30% of PRL authors use End Matter after just a year! I’ve seen it improve many a Letter. #PeerReviewWeek

I'd like to thank everyone who helped carefully & quickly vet this Letter & bring it to publication: authors, editors, other staff, and especially the referees. (Received 13 August 2025; revised 25 August 2025; accepted 26 August 2025; published 10 September 2025) journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

** STEPHEN HAWKING WAS RIGHT ** Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the @LIGO-@ego_virgo-@KAGRA_PR Collaboration has shown the 2nd law of black hole mechanics, Hawking's area law (A_final > A_initial), to hold with high credibility. PRL: go.aps.org/3VarXHA #open

Speculative but intriguing proposal for a neutrino laser using superradiant ν emission from a Bose-Einstein condensate of radioactive ⁸³Rb PRL: go.aps.org/3KaIvg4 #OpenAccess PhysMag: go.aps.org/3V6Sp4U

Gravitational field equations describing binary black holes can be recast in a form resembling coupled Maxwell’s equations for electrodynamics PRL: go.aps.org/4g0K9g6 🧪⚛️

g-2 of the muon has been measured to 127 parts per billion, a_𝜇 = 0. 001 165 920 705(148), agreeing with previous experimental results. Theory predictions now largely agree. PRL: go.aps.org/45IL4OY #OpenAccess PhysMag: go.aps.org/45KNYmo

Fun PRL about chainmail: "In this Letter, we propose a rigidity theory for a type of interlocked material system: the torus knot tessellation." go.aps.org/3HsuObE 🧪⚛️

Meet our new Lead Editor*: Rafael Fernandes @uofillinois.bsky.social journals.aps.org/prl/edannoun... *To avoid confusion, I'm not going anywhere. He will work with me as an advisor in my role as Chief Editor.

Will this idea spread? You all determine that. Self-Reinforcing Cascades: A Spreading Model for Beliefs or Products of Varying Intensity or Quality journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... #OpenAccess 🧪⚛️

Next in PRL’s series of forward-looking Essays, Che Ting Chan highlights how photonic crystals can be used to study a wide variety of physical phenomena and technologies go.aps.org/3Jn8QHy #OpenAccess 🧪⚛️

AI is used to quickly assemble ~2000 atoms without defects. As a fun demonstration of the technique, the authors created a #CatVideo about Schrödinger's cat—each pixel is an atom. PRL: go.aps.org/40Sx1ne PhysMag: go.aps.org/4fyNPps

Photonic torons with 3D topology transitions and tunable spin monopoles PRL: go.aps.org/4l9fLRH #CoolVideo 🧪⚛️

New twist: Using the JWST for direct* detection of dark matter * within the detector, not via a process such as annihilation in the distance journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... 🧪⚛️

Observation of Residual Entanglement in Entanglement Purification go.aps.org/4fkflqA 🧪⚛️

#PRLjournalclub Please join us on Thursday, July 24th, 9p EDT for a live discussion with the authors of: "Establishing a New Benchmark in Quantum Computational Advantage with 105-qubit Zuchongzhi 3.0 Processor" go.aps.org/44UlYeg Free Registration: go.aps.org/45aKKYV

PRL's latest forward-looking Essay: Using Machine Learning for Antibiotic Discovery journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... 🧪⚛️

Here are PRL's metrics journals.aps.org/prl/about •PRL is large, so not buffeted by its highest-cited papers •A PRL is cited almost once a minute •PRL is 60x more influential than the average journal •PRL's Google h5 index is 50 more than the next physics journal scholar.google.com/citations?vi...)

IceCube finds no neutrinos above 10 PeV in 12.6 yrs of data • In 2.9σ tension with the ~200 PeV KM3NeT neutrino event • Disfavors the proton-only hypothesis for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays PRL: go.aps.org/40mhziS PhysMag: go.aps.org/4lOm6mg 🧪⚛️

Explanation for runaway stars from the young R136 cluster using data from the Gaia spacecraft: interaction interaction 50K years ago of five stars in a binary & a triplet PRL: go.aps.org/455uNlN PhysMag: go.aps.org/4eGI2NY 🧪⚛️

Particle astrophysics, plasma physics, and cold atoms: A mechanism for accelerating charged particles in astrophysical plasmas has been reproduced with cold atoms in an optical trap PRL: go.aps.org/4nMBr91 Focus: go.aps.org/4lJOm9O 🧪⚛️

Using a bubble chamber, world-leading constraints are placed on the absorption of hypothetical fermionic dark matter, including the first limits on spin-dependent absorptive interactions go.aps.org/4eszJVQ

A metamaterial absorbs & emits very different amounts of light (at the same frequency), strongly breaking Kirchhoff’s law. Such devices could lead to more efficient thermophotovoltaic cells. PRL: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... PhysMag: physics.aps.org/articles/v18... 🧪⚛️

Next in PRL's series of forward-looking Essays (see go.aps.org/3OOyTYP), Tadashi Takayanagi outlines prospects for understanding quantum gravity using holographic duality in the context of quantum information go.aps.org/4kRroxy #OpenAccess

World-leading constraints are placed on dark-matter particles with mass between 100 keV and 1 GeV which could have been boosted to relativistic energies via collisions with cosmic rays go.aps.org/4kK20JR 🧪⚛️ #OpenAccess

Nice interview with PRL's Lead Editor (chief scientific advisor) Hugues Chaté by Science & Technology Daily, and a testimonial about PRL by one of China's leading scientists, Jianwei Pan. digitalpaper.stdaily.com/http_www.kjr...

