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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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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
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Topological temporally mode-locked laser Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Christian R. Leefmans, Midya Parto, James Williams, Gordon H. Y. Li, Avik Dutt, Franco Nori, Alireza Marandi
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Graph states of atomic ensembles engineered by photon-mediated entanglement Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Eric S. Cooper, Philipp Kunkel, Avikar Periwal, Monika Schleier-Smith
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Observation of spin polarons in a frustrated moiré Hubbard system Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Zui Tao, Wenjin Zhao, Bowen Shen, Tingxin Li, Patrick Knüppel, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jie Shan, Kin Fai Mak
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Nonclassical near-field dynamics of surface plasmons Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Mingyuan Hong, Riley B. Dawkins, Benjamin Bertoni, Chenglong You, Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza
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Deterministic generation of multidimensional photonic cluster states with a single quantum emitter Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Vinicius S. Ferreira, Gihwan Kim, Andreas Butler, Hannes Pichler, Oskar Painter
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Quantized topological pumping in Floquet synthetic dimensions with a driven dissipative photonic molecule Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Sashank Kaushik Sridhar, Sayan Ghosh, Dhruv Srinivasan, Alexander R. Miller, Avik Dutt
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Artificial intelligence needs a scientific method-driven reset Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Luís A. Nunes Amaral
AI needs to develop more solid assumptions, falsifiable hypotheses, and rigorous experimentation.
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Attosecond metrology of the two-dimensional charge distribution in molecules Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 V. Loriot, A. Boyer, S. Nandi, C. M. González-Collado, E. Plésiat, A. Marciniak, C. L. Garcia, Y. Hu, M. Lara-Astiaso, A. Palacios, P. Decleva, F. Martín, F. Lépine
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Non-classical microwave–optical photon pair generation with a chip-scale transducer Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Srujan Meesala, Steven Wood, David Lake, Piero Chiappina, Changchun Zhong, Andrew D. Beyer, Matthew D. Shaw, Liang Jiang, Oskar Painter
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Quantum transport response of topological hinge modes Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Md Shafayat Hossain, Qi Zhang, Zhiwei Wang, Nikhil Dhale, Wenhao Liu, Maksim Litskevich, Brian Casas, Nana Shumiya, Jia-Xin Yin, Tyler A. Cochran, Yongkai Li, Yu-Xiao Jiang, Yuqi Zhang, Guangming Cheng, Zi-Jia Cheng, Xian P. Yang, Nan Yao, Titus Neupert, Luis Balicas, Yugui Yao, Bing Lv, M. Zahid Hasan
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Time in a glass Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Beatrice Ruta, Daniele Cangialosi
Ageing is a non-linear, irreversible process that defines many properties of glassy materials. Now, it is shown that the so-called material-time formalism can describe ageing in terms of equilibrium-like properties.
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Superradiant and subradiant states in lifetime-limited organic molecules through laser-induced tuning Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Christian M. Lange, Emma Daggett, Valentin Walther, Libai Huang, Jonathan D. Hood
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Techno-optimism needs a reality check Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Mark Buchanan
Many scientists, I think, take a somewhat sceptical view of radical techno-optimism — the unshakeable faith, expressed by many economists and tech industry leaders, that technology will solve all of humanity’s looming issues. Artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionize education and medicine, and perhaps even resolve the problem of aging, eliminating the necessity of death. For techno-optimists
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We can see clearly now Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Anita Mary Chandran
Adaptive optics allows scientists to correct for distortions of an image caused by the scattering of light. Anita Chandran illuminates the nature of the technique.
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A recipe for speed Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Karen Mudryk
To generate drag-based thrust, the insect’s hind legs need to move parallel and opposite to the swimming direction, producing backward motion relative to the fluid. Alternatively, they can generate lift-based thrust, which requires movement along the vertical and transverse axes against the water. Sun and colleagues filmed free-swimming whirligig beetles from two different camera angles to measure
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Noble sandwich Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Bart Verberck
The researchers worked with mechanically exfoliated bilayer sandwiches and with commercially available graphene obtained via chemical vapour deposition. These samples were irradiated with ultralow-energy krypton or xenon ions, which then stuck between the graphene layers and organized into flat clusters, as observed by means of scanning transmission electron microscopy (pictured; square sizes are 2
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A toast to technicians Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-14
Despite the essential support they provide to successful research projects, the contributions of laboratory technicians often remain undervalued. We take a moment to appreciate their efforts.
