Volume 137, Issue 14 (partial)

2 October 2026

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Probing False Vacuum Decay on a Cold-Atom Gauge-Theory Quantum Simulator

Zi-Hang Zhu, Ying Liu, Gianluca Lagnese, Federica Maria Surace, Wei-Yong Zhang, Ming-Gen He, Jad C. Halimeh, Marcello Dalmonte, Siddhardh C. Morampudi, Frank Wilczek, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 141601 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Researchers observe atoms trapped in an optical lattice mimicking particles created in a strong electric field.

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Giant Dielectric Anisotropy and Enhanced In-Plane Conductivity in Nanoconfined Water

Mehdi Neek-Amal and Francois M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146201 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Researchers have proposed that long-range molecular dipole correlations alter water’s electrical properties when it’s confined in a gap a few nanometers wide.

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Singular Basins in Multiscale Systems: Tunneling between Stable States

S. Yanchuk, S. Wieczorek, H. Jardón-Kojakhmetov, and H. Alkhayuon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 147202 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Simplified models of systems with fast and slow dynamics can miss a narrow region of phase space—a “singular funnel”—leading to misleading predictions of the system’s behavior.

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Distinguishing Coherent and Incoherent Errors in Multiround Time-Reversed Dynamics via Scramblons

Zeyu Liu and Pengfei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 140401 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Errors in multiround time-reversed dynamics accumulate with different scalings depending on whether they are coherent or incoherent.

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Atom-Photon Entanglement with a Single Trapped Cesium Atom

H. Hwang, J. Moon, F. Herzallah, E. Oh, A. Safari, and M. Saffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 140801 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

High-fidelity atom–photon entanglement using single cesium atom trapped in an optical tweezer acts as a new interface for heterogeneous quantum networks.

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Observation of a $B_{c}^{* +}$ Meson with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 141901 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

The ATLAS collaboration has observed a spin-1 partner of the bottom-charm meson $B_{c}^{+}$ lying just 64.5 MeV above it, consistent with the predicted excited state in which the quark spins are aligned.

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Kinematic and Rheological Equivalence of Steady Shearing and Planar Extensional Flows

Nicholas King and Gareth H. McKinley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 144003 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Recovery of planar extensional viscosity from data obtained via steady shear measurements alone illustrates the equivalence between the two flows and offers a route to overcome experimental challenges associated with planar extensional flow measurements.

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Structural Phase Separation Couples to Charge-Density-Wave Formation in Kagome Metal FeGe

Boyang Zhao, Youngjun Ahn, Qinwen Deng, Yidai Liu, Sijie Xu, Donald A. Walko, Stephan O. Hruszkewycz, Pengcheng Dai, Liang Wu, and Haidan Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146102 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Temperature-dependent high-resolution synchrotron X-ray diffraction reveals structural Bragg peak splits in FeGe at the charge-density-wave transition temperature suggesting that its quantum states may be manipulated with strain.

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Quantized Heat Flow in the Hofstadter Butterfly

A. Zhang, G. Aissani, Q. Dong, Y. Jin, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Altimiras, P. Roche, J.-M. Berroir, E. Baudin, G. Fève, G. C. Ménard, O. Maillet, and F. D. Parmentier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146603 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Heat flow in the Chern Insulator states of the Hofstadter butterfly is obtained in a graphene/hBN moiré for the first time.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Recurrence Time for Finite Quantum Systems

Chaitanya Gupta and Anthony J. Short

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 140201 (2026) - Published 30 September, 2026

Quantum Channels on Graphs: A Resonant Tunneling Perspective

Giuseppe Catalano, Farzad Kianvash, and Vittorio Giovannetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 140202 (2026) - Published 30 September, 2026

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Distinguishing Coherent and Incoherent Errors in Multiround Time-Reversed Dynamics via Scramblons

Zeyu Liu and Pengfei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 140401 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Errors in multiround time-reversed dynamics accumulate with different scalings depending on whether they are coherent or incoherent.

Constant-Depth Magic State Cultivation with Clifford Measurements by Gauging

Bence Hetényi, Benjamin J. Brown, and Dominic J. Williamson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 140601 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

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Atom-Photon Entanglement with a Single Trapped Cesium Atom

H. Hwang, J. Moon, F. Herzallah, E. Oh, A. Safari, and M. Saffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 140801 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

High-fidelity atom–photon entanglement using single cesium atom trapped in an optical tweezer acts as a new interface for heterogeneous quantum networks.

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 140802 (2026) - Published 30 September, 2026

High-Rate Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution under Intense Noise

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 140803 (2026) - Published 30 September, 2026

Optimal Shadow Estimation with Minimal Measurement Settings

Zhiyao Yang, Datong Chen, and Huangjun Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 140804 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Particles and Fields

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Probing False Vacuum Decay on a Cold-Atom Gauge-Theory Quantum Simulator

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 141601 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Researchers observe atoms trapped in an optical lattice mimicking particles created in a strong electric field.

Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions $B (B_{c}^{+} \to J / ψ τ^{+} ν_{τ}) / B (B_{c}^{+} \to J / ψ μ^{+} ν_{μ})$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 141801 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

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Observation of a $B_{c}^{* +}$ Meson with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 141901 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Observation of $ϒ (1 S) + Z$ Associated Production and Measurement of the Effective Double-Parton Scattering Cross Section in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 141902 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Observation of Nuclear Suppression in Coherent $ϒ (1 S)$ Photoproduction off Heavy Nuclei at the LHC

A. Belyaev et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 142301 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Spin Teleportation via Bell-Triplet States Emergent from Proton-Proton Scattering

Z. X. Shen, H. Y. Shang, Y. G. Ma, D. Bai, S. M. Wang, Z. C. Xu, Y. Ayyad, and C. Filgueira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 142501 (2026) - Published 30 September, 2026

Neutron Drip Line in Calcium Isotopes from a Chiral Interaction

B. S. Hu, A. Ekström, C. Forssén, G. Hagen, W. G. Jiang, T. Miyagi, and T. Papenbrock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 142502 (2026) - Published 30 September, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Programming Coherent and Quantum Light with a Free-Electron Wavepacket

Songyu Zhu, Yushan Zeng, Chenhao Pan, Yiming Pan, Ye Tian, and Ruxin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 143601 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Giant Photon Blockade with Multiple Atoms

Xin Liu, Qing-Hong Liao, Qing-Yue Zhang, and Yong-Chun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 143602 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Optical Depth Dictates Universal Bounds on Many-Body Decay in Atomic Ensembles

Cosimo C. Rusconi, Eric Sierra, Wai-Keong Mok, Avishi Poddar, Simon B. Jäger, and Ana Asenjo-Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 143603 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Solubility Enhanced Surfactant-Induced Flow in Air-Liquid-Air Sheets

Jun Eshima, Tristan Aurégan, Emmanuel Villermaux, Howard A. Stone, and Luc Deike

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 144001 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Emergence of Purely Elastoplastic Turbulence in Shear Flows

Muhammad Abdullah, Shravan Pradeep, Doug J. Jerolmack, Becca Thomases, and Paulo E. Arratia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 144002 (2026) - Published 30 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Kinematic and Rheological Equivalence of Steady Shearing and Planar Extensional Flows

Nicholas King and Gareth H. McKinley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 144003 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Complete Reflection of Nonlinear Electromagnetic Waves in Underdense Pair Plasmas Enabled by Dynamically Formed Bragg-like Structures

Kavin Tangtartharakul, Alexey Arefiev, and Maxim Lyutikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 145201 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Unconventional Superconductivity from Lattice Quantum Disorder

Yu-Cheng Zhu, Jia-Xi Zeng, and Xin-Zheng Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146001 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

High Hole Doping Redirects Pressure-Induced Phase Transformation of Silicon

Tong Zhao, Shulin Zhong, Yuxin Sun, Defan Wu, Zhidan Zeng, Yilun Wang, Chunyi Zhang, Rui Shi, Hao Chen, Qunlin Nie, Zhenyi Ni, Xiaodong Pi, Xiangyang Ma, Yunhao Lu, and Deren Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146101 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

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Structural Phase Separation Couples to Charge-Density-Wave Formation in Kagome Metal FeGe

Boyang Zhao, Youngjun Ahn, Qinwen Deng, Yidai Liu, Sijie Xu, Donald A. Walko, Stephan O. Hruszkewycz, Pengcheng Dai, Liang Wu, and Haidan Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146102 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

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Giant Dielectric Anisotropy and Enhanced In-Plane Conductivity in Nanoconfined Water

Mehdi Neek-Amal and Francois M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146201 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Researchers have proposed that long-range molecular dipole correlations alter water’s electrical properties when it’s confined in a gap a few nanometers wide.

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146301 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Quantum-Geometry-Enabled Landau-Zener Tunneling in Singular Flat Bands

Xuanyu Long and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146302 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Many-Body Correlation Effects in Fröhlich Electron-Phonon Coupling

Zien Zhu, Chih-En Hsu, Benran Zhang, Zhenfa Zheng, Mauro Del Ben, Antonios M. Alvertis, Hung-Chung Hsueh, and Zhenglu Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146401 (2026) - Published 30 September, 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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146501 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Role of the Apical Oxygen in Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductors

Samuel Vadnais, Rémi Duchesne, Kristjan Haule, A.-M. S. Tremblay, David Sénéchal, and Benjamin Bacq-Labreuil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146502 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Nonlocal Edge Mode Hybridization in the Long-Range Interacting Kitaev Chain

David Haink, Andreas A. Buchheit, Christof Weitenberg, and Benedikt Fauseweh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146503 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Emergent Andreev Reflection from a Lattice Duality Defect

Atsushi Ueda, Tokiro Numasawa, Boris De Vos, and Masataka Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146504 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

General Construction from Topological Loop States to Topological Invariants in Exactly Flat Bands

Rui-Heng Liu, Jiangping Hu, and Chen Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146601 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Temporal Topology and Nonreciprocity Hidden in Homogeneous Dissipation

Aoxi Wang, Yafei Zhang, and Chang Qing Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146602 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

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Quantized Heat Flow in the Hofstadter Butterfly

A. Zhang, G. Aissani, Q. Dong, Y. Jin, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Altimiras, P. Roche, J.-M. Berroir, E. Baudin, G. Fève, G. C. Ménard, O. Maillet, and F. D. Parmentier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 146603 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Heat flow in the Chern Insulator states of the Hofstadter butterfly is obtained in a graphene/hBN moiré for the first time.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Shifting Erasure Cost below the Landauer Bound with a Demon-Biased Thermal Bath

Salambô Dago and Ludovic Bellon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 147101 (2026) - Published 30 September, 2026

Criticality and Universality of the Generalized Kuramoto Model

Zhongpu Qiu, Tianyi Wu, Sheng Fang, Jun Meng, and Jingfang Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 147201 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

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Singular Basins in Multiscale Systems: Tunneling between Stable States

S. Yanchuk, S. Wieczorek, H. Jardón-Kojakhmetov, and H. Alkhayuon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 147202 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Simplified models of systems with fast and slow dynamics can miss a narrow region of phase space—a “singular funnel”—leading to misleading predictions of the system’s behavior.

Volume 137, Issue 14 (partial)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Condensed Matter and Materials

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics