2D metals remain hard to realize because of their non-layered nature. In the past year, a van der Waals squeezing method has been developed for the production of diverse 2D metals at Å-scale thickness, revealing exceptional quantum transport, reports Luojun Du (杜罗军)
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Jiayong Zhong & Jie Zhang outline the processes that govern the generation, amplification and transport of astrophysical magnetic fields and describe experiments using intense laser-produced plasmas that can test existing models and provide further insight
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As the USA cuts research ties with China, historian Dazhou Wang looks back at a similar scientific rupture in the 1960s and argues that although China was able to make progress despite its isolation, collaboration remains better for science
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In this Comment, historian Danian Hu shares the stories of early 20th century Chinese physicists and discusses the reciprocal US–China relationship that enabled their work
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In case you missed our April editorial: we ask whether physics in computer games might beat the real thing
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In a Comment in our April issue, @preprintculture.bsky.social looks at how the way preprints get handled was invented in a few libraries, and the classification systems helped create the strong boundary that separates insiders from outsiders in the field
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Nature Reviews Physics April cover, which uses ice skaters as an artistic way to illustrate spin networks
Our April issue is live!
🩺Upconverting nanoparticles for biomedical applications
📊Metrics for spin-based computing
📏Quantum geometry and the hidden scales in materials
🦄Sub-diffraction confinement in dielectrics with narwhal wavefunctions
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Our April editorial is out, and we're asking the question other journals don't dare to ask: could physics in computer games beat the real thing?
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In 2025, experiments have revealed the direct momentum-resolved measurement of the complete quantum metric tensor, enabling the experimental exploration of quantum geometry, as Keun Su Kim & colleagues discuss in this Year in Review
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Our April editorial is out, and we're asking the question other journals don't dare to ask: could physics in computer games beat the real thing?
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
In 2025, experiments have revealed the direct momentum-resolved measurement of the complete quantum metric tensor, enabling the experimental exploration of quantum geometry, as Keun Su Kim & colleagues discuss in this Year in Review
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I'm super thrilled that my Comment on the vital role that #libraries have played in the history of #preprint communication in #physics is now out with @natrevphys.nature.com 🥳🥳🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
(message me if you can't access the article! It's not a preprint 😉)
Nishchhal Verma, Philip J W Moll, Tobias Holder & Raquel Queiroz explore how quantum geometry affects properties of materials and outline recent experimental advances that have begun to explore quantum geometric effects in various condensed matter platforms
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Sub-diffraction confinement in dielectrics with narwhal wavefunctions
A Perspective by Ren-Min Ma (马仁敏), Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis, Hong-Yi Luan (栾弘义), Wen-Zhi Mao (毛文志) & Yun-Hao Ouyang (欧阳云浩)
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Salvatore Torquato surveys the flurry of developments on sphere packing problems across spatial dimensions in the case of frictionless identical (monodisperse) hard spheres, while placing it in the context of earlier classic investigations.
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“It has become impossible for the average scientific worker… to keep up with the progress of his own field”, wrote J D Bernal — in 1939. Our March editorial asks if the problem of too many papers will be solved by better algorithms, or if we need other solutions too
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Salvatore Torquato surveys the flurry of developments on sphere packing problems across spatial dimensions in the case of frictionless identical (monodisperse) hard spheres, while placing it in the context of earlier classic investigations.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
“It has become impossible for the average scientific worker… to keep up with the progress of his own field”, wrote J D Bernal — in 1939. Our March editorial asks if the problem of too many papers will be solved by better algorithms, or if we need other solutions too
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Our March editorial: Serendipity in an algorithm-driven culture
Algorithmic tools promise to help researchers cut through the mass of scientific literature, but serendipitous encounters with papers remain essential for scientific progress
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Nature Reviews Physics March 2026 cover, featuring an abstract design based on the structure of a tree graph used for ancilla-free encoding
In our March issue:
🖥️Simulating fermions with a digital quantum computer
🕸️Collective dynamics on higher-order networks
🍩Simulating topological order on quantum processors
🌈Terahertz 2D coherent spectroscopy for probing & controlling multicorrelations in quantum matter
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In this Review, Jiajia Zhou (周佳佳), P. James Schuck & Dayong Jin (金大勇) discuss fundamental mechanisms & properties of upconverting nanoparticles, explore their emerging photophysical behaviours and highlight their broad biomedical applications
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An Expert Recommendation from @peterboggild.bsky.social, Timothy John Booth, Bjarke Sørensen Jessen, Abhay Shivayogimath, Nolan Lassaline, Stephan Hofmann, Oliver Burton, Kim Daasbjerg, Anders Smith, Kasper Nørgaard, Amaia Zurutuza, Terrance Barkan & Andrew J. Pollard
🔓Free to read! (w/free acct) This article gives 2 protocols for researchers to improve reproducibility in 2D materials science + tips for engaging w/ funders, publishers & industry to create a stronger basis for reproducibility, transparency & trust in the field ⚛️🧪
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Metrics for spin-based computing, by Hidekazu Kurebayashi, Giovanni Finocchio, Karin Everschor-Sitte, Jack C Gartside, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Artem Litvinenko, Akash Kumar, Johan Åkerman, Eleni Vasilaki, Kemal Selçuk, Kerem Y Çamsarı, Advait Madhavan & Shunsuke Fukami
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Riley W Chien, Mitchell Chiew, Brent Harrison, Jason Necaise, Weishi Wang, Maryam Mudassar, Campbell McLauchlan, Thomas M Henderson, Gustavo E Scuseria, Sergii Strelchuk & James D Whitfield discuss methods for encoding fermionic degrees of freedom into qubits ⚛️
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Review: Collective dynamics on higher-order networks
Federico Battiston, Christian Bick, Maxime Lucas, Ana P Millán, Per Sebastian Skardal & Yuanzhao Zhang provide an overview of this rapidly growing field ⚛️🧪
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Nature Reviews Physics cover, artistically depicting quantum batteries as a glowing battery in a tangle of string reminiscent of the symbol for an atom, being played with by a black cat
In our February issue:
✨Superconductivity in infinite-layer and Ruddlesden–Popper nickelates
🤔The Yang–Mills Millennium problem
📊Global tuning of hadronic interaction models with accelerator-based and astroparticle data
🔋Opportunities & challenges of quantum batteries
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