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Breaking fast and slow
Nature Physics, Published online: 05 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02389-0
When cracks creep forward in our three-dimensional world, they do so because of accompanying cracks racing perpendicular to the main direction of motion with almost sonic speed. Clever experiments have now directly demonstrated this phenomenon.Dipolar spin wave packet transport in a van der Waals antiferromagnet
Nature Physics, Published online: 01 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02387-2
Understanding the mechanism by which magnons—the quanta of spin waves—propagate is important for developing practical devices. Now it is shown that long-range dipole–dipole interactions mediate the propagation in a van der Waals antiferromagnet.A quantum collaboration for flat bands
Nature Physics, Published online: 31 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02397-0
Multiple mechanisms can create electrons with reduced kinetic energy in solids. Combining these mechanisms now appears as a promising route to enhancing quantum effects in flat band materials.Terahertz field-induced nonlinear coupling of two magnon modes in an antiferromagnet
Nature Physics, Published online: 31 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02386-3
Magnons—quanta of spin waves—have potential applications in signal processing technology. But it is challenging to obtain coupling between different magnons. Now a study achieves this by demonstrating nonlinear magnon mixing in an antiferromagnet.Correlated order at the tipping point in the kagome metal CsV<sub>3</sub>Sb<sub>5</sub>
Nature Physics, Published online: 31 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02374-z
The electronic transport properties of charge-ordered kagome metals are controversial. Now careful measurements on unperturbed samples show that previously measured anisotropy in the transport occurs only when external perturbations are present.Phonons bend to magnetic fields
Nature Physics, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02288-w
Phonons do not carry spin or charge, but they can couple to an external magnetic field and cause a sizable transverse thermal gradient. Experiments suggest that phonon handedness is a widespread effect in magnetic insulators with impurities.Phonon chirality from impurity scattering in the antiferromagnetic phase of Sr<sub>2</sub>IrO<sub>4</sub>
Nature Physics, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02384-5
The thermal Hall effect of phonons does not yet have a definitive explanation. Now a careful study of doped Sr2IrO4 suggests that the mechanism involves the scattering of phonons by impurities embedded in an antiferromagnetic environment.The interplay of field-tunable strongly correlated states in a multi-orbital moiré system
Nature Physics, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02385-4
Heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides are known to simulate the triangular-lattice Hubbard model. Now, by combining a monolayer and bilayer of different materials, this idea is extended to multi-orbital Hubbard models.Propagation of extended fractures by local nucleation and rapid transverse expansion of crack-front distortion
Nature Physics, Published online: 29 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02365-0
Understanding the three-dimensional nature of fracture formation and dynamics is challenging. Experiments now show that a fracture front, after originating at a particular locus in a material, propagates jump-wise and expands transversely at high speed.Electronic transport probes a hidden state
Nature Physics, Published online: 26 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02382-z
Electronic transport measurements of the anomalous Hall effect can probe properties of a frustrated kagome spin ice that are hidden from conventional thermodynamic and magnetic probes.Time reversibility during the ageing of materials
Nature Physics, Published online: 26 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02366-z
Physical ageing in glassy materials can be described in a linear way through the concept of material time. Multispeckle dynamic light scattering is now shown to provide experimental access to the material time, in terms of which fluctuations become statistically reversible.Tunable quantum simulation of spin models with a two-dimensional ion crystal
Nature Physics, Published online: 26 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02378-9
Most quantum simulations of spin models with trapped ions have been restricted to one dimension. Now, tunable simulations of Ising models with single-site detection have been demonstrated in two-dimensional ion crystals.Non-Fermi liquid behaviour in a correlated flat-band pyrochlore lattice
Nature Physics, Published online: 26 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02362-3
Observations of strong electron correlation effects have been mostly confined to compounds containing f orbital electrons. Now, the study of the 3d pyrochlore metal CuV2S4 reveals that similar effects can be induced by flat-band engineering.Pocket pairs in iron-based materials
Nature Physics, Published online: 25 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02375-y
Experiments with unprecedented energy and momentum resolution reveal the nature of the pairing symmetry in KFe2As2 and pave the way for a unified theoretical description of unconventional superconductivity in iron-based materials.Self-organized intracellular twisters
Nature Physics, Published online: 25 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02372-1
Cytoplasmic flows in the fruit fly oocyte can reorganize cellular components. These structured vortical flows arise through self-organizing dynamics of microtubules, molecular motors and cytoplasm.Dipolar skyrmions and antiskyrmions of arbitrary topological charge at room temperature
Nature Physics, Published online: 25 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02358-z
Control over magnetic skyrmions at room temperature has important applications in technology. Now the observation of skyrmions with high topological charge widens the potential for them to be used in unconventional computing techniques.Engineering multimode interactions in circuit quantum acoustodynamics
Nature Physics, Published online: 25 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02377-w
Quantum gates require controlled interactions between different degrees of freedom. A tunable coupling has now been demonstrated between the phonon modes of a mechanical resonator designed for storing and manipulating quantum information.Hopping frustration-induced flat band and strange metallicity in a kagome metal
Nature Physics, Published online: 25 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02360-5
Electrons in f orbitals can create localized states that interact strongly and drive strange metal and critical behaviour via the Kondo mechanism. Now a mechanism of geometric frustration enables similar phenomena with d electrons.Defects show self-constraint in active nematics
Nature Physics, Published online: 24 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02352-5
Studies of a biological active nematic fluid reveal a spontaneous self-constraint that arises between self-motile topological defects and mesoscale coherent flow structures. The defects follow specific contours of the flow field, on which vorticity and strain rate balance, and hence, contrary to expectation, they break mirror symmetry.Robust continuous time crystal in an electron–nuclear spin system
Nature Physics, Published online: 24 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02351-6
Time crystals spontaneously produce periodic oscillations that are robust to perturbations. A time crystal phase with a long coherence time has now been produced using the electron and nuclear spins of a semiconductor sample.Σελίδες
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