The observation of a binary pulsar system characterized by low neutron star masses with short orbital period enables tests of relativity, and may enable a measurement of Lens-Thirring precession with future observations.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 121401] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Oxygen defects suppress superconductivity in the bilayer nickelate La${}_3$Ni${}_2$O${}_{7+\delta }$ via a dual mechanism, revealed through density functional theory, dynamical mean-field theory, and functional renormalization group analysis.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126002] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Berry curvature in twisted molybdenum ditelluride drives the oppositely charged particles in an exciton in opposite transverse directions, producing a dipole moment of approximately 150 Debye.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126602] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Deploying $N$ Brownian searchers reduces the mean search time for an immobile target merely by a factor $1/\ln N$. We show that this conclusion is highly sensitive to the short-time dynamics of individual searchers. Based on the telegrapher’s equation we demonstrate that the classical logarithmic scaling …

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 127102] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

When in dense suspensions, active phoretic disks with physicochemical hydrodynamic interactions remain caged and perform local vibrations, mirroring the weak turbulence of bending waves in vibrating elastic plates.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 128301] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Disorder-driven fluctuations enhance repulsive Coulomb interaction and form a superconducting dome in ionic-liquid-gated few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126001] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

A Peierls-like interlayer instability establishes stacking as a tuning parameter for hidden, metastable phases in van der Waals quantum materials.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126501] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Optical second harmonic generation detects ferroic octupolar order in altermagnetic CoF${}_2$, establishing nonlinear interactions as signatures of altermagnetism in experiments.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 126902] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

A new model shows how cells could optimize biochemical sensing by balancing information gained against energy spent.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 127101] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

First measurements of quantum entanglement between two massive vector bosons at the electroweak scale link quantum information concepts with precision measurements.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 111804] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

An ultrafast x-ray diffraction measurement establishes a unified model for $B1-B2$ transition in KCl which can be generalized to other materials.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116102] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

A simple conductance asymmetry metric helps disentangle coexisting spin, vibrational, and orbital excitations within a single cobaltocene molecule, unlocking new pathways for single-molecule quantum computing.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116403] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

How fast Arctic ice spreads out and how quickly the floes travel from coarsely resolved environmental data can be predicted by simulating sea ice as a granular medium driven by stochastic winds and using measurements of the local wind and ice properties as input parameters.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 114201] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

A coplanar superconducting resonator makes possible the direct observation of the real-time entry of individual Abrikosov vortices.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116001] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

A nanomechanical resonator provides a simple way to directly measure the torque generated by electron vortices.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116302] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

A crystal with special geometric properties can be optically driven to produce an output beam with any desired polarization.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116905] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

A minimal model of population dynamics provides an organic pathway to hyperuniformity that relies on natural competition rather than fine-tuned dynamics and rigid conservation laws.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 117401] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Researchers crushed and heated ice between diamond anvils to confirm the existence of a phase of ice that could be present in the warm mantles of ice giants.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 114101] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy measurements on twisted bilayer and double-bilayer MoTe₂, combined with theory, reveal remote electronic bands that follow twist-induced lattice relaxation, establishing a direct link between atomic reconstruction and electronic structure in moiré semiconductors.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116401] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

A universal scaling exponent $\kappa \approx 0.42$ corresponds to a dynamic exponent $z=1$ in the integer quantum Hall regime in a bilayer GaAs quantum well device.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116501] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

The circular photogalvanic effect in topological heterostructures offers a controllable route to enhanced, field-free terahertz emission, distinct from conventional spin-to-charge conversion.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116904] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Two intermingled species of active matter can exhibit coherent rotation or disorderly scrambling depending on their mutual interactions.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 118301] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Two intermingled species of active matter can exhibit coherent rotation or disorderly scrambling depending on their mutual interactions.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 118302] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Using high-power lasers to drive highly magnetized plasmas, researchers have probed the stellar processes that control coronal mass ejections.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 105201] Published Fri Sep 04, 2026

