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- Recent progress in the computational study of supercooled and glassy waterNature Physics, Published online: 02 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03479-x This Review discusses recent advances in the computational exploration of the properties of supercooled and glassy water.
- Motors use biased diffusion to shepherd diffusible proteins on microtubulesNature Physics, Published online: 30 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03489-9 Microtubules are bound by active motors and passively diffusing proteins. Now it is shown that this mixture of active and passive molecules is a realization of rectified Brownian motion in active matter.
- Automated inverse design of metainterfaces with tailored friction lawsNature Physics, Published online: 30 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03503-0 Understanding friction between contacting surfaces is important to improve device performance. Now a method is shown to discover materials that offer on-demand frictional behaviour using inverse design based on genetic algorithms.
- Multiparticle quantum walks in a dipole-conserving Bose–Hubbard modelNature Physics, Published online: 30 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03512-z Strong potential gradients can localize individual particles, but interactions can still generate collective motion. An experiment with ultracold atoms in a tilted lattice now shows this collective motion by tracking mobile bound states of fractons.
- Thermodynamic demonstration of tetracriticality and multicomponent superconductivity in UTe<sub>2</sub>Nature Physics, Published online: 30 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03504-z Prior measurements of the phase diagram of UTe2 contain a triple point that is forbidden by thermodynamics. Now, an additional phase boundary is discovered that resolves this problem and confirms multicomponent superconductivity in this material.
- The challenge of recognition in large scientific collaborationsNature Physics, Published online: 30 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03511-0 The authorship practices of large collaborations can hide individual contributions. A recognition programme developed by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration publicly documents verified contributions to research, infrastructure and community service.
- Imaging hot-electron Thomson cooling beyond the Boltzmann–Onsager frameworkNature Physics, Published online: 29 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03510-1 Classical Thomson cooling is inefficient. Now non-equilibrium energy dissipation with a breakdown of the Boltzmann–Onsager limit is demonstrated by imaging hot electrons in HgTe and HgCdTe quantum wells.
- Order in a quantum chaotic seaNature Physics, Published online: 27 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03513-y Experiments with a superconducting quantum processor revealed an island of regular motion within otherwise chaotic quantum many-body dynamics and used feedback to steer the dynamics towards it.
