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Nature Physics offers news and reviews alongside top-quality research papers in a monthly publication, covering the entire spectrum of physics. Physics addresses the properties and interactions of matter and energy, and plays a key role in the development of a broad range of technologies. To reflect this, Nature Physics covers all areas of pure and applied physics research. The journal focuses on core physics disciplines, but is also open to a broad range of topics whose central theme falls within the bounds of physics.
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Observation of chiral edge transport in a rapidly rotating quantum gas
Nature Physics, Published online: 06 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02617-7
Edge modes are a key feature of topological materials, but their propagation is difficult to directly observe in condensed matter systems. The controlled injection and propagation of chiral edge modes has now been shown in a rotating ultracold gas.
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Dimensional crossover in a quantum gas of light
Nature Physics, Published online: 06 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02641-7
The dimensionality of a many-body system strongly impacts its physical behaviour. Now, a crossover from 1D to 2D has been observed in the Bose–Einstein condensate of a photon gas.
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Complexity and order in approximate quantum error-correcting codes
Nature Physics, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02621-x
Approximate—rather than exact—quantum error correction is a useful but relatively unexplored idea in quantum computing and many-body physics. A theoretical framework has now been established based on connections with quantum circuit complexity.
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Opportunities in nanoscale probing of laser-driven phase transitions
Nature Physics, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02603-z
Optical near-field microscopy has facilitated our understanding of nanophotonics. This Perspective explores the opportunities that near-field studies of terahertz fields provide for ultrafast phase transitions in condensed matter systems.
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Dimensionality crossover to a two-dimensional vestigial nematic state from a three-dimensional antiferromagnet in a honeycomb van der Waals magnet
Nature Physics, Published online: 26 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02618-6
Magnetic phases that are stabilized by quantum fluctuations in low dimensions are rare. A thickness-dependent crossover from three-dimensional antiferromagnetism to a two-dimensional vestigial nematic state that is driven by fluctuations has now been observed.
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Nematic proteins on the treadmill
Nature Physics, Published online: 21 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02615-9
Understanding the mechanism of bacterial cell division is important in both fundamental and applied biology. Now, researchers have investigated the self-organization of cytoskeletal filaments and the role nematic ordering plays in cell division.
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Universal symmetry breaking passes the superfluid test
Nature Physics, Published online: 21 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02609-7
The Kibble–Zurek mechanism is a key framework for describing the dynamics of continuous phase transitions. Recent experiments with ultracold gases, employing alternative methods to create a superfluid, highlight its universality.
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Assessment of the errors of high-fidelity two-qubit gates in silicon quantum dots
Nature Physics, Published online: 20 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02614-w
For solid-state qubits, the material environment hosts sources of errors that vary in time and space. This systematic analysis of errors affecting high-fidelity two-qubit gates in silicon can inform the design of large-scale quantum computers.
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Quantum-enhanced metrology with large Fock states
Nature Physics, Published online: 20 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02619-5
Non-classical states with a large, definite number of photons can now be produced in a superconducting cavity and used for quantum-enhanced sensing.
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Precise precognition
Nature Physics, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02623-9
Precise precognition
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Tightly slightly twisted
Nature Physics, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02624-8
Tightly slightly twisted
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From barrel to bottle
Nature Physics, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02606-w
Measurements pervade winemaking, from the size of vineyards to the taste in your mouth. Stefanie Reichert gives us the tour.
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Physics pushes peak performance
Nature Physics, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02625-7
In light of the recent Olympic and upcoming Paralympic Summer Games in Paris, we take a closer look at the physics of sports and how it helps athletes improve their performance.
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Don’t flock to faulty AI fashion
Nature Physics, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02604-y
Don’t flock to faulty AI fashion
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Photon losses create tension for Gaussian boson sampling
Nature Physics, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02610-0
Recent experimental claims of quantum advantage rely on the absence of classical algorithms that can reproduce the results. A tensor network algorithm can now challenge recent optical quantum advantage experiments.
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It takes more than forceful leaders
Nature Physics, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02608-8
Migrating cell clusters exhibit finger-like protrusions at the front, attributed to leader cells physically dragging follower cells along. Now, an optogenetics experiment has shown that follower cells must also play a role in protrusion formation.
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Optogenetic generation of leader cells reveals a force–velocity relation for collective cell migration
Nature Physics, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02600-2
Leader cells play an important role in guiding migratory clusters in various biological processes. Now, the mechanical organization of leader and followers within a cell cluster is shown to enable collective migration.
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Circuit quantum electrodynamics detection of induced two-fold anisotropic pairing in a hybrid superconductor–ferromagnet bilayer
Nature Physics, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02613-x
Heterostructures of ferromagnets and superconductors may host exotic superconducting states. Now a circuit quantum electrodynamics technique is demonstrated that provides evidence for triplet p-wave pairing in such a heterostructure.
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Self-organization of mortal filaments and its role in bacterial division ring formation
Nature Physics, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02597-8
Treadmilling of cytoskeletal filaments is crucial for their functional self-organization. Now the mechanism underpinning this collective organization is shown to be the dissolution of misaligned filaments.
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Emergence of fluctuating hydrodynamics in chaotic quantum systems
Nature Physics, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02611-z
Fluctuating hydrodynamics posits that thermalization in non-equilibrium systems depends on equilibrium transport coefficients. This hypothesis is now tested by exploring the emergence of fluctuations in non-equilibrium dynamics of ultracold atoms.
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