Looking for dark matter in the brightest place

Electrical control of a van-der-Waals antiferromagnet’s helical spin texture using current-driven antiferromagnetic spin-orbit torque demonstrates collective tuning of a helical spin texture via a magnetic dipole Letter: go.aps.org/42Trzk6 Synopsis: go.aps.org/4jNDero

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

A purely geometric method for inverse design of shape-morphing kirigami reveals how rotating unit shapes control global deformation, making possible intuitive, calculation-free control of both the folded and unfolded forms go.aps.org/42Ddybk

Volume 134, Issue 17 journals.aps.org/prl/issues/134… Cover: A large critical cluster (orange) within two competing phases (violet and green) of a twisted nematic liquid crystal displays fractal geometry journals.aps.org/prl/issues/134…

#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/newsroom… PR&PRLs: journals.aps.org/search/results…

Three research teams find an innovative way to image atoms in cold gases that could provide deeper insights into the atoms’ quantum correlations. Letters: go.aps.org/42Ydh1A go.aps.org/4d6uUkD go.aps.org/3EEoSef Viewpoint: go.aps.org/4m1I9Hf

How black holes form ("the first fully dynamical description of formation of regular black holes"), at least in 5 or more spacetime dimensions (we live in 4):

3mm-sized letters imaged from 1.36 km away

Volume 134, Issue 18 journals.aps.org/prl/issues/134… Cover: Images of an atomic Fermi gas (left) and two atomic Bose gases (center and right) journals.aps.org/prl/issues/134…

Cold Dark Matter Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity "… a novel candidate for cold dark matter consisting of condensed Cooper pairs in a theory of interacting fermions with broken chiral symmetry." PRL: go.aps.org/4dejdIs #OpenAccess Synopsis: go.aps.org/3GSPHMp

Fruit flies teach physicists how to roll #robots

A precision measurement of cosmic rays at the International Space Station finds that the lithium-7 component is likely to originate from heavier nuclei colliding with the interstellar medium. Letter: go.aps.org/4mqeqYK #OpenAccess Synopsis: go.aps.org/3Sd7ro5

A new laser-based cooling scheme approaches the maximum efficiency that is theoretically achievable. Letter: go.aps.org/4mpRWXR Viewpoint: go.aps.org/43E51Fr

Meet our initial crop of 13 Early Career Advisors journals.aps.org/prl/staff#early

Monte Carlo simulations on the lattice compute the QCD equation of state with three massless quark flavors for temperatures from 3GeV to 165GeV Letter: go.aps.org/4mtyA47 Synopsis: go.aps.org/3SR3C8i

Universal Relationship between Linear Viscoelasticity and Nonlinear Yielding in Soft Materials Or How to predict when viscoelastic substances like ketchup will flow

One of the greatest discoveries this century was the 2017 observation of the merger of two neutron stars, an origin point for gold, platinum, & silver. It took BOTH LIGO detectors to pinpoint the source on the sky for light-based telescopes to find it journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

We've posted a number of new metrics for our 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

Including non-Markovian electronic frictional memory effects in simulations of molecular diffusion on surfaces alters rate constants and tunneling crossover temperatures, explaining the convergence between Markovian simulations and experiments go.aps.org/4mOsQSO