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Author(s): Haoye Qin, Wenjing Lv, Junda Wang, Kaili Sun, Xinyang Mu, Zhanghua Han, Qinghua Song, and Cheng-Wei Qiu An experiment shows that geometric phase of Pancharatnam-Berry metasurfaces can be preserved while their intrinsic spin duality is deliberately broken. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 183805] Published Fri May 08, 2026

Author(s): K. Jiang, Z. G. Deng, T. W. Huang, K. J. Luo, P. Chen, M. Y. Yu, L. Xu, S. Li, L. Yang, F. Lu, W. W. Wang, Z. Q. Yuan, H. Peng, R. Li, H. Zhang, S. Z. Wu, H. B. Zhuo, W. Luo, W. M. Zhou, Y. Q. Gu, and C. T. Zhou An intense electron beam is stopped more efficiently by a highly porous material than by a less porous material, suggesting new strategies for controlling beams. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 185102] Published Fri May 08, 2026

Author(s): Manuel Mayo, Lorenzo Caprini, María Isabel García de Soria, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi, Pablo Maynar, Luca Pizzoli, and Andrea Puglisi A novel cooling-induced mechanism driving phase separation in inertial active matter exhibits both similarities to and differences from phenomena observed in granular gases. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 188301] Published Fri May 08, 2026

Author(s): Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration) The observation of ultrahigh-energy radiation from a binary star system suggests that such “gamma-ray binaries” could be significant contributors to the cosmic-ray spectrum. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 181001] Published Wed May 06, 2026

Author(s): Marzena Rams-Baron, Alfred Błażytko, Riccardo Casalini, and Marian Paluch The long-standing Arrhenius paradox in molecular glasses is resolved by showing that activation energy decreases linearly with temperature as a consequence of density-driven variations of the barrier. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 188202] Published Wed May 06, 2026

Author(s): Albert Nazeeri, Chiara Brandenstein, Chengjie Jia, Lorenzo Magrini, and Giorgio Gratta Coupling a film of enriched 57Fe to a surface acoustic wave produces a comb of absorption sidebands in the Mossbauer spectrum, consistent with coherent phase modulation of the nuclear transition. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 183801] Published Tue May 05, 2026

Author(s): Ziye Zhu, Richang Huang, Xianzhang Chen, Zhou Cui, Xunkai Duan, Jiayong Zhang, Igor Žutić, and Tong Zhou According to theory, a property called altermagnetism can be acquired by a nonmagnetic material that is adjacent to an altermagnet. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186702] Published Tue May 05, 2026