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Wavefronts wield tweezers amid disorder
Nature Physics, Published online: 21 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02548-3
Acoustic and optical traps enable contactless manipulation of objects, but trapping has been limited to homogeneous environments. Wavefront shaping now extends this versatile manipulation tool to dynamic and disordered media.Collective flow of fermionic impurities immersed in a Bose–Einstein condensate
Nature Physics, Published online: 21 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02541-w
The complex interactions arising in mixtures of bosons and fermions make it hard to understand their coupled dynamics. The collective oscillations of fermions embedded in a boson condensate have now been characterized in an ultracold-atom experiment.Wave-momentum shaping for moving objects in heterogeneous and dynamic media
Nature Physics, Published online: 21 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02538-5
Although manipulation of objects using light and sound waves is an established technique, it has so far been confined to static environments. Iterative tailoring of acoustic far fields now allows control of objects in disordered and dynamic media.Quantum squeezing in a nonlinear mechanical oscillator
Nature Physics, Published online: 21 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02545-6
Mechanical modes promise applications in continuous-variable quantum information processing, but only if the final two elements—squeezing and nonlinearity—are achieved. Experiments with an oscillator coupled to a transmon qubit now achieve this.Critical delay accumulation
Nature Physics, Published online: 20 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02507-y
In many schedule-based systems, timeliness is paramount. A recent study provides insights into delay accumulation in networks, revealing a phase transition with connections to the physics of interfaces.Hole spins somersault in a CMOS quantum computer
Nature Physics, Published online: 19 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02556-3
The rotation of holes jumping between quantum dots in silicon quantum computers creates additional complexity for two-qubit operations. Understanding the rules of this somersaulting movement is key to the progress of hole-based qubit technology.Violation of Bell inequality by photon scattering on a two-level emitter
Nature Physics, Published online: 19 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02543-8
A semiconductor quantum dot can passively mediate interactions between two photons, enabling the creation of entangled photon states.Timeliness criticality in complex systems
Nature Physics, Published online: 19 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02525-w
Timeliness is a crucial property for the optimal functioning of socio-technical systems where delays can propagate. Now it is shown that a stylized model of delay propagation on temporal networks shows a phase transition that can trigger avalanches.Geometry-driven migration efficiency of autonomous epithelial cell clusters
Nature Physics, Published online: 19 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02532-x
The collective migration of cell clusters is modulated by substrate geometry through a combination of velocity and polarity alignment.Brilliant neutrons
Nature Physics, Published online: 14 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02573-2
Construction of the European Spallation Source began 10 years ago. Upon completion, its advanced technology and sustainable design will herald a new era for neutron scattering experiments.Human intelligence is not computable
Nature Physics, Published online: 14 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02533-w
Human intelligence is not computableLet there be lumens
Nature Physics, Published online: 14 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02526-9
The packaging of modern-day light sources is crammed with metrics. Paul Wiecki enlightens us about two: brightness and colour-rendering ability.Publisher Correction: Demonstration of a hydrodynamically equivalent burning plasma in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion
Nature Physics, Published online: 13 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02577-y
Publisher Correction: Demonstration of a hydrodynamically equivalent burning plasma in direct-drive inertial confinement fusionLess sound makes swimming sound
Nature Physics, Published online: 13 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02568-z
Less sound makes swimming soundSchrödinger’s workforce
Nature Physics, Published online: 13 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02570-5
Schrödinger’s workforceUnderground quantum criticality is hot right now
Nature Physics, Published online: 13 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02569-y
Underground quantum criticality is hot right nowThe importance of spatial heterogeneity in disease transmission
Nature Physics, Published online: 11 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02512-1
Spatial heterogeneity in disease transmission rates and in mixing patterns between regions makes predicting epidemic trajectories hard. Quantifying the mixing rates within and between spatial regions can improve predictions.Coherence limits in lattice atom interferometry at the one-minute scale
Nature Physics, Published online: 11 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02518-9
Applications of atom interferometry require sufficiently long coherence times. Now, confining atoms in an optical lattice shows that the decoherence rate slows down markedly at hold times that exceed tens of seconds.Experimental quantum computational chemistry with optimized unitary coupled cluster ansatz
Nature Physics, Published online: 11 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02530-z
The application of quantum computing to computational chemistry faces various experimental and theoretical challenges. Now, a quantum simulation on a noisy quantum device has achieved chemical accuracy for small H2 and LiH molecules.Real-space detection and manipulation of topological edge modes with ultracold atoms
Nature Physics, Published online: 10 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02506-z
The observation of edge modes in topological systems is challenging because precise control over the sample and occupied states is required. An experiment with atoms in a driven lattice now shows how edge modes with programmable potentials can be realized.