HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES FEATURED IN PHYSICS EDITORS' SUGGESTION QCD Constraints on Isospin-Dense Matter and the Nuclear Equation of State Ryan Abbott, William Detmold, Marc Illa, Assumpta Parreño, Robert J. Perry, Fernando Romero-López, Phiala E. Shanahan, and Michael L. Wagman (NPLQCD Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 011903 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025 Simulations of neutron stars provide new bounds on their properties, such as their internal pressure and their maximum mass. FEATURED IN PHYSICS EDITORS' SUGGESTION Blending Optimal Control and Biologically Plausible Learning for Noise-Robust Physical Neural Networks Satoshi Sunada, Tomoaki Niiyama, Kazutaka Kanno, Rin Nogami, André Röhm, Takato Awano, and Atsushi Uchida Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 017301 (2025) - Published 7 January, 2025 A new training technique could increase the number of physical systems that could serve as AI platforms. EDITORS' SUGGESTION Navier-Stokes Equations for Nearly Integrable Quantum Gases Maciej Łebek and Miłosz Panfil Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010405 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 Navier-Stokes equations are shown to emerge from a generalized hydrodynamics description for nearly integrable 1D models. EDITORS' SUGGESTION Reliability Function of Classical-Quantum Channels Ke Li and Dong Yang Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010802 (2025) - Published 8 January, 2025 Holevo’s conjecture is shown to be true: the reliability function of classical-quantum channels has a general lower bound. EDITORS' SUGGESTION First Joint Oscillation Analysis of Super-Kamiokande Atmospheric and T2K Accelerator Neutrino Data K. Abe et al. (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, T2K Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 011801 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 The T2K and Super-Kamiokande collaborations team up to disfavor C P conservation in neutrino oscillations at the 2 σ level. EDITORS' SUGGESTION First Direct-Detection Results on Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using the SENSEI Detector at SNOLAB Prakruth Adari et al. (SENSEI Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 011804 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025 Using Skipper-CCDs, world-leading constraints are placed on sub-GeV dark matter candidates. EDITORS' SUGGESTION Continuous Collective Strong Coupling of Strontium Atoms to a High Finesse Ring Cavity Julia R. K. Cline, Vera M. Schäfer, Zhijing Niu, Dylan J. Young, Tai Hyun Yoon, and James K. Thompson Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013403 (2025) - Published 10 January, 2025 Continuous loading and transport of ultracold strontium atoms inside a high-finesse cavity is experimentally demonstrated, with implications for continuous cavity QED experiments. EDITORS' SUGGESTION Probing Berry Curvature in Magnetic Topological Insulators through Resonant Infrared Magnetic Circular Dichroism Seul-Ki Bac, Florian Le Mardelé, Jiashu Wang, Mykhaylo Ozerov, Kota Yoshimura, Ivan Mohelský, Xingdan Sun, Benjamin A. Piot, Stefan Wimmer, Andreas Ney, Tatyana Orlova, Maksym Zhukovskyi, Günther Bauer, Gunther Springholz, Xinyu Liu, Milan Orlita, Kyungwha Park, Yi-Ting Hsu, and Badih A. Assaf Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016601 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 An experimental approach involving resonant magnetic circular dichroism in photoabsorption enables Berry curvature detection in topological magnetic materials. EDITORS' SUGGESTION X-Ray Diffraction Reveals the Consequences of Strong Deformation in Thin Smectic Films: Dilation and Chevron Formation Jean de Dieu Niyonzima, Haifa Jeridi, Lamya Essaoui, Caterina Tosarelli, Alina Vlad, Alessandro Coati, Sebastien Royer, Isabelle Trimaille, Michel Goldmann, Bruno Gallas, Doru Constantin, David Babonneau, Yves Garreau, Bernard Croset, Samo Kralj, Randall D. Kamien, and Emmanuelle Lacaze Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 018101 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 A combination of nonlinear theory and x-ray diffraction experiments of smectic liquid crystals reveals the need for a nonlinear energy term to correctly describe the spacing of smectic layers. EDITORS' SUGGESTION Colloidal Crystallization on Cones Jessica H. Sun, Grace H. Zhang, Abigail Plummer, Caroline Martin, Nabila Tanjeem, David R. Nelson, and Vinothan N. Manoharan Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 018201 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 On conical surfaces with sufficiently small cone angle, dislocations allow colloidal crystals to grow beyond the point of geometric frustration. LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Simplest Bipartite Perfect Quantum Strategies Adán Cabello Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010201 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Topologically Robust Quantum Network Nonlocality Sadra Boreiri, Tamás Kriváchy, Pavel Sekatski, Antoine Girardin, and Nicolas Brunner Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010202 