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Nature Physics, Published online: 21 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0911-z

Author Correction: Particle physics at accelerators in the United States and Asia

Nature Physics, Published online: 21 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0904-y

Pioneer of condensed-matter physics.

Nature Physics, Published online: 20 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0879-8

Biological systems are able to self-assemble in non-equilibrium conditions thanks to a continuous injection of energy. Here the authors present a tool to achieve non-equilibrium self-assembly of synthetic and biological constituents with sizes spanning three orders of magnitude.

Nature Physics, Published online: 20 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0872-2

Electron spins in solid usually relax their energy through the coupling with phonons in the host lattice. By using the coupling to microwave photons in a cavity as an alternative relaxation path, it is demonstrated that spins can be cooled below the lattice temperature.

Nature Physics, Published online: 20 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0878-9

Experiments realizing the indirect-drive fast ignition scheme for inertial confinement fusion are reported. Enabled by a tightly compressed target, an increase of neutron yield is observed.

Nature Physics, Published online: 20 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0831-y

The Double Chooz collaboration reports the neutrino oscillation parameter θ13 from a measurement of the disappearance of reactor anti-electron neutrinos with the total neutron capture technique.

Nature Physics, Published online: 20 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0888-7

Equilibrium self-assembly processes find free-energy minima but no such general statement holds for systems driven out of equilibrium. A new study has employed laser-induced convective flows to achieve dissipative self-assembly across multiple scales with universal growth and fluctuation statistics.

Nature Physics, Published online: 16 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0901-1

Author Correction: Unveiling the predictive power of static structure in glassy systems

Nature Physics, Published online: 15 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0902-0

Author Correction: Higher-order topology in bismuth

Nature Physics, Published online: 14 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0897-6

Publisher Correction: Laser–plasma interactions: To degeneracy and back

Nature Physics, Published online: 13 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0880-2

Compton scattering experiments off helium atoms for photon energies close to the ionization threshold reveal that electrons are not only emitted in the direction of the momentum transfer but also backwards.

Nature Physics, Published online: 13 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0857-1

A detailed and systematic X-ray and neutron scattering study of hexagonal iron sulfide uncovers the critical role of spin–phonon coupling in promoting the metal–insulator transition in this system.

Nature Physics, Published online: 13 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0855-3

A passive, heralded and high-fidelity quantum memory network node has been realized, which connects simultaneously to two quantum channels provided by orthogonally aligned optical fibre cavities coupled with a single atom.

Nature Physics, Published online: 13 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0874-0

α-RuCl3 is a promising candidate for realizing the Kitaev quantum spin liquid, but the physics governing its magnetic behaviour remain elusive. Resonant elastic X-ray scattering data now set unambiguous constraints on the leading terms in the Hamiltonian.

Nature Physics, Published online: 13 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0858-0

Majorana bound states at the end of nanowires may be used for quantum computation if they can be coupled sufficiently strongly. Here, the Copenhagen lab show strong and tunable coupling, a step along the road towards devices.

Nature Physics, Published online: 13 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0868-y

Isotopes with an odd number of neutrons are usually slightly smaller in size than their even-neutron neighbours. In charge radii of short-lived copper isotopes, a reduction of this effect is observed when the neutron number approaches fifty.

Nature Physics, Published online: 06 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0873-1

Artificial neural networks now allow the dynamics of supercooled liquids to be predicted from their structure alone in an unprecedented way, thus providing a powerful new tool to study the physics of the glass transition.

Nature Physics, Published online: 06 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0859-z

What happens to topological materials when their electrons are strongly interacting is an open question. Shao and others demonstrate that ZrSiSe is a material that can address this as it has a topological band structure and non-trivial correlations.

Nature Physics, Published online: 06 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0842-8

The physics that underlies the glass transition is both subtle and non-trivial. A machine learning approach based on graph networks is now shown to accurately predict the dynamics of glasses over a wide range of temperatures, pressures and densities.

Nature Physics, Published online: 06 April 2020; doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0838-4

Within the Physics Beyond Collider programme, complementary methods to high-energy frontier particle colliders to investigate the physics of elementary particles and their interactions are studied.