…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Nuclear polarization by intense laser pulses

Hanxu Zhang, Tao Li, and Xu Wang — 2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Hanxu Zhang, Tao Li, and Xu Wang
Nuclear polarization plays an essential role in precision measurements, symmetry tests, and emerging quantum technologies, yet efficient polarization of heavy nuclei remains a major challenge. We propose an efficient, intense-laser-based approach that achieves high-efficiency polarization of heavy n…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Directional transport by topological pump of localized moire bulk states

2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Dan Yao, Zhonghao Fu, Hailong He, Jiuyang Lu, Weiyin Deng, Liping Ye, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu
The discovery of directional and robust wave manipulation has become a crucial goal in the field of science and technology. Topological pump, as an efficient form of directed energy transport protected by nontrivial topology, has been intensively studied in condensed matter and materials physics. Co…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Hidden crossover and relaxorlike response from emerging polar skyrmion correlations in ferroelectric superlattices

Zhi-Yang Wang, Fei Yang, and Long-Qing Chen — 2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Zhi-Yang Wang, Fei Yang, and Long-Qing Chen
Polar skyrmions in ferroelectric superlattices are nanoscale topological polarization textures typically regarded as weakly coupled objects confined to individual layers, with a role secondary to that of the underlying symmetry-breaking order parameter. Here using large-scale phase-field simulations…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions $ℬ({B}_{c}^{+}→J/ψ{τ}^{+}{ν}_{τ})/ℬ({B}_{c}^{+}→J/ψ{μ}^{+}{ν}_{μ})$

R. Aaij et al. — 2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): R. Aaij et al.

A measurement of the ratio of semileptonic branching fractions

ℛ (J ψ)

, defined as

ℛ (J / ψ) \equiv ℬ (B_{c}^{+} \to J / ψ τ^{+} ν_{τ}) / ℬ (B_{c}^{+} \to J / ψ μ^{+} ν_{μ})

, is reported using a sample of proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb

^{- 1}

recorded by the LHCb experiment in 2016–2018 at a center-of-mass ene…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

High-rate measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution under intense noise

2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Hong-Wei Li, Wei-Xin Xie, Chun-Mei Zhang, Guan-Jie Fan-Yuan, Yu-Long Wang, Yu-Xuan Fan, Shuang Wang, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Wei Chen, De-Yong He, Guang-Can Guo, and Zheng-Fu Han
Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) is a promising path toward practical quantum communication, but current high-performance demonstrations come at prohibitive overhead and isolated environments. Here, we present a high-speed MDI-QKD system operating at an unprecedented…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Kovacs memory effect in a thin granular layer: Experimental evidence and its physical origin

2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Francisco Vega Reyes, Álvaro Rodríguez-Rivas, Pablo Maynar, and M. Isabel García de Soria
We report the experimental observation of memory effects in a vertically vibrated thin granular layer. Following a quench in the input acceleration, the granular temperature exhibits an anomalous Kovacs memory effect confined to the initial fast relaxation stage. This memory vanishes shortly thereaf…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Microelectromechanical system vapor cells with passive internal cavities

2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Rajesh Pandiyan, Sanyasi Bobbara, Somayeh Mirzaee, Su-Peng Yu, Ruoxi Wang, Adam Sibenik, Reza Kohandani, Stephanie Bohaichuk, and James P. Shaffer
Micro-Electro-Mechanical, so called ‘MEMs,’ vapor cells are a key component in atom-based quantum sensors, such as clocks, gyroscopes, electric field sensors and magnetometers. MEMs vapor cell fabrication for Rydberg atom radio frequency sensors is particularly demanding. The Rydberg states used for…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Probing the color-octet mechanism via dihadron fragmentation in ${χ}_{b}$ decays

Zhi-Guo He, Guanghui Li, Yu-Jie Tian, Xin-Kai Wen, and Bin Yan — 2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Zhi-Guo He, Guanghui Li, Yu-Jie Tian, Xin-Kai Wen, and Bin Yan

The color-octet (CO) mechanism is a cornerstone of non-relativistic QCD, yet knowledge of its long-distance matrix elements remains limited, preventing stringent tests of the theory. We demonstrate that the Artru-Collins asymmetry in hadronic decays of the

P

-wave bottomonium state

χ_{b 2}

provides a dir…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

SU(N) quantum spin model with weak and strong first-order transitions from Néel to valence-bond solid

