Yaofeng Xie, Sijie Xu, Yu Pan, Taekoo Oh, Tingjun Zhang, Masaaki Matsuda, Zhaoyu Liu, Zehao Wang, Yiheng Wang, Siyu Pan, Avishek Maity, Sylwia Pawledzio, Xiaoping Wang, Songxue Chi, Feng Ye, Yiqing Hao, Huibo Cao, Barry L. Winn, Melissa K. Graves-Brook, Shuai Wu, Fan Li, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Claudia Felser, Naoto Nagaosa, and Pengcheng Dai
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041001 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026
Neutron scattering experiments on reveal that a dynamic spin nematic state coupled to magnetic fields generates scalar spin chirality, driving anomalous Hall and Nernst effects in the paramagnetic phase.
Tai-Hsuan Yang, Bowen Shi, and Jong Yeon Lee
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041002 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026
A quantum information framework classifies mixed-state topological phases for open quantum systems, introducing phase invariants based on an information convex set, memory capacity, and secret sharing.
Wai-Keong Mok, Tobias Haug, Wen Wei Ho, and John Preskill
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041003 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026
Researchers introduce Scrooge -designs to quantify how constrained quantum systems achieve universal randomness and deep thermalization.
Lukas J. Fiderer, Paul C. Barth, Isaac D. Smith, and Hans J. Briegel
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041004 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026
An information-theoretic model of agents, i.e., complex self-organizing systems, shows that agents must forget parts of their past actions in order to operate at thermodynamic efficiency.
Fuwei Yang, Wenjiang Zhou, Yelingyi Wang, Yuxi Wang, Deli Peng, Quanshui Zheng, and Bai Song
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041005 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026
Structural superlubricity between gold micromesas and graphite enables high, wear-free interfacial thermal conductance that remains insensitive to sliding and rotation.
Sahas Kamat, Jared Dans, Shanta Saha, Daniel F. Agterberg, Johnpierre Paglione, and B. J. Ramshaw
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041006 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026
Ultrasound measurements in uranium ditelluride () reveal precursor superconducting fluctuations up to twice the critical temperature, providing high kinetic inductance in a clean material.
Jing Song, Yifan Wang, Xuan Zhao, Yuxuan Song, Song Liu, Chen Hu, and Yang Xu
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041007 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026
Hydrostatic pressure continuously tunes the moiré potential in semiconductor superlattices, driving a crossover to a strong-moiré regime that hybridizes Wannier-Rydberg and charge-transfer excitons.
Eleanor Crane, Kevin C. Smith, Teague Tomesh, Alec Eickbusch, John M. Martyn, Stefan Kühn, Lena Funcke, Michael Austin DeMarco, Isaac L. Chuang, Nathan Wiebe, Alexander Schuckert, and Steven M. Girvin
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041008 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026
Researchers develop a hybrid qubit-boson quantum processor framework to simulate interacting fermions, bosons, and lattice gauge fields.
Anna Soper, Danial Shadmany, Adam L. Shaw, Lukas Palm, David I. Schuster, and Jonathan Simon
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041009 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026
A scalable cavity array microscope architecture is presented, featuring over 600 independent optical cavities for parallelized light-matter interactions, providing opportunities for quantum networking and sensing applications.
Ruchira Mishra, Jiaozi Wang, Silvia Pappalardi, and Luca V. Delacrétaz
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041010 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026
Researchers establish an effective field theory capturing late-time out-of-time-order correlators to uncover hidden transport parameters.
Abhineet Singh Rajput and Amir A. Pahlavan
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041011 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026
Soft elastic fibers in microfluidic channels can create a fluid system with memory of previous actions through a flow-structure feedback.
Othmane Benhayoune-Khadraoui, Cristóbal Lledó, and Alexandre Blais
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041012 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026
Researchers show that auxiliary circuit modes trigger multiphoton resonances that break down Kerr-cat qubit coherence under strong driving.
Zhi Li, Takato Mori, and Beni Yoshida
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041013 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026
Researchers demonstrate that bipartite Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement cannot be distilled from tripartite Haar random states by local operations.
Shengqi Sang, Leonardo A. Lessa, Roger S. K. Mong, Tarun Grover, Chong Wang, and Timothy H. Hsieh
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041014 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026
Researchers establish a framework using local reversibility to correctly classify phases of matter in open and noisy quantum systems.
Takeshi Hayashida, Koei Matsumoto, Keito Arakawa, Yves Joly, Sergio Di Matteo, Kenji Tamasaku, Yoshikazu Tanaka, and Tsuyoshi Kimura
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041015 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026
X-ray absorption spectroscopy under an applied electric field uncovers signatures of hidden higher-order magnetic multipoles in hematite (), supported by theoretical calculations.
Sena Watanabe, Yukitoshi Motome, and Haruki Watanabe
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041016 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026
A theoretical framework for arbitrary-spin pyrochlore spin ice reveals that = 3/2 magnets alone switch abruptly between two distinct spin-liquid states, a transition that survives the thermal fluctuations that wash all the other transitions into crossovers.
Yue Xie, Haohao Sheng, Quansheng Wu, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang, Hongming Weng, and Zhijun Wang
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041017 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026
Extension of time-reversal-doubled axion insulators to nonsymmorphic crystals establishes a spin-resolved classification scheme and identifies mixed bismuth monohalides as candidate materials.
Shraddha Singh, Baptiste Royer, and Steven M. Girvin
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041018 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026
Researchers extend quantum signal processing to noncommuting control variables, enabling analytical control of hybrid oscillator-qubit quantum processors.
Raymond F. Smith, Saransh Singh, Zixuan Ye, Marius Millot, Melissa Sims, Anirudh Hari, Jon H. Eggert, Federica Coppari, and June K. Wicks
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041019 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026
Shockwave observations resolve the high pressure structural transition and melting temperature of MgO, a critical planetary building block.
Philipp Westhoff, Mattia Moroder, Ulrich Schollwöck, and Sebastian Paeckel
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041020 (2026) - Published 21 October, 2026
Researchers develop a tensor-network framework using complex-time evolution to accurately compute low-lying excitation spectra of open quantum systems.
Leonardo Biagetti, Maciej Łebek, Miłosz Panfil, and Jacopo De Nardis
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041021 (2026) - Published 21 October, 2026
The BBGKY hierarchy is generalized to systems with strong integrable contact interactions and generic long-range two-body ones, enabling the computation of experimentally measurable expectation values and correlations for classical and quantum systems.
Wenyao Liu et al.
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041022 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026
Edge-mediated nonlocal transport measurements in thin devices reveal a robust conductance plateau governed by spontaneous magnetic ordering.
A. G. Abac et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. X 16, 041023 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026
Numerous well-motivated particle-physics-based models are constrained using the most recent LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave data.