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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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Super- and subradiant dynamics of quantum emitters mediated by atomic matter waves
Nature Physics, Published online: 18 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02676-w
Experiments on cooperative radiative decay typically involve rapidly escaping photons. Collective emission dynamics have now been studied in an array of quantum emitters interacting via atomic matter waves in a novel regime of slow propagation.
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Universal dynamics exposed by interaction quenches
Nature Physics, Published online: 14 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02704-9
Universal dynamics exposed by interaction quenches
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Nematic fluctuations shape Cooper pairs
Nature Physics, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02693-9
Experimental evidence of nematic-fluctuation-mediated superconductivity has been observed in an iron-based superconductor near the quantum critical point.
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Highly anisotropic superconducting gap near the nematic quantum critical point of FeSe<sub>1−<i>x</i></sub>S<sub><i>x</i></sub>
Nature Physics, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02683-x
Superconductivity that is mediated by fluctuations of a nematic electronic order has not been experimentally demonstrated. Now an analysis of the symmetry of the superconducting gap in doped FeSe provides evidence of this phenomenon.
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Islands identified
Nature Physics, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02670-2
Filamentary eruptions from the plasma edge in fusion devices pose a critical threat to their integrity. The identification of magnetic islands at the top of the edge explains how these eruptions are suppressed by resonant magnetic perturbations.
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A different facet to materials design
Nature Physics, Published online: 12 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02709-4
Complex oxides have competing phases with different spin, electronic and orbital order. Now it has been shown that growing thin films on different facets of a low-symmetry substrate can be used to control the phase of the ground state.
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Orbital fails to take flight
Nature Physics, Published online: 11 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02688-6
Orbital fails to take flight
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Artificial boundaries
Nature Physics, Published online: 11 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02717-4
The 2024 Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for foundational contributions to the development of artificial neural networks. The award reflects a shift in how we understand boundaries between scientific fields — or whether such boundaries are still useful at all.