The electronic properties of materials exhibiting giant thermopower with a thermopower that exceeds 2000 μV/K, such as EuCd${}_2$P${}_2$, are strongly temperature dependent.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106302] Published Fri Sep 04, 2026

The first search for production of a Higgs boson along with a pair of vector bosons yields constraints on Higgs self-coupling constants.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101806] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

Strain-gradient engineering provides a doping-free route to modulate broadband optical emission in microfabricated diamond.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106201] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

A direct spectroscopic probe of the 4$f$ states across a pressure-induced phase transition in EuO reveals the absence of spectral changes, confirming the stability of the Eu valence in agreement with the DFT calculations.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106401] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

Two studies find that fundamental quantum constraints rule out a previously proposed neutrino-laser scheme.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101804] Published Wed Sep 02, 2026

Two studies find that fundamental quantum constraints rule out a previously proposed neutrino-laser scheme.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101805] Published Wed Sep 02, 2026

Tuning the electronic structure of the excitonic insulator candidate Ta${}_2$NiSe${}_5$ via sulfur substitution reveals that its highly directional phonon transport anomaly is directly driven by electronic fluctuations, suggesting that electronic interactions and lattice effects cooperatively contribute to its phase transition.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106503] Published Wed Sep 02, 2026

Exact diagonalization provides strong numerical evidence that the Higgs transition between a Kalmeyer-Laughlin chiral spin liquid and a trivially gapped phase is continuous and governed by a conformal field theory.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106504] Published Wed Sep 02, 2026

Matching the cavity resonance lifetime to the driving laser pulse yields significantly greater near-field enhancement in ultrafast nanophotonics than maximizing the cavity quality factor alone.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106902] Published Wed Sep 02, 2026

Nonlinear stability in magnetically confined plasmas is governed not only by local linear growth, but is fundamentally a connectivity property of the flux surface, governed by a topological percolation threshold.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 105101] Published Tue Sep 01, 2026

Within the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation, the orbital magnetization for interacting electrons takes a form similar to the noninteracting case, while the orbital magnetic susceptibility acquires an additional interaction-dependent term.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106703] Published Tue Sep 01, 2026

Counter examples to the commonly accepted proof that collinear magnets always have an inversion symmetric band structure along with a symmetry analysis when the proof breaks down challenges the existing classification of collinear magnets.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106701] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026

A study of the counter-Nagaoka problem of a single hole in an infinite-$U$ Hubbard model on the kagome lattice reveals a new type of polaron, a resonating-valence-bond polaron that morphs into semiclassical order as polarization is reduced.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106702] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026

In dense colloidal suspensions composed of particles sensitive to Brownian motion, a gravitational Peclet number governs an intermediate angle of repose where gravity and thermal agitation strike a balance.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 108201] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026

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

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091806] Published Fri Aug 28, 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.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 094002] Published Fri Aug 28, 2026

The ground state of CsV${}_3$Sb${}_5$ is not a single superconducting state but two degenerate states.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096003] Published Fri Aug 28, 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.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 091002] Published Thu Aug 27, 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.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096504] Published Thu Aug 27, 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.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096605] Published Thu Aug 27, 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.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 097401] Published Thu Aug 27, 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.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096502] Published Wed Aug 26, 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.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096604] Published Wed Aug 26, 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.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 094101] Published Mon Aug 24, 2026

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

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 096401] Published Mon Aug 24, 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.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 098101] Published Mon Aug 24, 2026

Exotic noncollinear room-temperature ferroelectricity has now been experimentally realized in 2D WO${}_2$Cl${}_2$, establishing a polar counterpart to noncollinear spin textures.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 086801] Published Fri Aug 21, 2026

Adiabatic ramping of both state-dependent force amplitude and motional frequency delivers high-fidelity trapped-ion entanglement without ground-state cooling.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 080602] Published Thu Aug 20, 2026

