Volume 137, Issue 16

16 October 2026

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On the Cover

Planck CMB temperature data (blue to red spans 100 $\mu$K) from 25 galaxy clusters showing a dipole signal from rotating intracluster gas. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Evidence of Galaxy Cluster Rotation and Intrahalo Gas Motions in the Cosmic Microwave Background
Samuel Goldstein and J. Colin Hill
Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 161001 (2026)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Photon-Statistics Time Delay in Quantum Attosecond Photoelectron Interferometry

Liding Li, Xu Zhang, Shouyu Xiao, Yang Li, Peixiang Lu, and Yueming Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 163201 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Photoelectron interference can reveal otherwise hidden properties of quantum light through an apparent attosecond time shift.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Poling of a Quantum Ferroelectric Metal across the Order-Disorder Phase Transition

Mohamed Kandil, Yasuhide Tomioka, Yafei Ren, Ryan Comes, Isao H. Inoue, and Wencan Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166801 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

An ultrafast optical technique uncovers new clues to the origin of bulk polarization in quantum ferroelectric materials.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence of Galaxy Cluster Rotation and Intrahalo Gas Motions in the Cosmic Microwave Background

Samuel Goldstein and J. Colin Hill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 161001 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Thomson scattering of cosmic microwave background photons off rotating intracluster gas reveals a secondary anisotropy associated with the rotational kinematic Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect.

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Observation of Superlubricity at Commensurate Moiré Graphite Interfaces

Weipeng Chen, Jin Wang, Quanshui Zheng, and Zhanghui Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166201 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Robust superlubricity in commensurate moirapos{e} patterns is experimentally demonstrated for the first time.

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Orbitronics: Orbit-Spin Interconversions for Long-Range Orbital Propagation Enabled by Spin Current

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166701 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Long distance orbital effects in light elements like titanium are not due to long orbital diffusion lengths, but rather by a multistep mechanism in which orbital accumulation is locally converted into spin current that mediates long-range transport and is reconverted at a distant interface.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Geometric Optimization over Quantum State Spaces: Tight Uncertainty Relations and Resource Certification

Ma-Cheng Yang and Cong-Feng Qiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 160201 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Far-from-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Non-Abelian Thermal States

Franklin L. S. Rodrigues and Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 160401 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Magnetic Domains Stabilized by Symmetry-Protected Zero Modes

Pavel Kos, Dominik S. Wild, and Kristian Knakkergaard Nielsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 160402 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Superextensive Charging Power in the Absence of Global Operations

Anupam Sarkar, Sheryl Mathew, and Sibasish Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 160403 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Digital Dissipative State Preparation for Frustration-Free Gapless Quantum Systems

Johannes Feldmeier, Yu-Jie Liu, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Soonwon Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 160404 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Lévy-Khintchine Structure Enables Fast-Forwardable Lindbladian Simulation

Minbo Gao, Zhengfeng Ji, and Chenghua Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 160405 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation with Quantum Feedback

Ryotaro Honma and Tan Van Vu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 160406 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Distributed Quantum Simulation

Tianfeng Feng, Jue Xu, Wenjun Yu, Zekun Ye, Penghui Yao, and Qi Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 160601 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Large-Scale Implementation of Quantum Subspace Expansion with Classical Shadows

Laurin E. Fischer, Daniel Bultrini, Timothée Dao, Ivano Tavernelli, and Francesco Tacchino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 160602 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Multipartite Mixed-Species Entanglement over a Quantum Network

D. Main, P. Drmota, E. M. Ainley, A. Agrawal, D. Webb, S. Saner, O. Bǎzǎvan, B. C. Nichol, R. Srinivas, D. P. Nadlinger, G. Araneda, and D. M. Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 160801 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Bayesian Phase Stabilization at the Shot-Noise Limit for Scalable Quantum Networks

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 160802 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence of Galaxy Cluster Rotation and Intrahalo Gas Motions in the Cosmic Microwave Background

Samuel Goldstein and J. Colin Hill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 161001 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Thomson scattering of cosmic microwave background photons off rotating intracluster gas reveals a secondary anisotropy associated with the rotational kinematic Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect.