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 Orbital Angular Momentum Experiment Converting Contextuality into Nonlocality Jianqi Sheng, Dongkai Zhang, and Lixiang Chen Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010203 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 Anticoncentration and State Design of Random Tensor Networks Guglielmo Lami, Jacopo De Nardis, and Xhek Turkeshi Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010401 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Measuring the Spectral Form Factor in Many-Body Chaotic and Localized Phases of Quantum Processors Hang Dong et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010402 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Stable Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases in Systems with Heralded Noise Sanket Chirame, Fiona J. Burnell, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, and Abhinav Prem Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010403 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Universal Correlations in Chaotic Many-Body Quantum States: Fock-Space Formulation of Berry’s Random Wave Model Florian Schoeppl, Rémy Dubertrand, Juan-Diego Urbina, and Klaus Richter Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010404 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 EDITORS' SUGGESTION Navier-Stokes Equations for Nearly Integrable Quantum Gases Maciej Łebek and Miłosz Panfil Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010405 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 Navier-Stokes equations are shown to emerge from a generalized hydrodynamics description for nearly integrable 1D models. 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Lett. 134, 010411 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025 Experimental Realization of Direct Entangling Gates between Dual-Type Qubits Chenxi Wang, Chuanxin Huang, Hongxuan Zhang, Hongyuan Hu, Zhichao Mao, Panyu Hou, Yukai Wu, Zichao Zhou, and Luming Duan Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010601 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 Programmable Quantum Simulations on a Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer with a Global Drive Yotam Shapira, Jovan Markov, Nitzan Akerman, Ady Stern, and Roee Ozeri Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010602 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025 Compression of Quantum Shallow-Circuit States Yuxiang Yang Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010603 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025 Fundamental Limits of Metrology at Thermal Equilibrium Paolo Abiuso, Pavel Sekatski, John Calsamiglia, and Martí Perarnau-Llobet Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010801 (2025) - Published 7 January, 2025 EDITORS' SUGGESTION Reliability Function of Classical-Quantum Channels Ke Li and Dong Yang Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010802 (2025) - Published 8 January, 2025 Holevo’s conjecture is shown to be true: the reliability function of classical-quantum channels has a general lower bound. Quantum Comb Tomography via Learning Isometries on Stiefel Manifold Ze-Tong Li, Xin-Lin He, Cong-Cong Zheng, Yu-Qian Dong, Tian Luan, Xu-Tao Yu, and Zai-Chen Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010803 (2025) - Published 10 January, 2025 Beyond the Quantum Cramér-Rao Bound J. R. Hervas, A. Z. Goldberg, A. S. Sanz, Z. Hradil, J. Řeháček, and L. L. Sánchez-Soto Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 010804 (2025) - Published 10 January, 2025 Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Star Cluster Population of High Mass Black Hole Mergers in Gravitational Wave Data Fabio Antonini, Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, and Thomas Callister Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 011401 (2025) - Published 7 January, 2025 Particles and Fields Revising the Full One-Loop Gauge Prefactor in Electroweak Vacuum Stability Pietro Baratella, Miha Nemevšek, Yutaro Shoji, Katarina Trailović, and Lorenzo Ubaldi Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 011601 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Multitwist Trajectories and Decoupling Zeros in Conformal Field Theory Alexandre Homrich, David Simmons-Duffin, and Pedro Vieira Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 011602 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 EDITORS' SUGGESTION First Joint Oscillation Analysis of Super-Kamiokande Atmospheric and T2K Accelerator Neutrino Data K. Abe et al. (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, T2K Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 011801 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 The T2K and Super-Kamiokande collaborations team up to disfavor C P conservation in neutrino oscillations at the 2 σ level. Measurement of C P Asymmetries in B 0 → K S 0 π 0 γ Decays at Belle II I. Adachi et al. (Belle II Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 011802 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Test of Lepton Universality and Measurement of the Form Factors of D 0 → K * ( 892 ) − μ + ν μ M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 011803 