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Volume 137, Issue 15 (partial)

9 October 2026
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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Stochastic Elastohydrodynamics of Soft Valves

Mengfei He, Sungkyu Cho, Gianna Dafflisio, Sitaram Emani, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 158401 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

A simplified model of the heart’s mitral valve shows that flow fluctuations can cause a soft valve to close at about one-tenth the pressure required under steady flow.

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Collisionless Accretion of Finite-Angular-Momentum Plasma onto a Spinning Black Hole

John M. Mehlhaff, Alexander Y. Chen, Martin Luepker, and Yajie Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 155201 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

The first fully kinetic collisionless model of a rotating plasma accreting into a black hole reveals the role of pair creation and the plasma loading of the jet funnel.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Observation of the Transition from Reversible to Irreversible Decoherence of Mesoscopic Quantum Superpositions

Ri-Hua Zheng, Jia-Hao Lü, Fan Wu, Yan Xia, Li-Hua Lin, Zhen-Biao Yang, and Shi-Biao Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 150201 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Engineered Diabatic Transition under Arbitrarily Slow Evolution via Phase-Difference Manipulation

Oubo You, Zhaoqi Jiang, Jinhui Shi, Qing Dai, Chunying Guan, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 150801 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Signatures from Pion Condensation and Lepton Flavor Asymmetries in the Cosmological Gravitational Wave Background

Osvaldo Ferreira, Eduardo S. Fraga, and Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 151001 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Particles and Fields

Two-Dimensional Transverse-Momentum Subtraction and Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering at Next-to-Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Liang Dong, Shen Fang, Jun Gao, Hai Tao Li, Ding Yu Shao, Hua Xing Zhu, and Yu Jiao Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 151901 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Polarization by Intense Laser Pulses

Hanxu Zhang, Tao Li, and Xu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 152501 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Micromotion Area as Proxy for Anomalous Floquet Topological Systems

Luca Asteria, Klaus Sengstock, André Eckardt, and Christof Weitenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 153401 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Long-Lived Spin Coherence in a Densely Populated Stoichiometric Rare-Earth Crystal

Mucheng Guo, Zhehao Xu, Weiye Sun, Wanting Xiao, Zongfeng Li, Matthew J. Sellars, Rose L. Ahlefeldt, Fudong Wang, Shuping Liu, and Manjin Zhong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 153601 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Collisionless Accretion of Finite-Angular-Momentum Plasma onto a Spinning Black Hole

John M. Mehlhaff, Alexander Y. Chen, Martin Luepker, and Yajie Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 155201 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

The first fully kinetic collisionless model of a rotating plasma accreting into a black hole reveals the role of pair creation and the plasma loading of the jet funnel.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Eight-Unit-Cell Electronic Modulations in Cuprates Originating from Local Molecular Orbitals

Zhiheng Yao, Sixuan Chen, Jianfa Zhao, Shusen Ye, Weixiang Qu, Ning Xia, Yuling Dai, Luchuan Shi, Hongrui Zhang, Zhenqi Hao, Changqing Jin, Shuo Yang, and Yayu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 156001 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Microscopic Signatures of Chern Number Sign Reversal in Twisted Bilayer WSe2

Ke Lv, Ya-Ning Ren, and Lin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 156201 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Néel-Antiferromagnet-Proximitized Superconductivity in the NbSe2/MnPS3 Heterostructures

Xinyi Zheng, Ruihuan Duan, Xilin Feng, Desheng Wu, Xue Yang, Lihong Hu, Lei Xu, Sicheng Zhou, Siyuan Zhou, Ximing Zhang, Zishuo Peng, Bingbing Tong, Peiling Li, Junya Feng, Zhaozheng Lyu, Hua Ke, Jie Shen, Jianlin Luo, Fanming Qu, Zheng Liu, Kam Tuen Law, Guangtong Liu, and Li Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 156301 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Criticality on Rényi Defects at (2+1)D O(3) Quantum Critical Points

Yanzhang Zhu, Zhe Wang, Meng Cheng, and Zheng Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 156501 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Demonstration of Robust Chiral Edge Transport in Field-Induced Chern Insulator MnBi2Te4 Devices with Engineered Geometric Defects

Pinyuan Wang, Jun Ge, Jiawei Luo, Xiaoqi Liu, Jiayi Yang, Fucong Fei, Fengqi Song, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 156601 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Magnetic Exchange-Coupled Superconducting Devices with Broken Symmetry for Cryogenic Memory

Josep Ingla-Aynés, Lina Johnsen Kamra, Franklin Dai, Yasen Hou, Shouzhuo Yang, Peng Chen, Oleg A. Mukhanov, and Jagadeesh S. Moodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 157001 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Machine Learning Topological Defect Formation: When Are the Defects Made?

Fumika Suzuki, Ying Wai Li, and Wojciech H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 157301 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Quantitative and Bond-Traceable Resonant X-Ray Optical Tensors of Organic Molecules

Victor Murcia, Obaid Alqahtani, Harlan Heilman, and Brian A. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 158001 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS
EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stochastic Elastohydrodynamics of Soft Valves

Mengfei He, Sungkyu Cho, Gianna Dafflisio, Sitaram Emani, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 158401 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

A simplified model of the heart’s mitral valve shows that flow fluctuations can cause a soft valve to close at about one-tenth the pressure required under steady flow.

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