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Mass difference measurements help to determine the neutrino mass Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-03
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A compact neutral-atom fault-tolerant quantum computer based on new quantum codes Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
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Enhancement of magnonic frequency combs by exceptional points Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Congyi Wang, Jinwei Rao, Zhijian Chen, Kaixin Zhao, Liaoxin Sun, Bimu Yao, Tao Yu, Yi-Pu Wang, Wei Lu
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Constant-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computation with reconfigurable atom arrays Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Qian Xu, J. Pablo Bonilla Ataides, Christopher A. Pattison, Nithin Raveendran, Dolev Bluvstein, Jonathan Wurtz, Bane Vasić, Mikhail D. Lukin, Liang Jiang, Hengyun Zhou
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Estimates of the reproduction ratio from epidemic surveillance may be biased in spatially structured populations Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Piero Birello, Michele Re Fiorentin, Boxuan Wang, Vittoria Colizza, Eugenio Valdano
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Spin Berry curvature-enhanced orbital Zeeman effect in a kagome metal Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Hong Li, Siyu Cheng, Ganesh Pokharel, Philipp Eck, Chiara Bigi, Federico Mazzola, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Stephen D. Wilson, Domenico Di Sante, Ziqiang Wang, Ilija Zeljkovic
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Room-temperature flexible manipulation of the quantum-metric structure in a topological chiral antiferromagnet Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Jiahao Han, Tomohiro Uchimura, Yasufumi Araki, Ju-Young Yoon, Yutaro Takeuchi, Yuta Yamane, Shun Kanai, Jun’ichi Ieda, Hideo Ohno, Shunsuke Fukami
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Irreversible entropy transport enhanced by fermionic superfluidity Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Philipp Fabritius, Jeffrey Mohan, Mohsen Talebi, Simon Wili, Wilhelm Zwerger, Meng-Zi Huang, Tilman Esslinger
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Penning-trap measurement of the Q value of electron capture in 163Ho for the determination of the electron neutrino mass Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Christoph Schweiger, Martin Braß, Vincent Debierre, Menno Door, Holger Dorrer, Christoph E. Düllmann, Christian Enss, Pavel Filianin, Loredana Gastaldo, Zoltán Harman, Maurits W. Haverkort, Jost Herkenhoff, Paul Indelicato, Christoph H. Keitel, Kathrin Kromer, Daniel Lange, Yuri N. Novikov, Dennis Renisch, Alexander Rischka, Rima X. Schüssler, Sergey Eliseev, Klaus Blaum
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Quantum sensing at the megabar frontier Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Leonardo Benini
The typical hallmarks of superconductivity are a sharp drop in resistance below the superconducting transition temperature and the Meissner effect — the expulsion of magnetic fields from the interior of the superconductor. In hydrogen-rich materials at megabar conditions, theory predicts that strong electron–phonon coupling and high characteristic phonon frequencies could stabilize superconducting
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Naturally superconducting Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Debarchan Das
Now, Hyunsoo Kim and colleagues have demonstrated superconductivity below 5.4 K in a lab-grown sample of Rh17S15 (pictured), which is also found in nature as the mineral miassite (H. Kim et al. Commun. Mater. 5,17; 2024). Interestingly, the superconducting properties of this compound are quite different from those seen in most of the known superconductors. In a conventional superconductor, an isotropic
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Slightly out of tune Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Bart Verberck
Bart Verberck uses the musical cent as a pretext to touch on some of the intricacies of musical tuning systems.
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Timeless order Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-16
Eighty years on from the publication of Erwin Schrödinger’s interdisciplinary analysis on the origin of order in living organisms — What is Life? — we look at how physicists and biologists are approaching the topic today.