Ryan Flynn and Anders W. Sandvik — 2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Ryan Flynn and Anders W. Sandvik

We introduce an SU(

N

) symmetric two-dimensional quantum spin model, the

X

Q

model, which hosts a ground state transition between Néel antiferromagnetic and spontaneously dimerized states. The

Q

terms are products of two adjacent singlet projectors on nearest-neighbor sites, as in the often studied

J

…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Enhanced and long-lived spin squeezing in 2D finite-range systems via global control fields

Ang Li, Zhen-Xing Hua, Meng Khoon Tey, Ling-Na Wu, and Li You — 2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Ang Li, Zhen-Xing Hua, Meng Khoon Tey, Ling-Na Wu, and Li You
Spin squeezing is both a fundamental witness of quantum entanglement and a key resource for quantum-enhanced metrology. While all-to-all interactions provide a paradigmatic route to generate spin squeezing, many programmable quantum simulators naturally realize finite-range interactions that induce …
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Transport and Temperature: Exact spectrum and Drude weight for the one-dimensional infinite-$U$ Hubbard model

2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Shuo Liu, Yuhao Ma, Hitesh J. Changlani, Philip W. Phillips, and B. Andrei Bernevig
Understanding charge transport in strongly correlated systems remains a central challenge in condensed matter physics, while exact analytical results for finite-temperature transport remain rare. Here, we investigate charge transport in the one-dimensional Hubbard model in the infinite-interaction l…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Emergence of purely elastoplastic turbulence in shear flows

2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Muhammad Abdullah, Shravan Pradeep, Doug J. Jerolmack, Becca Thomases, and Paulo E. Arratia
Yield-stress fluids only flow above a critical stress. Here, we observe the emergence of a distinct, elasticity-driven flow state in a yield-stress fluid in the absence of inertia. Numerical simulations show that this elasto-plastic turbulent state is characterized by non-Gaussian bimodal velocity d…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Closing the mass window for stupendously large black holes

Christopher Gerlach, Yann Gouttenoire, Antonio J. Iovino, and Nicholas Leister — 2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Christopher Gerlach, Yann Gouttenoire, Antonio J. Iovino, and Nicholas Leister

We show that primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range (

M ≳ 10^{11} M_{⊙}

) produce isocurvature perturbations exceeding current Cosmic Microwave Background limits, thereby excluding them as a significant dark matter component.

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Nonlocal edge mode hybridization in the long-range interacting Kitaev chain

David Haink, Andreas A. Buchheit, Christof Weitenberg, and Benedikt Fauseweh — 2026-09-09T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): David Haink, Andreas A. Buchheit, Christof Weitenberg, and Benedikt Fauseweh

In one-dimensional

p

-wave superconductors with short-range interactions, topologically protected Majorana modes emerge, whose mass decays exponentially with system size, as first shown by Kitaev. In this work, we extend this prototypical model by including power law long-range interactions within a …

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Odd-even parity of nonlinear Hall effects in bilayer graphene

2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Zitian Pan, Jiaheng Li, Jin Cao, Xuejin Zhang, Jundong Zhu, Yu Hong, Zhiheng Huang, Jingwei Dong, Dongxia Shi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Wei Yang, Cong Xiao, Shengyuan A. Yang, Hongming Weng, Luojun Du, and Guangyu Zhang
Odd-even effects are a generic feature of nonlinear physics, as odd- and even-order responses obey distinct symmetry conditions and reflect different aspects of electronic quantum geometry. With profound implications for both fundamental science and transformative applications, nonlinear Hall effect…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Floquet ladder lattice of gain-driven polaritons

Yong-Sheng Gui and Can-Ming Hu — 2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Yong-Sheng Gui and Can-Ming Hu
A Floquet ladder lattice (FLL) is created by introducing ultra-strong temporal modulation into a gain-embedded cavity magnonics platform. In contrast to conventional atomic lattices, the FLL is a synthetic polariton lattice manifested in the frequency dimension, embodying light–matter interaction, t…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Deformation and organization of droplet-encapsulated soft beads

2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Shunsuke Saita, Finn Bastian Molzahn, Clara Delahousse, Julien Husson, and Charles N. Baroud
Many biological, culinary, and engineering processes lead to the co-encapsulation of several soft particles within a liquid interface. In these situations the particles are bound together by the capillary forces that deform them and influence their biological or rheological properties. Here, we intr…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Constant-depth magic state cultivation with Clifford measurements by gauging