Schrödinger's trilobites: PRL Cover Caption: Two calculated Rydberg electron distributions for trilobite molecules. journals.aps.org/prl/issues/1...

How Organic Molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) Survive in Space PRL: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... @physicsmagazine.bsky.social: physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

APS has posted a number of new metrics for journals, including decision times. PRL does quite well for a very selective journal (which can entail more review). All: journals.aps.org/metrics PRL: journals.aps.org/prl/about

Fruit flies teach physicists how to roll #robots PRL: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... Story: physics.aps.org/articles/v18... 🧪⚛️

New experiments validate theoretical predictions that superconductivity can be enhanced by Anderson localization in three dimensional systems and demonstrate a novel route to inducing homogeneous disorder go.aps.org/4iZS11e 🧪⚛️

A high-resolution imaging system captures distant objects by shining laser light on them and detecting the reflected light. PRL: go.aps.org/3GM5Lzw Physics: go.aps.org/4mauzBc 🧪⚛️

Analytical results show that regular black holes are the endpoint of gravitational collapse in purely gravitational theory in 5 or more spacetime dimensions PRL: go.aps.org/3EQIsE4 PRD: go.aps.org/3Su9fJj #OpenAccess 🧪⚛️

Three research teams find an innovative way to image atoms in cold gases that could provide deeper insights into the atoms’ quantum correlations. PRLs: go.aps.org/42Ydh1A go.aps.org/4d6uUkD go.aps.org/3EEoSef @physicsmagazine.bsky.social: physics.aps.org/articles/v18... 🧪⚛️

#RIP Joseph H. Eberly, leader in quantum optics. Charles Hard Townes Medal Frederic Ives Medal Marian Smoluchowski Medal OSA President APS & OSA Fellow APS Outstanding Referee Obituary: optica.org/about/newsro... PR&PRLs: journals.aps.org/search/resul...

Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...

The NASA Parker Solar Probe, in probing the solar corona, has placed the most stringent bounds on nano-eV dark photon dark matter. PRL: go.aps.org/4iE05Vt #OpenAccess go.aps.org/4izH4DH 🧪⚛️

Evidence for a new antimatter nucleus: antihyperhelium PRL: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... #openaccess 🧪⚛️ @physicsmagazine.bsky.social: physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

In celebration of #IYQ2025 the Phys. Rev. editors have curated a collection of seminal papers that laid the foundations of the field promo.aps.org/quantum-foun... Editorial: Celebrating the First Century of Quantum Physics & Preparing for the Next One journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... 🧪⚛️

Three of the top 10 cited papers of all time (according to @nature.com) are physics papers, 1 in PRL, 2 in PRB: 4) journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... 8) journals.aps.org/prb/abstract... 10) journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...

Dwarf Galaxies Imply Dark Matter is Heavier than 2.2⨉10⁻²¹eV "This lower limit is free of any assumptions pertaining to cosmology, microphysics (including spin), or dynamics of dark matter [just assumes a] single bosonic particle species." PRL go.aps.org/42EbzCy #OpenAccess 🧪⚛️

The Google Doodle celebrates #WorldQuantumDay doodles.google/doodle/world...

Researchers use a single molecule to control the connection between a normal metal and a superconductor. PRL: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... #OpenAccess @physicsmagazine.bsky.social: physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

Dimming Starlight with Dark Compact Objects "dimming effects from clumps of dark matter in the Galaxy could be searched for in microlensing surveys" PRL: go.aps.org/43LkLXU #OpenAccess 🧪⚛️

"@cern.bsky.social SCOAP3 Open Science Elements results for 2025. Physical Review journals have scored very highly, showcasing APS's ongoing commitment to Open Science initiatives in publishing. PIDs, Metadata, Data, Accessibility, more." [email protected] scoap3.org/journals-202...

The first observation of top-quark pair production in lead-lead collisions at the LHC by @atlasexperiment.bsky.social shows that all quark flavors are present in the pre-equilibrium stage of the quark-gluon plasma. PRL: go.aps.org/4iorRoZ #OpenAccess physics.aps.org/articles/v18... 🧪⚛️

Ferroelectric polarization switching resembles a chemical reaction where domain walls undergo synthesis, decomposition, and exchange reactions PRL: go.aps.org/4iTaFZz 🧪⚛️

A first principles construction of the low-energy effective action for bosonic self-organized quantum quasicrystals reveals five gapless excitation modes Letter: go.aps.org/3E0SF0g @physicsmagazine.bsky.social physics.aps.org/articles/v18... 🧪⚛️

Which Is Which? Identification of the Two Compact Objects in Gravitational-Wave Binaries A semisupervised machine-learning approach PRL: go.aps.org/41Rlndb 🧪⚛️

"We simulated Coulomb explosion dynamics due to fast ionization induced by high-intensity x-rays in six proteins that share similar atomic content and shape…The explosion footprints…provide a unique identifier for each protein." journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... #openaccess 🧪⚛️

State-of-the-art experiments show that Biermann-battery magnetic fields in laser-driven plasmas can produce a magnetized collisionless shock precursor, mimicking the scenario of Venus bow-shock formation go.aps.org/4j7HAcN 🧪⚛️