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Experience of nature can drive its protection Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Mark Buchanan
Soon, in rural zones at least, people will experience the familiar explosion of natural scenery — deer loping across fields, moths fluttering recklessly around outdoor lights, birdsong erupting in the early mornings. Dragonflies will hover over wetlands as bees buzz within the dense foliage of trees. These sensory experiences reflect our connection to a sometimes hostile but ultimately nurturing natural
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Electrons bunch up in quantum light Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Alfred Leitenstorfer, Peter Baum
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Distinct elastic properties and their origins in glasses and gels Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Yinqiao Wang, Michio Tateno, Hajime Tanaka
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All-optical seeding of a light-induced phase transition with correlated disorder Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Allan S. Johnson, Ernest Pastor, Sergi Batlle-Porro, Hind Benzidi, Tetsuo Katayama, Gilberto A. de la Peña Muñoz, Viktor Krapivin, Sunam Kim, Núria López, Mariano Trigo, Simon E. Wall
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Nonlinearity-induced topological phase transition characterized by the nonlinear Chern number Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Kazuki Sone, Motohiko Ezawa, Yuto Ashida, Nobuyuki Yoshioka, Takahiro Sagawa
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Search for charge non-conservation and Pauli exclusion principle violation with the Majorana Demonstrator Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-11
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Between pattern and chaos Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Alice Grishchenko
Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life Sarah Horton & Victoria MitchellIntellect Books: 2023. 374 pp. £ 39.95 Pattern recognition is fundamental to human experience. It is by relying on patterns that we understand that groups of phonemes create words that point to specific meanings; assume causal relationships in sequences of events; and discern faces and shapes from blurs of colours.
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A call for responsible quantum technology Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Urs Gasser, Eline De Jong, Mauritz Kop
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Observation of the 2D–1D crossover in strongly interacting ultracold bosons Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Yanliang Guo, Hepeng Yao, Satwik Ramanjanappa, Sudipta Dhar, Milena Horvath, Lorenzo Pizzino, Thierry Giamarchi, Manuele Landini, Hanns-Christoph Nägerl
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Discrete nonlinear topological photonics Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Alexander Szameit, Mikael C. Rechtsman
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Multiphoton electron emission with non-classical light Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jonas Heimerl, Alexander Mikhaylov, Stefan Meier, Henrick Höllerer, Ido Kaminer, Maria Chekhova, Peter Hommelhoff
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At the breaking point Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Michael D. Bartlett
The shape and trajectory of a crack plays a crucial role in material fracture. High-precision experiments now directly capture this phenomenon, unveiling the intricate 3D nature of cracks.
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Emergence of large-scale mechanical spiral waves in bacterial living matter Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Shiqi Liu, Ye Li, Yuhao Wang, Yilin Wu
Propagating spiral waves have been discovered in various chemical, biological and physical systems. Spiral waves in multicellular organisms are often associated with essential living functions. Although certain eukaryotic microorganisms have long been known to generate spiral waves, evidence of spiral wave pattern has been lacking in the bacterial world. Here we report the discovery of a unique form
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Leggett modes in a Dirac semimetal Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Joseph J. Cuozzo, W. Yu, P. Davids, T. M. Nenoff, D. B. Soh, Wei Pan, Enrico Rossi
Experiments have shown that several materials, including MgB2, iron-based superconductors and monolayer NbSe2, are multiband superconductors. Superconducting pairing in multiple bands can give rise to phenomena not available in a single band, including Leggett modes. A Leggett mode is the collective periodic oscillation of the relative phase between the phases of the superconducting condensates formed
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Topological Kerr effects in two-dimensional magnets with broken inversion symmetry Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Xiaoyin Li, Caixing Liu, Ying Zhang, Shunhong Zhang, Huisheng Zhang, Yuchen Zhang, Wenjie Meng, De Hou, Tao Li, Chaoyang Kang, Fanyang Huang, Ruiguo Cao, Dazhi Hou, Ping Cui, Weifeng Zhang, Tai Min, Qingyou Lu, Xiaohong Xu, Zhigao Sheng, Bin Xiang, Zhenyu Zhang
The whorls of localized moments in chiral magnetic structures, such as skyrmions, lead to a quantized topological charge, which may make them useful as next-generation information bits. So far, the most reliable way to detect the existence of skyrmions is by using the topological Hall effect, which stems from electron scattering by the emergent magnetic field manifesting the topological charge. Here