Bence Hetényi, Benjamin J. Brown, and Dominic J. Williamson — 2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Bence Hetényi, Benjamin J. Brown, and Dominic J. Williamson
Magic states are a scarce resource for two-dimensional qubit stabilizer codes. Magic state cultivation was recently proposed to reduce the cost of magic state preparation by measuring the transversal Clifford operator of the color code. Cultivation achieves ~10^{-9} logical error rates for the d = 5…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Quantum channels on graphs: A resonant tunneling perspective

Giuseppe Catalano, Farzad Kianvash, and Vittorio Giovannetti — 2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Giuseppe Catalano, Farzad Kianvash, and Vittorio Giovannetti
Quantum transport on structured networks is strongly influenced by interference effects, which can dramatically modify how information propagates through a system. We develop a quantum-information-theoretic framework for scattering on graphs in which a full network of connected scattering sites is t…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

First experimental evidence of helicon current drive

2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): J. B. Lestz, R. I. Pinsker, B. Van Compernolle, S. X. Tang, A. Dupuy, A. M. Garofalo, L. McAllister, C. P. Moeller, C. C. Petty, M. Porkolab, M. P. Ross, G. Rutherford, and A. Torrezan
Helicon current drive is an attractive solution for driving current to sustain steady state tokamak operation in reactor conditions. Dedicated DIII-D experiments have been conducted with a MW-level helicon system and successfully demonstrated core power deposition and current drive with helicon wave…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Fourier-space approach to physics-informed magnetization reconstruction from nitrogen-vacancy measurements

2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Alexander Setescak, Florian Bruckner, Dieter Suess, Young-Gwan Choi, Hayden Binger, Lotte Boer, Chenhui Zhang, Hyunsoo Yang, Claire Donnelly, Uri Vool, and Claas Abert
Reconstructing magnetization textures from nitrogen-vacancy (NV) magnetometry stray-field measurements is a challenging, fundamentally ill-posed inverse problem, further complicated by the unknown effective distance between sensor and magnetic material. Here we show that incorporating a micromagneti…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Complete reflection of nonlinear electromagnetic waves in underdense pair plasmas enabled by dynamically formed Bragg-like structures

Kavin Tangtartharakul, Alexey Arefiev, and Maxim Lyutikov — 2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Kavin Tangtartharakul, Alexey Arefiev, and Maxim Lyutikov
In contrast to relativistically induced transparency in electron–ion plasmas, where nonlinear electromagnetic waves render initially opaque plasmas transparent, we show using kinetic simulations that such waves can instead make initially transparent pair plasmas fully reflective. The difference is m…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Shifting erasure cost below the Landauer bound with a demon-biased thermal bath

Salambô Dago and Ludovic Bellon — 2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Salambô Dago and Ludovic Bellon
The Landauer principle establishes a fundamental lower bound on the energetic cost of erasure for a one-bit memory in thermal equilibrium. Here, we experimentally demonstrate how this bound can be shifted by introducing a hysteretic bias h in the feedback-generated virtual potential of a micro-reson…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Ultrafast dissociation of water producing atomic oxygen following excitation above the O 1s threshold

2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Florian Trinter, Stephan Thürmer, Qi Zhou, Uwe Hergenhahn, Bernd Winter, Olle Björneholm, Maxim Tchaplyguine, Ludger Inhester, and Gunnar Öhrwall
We report ultrafast dissociation of gas-phase water following photoexcitation above the O 1s ionization threshold. High-resolution resonant Auger spectroscopy reveals sharp constant-kinetic-energy features arising from nonradiative decay of neutral atomic oxygen formed within the O 1s core-hole life…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Cooperative quantum optical effects of moiré exciton superlattices

Haowei Xu, Wang Yao, and Ju Li — 2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Haowei Xu, Wang Yao, and Ju Li
The unique properties of two-dimensional moire systems have been widely studied from many perspectives. However, relatively little work has investigated how the real space structure of moire systems can directly engender novel properties and functionalities. In this work, we explore how intriguing c…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Brewster-anomaly delocalization for free-electron radiation