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 EDITORS' SUGGESTION First Direct-Detection Results on Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using the SENSEI Detector at SNOLAB Prakruth Adari et al. (SENSEI Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 011804 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025 Using Skipper-CCDs, world-leading constraints are placed on sub-GeV dark matter candidates. Dark Matter Search Results from 1.54     Tonne · Year Exposure of PandaX-4T Zihao Bo et al. (PandaX Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 011805 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025 New Standard for the Logarithmic Accuracy of Parton Showers Melissa van Beekveld, Mrinal Dasgupta, Basem Kamal El-Menoufi, Silvia Ferrario Ravasio, Keith Hamilton, Jack Helliwell, Alexander Karlberg, Pier Francesco Monni, Gavin P. 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Lett. 134, 011904 (2025) - Published 7 January, 2025 High-Temperature QCD Static Potential beyond Leading Order Margaret E. Carrington, Cristina Manuel, and Joan Soto Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 011905 (2025) - Published 8 January, 2025 Nuclear Physics Ab Initio Strategy for Taming the Nuclear-Structure Dependence of V u d Extractions: The C 10 → B 10 Superallowed Transition Michael Gennari, Mehdi Drissi, Mikhail Gorchtein, Petr Navrátil, and Chien-Yeah Seng Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 012501 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Near-Threshold Dipole Strength in Be 10 with Isoscalar Character J. Chen et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 012502 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025 Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Single-Beam Grating-Chip 3D and 1D Optical Lattices Alan Bregazzi, James P. McGilligan, Paul F. Griffin, Erling Riis, and Aidan S. Arnold Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013001 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Operating a Multi-Ion Clock with Dynamical Decoupling Nitzan Akerman and Roee Ozeri Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013201 (2025) - Published 8 January, 2025 Quantifying Light-Assisted Collisions in Optical Tweezers across the Hyperfine Spectrum Steven K. Pampel, Matteo Marinelli, Mark O. Brown, José P. D’Incao, and Cindy A. Regal Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013202 (2025) - Published 10 January, 2025 Dirac Points and Shear Instability Induced Crystal Transitions in Honeycomb Supersolids P. B. Blakie Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013401 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Production and Stabilization of a Spin Mixture of Ultracold Dipolar Bose Gases Maxime Lecomte, Alexandre Journeaux, Julie Veschambre, Jean Dalibard, and Raphael Lopes Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013402 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 EDITORS' SUGGESTION Continuous Collective Strong Coupling of Strontium Atoms to a High Finesse Ring Cavity Julia R. K. Cline, Vera M. Schäfer, Zhijing Niu, Dylan J. Young, Tai Hyun Yoon, and James K. Thompson Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013403 (2025) - Published 10 January, 2025 Continuous loading and transport of ultracold strontium atoms inside a high-finesse cavity is experimentally demonstrated, with implications for continuous cavity QED experiments. Nonlinear Optics Using Intense Optical Coherent State Superpositions Th. Lamprou, J. Rivera-Dean, P. Stammer, M. Lewenstein, and P. Tzallas Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013601 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 Chiral Interaction Induced Near-Perfect Photon Blockade Zhi-Guang Lu, Ying Wu, and Xin-You Lü Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013602 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025 Topological Spin States in 3D Coupled Electromagnetic Fields Liang Fang, Yuanjiang Xiang, Qinjun Chen, and Shuangchun Wen Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013801 (2025) - Published 7 January, 2025 Dual-Color Coherent Perfect Absorber Boyi Xue, Jintian Lin, Jiankun Hou, Yicheng Zhu, Ruixin Ma, Xianfeng Chen, Ya Cheng, Li Ge, and Wenjie Wan Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013802 (2025) - Published 7 January, 2025 Perturbation Theory for Resonant States near a Bound State in the Continuum Nan Zhang and Ya Yan Lu Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013803 (2025) - Published 8 January, 2025 Direct Detection of Down-Converted Photons Spontaneously Produced at a Single Josephson Junction Dorian Fraudet, Izak Snyman, Denis M. Basko, Sébastien Léger, Théo Sépulcre, Arpit Ranadive, Gwenael Le Gal, Alba Torras-Coloma, Wiebke Guichard, Serge Florens, and Nicolas Roch Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013804 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025 Janus Bound States in the Continuum with Asymmetric Topological Charges Meng Kang, Meng Xiao, and C. T. Chan Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013805 (2025) - Published 10 January, 2025 Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Phase-Locking Parametric Instability Coupling Longitudinal and Transverse Waves