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Through the slopes of a light-induced phase transition Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Denitsa R. Baykusheva
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Observation of Josephson harmonics in tunnel junctions Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Dennis Willsch, Dennis Rieger, Patrick Winkel, Madita Willsch, Christian Dickel, Jonas Krause, Yoichi Ando, Raphaël Lescanne, Zaki Leghtas, Nicholas T. Bronn, Pratiti Deb, Olivia Lanes, Zlatko K. Minev, Benedikt Dennig, Simon Geisert, Simon Günzler, Sören Ihssen, Patrick Paluch, Thomas Reisinger, Roudy Hanna, Jin Hee Bae, Peter Schüffelgen, Detlev Grützmacher, Luiza Buimaga-Iarinca, Cristian Morari
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A kagome antiferromagnet reaches its quantum plateau Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Gia-Wei Chern
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Picosecond volume expansion drives a later-time insulator–metal transition in a nano-textured Mott insulator Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Anita Verma, Denis Golež, Oleg Yu. Gorobtsov, Kelson Kaj, Ryan Russell, Jeffrey Z. Kaaret, Erik Lamb, Guru Khalsa, Hari P. Nair, Yifei Sun, Ryan Bouck, Nathaniel Schreiber, Jacob P. Ruf, Varun Ramaprasad, Yuya Kubota, Tadashi Togashi, Vladimir A. Stoica, Hari Padmanabhan, John W. Freeland, Nicole A. Benedek, Oleg G. Shpyrko, John W. Harter, Richard D. Averitt, Darrell G. Schlom, Kyle M. Shen, Andrew
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Bragg glass signatures in PdxErTe3 with X-ray diffraction temperature clustering Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Krishnanand Mallayya, Joshua Straquadine, Matthew J. Krogstad, Maja D. Bachmann, Anisha G. Singh, Raymond Osborn, Stephan Rosenkranz, Ian R. Fisher, Eun-Ah Kim
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Demonstration of hot-spot fuel gain exceeding unity in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 C. A. Williams, R. Betti, V. Gopalaswamy, J. P. Knauer, C. J. Forrest, A. Lees, R. Ejaz, P. S. Farmakis, D. Cao, P. B. Radha, K. S. Anderson, S. P. Regan, V. Yu Glebov, R. C. Shah, C. Stoeckl, S. Ivancic, K. Churnetski, R. T. Janezic, C. Fella, M. J. Rosenberg, M. J. Bonino, D. R. Harding, W. T. Shmayda, J. Carroll-Nellenback, S. X. Hu, R. Epstein, T. J. B. Collins, C. A. Thomas, I. V. Igumenshchev
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Why even specialists struggle with black hole proofs Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Alejandro Penuela Diaz
Mathematical proofs of black hole physics are becoming too complex even for specialists.
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Relaxation of a sensitive superconductor Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Stephen D. Wilson
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Demonstration of a hydrodynamically equivalent burning plasma in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 V. Gopalaswamy, C. A. Williams, R. Betti, D. Patel, J. P. Knauer, A. Lees, D. Cao, E. M. Campbell, P. Farmakis, R. Ejaz, K. S. Anderson, R. Epstein, J. Carroll-Nellenbeck, I. V. Igumenshchev, J. A. Marozas, P. B. Radha, A. A. Solodov, C. A. Thomas, K. M. Woo, T. J. B. Collins, S. X. Hu, W. Scullin, D. Turnbull, V. N. Goncharov, K. Churnetski, C. J. Forrest, V. Yu. Glebov, P. V. Heuer, H. McClow, R
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Dipolar spin wave packet transport in a van der Waals antiferromagnet Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Yue Sun, Fanhao Meng, Changmin Lee, Aljoscha Soll, Hongrui Zhang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Jie Yao, Zdeněk Sofer, Joseph Orenstein
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Terahertz field-induced nonlinear coupling of two magnon modes in an antiferromagnet Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Zhuquan Zhang, Frank Y. Gao, Jonathan B. Curtis, Zi-Jie Liu, Yu-Che Chien, Alexander von Hoegen, Man Tou Wong, Takayuki Kurihara, Tohru Suemoto, Prineha Narang, Edoardo Baldini, Keith A. Nelson
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A quantum collaboration for flat bands Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Priscila F. S. Rosa, Filip Ronning
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Correlated order at the tipping point in the kagome metal CsV3Sb5 Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Chunyu Guo, Glenn Wagner, Carsten Putzke, Dong Chen, Kaize Wang, Ling Zhang, Martin Gutierrez-Amigo, Ion Errea, Maia G. Vergniory, Claudia Felser, Mark H. Fischer, Titus Neupert, Philip J. W. Moll
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Phonon chirality from impurity scattering in the antiferromagnetic phase of Sr2IrO4 Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 A. Ataei, G. Grissonnanche, M.-E. Boulanger, L. Chen, É. Lefrançois, V. Brouet, L. Taillefer
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The interplay of field-tunable strongly correlated states in a multi-orbital moiré system Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Aidan J. Campbell, Valerio Vitale, Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Hyeonjun Baek, Antoine Borel, Tatyana V. Ivanova, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Johannes Lischner, Brian D. Gerardot
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Propagation of extended fractures by local nucleation and rapid transverse expansion of crack-front distortion Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 T. Cochard, I. Svetlizky, G. Albertini, R. C. Viesca, S. M. Rubinstein, F. Spaepen, C. Yuan, M. Denolle, Y-Q. Song, L. Xiao, D. A. Weitz