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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.
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Order in a quantum chaotic sea
Nature Physics, Published online: 27 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03513-y
Experiments with a superconducting quantum processor revealed an island of regular motion within otherwise chaotic quantum many-body dynamics and used feedback to steer the dynamics towards it.
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A simple twist to altermagnetism
Nature Physics, Published online: 26 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03495-x
Two-dimensional altermagnets hold promise for next-generation spintronics but remain difficult to synthesize. Now, altermagnetism has been observed in an orthogonally twisted van der Waals homostructure, opening possibilities for ultrathin devices.
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Curvature and cell mechanics control tissue organization
Nature Physics, Published online: 26 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03496-w
Tissue geometry mechanically regulates cell behaviour across scales. Now, it can be predicted when cells switch from full adhesion to rapid partial detachment on curved surfaces.
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Three-dimensional cell morphology is mediated by curvature sensing and interfacial stress
Nature Physics, Published online: 26 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03482-2
Cells adhering to micro-curved surfaces can exhibit either complete adhesion or partial interior detachment. This is now found to be determined by the balance between the cell contractile stress and the cell–substrate adhesion stress.
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Beating the break-even point with autonomous quantum error correction
Nature Physics, Published online: 23 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03486-y
Conventional quantum error correction requires repeated measurements and real-time feedback, which are technically complex. An autonomous implementation that eliminates these while beating the break-even point is demonstrated in a trapped-ion system.
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Maxwell’s demon with memory
Nature Physics, Published online: 23 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03509-8
Maxwell’s demon may produce work using the information it obtains by measuring the system as fuel. Now, it is shown that the amount of produced work increases if the demon takes information about the dynamical correlations of the system into account.
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Particle collisions on a quantum computer
Nature Physics, Published online: 23 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03490-2
Elementary particle physics rests on the discovery of particles produced in high-energy collider experiments. Now, a model collision above the threshold for particle production has been simulated on a quantum computer.
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Wigner crystals get dressed
Nature Physics, Published online: 22 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03516-9
When repulsion overcomes their tendency to move freely, electrons can arrange into a crystal. Two experiments have now identified Wigner polarons, quasiparticles whose optical signatures reveal the collective response of the electron lattice.