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- The cost of cellular patternsNature Physics, Published online: 28 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02687-7 The cell cortex consists of a chemical and a mechanical subsystem, but how energy is allocated between them is unknown. Now, measurements of the entropy production rate have revealed what determines the cell cortex’s energy budget.
- Observation of magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas during the suppression of edge-localized modesNature Physics, Published online: 28 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02666-y The suppression of edge-localized modes in tokamak plasmas is crucial to prevent them from damaging the walls of the chamber. Now experiments confirm the role that magnetic islands play in suppressing these detrimental modes.
- Fast quantum gas formation via electromagnetically induced transparency coolingNature Physics, Published online: 28 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02677-9 Current methods for directly cooling atomic gases to quantum degeneracy involve time-consuming steps. A method based on electromagnetically induced transparency now achieves quantum degeneracy with a notable reduction in preparation time.
- Quantum tunnelling with tunable spin geometric phases in van der Waals antiferromagnetsNature Physics, Published online: 22 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02675-x It is difficult to control the geometric phase of particles as they undergo quantum tunnelling. Now tuning of the geometric phase of electron spin is demonstrated in tunnelling in a multilayer van der Waals antiferromagnet.
- In-beam spectroscopy reveals competing nuclear shapes in the rare isotope <sup>62</sup>CrNature Physics, Published online: 18 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02680-0 Islands of inversions are regions of the nuclear chart where deformed configurations are energetically favoured over spherical ones. Now experiments show that 62Cr assumes different shapes with excitation energy, which is a signature of such islands.
- The space of transport coefficients allowed by causalityNature Physics, Published online: 14 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02635-5 Causality places fundamental limits on the hydrodynamic behaviour of relativistic systems that are independent of the underlying model.
- Origin of the chiral charge density wave in transition-metal dichalcogenideNature Physics, Published online: 14 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02668-w The mechanism of chiral symmetry breaking in condensed matter systems is not well understood. Now charge-lattice symmetry frustration has been shown to be a key factor governing chirality in a charge density wave of 1T-TiSe2.
- Emergent universal quench dynamics in randomly interacting spin modelsNature Physics, Published online: 14 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02664-0 Universal properties have previously been observed mostly in the equilibrium physics of many-body systems in the low-energy and low-temperature regime. Now universality is observed at high temperature in the spin dynamics of a solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance system.
