Nature Physics, Published online: 23 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02924-7
Quasicrystals were discovered by chance about 40 years ago, and it has largely been a matter of luck to find new ones since. Now, an approach has been found to grow colloidal quasicrystals by turning a dial while directly observing them with an optical microscope.
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- Long optical coherence times in a rare-earth-doped antiferromagnetNature Physics, Published online: 22 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02920-x Solid-state quantum devices can suffer from decoherence caused by fluctuating electron spins in the surrounding material. Operating in a regime where the electron spins become magnetically ordered produces substantially longer coherence times.
- Flows of liquid light seen in the synthetic frequency space of modulated fast-gain ring lasersNature Physics, Published online: 22 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02886-w Photon interactions in materials typically create a gaseous bosonic state, which is prone to turbulent behaviour that disrupts coherence. But it is now shown that, using fast-gain processes in a modulated semiconductor laser, light can be stabilized in a liquid-like state, enhancing the coherence of its flow.
- Interplay between light and heavy electron bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer grapheneNature Physics, Published online: 22 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02912-x Recent theoretical work suggested that magic-angle graphene can simultaneously host localized and itinerant electrons. Now thermoelectric measurements provide evidence of this.
- Author Correction: Observation of polarization density waves in SrTiO<sub>3</sub>Nature Physics, Published online: 22 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02940-7 Author Correction: Observation of polarization density waves in SrTiO3
- Valley-controlled photoswitching of metal–insulator nanotexturesNature Physics, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02899-5 Optical excitation is a way to control phase transitions in materials, but it lacks spatial specificity. Now, valley-selective photodoping in a Peierls insulator is demonstrated as a method to optically engineer phase textures with minimal heating.
- Quantum neural networks form Gaussian processesNature Physics, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02883-z The connection between classical neural networks and Gaussian processes is a fundamental result in machine learning. It has now been shown that many quantum neural networks converge to Gaussian processes, enabling their use for regression tasks.
- Strain-stiffening universality in composite hydrogels and soft tissuesNature Physics, Published online: 20 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02869-x The nonlinear mechanical properties of soft biological tissues and composites are poorly understood. Their strain stiffening under compression and shear is now found to be universal, and follows from the physics of the underlying biopolymer matrix.
