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Our current issue features a focus on physics education research. We have five pieces (and an editorial) that highlight various issues in this important field. (1/n)
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Given the general dissatisfaction in the community with the performance of Reviewer 2, Nature Physics will, from now on, only ask the opinions of Reviewers 1, 3, and 4.
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Which reviewer is the nicest?:
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This video shows how these colloidal magnets first form spinning clusters, before coalescing into a chiral fluid
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The odd free surface flows of a colloidal chiral fluid
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Happy World Metrology Day! Today, 7 fundamental constants of nature are redefined as exact numerical values, in turn redefining base units such as the metre and the kilogram. Find out more about this reformation in Bill Philips' #MeasureForMeasure column |
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Light captured in flight | News & Views by Nina Meinzer
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It has been around fifty years since Kenneth Wilsonโ€™s work on the renormalization group. We celebrate this anniversary with a collection of Comments on its development and applications.
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Philip Warren Anderson (1923โ€“2020) | Pioneer of condensed-matter physics
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Our May issue is live! This month we look at quantum holography, we examine efficacy of backward contact tracing in networks, and we celebrate the recent measurement of the muonโ€™s anomalous magnetic moment
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Online this week: Schrรถdinger cat states have now been observed in intense laser-atom interactions. They are a superposition of the initial state of the laser and the coherent state that results from the interaction between the light and atoms. Free to rโ€ฆ
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The ergodicity problem in economics | @ole_b_peters argues that by carefully addressing the question of ergodicity, many puzzles besetting the current economic formalism are resolved in a natural and empirically testable way
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In our October issue: Network representations of complex systems are limited to pairwise interactions, but real-world systems often involve higher-order interactions. A Perspective looks at the new physics emerging from attempts to characterize these intโ€ฆ
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Interdisciplinarity in biological physics Our December issue features a focus on how inter- (and multi-)disciplinary work has driven this fascinating field forwards.
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The big world of tiny things for little people | @MeinzerNina reviews Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small
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This month, we have an Insight on Complex Optics.
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For our 10 year anniversary, @phdcomics did this for us: http://t.co/9MoRLWmOss What's your favourite? http://t.co/LyHaONLUbl
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Sweet fifteen | Nature Physics turns 15 this month, so we thought we'd celebrate ๐ŸŽ‰
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Active colloidal particles are shown to be capable of aggregating into stable spinning clusters that constitute self-powered microgears. The demonstration reveals a new design principle for micromachinery using dissipative building blocks
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Our April issue is live. This month, we explore the dynamics of glasses using machine learning, we report on indistinguishable patterns of contagion, and we have a Focus on the European Strategy for Particle Physics
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In @nature : Protecting a bosonic qubit with autonomous quantum error correction In @NaturePhysics : News & Views by Joshua Combes | A self-correcting qubit
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This month we also have an Insight on Ultracold atom technologies
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Surface flows of a Leidenfrost drop viewed in real time. Hydrophobic tracers at the interface delineate chaotic convective patterns. At a critical drop radius, these vibrations intensify, the symmetry breaks, and the drop starts to roll
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Heating and cooling are shown to happen along distinct thermodynamic pathways, which makes the former faster than the latter. This finding calls for a rethink of the fundamentals of thermalization processes at the microscale.
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Black physicists matter | The persistent under-representation of Black physicists is a systemic problem that requires will, money and long-term commitment to be solved
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As of April 1st, Nature Physics will start including gifs with all decision letters. We believe this represents the forward-looking communication style of modern physicists and will enable us to include important contextual information to explain our decisions better.
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Our March issue is out! This month we map out beating patterns in motile cilia, and we celebrate the advances made possible by accelerators, from fundamentla science to applications such as radiotherapy
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Online last week: Relativistic mirrors offer a promising way of reaching laser intensities that are high enough to test the fundamental predictions of quantum electrodynamics. Now, a relativistic plasma mirror has been created using ultra-intense laserโ€“sโ€ฆ
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The quantum Hall effect is an example of a topological state โ€” the bulk of the two-dimensional material does not conduct, but there are topologically protected edge states that do. However, the nature of these edge states depends on the material in questโ€ฆ
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Quantum correlations between light and the kilogram-mass mirrors of LIGO | @nature paper reporting the effects of quantum fluctuations on an object at the human scale
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Insight on the physics of living systems | Our latest Insight showcases research across the many length scales relevant to living systems โ€” from molecules and cells to tissues, organisms and populations.
