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Volume 136, Issue 23 journals.aps.org/prl/issues/… Cover: Excited state of ⁸⁰Zr exhibiting tetrahedral symmetry journals.aps.org/prl/issues/…
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Coherent mechanical amplification of a levitated nanoparticle motion achieves impulsive-force sensing 0.6 dB below the oscillator's zero-point momentum fluctuations, with potential uses in dark matter searches. Letter: go.aps.org/4omM5Uq PhysMag: go.aps.org/4utMpSH
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First indications are seen (by @LHCbExperiment) of time-dependent CP violation in a decay of a b quark to a strange quark and a pair of leptons go.aps.org/4oqypYK #OpenAccess
Fig 3: Two-dimensional confidence regions for the parameters C and S from profile likelihood scans. The best fit point agrees with the SM prediction.

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A room-temperature intrinsic nonlinear planar Hall effect in the nonmagnetic topological semimetal TaIrTe₄ reveals how an in-plane magnetic field generates a Berry-connection-polarizability dipole through an orbital mechanism go.aps.org/49ZJHx8
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Polarized inelastic neutron scattering gives the first unambiguous evidence of chirality of the split magnon bands in altermagnetic MnTe go.aps.org/4v6hEEB
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Laser cooling and trapping are used to isolate calcium monohydride, a key step toward producing ultracold atomic hydrogen. Letter: go.aps.org/4egUcgE PhysMag: go.aps.org/3Q8WEho
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An atomically resolved shot-noise study of electron tunneling reveals that vibronic coupling drives electrons to tunnel in bunched groups Letter: go.aps.org/4eck0KW Synopsis: go.aps.org/4vFuoC2
a squiggly red line, a waveform combination of frequencies (something like an EKG) above the bunches of waves are blue dots representing electrons

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A review of @PhysRevLett, Physical Review C, and Review D earned the top score in the 2026 SCOAP3 assessment of open science practices for second consecutive year, showing our commitment to #OpenScience. Learn more: go.aps.org/4eAq2Gs
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A new mechanism for the detection of individual propagating microwave photons that realizes a microwave analogue of the photoelectric effect could be used for practical applications in quantum information and dark matter search go.aps.org/43XmCHN
A colorized scanning electron microscope image of a superconducting island triply connected to superconducting leads overlaid by a schematic of the regular flow of Cooper pairs (blue) as modified by the photoelectric effect (orange).

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A machine learning framework uses the action of a system to improve the speed of molecular dynamics simulations while obeying energy conservation Letter: go.aps.org/4e0PEw4 Synopsis: go.aps.org/4xhpTiD
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Broadband-tunable coherent phonon tips probe functional materials at nanoscale to investigate a variety of optical, electronic, thermodynamic, and mechanical properties go.aps.org/4ef1wJQ
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Skyrmion dislocations exhibit intrinsic core structures possessing large skyrmion deformation and topological phase transitions go.aps.org/4e8wgMn
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#PRLtrending for the week of 8 June 2026 #physics #trending go.aps.org/43InW18 #OpenAccess go.aps.org/4dXP693 #OpenAccess go.aps.org/3Q9YRZN #OpenAccess go.aps.org/4unw8io #OpenAccess
only the following text is displayed in the image Trending in PRL Observable Gravitational Wave Strain at Second Order Guillem Domènech,, Shi Pi, and Ao Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 221402 (2026) Single-Enantiomer Spin Polarizers in Superconducting Junctions Lorenz Meyer, Nicolas Néel, and Jörg Kröger Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 226201 (2026) One-Loop QCD 𝛽 Function as an Index Roland Bittleston and Kevin Costello Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 211601 (2026) Weak-Memory Dynamics in Discrete Time Hugues Meyer and Kay Brandner Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 220401 (2026)

ALT only the following text is displayed in the image Trending in PRL Observable Gravitational Wave Strain at Second Order Guillem Domènech,, Shi Pi, and Ao Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 221402 (2026) Single-Enantiomer Spin Polarizers in Superconducting Junctions Lorenz Meyer, Nicolas Néel, and Jörg Kröger Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 226201 (2026) One-Loop QCD 𝛽 Function as an Index Roland Bittleston and Kevin Costello Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 211601 (2026) Weak-Memory Dynamics in Discrete Time Hugues Meyer and Kay Brandner Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 220401 (2026)

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Volume 136, Issue 22 journals.aps.org/prl/issues/… Cover: Magnon dispersions in FeF₂ along two reciprocal-space directions (top and bottom rows), measured by inelastic neutron scattering (left) and reproduced by spin-wave simulations (right) journals.aps.org/prl/issues/…
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A universal, Baldinlike sum rule reveals that causality fundamentally redistributes acoustic scattering across frequencies, enabling optimal broadband sound suppression with minimal structures Letter: go.aps.org/4dT9Cce Focus: go.aps.org/4odLwMT
Researchers used numerical simulations and experiments to test a new rule for sound waves. The simulations involved acoustic waves propagating through water and scattering from two different resonators—a Helmholtz resonator (left) and a lead-core resonator of periodic construction (right).

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#PRLjournalclub Please join us on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 11 am EDT for a live discussion with the authors of Bühler et al about Microscopy of Cavity-Induced Density-Wave Ordering in Ultracold Gases PRL: go.aps.org/4v7YMW9 Free registration: go.aps.org/43ite3f
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A novel many-body bound state in the continuum induced entirely by uniform off-site 2-body interactions is observed by mapping a quantum 1D Bose-Hubbard model onto a 2D macroscopic phononic crystal go.aps.org/3ROyjOi
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Higher-dimensional topological phases characterized by zero-energy surface crossed flat bands are predicted to emerge in three-dimensional superconducting altermagnets as a generic topological phenomenon protected by intrinsic crystal symmetries go.aps.org/4uhV9LN
The top panel shows the bulk Fermi volume for a d-wave altermagnet (where the cyan and magenta colors indicate up and down spins), and the bottom panel shows the zero-bias conductance as a function of momentum.

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Acoustic magnetochiral anisotropy is observed in a diamagnetic crystal of 𝛼 quartz go.aps.org/43MxBUj
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The ambiguity in associating gravitational waves with transverse-traceless components of the metric at second order in perturbation theory is resolved by computing the detector response to second order for the first time go.aps.org/43InW18 #OpenAccess
Illustration depicting a conceptual representation of gravitational wave strain. The image features wavy grids suggesting the curvature of space-time, with small clocks placed on the grids. An arrow connects two points on the waves, indicating movement.

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