Researchers have demonstrated the quantum teleportation of a 100-pixel image by a method that could help to scale up quantum networks.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 080801] Published Thu Aug 20, 2026

Experimental studies of multicomponent droplet evaporation reveal distinct stages, with internal flow shifting from multiple vortices within the droplet to a single toroidal vortex dominating the flow dynamic, departing from the classical single-component picture.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 084002] Published Thu Aug 20, 2026

Intercalation-driven self-doping is a general mechanism for engineering high-temperature superconductivity and emergent quantum states in Ruddlesden–Popper phase correlated oxides.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 086004] Published Thu Aug 20, 2026

Researchers have made the first definitive measurements of an elusive superconducting state.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 086003] Published Wed Aug 19, 2026

A simulation-based inference framework combines physics-based modeling with deep learning to recover the Bayesian posterior of a biomolecular folding model directly from single-molecule force spectroscopy data.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 088402] Published Wed Aug 19, 2026

Density matrix renormalization group calculations reveal spin-stripe ordering at large Hund’s coupling, demonstrating that Hund’s coupling and inter-layer coupling are key parameters in magnetic order and pairing.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 086502] Published Tue Aug 18, 2026

All 43 previously unconstrained Lorentz-violating degrees of freedom in the minimal matter sector are constrained for the first time, completing a decades-long program.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 081601] Published Mon Aug 17, 2026

Light-ion collisions at the LHC reveal collective hydrodynamic flow with a larger elliptic flow in central Ne-Ne collisions than in OO collisions that might be due to the bowling-pin nuclear shape of ${}^{20}$Ne.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 082301] Published Mon Aug 17, 2026

Light-ion collisions at the LHC reveal collective hydrodynamic flow with a larger elliptic flow in central Ne-Ne collisions than in OO collisions that might be due to the bowling-pin nuclear shape of ${}^{20}$Ne.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 082302] Published Mon Aug 17, 2026

Observation of the ground-state rotational band in ${}^{252}$Fm provides compelling evidence that $Z=100$ and $N=152$ act as a deformed doubly magic shell closure.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 082501] Published Mon Aug 17, 2026

Vortex formation from surface superconductivity is observed in the topological semimetal $\gamma$-PtBi${}_2$, which confirms the robustness of the surface superconductivity at a higher T${}_c$ than the bulk.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 086001] Published Mon Aug 17, 2026

A model that captures how crater-forming impacts redistribute lunar dirt will help researchers read the cosmic timeline found in samples returned from the Moon.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 071005] Published Fri Aug 14, 2026

Using the two-dimensional random-bond Ising model as a concrete example, certain gapless ground states under quantum perturbations are shown to have a universal structure exhibiting spontaneous symmetry breaking, generalizing the classical Peierls argument for stability against thermal fluctuations.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 070405] Published Thu Aug 13, 2026

A lattice QCD determination of the hadronic contribution to the running electromagnetic coupling at the $Z$-pole achieves 1.7% uncertainty, more than doubling phenomenological precision and meeting the FCC-ee target.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 071901] Published Thu Aug 13, 2026

Back-to-back jets produced during heavy-ion collisions reveal a plasma property predicted by quantum chromodynamics.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 071902] Published Thu Aug 13, 2026

Researchers propose a new way to evaluate the performance of quantum memory devices, which will be key components in a future quantum Internet.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 070802] Published Wed Aug 12, 2026

Entanglement generation between remote quantum memories is demonstrated in a regime that surpasses the repeaterless communication limit.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 070801] Published Tue Aug 11, 2026

A Josephson junction acts as a single-vortex sensor, enabling the detection of the dynamics of individual Pearl vortices in magic-angle twisted graphene.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 076001] Published Tue Aug 11, 2026

A key property of superconductors called superfluid stiffness can now be measured in a wide range of 2D systems.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 076002] Published Tue Aug 11, 2026

