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Author Correction: Tunable quantum simulation of spin models with a two-dimensional ion crystal

Δευ, 12/02/2024 - 00:00

Nature Physics, Published online: 12 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02432-0

Author Correction: Tunable quantum simulation of spin models with a two-dimensional ion crystal

A kagome antiferromagnet reaches its quantum plateau

Δευ, 12/02/2024 - 00:00

Nature Physics, Published online: 12 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02383-y

It has long been predicted that spin-1/2 antiferromagnets on the kagome lattice should feature a series of plateaus in the change of its magnetization under an applied magnetic field. A quantum plateau of this kind has now been observed experimentally.

Bragg glass signatures in Pd<sub><i>x</i></sub>ErTe<sub>3</sub> with X-ray diffraction temperature clustering

Παρ, 09/02/2024 - 00:00

Nature Physics, Published online: 09 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02380-1

The existence of Bragg glasses—featuring nearly perfect crystalline order and glassy features—has yet to be experimentally confirmed for disordered charge-density-wave systems. A machine-learning-based experimental study now provides evidence for a Bragg glass phase in the charge density waves of PdxErTe3.

Picosecond volume expansion drives a later-time insulator–metal transition in a nano-textured Mott insulator

Παρ, 09/02/2024 - 00:00

Nature Physics, Published online: 09 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02396-1

During a photoinduced phase transition, electronic rearrangements are usually faster than lattice ones. Time-resolved measurements now show that the insulator-to-metal transition in a thin-film Mott insulator is preceded by lattice reconfiguration.

Why even specialists struggle with black hole proofs

Τετ, 07/02/2024 - 00:00

Nature Physics, Published online: 07 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02398-z

Mathematical proofs of black hole physics are becoming too complex even for specialists.

Relaxation of a sensitive superconductor

Τρί, 06/02/2024 - 00:00

Nature Physics, Published online: 06 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02392-5

Some exotic metals exhibit competing electronic states that can be influenced by small perturbations. Now, a study of a kagome superconductor shows that this competition is exquisitely sensitive to weak strain fields, providing insight into its anomalous electronic properties.

A boost for laser fusion

Δευ, 05/02/2024 - 00:00

Nature Physics, Published online: 05 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02379-8

Inertial confinement represents one of two viable approaches for producing energy from the fusion of hydrogen isotopes. Scientists have now achieved a record yield of fusion energy when directly irradiating targets with only 28 kilojoules of laser energy.

Demonstration of hot-spot fuel gain exceeding unity in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions

Δευ, 05/02/2024 - 00:00

Nature Physics, Published online: 05 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02363-2

Inertial confinement fusion experiments in a direct-drive configuration report more energy produced in deuterium–tritium fusion reactions than the amount of energy in the central part of the plasma created by laser irradiation of the fuel capsule.

Demonstration of a hydrodynamically equivalent burning plasma in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion

Δευ, 05/02/2024 - 00:00

Nature Physics, Published online: 05 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02361-4

Hydro-equivalent scaling of recent direct-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions shows that a burning plasma can be achieved with a higher laser energy.

Breaking fast and slow

Δευ, 05/02/2024 - 00:00

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

Πέμ, 01/02/2024 - 00:00

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

Τετ, 31/01/2024 - 00:00

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

Τετ, 31/01/2024 - 00:00

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>

Τετ, 31/01/2024 - 00:00

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

Τρί, 30/01/2024 - 00:00

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>

Τρί, 30/01/2024 - 00:00

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

Τρί, 30/01/2024 - 00:00

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

Δευ, 29/01/2024 - 00:00

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

Παρ, 26/01/2024 - 00:00

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

Παρ, 26/01/2024 - 00:00

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.

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