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  1. Orbital Hall conductivity and relaxation in thin films with variable disorder
    Nature Physics, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03334-z The role of disorder in orbital angular momentum transport induced by electric fields is not well understood. Now orbital Hall conductivity and orbital relaxation are shown to be robust even in strongly disordered thin films.
  2. Evidence of time-reversal symmetry breaking above the charge density wave order in a kagome metal
    Nature Physics, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03331-2 Time-reversal symmetry breaking in kagome metals remains an open problem. Now, a circulating phase called the loop-current order is shown to break time-reversal symmetry at a temperature well above the charge order transition in CsV3Sb5.
  3. Strong coupling of a microwave photon to an electron on helium
    Nature Physics, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03342-z Individual electrons on superfluid helium can be used as qubits. Strong coupling between the motional state of a single superfluid helium-bound electron and a single cavity photon has now been demonstrated, enabling qubit readout schemes.
  4. Research on physics education where physics education happens
    Nature Physics, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03289-1 As physics departments continue to grapple with how growing interdisciplinarity fits the disciplinary departmental model, we argue for the mutual benefits that incorporating physics education researchers within physics departments can bring.
  5. High-fidelity entanglement and coherent multi-qubit mapping in an atom array
    Nature Physics, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03258-8 Ytterbium-171 atoms can store quantum information in different ways, with their own applications and advantages. Now the ability to coherently transfer entangled states between these different qubit types has been demonstrated.
  6. Hamiltonian description of non-reciprocal interactions
    Nature Physics, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03317-0 Many active and driven systems exhibit non-reciprocal interactions, making them hard to describe with standard methods. Now a constrained Hamiltonian embedding with auxiliary variables reproduces these dynamics in model spin systems.
  7. Logical qubits with erasure conversion using metastable neutral atoms
    Nature Physics, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03309-0 Qubits with detectable erasure errors can support more efficient error correction than qubits with unlocated errors. Improved logical qubit performance using erasure conversion has now been demonstrated using ytterbium-171 atoms.
  8. Spinon mediation of witness spin dynamics in herbertsmithite
    Nature Physics, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03303-6 There is a long-running effort to find a material with a spin liquid ground state, but existing experimental probes have not given definitive evidence. Now, impurity spins have been used as probes of the putative spin liquid phase of herbertsmithite.