2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Zheng Gong, Xiangfeng Xi, Hongsheng Chen, Owen D. Miller, Stefan Rotter, and Xiao Lin
Localization effects are central to disordered electronics and photonics. In electronics, Anderson localization governs electron confinement in randomly perturbed lattices. Similarly, its photonic counterpart inhibits light transport via disorder – but with a unique exception: Brewster-anomaly deloc…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Bayesian phase stabilization at the shot-noise limit for scalable quantum networks

2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Guang-Cheng Liu, Chao-Hui Xue, Fa-Xi Chen, Ming-Yang Zheng, Yi Yang, Li-Bo Li, Bin Wang, Bo-Wen Yang, Hai-Feng Jiang, Yong Wan, Ye Wang, Jiu-Peng Chen, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan
High-precision optical phase stabilization in quantum networks is fundamentally constrained by the strict photon-flux and duty-cycle limits required to avoid disturbing fragile quantum states. This challenge becomes especially critical when coordinating multiple independent light sources for multi-s…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Many-body correlation effects in Fröhlich electron-phonon coupling

2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Zien Zhu, Chih-En Hsu, Benran Zhang, Zhenfa Zheng, Mauro Del Ben, Antonios M. Alvertis, Hung-Chung Hsueh, and Zhenglu Li
In compound semiconductors and insulators, the polar electron-phonon coupling diverges at long range, known as the Fröhlich interaction. Modern first-principles electron-phonon calculations treat the Fröhlich interaction in a semiclassical electrostatic formalism based on density-functional perturba…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Charge state equilibration of nitrogen-vacancy center ensembles in diamond: The role of electron tunneling

Audrius Alkauskas, Chris G. Van de Walle, Lukas Razinkovas, and Ronald Ulbricht — 2026-09-08T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Audrius Alkauskas, Chris G. Van de Walle, Lukas Razinkovas, and Ronald Ulbricht
The charge state stability of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers critically affects their application as quantum sensors and qubits. Understanding charge state conversion and equilibration is critical important not only for NV centers in diamond but also for defects and impurities in wide-bandgap materia…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Nulling baryonic feedback in weak lensing surveys using cross-correlations with fast radio bursts

2026-09-04T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Calvin Leung, Josh Borrow, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Shion Andrew, Kai-Feng Chen, Joop Schaye, and Matthieu Schaller
Baryonic feedback is a leading contaminant in studying dark matter using cosmic shear. This has meant omitting much of the data during cosmological inference, or forward-modeling the spatial distribution of gas around dark matter halos using models for baryonic feedback, which introduces nuisance pa…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 04, 2026

Giant photon blockade with multiple atoms

Xin Liu, Qing-Hong Liao, Qing-Yue Zhang, and Yong-Chun Liu — 2026-09-04T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Xin Liu, Qing-Hong Liao, Qing-Yue Zhang, and Yong-Chun Liu
Nonlinearity at the single-photon level is important in both fundamental research and applications of quantum optics. Strong single-photon nonlinearity is usually hard to achieve with a single atom coupled to a cavity mode. Unfortunately, stronger nonlinearity can not be achieved by coupling more at…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 04, 2026

Néel-antiferromagnet-proximitized superconductivity in the NbSe${}_{2}$/MnPS${}_{3}$ heterostructures

2026-09-04T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Xinyi Zheng, Ruihuan Duan, Xilin Feng, Desheng Wu, Xue Yang, Lihong Hu, Lei Xu, Sicheng Zhou, Siyuan Zhou, Ximing Zhang, Zishuo Peng, Bingbing Tong, Peiling Li, Junya Feng, Zhaozheng Lyu, Hua Ke, Jie Shen, Jianlin Luo, Fanming Qu, Zheng Liu, Kam Tuen Law, Guangtong Liu, and Li Lu

Antiferromagnet/superconductor (AFM/SC) hybrids offer a rich but largely unexplored platform for realizing spin-triplet Cooper pairing and chiral topological superconductivity, yet experimental demonstrations remain scarce. Here, we report the modification of superconductivity in NbSe

_{2}

/MnPS

_{3}

heteros…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 04, 2026

Recurrence time for finite quantum systems

Chaitanya Gupta and Anthony J. Short — 2026-09-04T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Chaitanya Gupta and Anthony J. Short
We study the time it takes for all states of a finite quantum system to return simultaneously to their original configuration. In particular, we define the recurrence time for a quantum system to be the time at which all time-evolved states are close to their initial configuration, and at least one …
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 04, 2026