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The physics of infinity | Hilbert famously argued that infinity cannot exist in physical reality. George Ellis, Krzysztof Meissner & Hermann Nicolai explore the consequences of this statement
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Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor reported in @nature today
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New (extralarge) issue out now! This month, we celebrate 50 years of the renormalization group (check out the Focus at ), reflect on the Nobel prizes, and examine ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals confined in microchannels.
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Comment by Charles D. Brown II & Eileen Gonzales | Excellence and power in the Black physics community
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Don't forget that today is the final of the Physics Frenzy. And it's the big one: Noether's theorem vs Maxwell's equations. Follow @Perimeter for instructions on how to vote.
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Cell monolayers sense curvature by exploiting active mechanics and nuclear mechanoadaptation
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Obituary | David J. Thouless (1934-2019) Theoretical physicist who discovered topological phases of matter.
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Today is #SIRedefinition day. Read up on why this has come about in the Commentary by Joachim Fischer & Joachim Ullrich
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Machine learning the thermodynamic arrow of time
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Interactions of atmospheric neutrinos with quantum-gravity-induced fluctuations of the metric of spacetime would lead to decoherence. The IceCube Collaboration constrains such interactions with atmospheric neutrinos.
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Fixed-time descriptive statistics underestimate extremes of epidemic curve ensembles
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Linear growth of quantum circuit complexity
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Feature | Over the last 15 years, the content of Nature Physics has covered an enormous breadth of subjects at the forefront of physics. The journalโ€™s past and present editors recount their favourite papers
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NOW LIVE: Insight on quantum materials, published jointly with @NatureMaterials
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Possible existence of a neutron, by James Chadwick. Not a bad paper, that
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Polarons are quasi-particles formed by impurities together with induced excitations in a surrounding medium. Now, mediated interactions between polarons have been detected using atomic impurities embedded in a Fermi gas of ultracold atoms.
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Our May issue is live, featuring those quantum holographic smileys we published back in February. Link in bio: #physics #naturephysics #science #beautifulscience #smileyface
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Elegant connections | The pursuit of connections both within and between disparate disciplines is a powerful driver for new understanding
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Higher-order network models informed by rich data offer new opportunities for understanding complex systems, as argued by @m_rosvall @RenaudLambiotte @ingo_S in a perspective article published today
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May issue out now! On the cover: ice repellancy mechanisms on superhydrophobic surfaces. We also learn that fish shoals resemble a stochastic excitable system, andย discuss the state of quantum tech industry. Enjoy!
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Non-Hermitian physics enables dynamic control of optical behaviour in real time, such as reflectionless scattering modes, which have now been demonstrated in a chaotic photonic microcavity.
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Our December editorial looks at Werner Heisenberg and the legacy of the uncertainty principle
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The physics of data | Commentary by Jeff Byers on the shift in mindset required to analyse big (yet messy) data sets
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Last week in @nature the teleportation of a quantum gate between logical qubits was reported (). In our pages, Isaac Chuang now offers his point of view on this achievement | Building the building blocks (free to read)
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Timeโ€“information uncertainty relations in thermodynamics
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A scientist walks into a bar | @MeinzerNina reviews Soonish by @FuSchmu and @ZachWeiner
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Morphogen gradient orchestrates pattern-preserving tissue morphogenesis via motility-driven unjamming
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Our January issue is (finally) live! This month we feature a proposal for generating photon pairs, a Review on optomechanics for quantum technologies, and we take stock of the lessons learned from our Guided Open Access pilot
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Even a few electrons confined to a tight space and time interval interact strongly, often causing issues for applications. The resulting repulsion has now been shown to allow strong electronโ€“electron correlations, enabling shot-noise reduction.
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Live today: Nature Physics Insight in nuclear fusion
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This month, a Focus issue highlights recent developments in fundamental research on superconductivity Editorial |
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New issue out! This month, we explore how to entangle three trapped-ion qubits, celebrate the Ig Nobel awards, and review the current status of research on superconducting diodes.
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Despite being essential to many applications in quantum science, entanglement can be easily disrupted by decoherence. A protocol based on repetitive quantum error correction now demonstrates enhanced coherence times of entangled logical qubits.
