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Ultracold atoms pushed to the edge Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Luca Asteria, F. Nur Ünal
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A general theory of quantum codes connecting quantum computation, complexity and physics Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
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Intertwined vestigial orders in stacked magnetic flatlands Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Ana-Marija Nedić, Peter P. Orth
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Propagation of insulator-to-metal transition driven by photoinduced strain waves in a Mott material Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Tatsuya Amano, Danylo Babich, Ritwika Mandal, Julio Guzman-Brambila, Alix Volte, Elzbieta Trzop, Marina Servol, Ernest Pastor, Maryam Alashoor, Jörgen Larsson, Andrius Jurgilaitis, Van-Thai Pham, David Kroon, John Carl Ekström, Byungnam Ahn, Céline Mariette, Matteo Levantino, Mikhail Kozhaev, Julien Tranchant, Benoit Corraze, Laurent Cario, Mohammad Dolatabadi, Vinh Ta Phuoc, Rodolphe Sopracase, Mathieu
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Probing inhomogeneous cuprate superconductivity by terahertz Josephson echo spectroscopy Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 A. Liu, D. Pavićević, M. H. Michael, A. G. Salvador, P. E. Dolgirev, M. Fechner, A. S. Disa, P. M. Lozano, Q. Li, G. D. Gu, E. Demler, A. Cavalleri
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The many faces of foams Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Bart Verberck
During coarsening, the geometry of the foam changes continuously, whereas the topology of the underlying cellular network undergoes discrete transitions. The role played by topology in 3D coarsening processes is still not completely understood. Now, by means of simulations, Ihab Sabik and colleagues have investigated the geometrical and topological properties of coarsening foams in detail (I. Sabik
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Wiggles in the shade Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Leonardo Benini
The starting hypothesis was that circumnutations — circular or elliptical exploratory movements observed in many plants — serve as a source of functional noise, enabling sunflowers to self-organize into optimal light-harvesting configurations. To test this, the researchers combined experimental observations with computational modelling. They first conducted controlled experiments, growing sunflowers
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An unbreakable limit Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Dorian Bouchet
The Fisher information imposes a fundamental limit on the precision with which an unknown parameter can be estimated from noisy data, as Dorian Bouchet explains.
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The laws of inflating the AI bubble Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Mark Buchanan
Law number 1: “When an AI system performs a task, human observers immediately estimate its general competence in areas that seem related. Usually that estimate is wildly overinflated.” For some reason, Brooks notes, people generally form optimistically biased estimates about an AI’s capabilities. This happens because almost all of our experience with real intelligence comes from interacting with people
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Tap the potential of PhD students Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-12
PhD students can face many challenges, such as a lack of confidence in their newly acquired skills or the uncertainty about which career path to choose. We highlight some ways to empower students in their doctoral journey.
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Energy partitioning in the cell cortex Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Sheng Chen, Daniel S. Seara, Ani Michaud, Songeun Kim, William M. Bement, Michael P. Murrell
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Emergence of ferromagnetism at the onset of moiré Kondo breakdown Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Wenjin Zhao, Bowen Shen, Zui Tao, Sunghoon Kim, Patrick Knüppel, Zhongdong Han, Yichi Zhang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Debanjan Chowdhury, Jie Shan, Kin Fai Mak
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Observation of chiral edge transport in a rapidly rotating quantum gas Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Ruixiao Yao, Sungjae Chi, Biswaroop Mukherjee, Airlia Shaffer, Martin Zwierlein, Richard J. Fletcher
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Dimensional crossover in a quantum gas of light Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Kirankumar Karkihalli Umesh, Julian Schulz, Julian Schmitt, Martin Weitz, Georg von Freymann, Frank Vewinger
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Complexity and order in approximate quantum error-correcting codes Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Jinmin Yi, Weicheng Ye, Daniel Gottesman, Zi-Wen Liu
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Opportunities in nanoscale probing of laser-driven phase transitions Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Michael Yannai, Matan Haller, Ron Ruimy, Alexey Gorlach, Nicholas Rivera, Dmitri N. Basov, Ido Kaminer
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Dimensionality crossover to a two-dimensional vestigial nematic state from a three-dimensional antiferromagnet in a honeycomb van der Waals magnet Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Zeliang Sun, Gaihua Ye, Chengkang Zhou, Mengqi Huang, Nan Huang, Xilong Xu, Qiuyang Li, Guoxin Zheng, Zhipeng Ye, Cynthia Nnokwe, Lu Li, Hui Deng, Li Yang, David Mandrus, Zi Yang Meng, Kai Sun, Chunhui Rita Du, Rui He, Liuyan Zhao
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Universal symmetry breaking passes the superfluid test Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Adolfo del Campo, Seong-Ho Shinn