Spin teleportation via Bell-triplet states emergent from proton-proton scattering

2026-09-04T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Z. X. Shen, H. Y. Shang, Y. G. Ma, D. Bai, S. M. Wang, Z. C. Xu, Y. Ayyad, and C. Filgueira
Entanglement is a key resource in quantum information science, yet its properties and applications in nuclear systems remain largely unexplored. Here, using proton-proton scattering as a quantum laboratory, we report the emergence of a near-pure Bell-triplet state at a laboratory energy of 151 MeV a…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 04, 2026

Robust probes of the anyonic time-domain exchange phase despite its splitting

Inès Safi — 2026-09-04T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Inès Safi

We study abelian fractional quantum Hall edges with

N

co-propagating interacting channels and a local quantum point contact (QPC). An injected anyon generally does not acquire a universal statistical phase

θ

, but fractionalizes into

N

propagating components whose individual phases depend on interact…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 04, 2026

Neutron drip line in calcium isotopes from a chiral interaction

2026-09-04T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): B. S. Hu, A. Ekström, C. Forssén, G. Hagen, W. G. Jiang, T. Miyagi, and T. Papenbrock

Interactions derived from effective field theories of quantum chromodynamics have thus far failed to bind calcium nuclei beyond neutron number

N = 40

, while nuclear density functionals typically place the neutron dripline near

^{70}

Ca, at

N = 50

. We present the chiral interaction N

^{3}

LO$_{\rm Texas}$, a comb…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Fri Sep 04, 2026

Long-lived spin coherence in a densely populated stoichiometric rare-earth crystal

2026-09-03T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Mucheng Guo, Zhehao Xu, Weiye Sun, Wanting Xiao, Zongfeng Li, Matthew J. Sellars, Rose L. Ahlefeldt, Fudong Wang, Shuping Liu, and Manjin Zhong
Dense rare-earth spin ensembles in solids offer strong collective light–matter coupling for scalable quantum technologies but are typically incompatible with long coherence times due to strong dipolar interactions. Here we challenge this paradigm by showing long-lived coherence in such systems. In a…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

General construction from topological loop states to topological invariants in exactly flat bands

Rui-Heng Liu, Jiangping Hu, and Chen Fang — 2026-09-03T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Rui-Heng Liu, Jiangping Hu, and Chen Fang
Electronic flat bands have localized Wannier-like orbitals as zero modes. In the Lieb or the kagome models, the localized orbitals satisfy a topological condition that entails two non-contractible loop eigenstates along x/y-axis in real space, and one topological band touching point with other bands…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

Millimeter wave readout of a superconducting qubit

2026-09-03T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Akash V. Dixit, Zachary L. Parrott, Dennis Chunikhin, Trevyn F. Q. Larson, Bradley D. Hauer, and John D. Teufel
Millimeter waves are emerging as an enabling technology for connecting and enhancing different quantum platforms such as Rydberg atoms, optomechanics, and superconducting qubits. In this work, we explore the interaction between millimeter wave photons and conventional transmon qubits, specifically f…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

Size and shape of condensing steam jets and plumes

2026-09-03T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): N. Fourcade, F. Poydenot, P. Langlois, F. Barbe, N. Sinnathamby, P. Claudin, and B. Andreotti
Droplet-laden cloud dynamics emerge from coupled phase transitions and turbulent mixing . Combining and mean-field theory, we establish scaling laws for steam-injected clouds in unsaturated air \new{seeded with condensation nuclei. on whether the cloud is confined to the initial momentum-dominated z…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

Eight-unit-cell electronic modulations in cuprates originating from local molecular orbitals

2026-09-03T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Zhiheng Yao, Sixuan Chen, Jianfa Zhao, Shusen Ye, Weixiang Qu, Ning Xia, Yuling Dai, Luchuan Shi, Hongrui Zhang, Zhenqi Hao, Changqing Jin, Shuo Yang, and Yayu Wang

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

Laboratory demonstration of coronal heating via magnetic reconnection during nanoflares