Twisted bilayer graphene near the quasicrystalline twist angle reveals strong interlayer coupling and an anomalous fourfold-to-twelvefold Landau-level transition in electron transport.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 076301] Published Tue Aug 11, 2026

An exact, nonperturbative formula for the dynamic structure factor of a strongly correlated gas of quantum hard rods captures features such as edge singularities and the diffusive behavior of correlations at large space-time intervals.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 076502] Published Tue Aug 11, 2026

Coupling a topological insulator with an achiral photonic crystal amplifies the ultraweak optical signatures of axion quasiparticles by orders of magnitude, unlocking powerful new observables like near-unity circular dichroism and optical nonreciprocity.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 076901] Published Mon Aug 10, 2026

A new theory of rare recurrent events dispenses with the simplifying assumption that recent events lack memory of previous ones.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 077101] Published Mon Aug 10, 2026

Two research teams have run small-scale demonstrations of voting protocols that could ensure election security using the principles of quantum mechanics.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 060802] Published Fri Aug 07, 2026

Two research teams have run small-scale demonstrations of voting protocols that could ensure election security using the principles of quantum mechanics.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 060803] Published Fri Aug 07, 2026

Recasting fusion coil design as a highly nonconvex equality-constrained optimization problem with an augmented Lagrangian method leads to a class of stellarator coils that exhibit enhanced physics performance and meet essential design requirements.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 065101] Published Fri Aug 07, 2026

A new algorithm combines AI weather forecasts with a physics-based climate model to efficiently characterize rare and dangerous weather events.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 064201] Published Wed Aug 05, 2026

A combination of Raman spectroscopy and transport measurements shows that approaching the 2D limit markedly enhances the charge density wave order and the associated correlated insulating state in 1$T$-TaS${}_2$.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 066502] Published Wed Aug 05, 2026

Spent nuclear fuel and shutdown nuclear reactors emit antineutrinos, which nuclear watchdogs could use for real-time monitoring of plants.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 061803] Published Tue Aug 04, 2026

Using a technique applicable to other atomic species, the stable loading of 2400 neutral Ytterbium-174 atoms in an optical tweezer array represents the largest alkaline-earth-like atom array to date.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 063201] Published Tue Aug 04, 2026

A minimal, materials-relevant spin-1/2 model on the breathing pyrochlore lattice, tuned solely by symmetry-allowed Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interactions, gives robust quantum realizations of both rank-1 and rank-2 U(1) Coulomb liquids.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 066504] Published Tue Aug 04, 2026

Sublattice currents are a feasible route to odd-parity altermagnetism, where nonrelativistic collinear spin splitting occurs in the bands as an odd function of momentum.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 066702] Published Tue Aug 04, 2026

A proof-of-concept global QCD fit finds the quark-gluon-quark interference comparable in size to polarized quark density contributions, which suggests a more quantum nature of the proton than assumed.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 061902] Published Mon Aug 03, 2026

Two experiments demonstrate a promising platform for trapping, sorting, and directing vibrational energy.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 066601] Published Mon Aug 03, 2026

Two experiments demonstrate a promising platform for trapping, sorting, and directing vibrational energy.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 066602] Published Mon Aug 03, 2026

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

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 051003] Published Thu Jul 30, 2026

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

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 055102] Published Thu Jul 30, 2026

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

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 050203] Published Wed Jul 29, 2026

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

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 057002] Published Wed Jul 29, 2026

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

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053605] Published Tue Jul 28, 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.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056301] Published Tue Jul 28, 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.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056605] Published Tue Jul 28, 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.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056702] Published Tue Jul 28, 2026

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

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 056901] Published Mon Jul 27, 2026

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

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 041603] Published Fri Jul 24, 2026

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

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046002] Published Fri Jul 24, 2026

Integrating a WSe${}_2$ monolayer into an optical microcavity generates valley-engineered Landau polaritons, enabling light-mediated valley control of quantum many-body states.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046904] Published Fri Jul 24, 2026

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

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046202] Published Thu Jul 23, 2026