on Rivulets in a Hele-Shaw Cell Grégoire Le Lay and Adrian Daerr Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 014001 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025 Sedimentation Dynamics of Bodies with Two Planes of Symmetry Harshit Joshi and Rama Govindarajan Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 014002 (2025) - Published 7 January, 2025 Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Narrowband Terahertz Emission from a Plasma Oscillator Imbedded in a Plasma Density Gradient Manoj Kumar, Bernhard Ersfeld, Jaeho Lee, Dohyun Park, Seungyun Kim, Inhyuk Nam, Minseok Kim, Seongjin Jeon, Dino A. Jaroszynski, Hyyong Suk, and Min Sup Hur Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 015001 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 Condensed Matter and Materials Cooling and Heating Nuclear Spins by Strongly Localized Electrons D. S. Smirnov and K. V. Kavokin Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016201 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Stability and Mobility of Disconnections in Solute Atmospheres: Insights from Interfacial Defect Diagrams Chongze Hu, Douglas L. Medlin, and Rémi Dingreville Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016202 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 Piezoresistivity as a Fingerprint of Ferroaxial Transitions Ezra Day-Roberts, Rafael M. Fernandes, and Turan Birol Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016401 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 Accurate Correlation Potentials from the Self-Consistent Random Phase Approximation Egor Trushin, Steffen Fauser, Andreas Mölkner, Jannis Erhard, and Andreas Görling Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016402 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025 Effect of Overdamped Phonons on the Fundamental Band Gap of Perovskites Xiangzhou Zhu and David A. Egger Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016403 (2025) - Published 10 January, 2025 Spin Correlations in the Parent Phase of Li 1 − x Fe x ODFeSe Hongliang Wo, Bingying Pan, Die Hu, Yu Feng, A. D. Christianson, and Jun Zhao Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016501 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 Universal Waterfall Feature in Cuprate Superconductors: Evidence of a Momentum-Driven Crossover Benjamin Bacq-Labreuil, Chafic Fawaz, Yuichi Okazaki, Yukiko Obata, Hervé Cercellier, Patrick Le Fèvre, François Bertran, David Santos-Cottin, Hajime Yamamoto, Ikuya Yamada, Masaki Azuma, Koji Horiba, Hiroshi Kumigashira, Matteo d’Astuto, Silke Biermann, and Benjamin Lenz Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016502 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025 Extended Metal-Insulator Crossover with Strong Antiferromagnetic Spin Correlation in Half-Filled 3D Hubbard Model Yu-Feng Song, Youjin Deng, and Yuan-Yao He Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016503 (2025) - Published 10 January, 2025 EDITORS' SUGGESTION Probing Berry Curvature in Magnetic Topological Insulators through Resonant Infrared Magnetic Circular Dichroism Seul-Ki Bac, Florian Le Mardelé, Jiashu Wang, Mykhaylo Ozerov, Kota Yoshimura, Ivan Mohelský, Xingdan Sun, Benjamin A. Piot, Stefan Wimmer, Andreas Ney, Tatyana Orlova, Maksym Zhukovskyi, Günther Bauer, Gunther Springholz, Xinyu Liu, Milan Orlita, Kyungwha Park, Yi-Ting Hsu, and Badih A. Assaf Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016601 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 An experimental approach involving resonant magnetic circular dichroism in photoabsorption enables Berry curvature detection in topological magnetic materials. Light-Induced Torque in Ferromagnetic Metals via Orbital Angular Momentum Generated by Photon Helicity Koki Nukui, Satoshi Iihama, Kazuaki Ishibashi, Shogo Yamashita, Akimasa Sakuma, Philippe Scheid, Grégory Malinowski, Michel Hehn, Stéphane Mangin, and Shigemi Mizukami Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016701 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Room-Temperature Perovskite Ferromagnetic Insulator via Three-Dimensional Tensile Strain Tianyu Li, Yali Yang, Shiqing Deng, Fangyuan Zhu, Tianfu Zhang, Yu Chen, Huanhua Wang, Feixiang Long, Xiaolong Li, Jia-Ou Wang, Tao Zhu, Mingxue Tang, Jiangang He, Oswaldo Diéguez, Er-Jia Guo, and Jun Chen Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016702 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Symmetry-Based Phenomenological Model for Magnon Transport in a Multiferroic Isaac A. Harris, Sajid Husain, Peter Meisenheimer, Maya Ramesh, Hyeon Woo Park, Lucas Caretta, Darrell G. Schlom, Zhi Yao, Lane W. Martin, Jorge Íñiguez-González, Se Kwon Kim, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016703 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Magnetic X-Ray Imaging Using a Single Polarization and Multimodal Ptychography Marisel Di Pietro Martínez, Alexis Wartelle, Nicolas Mille, Stefan Stanescu, Rachid Belkhou, Farid Fettar, Vincent Favre-Nicolin, and Guillaume Beutier Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016704 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Ultrafast Pseudomagnetic Fields from Electron-Nuclear Quantum Geometry