Nature Physics, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03289-1
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- Orbital Hall conductivity and relaxation in thin films with variable disorderNature 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.
- High-fidelity entanglement and coherent multi-qubit mapping in an atom arrayNature 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.
- Logical qubits with erasure conversion using metastable neutral atomsNature 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.
- Hamiltonian description of non-reciprocal interactionsNature 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.
- Spinon mediation of witness spin dynamics in herbertsmithiteNature 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.
- Crossover of quasi-localized dynamics and diffusion in supercooled liquidsNature Physics, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03320-5 Relaxation processes in glasses display two distinct components—fast localized motions versus slower diffusive dynamics. Time-domain interferometry experiments with a typical glass former now show that the two processes are coupled.
- Bilayer excitons in the Laughlin fractional quantum Hall stateNature Physics, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03325-0 Laughlin states are descriptions of the quantum Hall effect in which interactions between electrons create fractionally charged quasiparticles. Now, excitons are shown to form between these quasiparticles in a bilayer graphene device.
