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- Better qubits through phononic engineeringNature Physics, Published online: 31 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02775-8 Controlling qubit–phonon interactions is crucial for solid-state quantum devices. Two recent studies demonstrate that phononic bandgap engineering can alter these interactions, leading to enhanced qubit coherence and scalability.
- Electronic meltNature Physics, Published online: 31 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02779-4 Electrons at extremely low density and temperature can crystallize into a solid known as a Wigner crystal. Optical spectroscopy now reveals how these crystals melt at higher densities via an intermediate phase, where crystalline and liquid regions coexist.
- Different facets of unconventional magnetismNature Physics, Published online: 30 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02750-3 Recent advances in classifying magnets according to spin-group symmetry have expanded the possibilities of unconventional magnetism. Unconventional magnets — such as collinear spin-split antiferromagnets, also known as altermagnets, noncollinear spin-split antiferromagnets and anomalous-Hall antiferromagnets — combine the advantages of ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism.
- Publisher Correction: Selective and collective actuation in active solidsNature Physics, Published online: 29 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02798-9 Publisher Correction: Selective and collective actuation in active solids
- The formation of a nuclear-spin dark state in siliconNature Physics, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02773-w Electron qubits in solid-state systems often couple to nuclear spins in the surrounding material, causing decoherence. Now, nuclear spins in silicon have been put into a dark state, which could improve qubit coherence for quantum applications.
- Quantum thermodynamics for quantum computingNature Physics, Published online: 27 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02764-x Quantum thermodynamics has provided theoretical insights into the foundations of quantum and statistical physics. Now, a quantum thermal machine has found an application — cooling qubits in a quantum computer.
- Magnetic fields take the lead in ultracold reactionsNature Physics, Published online: 27 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02756-x Ultracold recombination reactions typically produce molecules in many uncontrolled quantum states. Quantum control over reaction products has now been demonstrated via magnetic Feshbach resonances.
- Murmurations of electric dipolesNature Physics, Published online: 27 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02777-6 Stable and metastable electrical dipole patterns have been imaged and manipulated using in situ heating and cooling in ferroelectric superlattices.