2026-09-03T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Wei Sun, Yongli Ping, Chong Lv, Xianxu Jin, Longxing Li, Wenqiang Yuan, Li Feng, Can Ren, Zhu Lei, Baoxian Tian, Xiaofeng Xi, Jialun Chai, Mengqi Jin, Gaoyang Liu, Zhengdong Liu, Yapeng Zhang, Hongzheng Yu, Jun Xiong, Zhiyong Xie, Chen Wang, Wei Wang, Bin Qiao, Zhao Wang, Jiayong Zhong, and Bing Guo
The origin of the solar corona’s million Kelvin temperatures remains a central unsolved problem. While the nanoflare hypothesis is widely accepted and describes magnetic reconnection events at coronal current sheets that are slowly formed by complex driver flows at the solar surface, the possibility…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

Demonstration of robust chiral edge transport in field-induced Chern insulator MnBi${}_{2}$Te${}_{4}$ devices with engineered geometric defects

2026-09-03T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Pinyuan Wang, Jun Ge, Jiawei Luo, Xiaoqi Liu, Jiayi Yang, Fucong Fei, Fengqi Song, and Jian Wang
Chiral edge states in Chern insulators are theoretically predicted to propagate unidirectionally along the sample boundary with inherent robustness against local perturbations, which manifests as the immunity to impurity-induced backscattering, a key factor for the development of robust, high-perfor…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

Crossover to Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev criticality in an infinite-range quantum Heisenberg spin glass

Hossein Hosseinabadi, Subir Sachdev, and Jamir Marino — 2026-09-03T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Hossein Hosseinabadi, Subir Sachdev, and Jamir Marino

A central question in frustrated quantum magnets is how quantum fluctuations destabilize spin-glass order and promote quantum spin-liquid behavior. We study the equilibrium dynamics of an infinite-range quantum Heisenberg model with random couplings, in which local magnetic moments arise from

𝒩_{f}

fla…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

Constraints on phantom codes from automorphism group bounds

Arthur S. Morris and Daniel Malz — 2026-09-03T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Arthur S. Morris and Daniel Malz

Executing a logical quantum circuit fault-tolerantly incurs a large spacetime overhead. Recent work has proposed and investigated , defined by the property that every in-block logical

C N O T

circuit can be implemented with a physical permutation, a property that has the potential to greatly reduce the…

[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

Measurement-device-independent entanglement quantification in a fully connected time-bin quantum network

Lu Liu, Ling-Xuan Kong, Ze-Yang Lu, Xu-Jie Peng, Xiao-Xu Fang, and He Lu — 2026-09-02T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Lu Liu, Ling-Xuan Kong, Ze-Yang Lu, Xu-Jie Peng, Xiao-Xu Fang, and He Lu
Fully connected quantum networks enable scalable quantum communication, yet reliable entanglement characterization without trusting measurement devices remains challenging. Here we experimentally demonstrate measurement-device-independent (MDI) entanglement verification and quantification in a time-…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 02, 2026

Interactions of electrons and Rydberg excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors

Arthur Christianen, Anna M. Seiler, Alperen Tüğen, and Ataç İmamoğlu — 2026-09-02T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Arthur Christianen, Anna M. Seiler, Alperen Tüğen, and Ataç İmamoğlu
Rydberg excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors provide sensitive and non-destructive probes of physics in proximal sample layers that host correlated electronic states. In particular, electron or hole doping of the sample layer is heralded by a strong frequency shift and loss of transition stren…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 02, 2026

Adiabatic preparation of many-body quantum states: Getting the beginning and the end right

Emil T. M. Pedersen, Freek Witteveen, Klaus Mølmer, and Matthias Christandl — 2026-09-02T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Emil T. M. Pedersen, Freek Witteveen, Klaus Mølmer, and Matthias Christandl
We present numerical calculations, and simulations performed on a Rydberg atom quantum simulator, of the adiabatic evolution of closed many-body quantum systems around a quantum phase transition. We demonstrate that the end-to-end transfer error, for a given process duration, can be suppressed by ad…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 02, 2026

Quantum-geometry-enabled Landau-Zener tunneling in singular flat bands

Xuanyu Long and Feng Liu — 2026-09-02T10:00:00+00:00

Author(s): Xuanyu Long and Feng Liu
Flat-band materials have attracted substantial interest for their intriguing quantum geometric effects. Here we investigate how singular flat bands (SFBs) respond to a static, uniform electric field and whether they can support single-particle dc transport. By constructing a minimal two-band lattice…
[Phys. Rev. Lett.] Published Wed Sep 02, 2026