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Assessment of the errors of high-fidelity two-qubit gates in silicon quantum dots Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Tuomo Tanttu, Wee Han Lim, Jonathan Y. Huang, Nard Dumoulin Stuyck, Will Gilbert, Rocky Y. Su, MengKe Feng, Jesus D. Cifuentes, Amanda E. Seedhouse, Stefan K. Seritan, Corey I. Ostrove, Kenneth M. Rudinger, Ross C. C. Leon, Wister Huang, Christopher C. Escott, Kohei M. Itoh, Nikolay V. Abrosimov, Hans-Joachim Pohl, Michael L. W. Thewalt, Fay E. Hudson, Robin Blume-Kohout, Stephen D. Bartlett, Andrea
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Quantum-enhanced metrology with large Fock states Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Xiaowei Deng, Sai Li, Zi-Jie Chen, Zhongchu Ni, Yanyan Cai, Jiasheng Mai, Libo Zhang, Pan Zheng, Haifeng Yu, Chang-Ling Zou, Song Liu, Fei Yan, Yuan Xu, Dapeng Yu
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Precise precognition Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Karen Mudryk
From the Earth’s climate to power grids, from social groups to the human brain, complex systems can exhibit sudden change, for example, rapid global warming, power outages or disease. The ability to predict not only the advent of these events but also their location is paramount to mitigating lasting consequences. Now, Zijia Liu and colleagues have proposed a machine-learning framework that predicts
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Tightly slightly twisted Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Bart Verberck
Take a 2D lattice. Put an identical one on top of it. Slightly rotate one of them, keeping the layers parallelly aligned. Behold a moiré superlattice. For the layers, the researchers used 2D halide perovskites, in which structural units are bound to each other via ionic bonds, which are much tighter than the interlayer interactions in graphene and the dichalcogenides. They managed to chemically remove
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From barrel to bottle Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Stefanie Reichert
Measurements pervade winemaking, from the size of vineyards to the taste in your mouth. Stefanie Reichert gives us the tour.
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Physics pushes peak performance Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-13
In light of the recent Olympic and upcoming Paralympic Summer Games in Paris, we take a closer look at the physics of sports and how it helps athletes improve their performance.
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Don’t flock to faulty AI fashion Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Mark Buchanan
The scientific process is a guard rail against the frailties of human reason. It is messy, uncertain and inherently social, as the better ideas only emerge from the interaction of many minds. Unfortunately, this social aspect can also be a problem, as fashions influence the trajectory of science just like any other human enterprise. This seems to be causing some serious issues now in current applied
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Photon losses create tension for Gaussian boson sampling Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Jordi Tura
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Optogenetic generation of leader cells reveals a force–velocity relation for collective cell migration Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Leone Rossetti, Steffen Grosser, Juan Francisco Abenza, Léo Valon, Pere Roca-Cusachs, Ricard Alert, Xavier Trepat
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Circuit quantum electrodynamics detection of induced two-fold anisotropic pairing in a hybrid superconductor–ferromagnet bilayer Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 C. G. L. Bøttcher, N. R. Poniatowski, A. Grankin, M. E. Wesson, Z. Yan, U. Vool, V. M. Galitski, A. Yacoby
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Self-organization of mortal filaments and its role in bacterial division ring formation Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Christian Vanhille-Campos, Kevin D. Whitley, Philipp Radler, Martin Loose, Séamus Holden, Anđela Šarić
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Emergence of fluctuating hydrodynamics in chaotic quantum systems Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Julian F. Wienand, Simon Karch, Alexander Impertro, Christian Schweizer, Ewan McCulloch, Romain Vasseur, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Monika Aidelsburger, Immanuel Bloch
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Matter waves hang in there Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Klemens Hammerer, Naceur Gaaloul
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Nonlinear absorption of an X-ray pulse during the formation of warm dense matter Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-08
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New order in the copper oxide phase diagram Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Alessandra Milloch, Claudio Giannetti
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Spontaneous breaking of mirror symmetry in a cuprate beyond critical doping Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Saegyeol Jung, Byeongjun Seok, Chang jae Roh, Younsik Kim, Donghan Kim, Yeonjae Lee, San Kang, Shigeyuki Ishida, Shik Shin, Hiroshi Eisaki, Tae Won Noh, Dongjoon Song, Changyoung Kim
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Carrier density crossover and quasiparticle mass enhancement in a doped 5d Mott insulator Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Yu-Te Hsu, Andreas Rydh, Maarten Berben, Caitlin Duffy, Alberto de la Torre, Robin S. Perry, Nigel E. Hussey
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All real projective measurements can be self-tested Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Ranyiliu Chen, Laura Mančinska, Jurij Volčič
