Each year, Physical Review Letters (PRL) publishes of order 2500 Letters across about 52 issues. We select about one-sixth of those papers to highlight as Editors' Suggestions. That is still a lot to read.
So, for the second consecutive year, we have distilled a single issue’s worth of Letters into a collection. We will publish such a collection each year.
Here is our Collection of the Year 2025, a set of some of our best papers from across the wide range of topics PRL covers in fundamental and applied physical science.
This year saw new benchmarks in quantum computational advantage; new limits on the cosmogenic neutrino flux and on WIMP dark matter; black holes merging according to Hawking’s area law; a culmination of an experiment on g-2 of the muon; first evidence for production of pairs of longitudinally polarized W bosons; a new super heavy isotope; advances in quantum gas microscopes; a method to control droplet splashing; a new type of plasma wave, seen on Jupiter; imaging of vortices in a superconductor; transport across single-molecule contacts; pressure-driven moiré potentials in graphene; universal phonon thermal Hall effects; a hot single-particle heat engine; a new way to change and measure the charge of a trapped microparticle; and more.
Congratulations to all the authors in this collection!
The PRL Editors