Universal Closed Form for Dynamical Love Numbers of Black Holes

Mikhail P. Solon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 161401 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Neutrino Emissivity in $Δ$ -Direct-Urca Processes inside Neutron Stars

Yogeesh N, Monika Sinha, and Vishal Parmar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 161402 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Particles and Fields

Perturbative Approach to Symmetric Mass Generation

Simon M. Martin and Tarun Grover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 161601 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Hidden Simplicity in AdS Spinning Mellin Amplitudes via Scaffolding

Song He (何颂), Xiang Li (李想), Yuyu Mo (莫裕宇), and Dongyu Yang (杨东昱)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 161602 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Geometry of In-In Correlators

Ross Glew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 161603 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Proton’s Isovector Parton Distribution Function with Updated Analysis of Large-Momentum Lattice Data

Xiangdong Ji and Yushan Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 161901 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Real-Time String Dynamics in a $2 + 1 D$ Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theory: String Breaking, Glueball Formation, Baryon Blockade, and Tension Reduction

Giovanni Cataldi, Simone Orlando, and Jad C. Halimeh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 161902 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Particle Correlations in Jets

Wenbin Zhao, Volker Koch, and Feng Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 162301 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Time-Dependent Wave-Packet Approach to Reactions for Quantum Computation

Evan Rule and Ionel Stetcu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 162501 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Precision Hypernuclear Structure from Interaction Cross Sections

Carlos A. Bertulani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 162502 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Most Degenerate Chiral Doublet Bands in Nuclei

W. Z. Xu (许文政) et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 162503 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

${}^{16}O (p, γ) {}^{17}F$ Reaction and the C and O Isotopic Ratios in Red Giant Branch Stars

D. Robb et al. (LUNA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 162701 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Photon-Statistics Time Delay in Quantum Attosecond Photoelectron Interferometry

Liding Li, Xu Zhang, Shouyu Xiao, Yang Li, Peixiang Lu, and Yueming Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 163201 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Photoelectron interference can reveal otherwise hidden properties of quantum light through an apparent attosecond time shift.

Transient Alignment of Distinct $l$ -Doubling Populations via Centrifugal Distortion Precompensation

Inbar Sternbach, Kfir Rutman Moshe, Amit Beer, Soumitra Hazra, and Sharly Fleischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 163202 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

High-Performance Quantum Frequency Conversion from Ultraviolet to Telecom Band

Yi Yang, Bin Wang, Ji-Chao Lin, Yang Gao, Xin Li, Jiu-Peng Chen, Lei Hou, Ye Wang, Yong Wan, Xiu-Ping Xie, Ming-Yang Zheng, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 163601 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Magnon Kerr Effect in a Magnetic Thin Film Strongly Coupled to a Microwave Resonator

Davit Petrosyan, Hiroki Matsumoto, Hanchen Wang, Jamal Ben Youssef, Richard Schlitz, William Legrand, and Pietro Gambardella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 163602 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

First-Principles Calculations of Internal Conversion Processes in Spin Defects

Stefano Paolo Villani, Yu Jin, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 163603 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Minimum Energy and Photon Content in $P T$ -Symmetric Metamaterials

J. B. Pendry and S. A. R. Horsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 163604 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Exact Coherent Structures as Building Blocks of Turbulence on Spatially Extended Domains

Dmitriy Zhigunov and Jacob Page

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 164001 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Thin-Film Drainage Becomes Singular at Saddles

Simeon Djambov, Alice Marcotte, François Gallaire, and Pier Giuseppe Ledda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 164002 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Statistical Limitations on Detecting Diamagnetic Suppression of Reconnection at Earth’s Magnetopause

Nicolas Aunai, Bayane Michotte de Welle, Ambre Ghisalberti, and Benoit Lavraud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 165201 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Local Relaxation and Scale-Dependent Alignment in Compressible, Magnetized Turbulence