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Multistep topological transitions among meron and skyrmion crystals in a centrosymmetric magnet Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 H. Yoshimochi, R. Takagi, J. Ju, N. D. Khanh, H. Saito, H. Sagayama, H. Nakao, S. Itoh, Y. Tokura, T. Arima, S. Hayami, T. Nakajima, S. Seki
Topological swirling spin textures, such as skyrmions and merons, have recently attracted much attention as potential building blocks for high-density magnetic information devices. Controlling the transformation between different types of these quasiparticles is an important challenge. To date, these transitions have mostly been limited to a few non-centrosymmetric systems, where they are driven by
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Magnetically tunable supercurrent in dilute magnetic topological insulator-based Josephson junctions Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Pankaj Mandal, Soumi Mondal, Martin P. Stehno, Stefan Ilić, F. Sebastian Bergeret, Teun M. Klapwijk, Charles Gould, Laurens W. Molenkamp
A superconductor, when exposed to a spin-exchange field, can exhibit spatial modulation of its order parameter, commonly referred to as the Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov state. Such a state can be induced by controlling the spin-splitting field in Josephson junction devices, allowing access to a wide range of the phase diagram. Here we demonstrate that a Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov state can
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Multiphoton quantum statistics from scattered classical light Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Martijn Wubs
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Connecting shear flow and vortex array instabilities in annular atomic superfluids Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 D. Hernández-Rajkov, N. Grani, F. Scazza, G. Del Pace, W. J. Kwon, M. Inguscio, K. Xhani, C. Fort, M. Modugno, F. Marino, G. Roati
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Search for decoherence from quantum gravity with atmospheric neutrinos Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-26
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Complexity of crack front geometry enhances toughness of brittle solids Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Xinyue Wei, Chenzhuo Li, Cían McCarthy, John M. Kolinski
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Observation of fixed lines induced by a nonlinear resonance in the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 H. Bartosik, G. Franchetti, F. Schmidt
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Melting of the charge density wave by generation of pairs of topological defects in UTe2 Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Anuva Aishwarya, Julian May-Mann, Avior Almoalem, Sheng Ran, Shanta R. Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas P. Butch, Eduardo Fradkin, Vidya Madhavan
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Flexoelectricity-driven toroidal polar topology in liquid-matter helielectrics Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Jidan Yang, Yu Zou, Jinxing Li, Mingjun Huang, Satoshi Aya
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Unlock the potential of a physics education Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
This month in Nature Physics, we publish a Focus issue that highlights the importance of physics education research.
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Towards meaningful diversity, equity and inclusion in physics learning environments Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Alexandru Maries, Chandralekha Singh
Physics is one of the least diverse of all science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines with damaging stereotypes about who belongs and who can excel in it. Physics learning environments are generally not inclusive or equitable, with students from historically marginalized groups often reporting an unwelcoming climate. In general, the culture of physics is competitive with a dearth
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Fruity blues Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Bart Verberck
So-called plant epicuticular waxes are well known for their self-ordering, self-repairing and self-cleaning properties, their hydrophobicity, and for resisting insect and microbial pathogens. But the optical characteristics of these surface coatings have not been studied in great detail. This, and the observation that blueberry juice is dark red rather than blue, led Middleton and colleagues to speculate
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Batter quality Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Karen Mudryk
The team developed a multiphase transport framework to investigate how the main ingredients of a cupcake — water, sugar and fat — influence performance metrics such as oven rise, moisture content and colour. They modelled the batter as a porous medium subjected to heat transfer, viscoelastic deformation, water evaporation and carbon dioxide generation from the baking powder. During baking, conduction
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The air temperature conundrum Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Andrea Merlone, Graziano Coppa, Chiara Musacchio
Measuring air temperature is far from a trivial task, as Andrea Merlone, Graziano Coppa and Chiara Musacchio explain.
