Nature Physics, Published online: 11 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02717-4
The 2024 Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for foundational contributions to the development of artificial neural networks. The award reflects a shift in how we understand boundaries between scientific fields — or whether such boundaries are still useful at all.
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- Artificial boundaries
- The span of spaceNature Physics, Published online: 11 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02684-w Twinkle, twinkle little star, tell me just how far you are. Richard I. Anderson discusses standard candles and their applications.
- Climate record gets hot updateNature Physics, Published online: 11 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02691-x Climate record gets hot update
- Thirty years of puzzling superconductivity in Sr<sub>2</sub>RuO<sub>4</sub>Nature Physics, Published online: 11 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02656-0 After 30 years of extensive research, the nature of the unconventional superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 is still not fully understood. This Perspective summarizes the controversies surrounding this and discusses future research.
- Diffusive light pipesNature Physics, Published online: 01 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02669-9 Optical waveguides that route light are a core technology of modern photonics and the bedrock of the global communications network. A surprising diffusion mechanism for guiding light has now been identified, and it is strangely close to home.
- No heat flow in charge-neutral grapheneNature Physics, Published online: 01 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02674-y The ground state of electrons in charge-neutral graphene in a strong magnetic field has not been conclusively identified. Thermal transport measurements narrow down the possible candidates, with evidence that the ground state does not conduct heat.
- Energy transport in diffusive waveguidesNature Physics, Published online: 01 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02665-z Waveguides—often based on total internal reflection—underpin many photonic technologies, including fibre networks for broadband communications. Now a different type of waveguide based on physical diffusion in a scattering medium is demonstrated.
- Braiding reflectionless states in non-Hermitian magnonicsNature Physics, Published online: 01 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02667-x Extending topological braids of complex energy bands to non-Hermitian systems of magnons—the quanta of spin waves—is a crucial step in the development of spin-based topological devices. This has now been experimentally demonstrated.
