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- Measurement of phonon angular momentumNature Physics, Published online: 11 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02952-3 Theory predicts that phonons—quanta of lattice vibrations—can carry finite angular momentum and thus influence physical properties of materials. Now phonons with angular momentum have been seen in tellurium with a chiral crystal structure.
- First-principles diagrammatic Monte Carlo for electron–phonon interactions and polaronNature Physics, Published online: 10 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02954-1 Diagrammatic Monte Carlo calculations accurately describe polarons in different theoretical models. Now, integrating this with accurate first-principles calculations can describe the ground-state and dynamic properties of polarons in real materials.
- Nanophotonic quantum skyrmions enabled by semiconductor cavity quantum electrodynamicsNature Physics, Published online: 09 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02973-y Quantum optical skyrmions are promising for quantum photonic applications but have not been experimentally realized. Now nanophotonic quantum skyrmions are generated using a semiconductor quantum dot–Gaussian microcavity quantum electrodynamics system.
- Quantum thermalization and Floquet engineering in a spin ensemble with a clock transitionNature Physics, Published online: 09 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02943-4 Using Floquet engineering, an ensemble of ytterbium-171 ions in an yttrium orthovanadate host crystal provides a platform for studying the dynamics of different quantum many-body models, including the realization of a time-crystalline phase.
- Ytterbium dopants for quantum simulationNature Physics, Published online: 09 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02948-z Understanding and controlling many-body interactions is essential for advancing quantum science. A crystal containing millions of strongly interacting ytterbium ion dopants has now been used to simulate complex quantum many-body phenomena.
- QED tests in strong fieldsNature Physics, Published online: 09 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02959-w High-precision measurement of the hyperfine splitting in a radioactive isotope of hydrogen-like bismuth unlocks new possibilities for testing quantum electrodynamics in extreme magnetic fields and for probing nuclear structure.
- Publisher Correction: Absence of heat flow in ν = 0 quantum Hall ferromagnet in bilayer grapheneNature Physics, Published online: 07 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02977-8 Publisher Correction: Absence of heat flow in ν = 0 quantum Hall ferromagnet in bilayer graphene
- Anyonic braiding in a chiral Mach–Zehnder interferometerNature Physics, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02960-3 An interferometer design allows systematic investigation of the anyonic statistics of bulk fractional quantum Hall states.