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Honesty is being put through the mill Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Mark Buchanan
Of course, some papers do little more than criticize, picking holes in previous arguments, or showing flaws in data analysis or a lack of full consideration of all possible interpretations. Such criticisms can sometimes be a little brutal, but these works are also ultimately positive — science depends on errors being challenged and ultimately corrected, even if this often takes some time and bruises
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Computing in physics education Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Marcos D. Caballero, Tor Ole B. Odden
Computing is central to the enterprise of physics but few undergraduate physics courses include it in their curricula. Here we discuss why and how to integrate computing into physics education.
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Racial equity in physics education research Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Geraldine L. Cochran, Simone Hyater-Adams, Miguel Rodriguez, Ximena C. Cid, Diana Sachmpazidi, Katemari Rosa, Ramón S. Barthelemy
Injustices and oppression are pervasive in society, including education. An intersectional, equity-oriented approach can help remove systemic obstacles and improve the experience of marginalized people in physics education through decolonial and critical race lenses.
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Epistemic agency as a critical mediator of physics learning Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Nam-Hwa Kang
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A physics curriculum for the modern world Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Jenaro Guisasola, Kristina Zuza
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Manipulation of chiral interface states in a moiré quantum anomalous Hall insulator Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Canxun Zhang, Tiancong Zhu, Salman Kahn, Tomohiro Soejima, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Alex Zettl, Feng Wang, Michael P. Zaletel, Michael F. Crommie
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Superconducting stripes induced by ferromagnetic proximity in an oxide heterostructure Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Xiangyu Hua, Zimeng Zeng, Fanbao Meng, Hongxu Yao, Zongyao Huang, Xuanyu Long, Zhaohang Li, Youfang Wang, Zhenyu Wang, Tao Wu, Zhengyu Weng, Yihua Wang, Zheng Liu, Ziji Xiang, Xianhui Chen
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Demonstration and imaging of cryogenic magneto-thermoelectric cooling in a van der Waals semimetal Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 T. Völkl, A. Aharon-Steinberg, T. Holder, E. Alpern, N. Banu, A. K. Pariari, Y. Myasoedov, M. E. Huber, M. Hücker, E. Zeldov
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Topological lasing demonstrated in the mode-locked regime Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-07
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Terahertz magnon algebra Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Brijesh Singh Mehra, Dhanvir Singh Rana
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Protecting entanglement between logical qubits via quantum error correction Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Weizhou Cai, Xianghao Mu, Weiting Wang, Jie Zhou, Yuwei Ma, Xiaoxuan Pan, Ziyue Hua, Xinyu Liu, Guangming Xue, Haifeng Yu, Haiyan Wang, Yipu Song, Chang-Ling Zou, Luyan Sun
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Learning quantum Hamiltonians from high-temperature Gibbs states and real-time evolutions Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jeongwan Haah, Robin Kothari, Ewin Tang
The behaviour of a system is determined by its Hamiltonian. In many cases, the exact Hamiltonian is not known and has to be extracted by analysing the outcome of measurements. We study the problem of learning a local Hamiltonian H to a given precision, supposing either we are given copies of its Gibbs state ρ = e−βH/Tr(e−βH) at a known inverse temperature β or we have access to unitary real-time evolution
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Drug design on quantum computers Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Raffaele Santagati, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Ryan Babbush, Matthias Degroote, Leticia González, Elica Kyoseva, Nikolaj Moll, Markus Oppel, Robert M. Parrish, Nicholas C. Rubin, Michael Streif, Christofer S. Tautermann, Horst Weiss, Nathan Wiebe, Clemens Utschig-Utschig
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Cavity-mediated long-range interactions in levitated optomechanics Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jayadev Vijayan, Johannes Piotrowski, Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero, Kevin Weber, Oriol Romero-Isart, Lukas Novotny