James R. Beattie and Amitava Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 165202 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Condensed Matter and Materials

Multiterminal Quasiballistic Josephson Effect in Monocrystalline Gold

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166001 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Topological Defects Control Dynamic Crossover in Glass-Forming Liquids

Y. J. Lü, C. C. Jin, Y. J. Hou, K. Yang, H. R. Qin, Z. W. Wu, and W. H. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166101 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Hybrid Ab Initio and Empirical Machine Learning Models for the Potential Energy Surface

Pablo Peña-Cano and Pablo M. Piaggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166102 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Superlubricity at Commensurate Moiré Graphite Interfaces

Weipeng Chen, Jin Wang, Quanshui Zheng, and Zhanghui Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166201 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Robust superlubricity in commensurate moirapos{e} patterns is experimentally demonstrated for the first time.

Insulating Out-of-Plane Transport in Anisotropic Metals: The Case of ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ and Related Layered Oxides

Sophie Beck, Matthew Shammami, Lorenzo Van Muñoz, Jason Kaye, Antoine Georges, and Jernej Mravlje

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166301 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Restoring the Surface Magnetic Gap in ${MnBi}_{2} {Te}_{4}$

Ce Bian, Hengxin Tan, and Wenhui Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166401 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Transport and Temperature: Exact Spectrum and Drude Weight for the One-Dimensional Infinite- $U$ Hubbard Model

Shuo Liu, Yuhao Ma, Hitesh J. Changlani, Philip W. Phillips, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166501 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Revealing the Nature of the Charge Density Wave Order of ${ErTe}_{3}$ via Raman Scattering under Anisotropic Strain

Théotime Freitas, Mattia Udina, Alexandr Alekhin, Niloufar Nilforoushan, Sarah Houver, Alain Sacuto, Benito A. Gonzalez, Ian R. Fisher, Indranil Paul, and Yann Gallais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166502 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Wilson-Loop-Ideal Bands and General Idealization

Awwab A. Azam, Biao Lian, Shinsei Ryu, and Jiabin Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166601 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Orbitally Tuned Composite-Fermion Pairing Transitions in Bilayer Graphene

Ravi Kumar, Tomer Firon, André Haug, Misha Yutushui, Alon Ner Gaon, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, David F. Mross, and Yuval Ronen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166602 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Interacting Chern Insulator Transition on the Sphere: Revealing the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa Criticality

Zhi-Qiang Gao, Taige Wang, and Dung-Hai Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166603 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbitronics: Orbit-Spin Interconversions for Long-Range Orbital Propagation Enabled by Spin Current

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166701 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Fourier-Space Approach to Physics-Informed Magnetization Reconstruction from Nitrogen-Vacancy Measurements

Alexander Setescak, Florian Bruckner, Dieter Suess, Young-Gwan Choi, Hayden Binger, Lotte Boer, Chenhui Zhang, Hyunsoo Yang, Claire Donnelly, Uri Vool, and Claas Abert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166702 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Poling of a Quantum Ferroelectric Metal across the Order-Disorder Phase Transition

Mohamed Kandil, Yasuhide Tomioka, Yafei Ren, Ryan Comes, Isao H. Inoue, and Wencan Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 166801 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

An ultrafast optical technique uncovers new clues to the origin of bulk polarization in quantum ferroelectric materials.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Thermodynamically Consistent Machine Learning Potentials for Constant-Potential Simulations

Zichen Song, Jiaqi Wang, Jian Han, and Lei Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 168001 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Stress Relaxation Driven by Elementary Plastic Events in Nonaging Liquid Foams

Florian Schott, Benjamin Dollet, Christian M. Schlepütz, Cyrille Claudet, Stefan Gstöhl, Rajmund Mokso, Stéphane Santucci, and Christophe Raufaste

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 168201 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

ERRATA

Erratum: Dynamical Orbital Angular Momentum Induced by Circularly Polarized Phonons [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 066301 (2026)]

Dapeng Yao, Dongwook Go, Yuriy Mokrousov, and Shuichi Murakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 169901 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026