Nature Physics, Published online: 18 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03027-z
It has been proposed that phonons propagating through a material can be used for quantum computing, in a similar manner to photons. Now, several of the quantum gates and measurements needed for this approach have been demonstrated.
RSS Nature Physics
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.
Feed URL: https://www.nature.com/nphys.rss
Updated: daily
Feed URL: https://www.nature.com/nphys.rss
Updated: daily
- Acoustic phonon phase gates with number-resolving phonon detection
- Topological superconductivity finds its missing pieceNature Physics, Published online: 18 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03024-2 Topologically protected surface states are expected to exist in topological superconductors. These states have now been detected using momentum-resolved tunnelling spectroscopy in a spin-triplet superconductor.
- Observation of the Yamaji effect in a cuprate superconductorNature Physics, Published online: 16 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03032-2 The Yamaji effect is a modulation of the electronic transport as the angle of an applied magnetic field is changed. This has been observed in a model cuprate and sheds light on the geometry of the Fermi surface and the nature of the pseudogap.
- Constant-overhead magic state distillationNature Physics, Published online: 16 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03026-0 The creation and purification of magic states can be a limiting step in quantum computing. Now an error correcting code has been found where the overhead of this process is the lowest value possible, showing that optimal performance can be achieved.
- Decoding frequency-modulated signals increases information entropy in bacterial second messenger networksNature Physics, Published online: 15 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03030-4 Cells decode temporal patterns into gene expression states through amplitude and frequency modulation. Now it is shown that frequency modulation increases information entropy compared with amplitude modulation alone.
- Boron at the boundariesNature Physics, Published online: 12 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03041-1 Boron at the boundaries
- Serendipitous signalNature Physics, Published online: 12 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03052-y The first direct observation of gravitational waves occurred on 14 September 2015. We look back at ten years of gravitational wave science.
- Parallelized telecom quantum networking with an ytterbium-171 atom arrayNature Physics, Published online: 12 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03022-4 Most atom-based quantum networks emit photons at non-telecom wavelengths, requiring lossy conversion for long-distance links. A scalable approach for generating direct entanglement between atoms and telecom-band photons has now been demonstrated.
