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Nature Physics offers news and reviews alongside top-quality research papers in a monthly publication, covering the entire spectrum of physics. Physics addresses the properties and interactions of matter and energy, and plays a key role in the development of a broad range of technologies. To reflect this, Nature Physics covers all areas of pure and applied physics research. The journal focuses on core physics disciplines, but is also open to a broad range of topics whose central theme falls within the bounds of physics.
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  1. Fatigue failure in glasses under cyclic shear deformation
    Nature Physics, Published online: 20 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03174-x Fatigue failure refers to a material’s loss of rigidity after repeated application of stress or deformation. Simulations of model glasses now show that failure times display a power-law divergence and a strong dependence on annealing.
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  2. Suppression and enhancement of bosonic stimulation by atomic interactions
    Nature Physics, Published online: 20 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03155-6 Bosonic bunching of non-interacting atoms enhances atom–light scattering. An experiment now shows that attractive atomic interactions enhance this scattering further, while repulsive ones can completely suppress bosonic stimulation.
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  3. How light scattering loses its boost
    Nature Physics, Published online: 20 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03156-5 In a Bose–Einstein condensate, bosonic stimulation enhances light scattering. An experiment now reveals that interatomic interactions diminish this effect, offering a probe of quantum correlations.
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  4. Statistical localization of <i>U</i>(1) lattice gauge theory in a Rydberg simulator
    Nature Physics, Published online: 18 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03183-w Lattice gauge theories with non-local conservation laws are expected to thermalize locally. Using a Rydberg simulator, it is now shown that most charge patterns can remain effectively frozen, a phenomenon known as statistical localization.
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  5. An exciton crystal in a moiré excitonic insulator
    Nature Physics, Published online: 18 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03184-9 The formation of exciton crystals is challenging because excitons possess short lifetimes and exhibit weaker interactions than electrons. Now, an exciton Wigner crystal is observed in a moiré electron–hole bilayer.
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  6. Discontinuous transition to shear flow turbulence
    Nature Physics, Published online: 17 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03166-3 The transition from laminar to turbulent flow is normally of a continuous nature. Now, simulations and experiments show that a discontinuous transition can be realized through the application of particular force fields.
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  7. Topological Kondo insulator in MoTe<sub>2</sub>/WSe<sub>2</sub> moiré bilayers
    Nature Physics, Published online: 16 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03170-1 Topological Kondo insulators have been suggested in three-dimensional bulk materials like SmB6, but they have not been observed in two-dimensional materials. Now, this is achieved in a transition metal dichalcogenide moiré bilayer.
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  8. The accidents of growth
    Nature Physics, Published online: 13 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03180-z The accidents of growth
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