Lennart Klebl, Arne Schobert, Martin Eckstein, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Alexander V. Balatsky, and Tim O. Wehling Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016705 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 Hall Mass and Transverse Noether Spin Currents in Noncollinear Antiferromagnets Luke Wernert, Bastián Pradenas, Oleg Tchernyshyov, and Hua Chen Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016706 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 Unconventional Scalings of Quantum Entropies in Long-Range Heisenberg Chains Jiarui Zhao, Nicolas Laflorencie, and Zi Yang Meng Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016707 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025 Observation of Universal Topological Magnetoelectric Switching in Multiferroic GdMn 2 O 5 Haowen Wang, Fan Wang, Ming Yang, Yuting Chang, Mengyi Shi, Liang Li, Jun-Ming Liu, Junfeng Wang, Shuai Dong, and Chengliang Lu Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016708 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025 Symmetry Strategy for Rapid Discovery of Abundant Fractional Quantum Ferroelectrics Guoliang Yu, Junyi Ji, Yingwei Chen, Changsong Xu, and H. J. Xiang Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016801 (2025) - Published 8 January, 2025 Long-Lived Population Inversion in Resonantly Driven Excitonic Antiferromagnet Jacob A. Warshauer, Huyongqing Chen, Daniel Alejandro Bustamante Lopez, Qishuo Tan, Jing Tang, Xi Ling, and Wanzheng Hu Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016901 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025 Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems FEATURED IN PHYSICS EDITORS' SUGGESTION Blending Optimal Control and Biologically Plausible Learning for Noise-Robust Physical Neural Networks Satoshi Sunada, Tomoaki Niiyama, Kazutaka Kanno, Rin Nogami, André Röhm, Takato Awano, and Atsushi Uchida Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 017301 (2025) - Published 7 January, 2025 A new training technique could increase the number of physical systems that could serve as AI platforms. Universal Statistics of Competition in Democratic Elections Ritam Pal, Aanjaneya Kumar, and M. S. Santhanam Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 017401 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025 Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Geometry of Optimal Control in Chemical Reaction Networks in the Adiabatic Limit Yikuan Zhang, Qi Ouyang, and Yuhai Tu Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 018001 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025 EDITORS' SUGGESTION X-Ray Diffraction Reveals the Consequences of Strong Deformation in Thin Smectic Films: Dilation and Chevron Formation Jean de Dieu Niyonzima, Haifa Jeridi, Lamya Essaoui, Caterina Tosarelli, Alina Vlad, Alessandro Coati, Sebastien Royer, Isabelle Trimaille, Michel Goldmann, Bruno Gallas, Doru Constantin, David Babonneau, Yves Garreau, Bernard Croset, Samo Kralj, Randall D. Kamien, and Emmanuelle Lacaze Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 018101 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 A combination of nonlinear theory and x-ray diffraction experiments of smectic liquid crystals reveals the need for a nonlinear energy term to correctly describe the spacing of smectic layers. EDITORS' SUGGESTION Colloidal Crystallization on Cones Jessica H. Sun, Grace H. Zhang, Abigail Plummer, Caroline Martin, Nabila Tanjeem, David R. Nelson, and Vinothan N. Manoharan Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 018201 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 On conical surfaces with sufficiently small cone angle, dislocations allow colloidal crystals to grow beyond the point of geometric frustration. Encoding Fast and Fault-Tolerant Memories in Bulk and Nanoscale Amorphous Solids Monoj Adhikari, Rishabh Sharma, and Smarajit Karmakar Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 018202 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025 Evolving Motility of Active Droplets Is Captured by a Self-Repelling Random Walk Model Wenjun Chen, Adrien Izzet, Ruben Zakine, Eric Clément, Eric Vanden-Eijnden, and Jasna Brujic Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 018301 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025 Traveling Strings of Active Dipolar Colloids Xichen Chao, Katherine Skipper, C. Patrick Royall, Silke Henkes, and Tanniemola B. Liverpool Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 018302 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025 Coexistence of Uniform and Oscillatory States Resulting from Nonreciprocity and Conservation Laws Daniel Greve, Giorgio Lovato, Tobias Frohoff-Hülsmann, and Uwe Thiele Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 018303 (2025) - Published 8 January, 2025 Emergent Rate-Based Dynamics in Duplicate-Free Populations of Spiking Neurons Valentin Schmutz, Johanni Brea, and Wulfram Gerstner Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 018401 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025 Passive Defect Driven Morphogenesis in Nematic Membranes D. J. G. 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