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Undetectable electrons in solids with two pairs of sublattices Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-29
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A single quantum dot passively mediates entanglement Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Yuan Zhan, Shuo Sun
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Precise control and non-destructive readout of quantum states of ion motion Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-29
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Scalable spin squeezing from finite-temperature easy-plane magnetism Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Maxwell Block, Bingtian Ye, Brenden Roberts, Sabrina Chern, Weijie Wu, Zilin Wang, Lode Pollet, Emily J. Davis, Bertrand I. Halperin, Norman Y. Yao
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Dark states of electrons in a quantum system with two pairs of sublattices Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Yoonah Chung, Minsu Kim, Yeryn Kim, Seyeong Cha, Joon Woo Park, Jeehong Park, Yeonjin Yi, Dongjoon Song, Jung Hyun Ryu, Kimoon Lee, Timur K. Kim, Cephise Cacho, Jonathan Denlinger, Chris Jozwiak, Eli Rotenberg, Aaron Bostwick, Keun Su Kim
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Flow physics guides morphology of ciliated organs Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Feng Ling, Tara Essock-Burns, Margaret McFall-Ngai, Kakani Katija, Janna C. Nawroth, Eva Kanso
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Transient absorption of warm dense matter created by an X-ray free-electron laser Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Laurent Mercadier, Andrei Benediktovitch, Špela Krušič, Joshua J. Kas, Justine Schlappa, Marcus Agåker, Robert Carley, Giuseppe Fazio, Natalia Gerasimova, Young Yong Kim, Loïc Le Guyader, Giuseppe Mercurio, Sergii Parchenko, John J. Rehr, Jan-Erik Rubensson, Svitozar Serkez, Michal Stransky, Martin Teichmann, Zhong Yin, Matjaž Žitnik, Andreas Scherz, Beata Ziaja, Nina Rohringer
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Coherent coupling and non-destructive measurement of trapped-ion mechanical oscillators Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Pan-Yu Hou, Jenny J. Wu, Stephen D. Erickson, Daniel C. Cole, Giorgio Zarantonello, Adam D. Brandt, Shawn Geller, Alex Kwiatkowski, Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill, Andrew C. Wilson, Daniel H. Slichter, Dietrich Leibfried
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Universal Kibble–Zurek scaling in an atomic Fermi superfluid Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Kyuhwan Lee, Sol Kim, Taehoon Kim, Y. Shin
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Non-reciprocity forces nanoparticles into lockstep Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Jayadev Vijayan
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Non-Hermitian dynamics and non-reciprocity of optically coupled nanoparticles Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Manuel Reisenbauer, Henning Rudolph, Livia Egyed, Klaus Hornberger, Anton V. Zasedatelev, Murad Abuzarli, Benjamin A. Stickler, Uroš Delić
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PT-like phase transition and limit cycle oscillations in non-reciprocally coupled optomechanical oscillators levitated in vacuum Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Vojtěch Liška, Tereza Zemánková, Petr Jákl, Martin Šiler, Stephen H. Simpson, Pavel Zemánek, Oto Brzobohatý
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Exponentially tighter bounds on limitations of quantum error mitigation Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Yihui Quek, Daniel Stilck França, Sumeet Khatri, Johannes Jakob Meyer, Jens Eisert
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Collective motion of electrons captured at the atomic scale Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-22
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Transverse emittance reduction in muon beams by ionization cooling Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17
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Water dropped in the deep end Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Debarchan Das
But what happens to the vast amount of water attached to a slab that descends to the Earth’s core? Yutaro Tsutsumi and colleagues have now answered that question. Their experimental results suggest that the water does not escape from the slabs at the base of the mantle, as commonly thought, even at high temperatures and pressures (Y. Tsutsumi et al. Nat. Geosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01464-8;
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Polar rain Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Stefanie Reichert
A much rarer sight are so-called polar rain aurorae. They are caused by streams of electrons travelling directly from the surface of the Sun along open magnetic field lines to the polar caps. As these events are scarce and the emissions are weak, little is known about their spatial structure and dynamical characteristics. Keisuke Hosokawa and colleagues have now observed a polar rain aurora (K. Hosokawa
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Bosons reach a century Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-16
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Satyendra Nath Bose’s paper that stimulated the study of quantum statistics. We take this opportunity to celebrate the physics of bosons.
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The kernel of thermodynamics Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Mark Buchanan
As observed in a recent special issue on the topic (see P. G. Debenedetti et al. J. Chem. Phys. 160, 100401; 2024), Gibbs' paper also offered the thermodynamic basis for the first thinking about nucleation — the basic process by which a new and more stable crystalline phase of a substance forms from a bulk liquid, for example ice forming in super-cooled water. The most widely employed theory based