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Spin Nematic Liquid Crystal and Scalar Spin Chirality in Tetragonal Lattice YbMnBi2

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 YbMnBi2 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.

Topological Mixed States: Phases of Matter from Axiomatic Approaches

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.

Nature Is Stingy: Universality of Scrooge Ensembles in Quantum Many-Body Systems

Wai-Keong Mok, Tobias Haug, Wen Wei Ho, and John Preskill

Phys. Rev. X 16, 041003 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Researchers introduce Scrooge k-designs to quantify how constrained quantum systems achieve universal randomness and deep thermalization.

Information Thermodynamics of Agents: The Work Capacity of Channels with Memory

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.

Moving Heterointerface with Robustly High Thermal Conductance

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.

Vanishing Phase Stiffness and Fluctuation-Dominated Superconductivity in UTe2

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 (UTe2) reveal precursor superconducting fluctuations up to twice the critical temperature, providing high kinetic inductance in a clean material.

Observation of Wannier-Rydberg and Charge-Transfer Hybrid Moiré Excitons under Pressure

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.

Hybrid Oscillator-Qubit Quantum Processors: Simulating Fermions, Bosons, and Gauge Fields

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.

Stability, Degeneracy, and Scalability of a 600-Site Cavity Array Microscope

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.

Theory of Out-of-Time-Ordered Transport

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.

Fluidic Hysterons and Memory in Flow Networks

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.

Breakdown of the Kerr-Cat Qubit Tunneling Time Induced by Auxiliary Circuit Modes

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.

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