Nature Physics, Published online: 21 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03134-x
Generation of orbital currents in a non-magnetic material can be useful to build efficient orbitronic devices. Now, the interplay of chiral phonons and electrons is shown to produce orbital currents in α-quartz.
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- Orbital Seebeck effect induced by chiral phonons
- Orbital current from phononsNature Physics, Published online: 21 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03139-6 Chiral phonons, quasiparticles of lattice vibrations arising from circular atomic motion, hold potential as carriers of angular momentum for next-generation technologies. Experiments show that they can generate orbital currents under thermal gradients.
- Strong correlations and superconductivity in the supermoiré latticeNature Physics, Published online: 20 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03131-0 When two moiré patterns interfere with each other, they produce a longer-wavelength supermoiré pattern. Now, the effects of a supermoiré lattice on the band structure and transport properties of twisted trilayer graphene is investigated.
- Dynamical simulations of many-body quantum chaos on a quantum computerNature Physics, Published online: 20 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03144-9 Studying many-body quantum chaos on current quantum hardware is hindered by noise and limited scalability. Now it is shown that a superconducting processor, combined with error mitigation, can accurately simulate dual-unitary circuit dynamics.
- Driving Floquet physics with excitonic fieldsNature Physics, Published online: 19 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03132-z Floquet engineering is often limited by weak light–matter coupling and heating. Now it is shown that exciton-driven fields in monolayer semiconductors produce stronger, longer-lived Floquet effects and reveal hybridization linked to excitonic phases.
- Tracing dynamic arrestNature Physics, Published online: 16 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03159-2 Suspensions of colloidal hard spheres are excellent model systems for studying glass dynamics. Adding tracer particles enables a hydrodynamic approach for probing the glass transition.
- Emergent signatures of the glass transition in colloidal suspensionsNature Physics, Published online: 16 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03140-z Colloidal suspensions are known to display a glass transition. Now, insights into this transition, via its effect on the solvent, are gained by probing the correlated motion of tracer particles in such systems.
- Transport evidence for chiral surface states from three-dimensional Landau bandsNature Physics, Published online: 16 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03146-7 The properties of electronic transport through edge states of three-dimensional quantum Hall-like states are not yet resolved. Now, increasing the surface area of the edges is shown to produce increased conductance, suggesting that chiral surface states are present.