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Rethinking our physics heroes | As we reassess the contributions of the โ€˜great peopleโ€™ of science, we should also celebrate the impact of mentors
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As Hubble turns 25, its scientists choose their favourite pictures http://t.co/feJrxzPf3L via @NatureNews #Hubble25 http://t.co/P4EMu28tmU
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Our April editorial celebrates the centenary of D'arcy Thompson's morphology masterwork, On Growth and Form
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New issue out now! This month we celebrate interdisciplinarity in biological physics research () and we learn about room temperature light-induced superconductivity, the scaling behaviour of nuclear wrinkling, and much more.
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Underground test of gravity-related wave function collapse
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Low-dimensional dynamics of two coupled biological oscillators
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Quantum systems exhibit vastly different properties depending on their dimensionality. An experimental study with ultracold bosons now tracks quantum correlation properties during the crossover from two dimensions to one dimension.
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Today is the international day of light ( @IDLofficial )! This year, it coincides with the 60th anniversary of the laser. Can you imagine a world without them? #IDL2020
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Our March issue is live! This month we look at the topological structure of nacre, we examine the future of muon colliders, and we consider the ups and downs of virtual conferences
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Light-induced anomalous Hall effect in graphene
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New issue live now! This month we discuss nonlinear solitons, the cooling of levitated nanoparticles, and reflect on Claude E. Shannon's pioneering contributions to information theory.
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A guide to the wonders of nature | Marcelo Dias reviews Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance
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Our November issue is out! This month we clarify the long-standing puzzle of photon-nucleon interactions, wehighlight African scientists taking a lead in physics, and we celebrate the 2021 physics Nobel prize
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Understanding deep learning is also a job for physicists | Comment by Lenka Zdeborovรก
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It has been suggested that Gaussian boson sampling may provide a quantum computational advantage for calculating the vibronic spectra of molecules. Now, an equally efficient classical algorithm has been identified.
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Our June issue is live! It features: - Turbulence in starfish egg cells (!) - Tail-risk of contagious diseases - Odd-even staggering in copper nuclei - Deep learning is a job for physicists too - An editorial on scientists' support structures
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The physics that underlies the glass transition is both subtle and non-trivial. A machine learning approach developed by @DeepMind is shown to accurately predict the dynamics of glasses over a wider range of temperature, pressure and density
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The physics of quantum materials
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Understanding the mechanism by which magnonsโ€”the quanta of spin wavesโ€”propagate is important for developing practical devices. Now it is shown that long-range dipoleโ€“dipole interactions mediate the propagation in a van der Waals antiferromagnet.
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Photon-mediated entanglement in atomic ensembles coupled to cavities enables the engineering of quantum states with a graph-like entanglement structure. This offers potential advantages in quantum computation and metrology.
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Many complex systems relax slowly towards equilibrium after a perturbation, without ever reaching it. Experiments with crumpled sheets now show that relaxation involves avalanches of localized instabilities, whose slow-down leads to logarithmic aging.
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Interestingly, our colour only *appears* blue because the information our articles convey travels *that* much faster than Nature Materials' (ok, ok, we'll get our coat)
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Did you know that each Nature journal has its own principal colour? @NatureGeosci is green @NatureChemistry is purple @NatureMaterials is red @NaturePhysics is blue
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The standard currentโ€“phase relation in tunnel Josephson junctions involves a single sinusoidal term, but real junctions are more complicated. The effects of higher Josephson harmonics have now been identified in superconducting qubit devices.
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The mathematical chalkboard society | Elizaveta Dubrovina reviews Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards, by Jessica Wynne
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Intracellular softening and increased viscoelastic fluidity during division
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Out this week: A Perspective piece on how electronic nematicity (that is, breaking of rotational symmetry but not translational symmetry) impacts the physics of iron-based superconductors.
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Twenty years of network science | @alexvespi considers the influence of Strogatz and Watts' small world networks paper (via @NatureNV )
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Our February issue is (finally) live! This month we look at how the physical constraints of a network determine its elastic energy, we examine the notion of beauty in physics and biology, and we look at US science under Biden
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Electrons in ๐˜ง orbitals can create localized states that interact strongly and drive strange metal and critical behaviour via the Kondo mechanism. Now a mechanism of geometric frustration enables similar phenomena with ๐˜ฅ electrons.
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