Machine learning supports 20-year-old theory of bizarre electron behaviour in high-temperature superconductor.

In a multi-‘cat’ experiment, the textbook interpretation of quantum theory seems to lead to contradictory pictures of reality, physicists claim.

Michael Gordin applauds a study tracing the tumultuous 70-year trajectory of condensed-matter physics. Michael D. Gordin PDF version Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter Joseph D. MartinUniversity of Pittsburgh…

Ideas from theorists in fields as disparate as quantum gravity, quantum information and many-body localization are finding common ground, as we explore in this month’s Focus issue on quantum thermalization.

Nature Physics - The spin–orbit coupling of light leads to systematic wavelength-scale errors in the measurement of the position of emitters of elliptically polarized light.

Strong and long-range interactions between Rydberg states of neutral atoms can be mapped to light via electromagnetically induced transparency, realizing a photon–photon quantum gate for quantum communications and networking.

Geophysical properties of the Earth’s interior have been inferred by looking at the absorption of neutrinos as they pass through our planet.

Nature Physics - Single-cell tracking of up to 10,000 bacteria reveals the structure and dynamics of 3D biofilms—providing evidence to suggest that both local ordering and global biofilm...

The growing influence in many disciplines of concepts rooted in the physics of complex systems is an achievement that warrants celebration.

Nature Physics - The creation and manipulation of large quantum states is necessary for quantum information processing tasks. Three-level, four-partite cluster states have now been created in the...

Some gravitational phenomena are difficult or even impossible to observe in real spacetime. Laboratory analogues of black-hole horizons offer new perspectives on field theory effects that might help our understanding of gravitation.

Using alkali metal dimers attached to helium droplets, a new decay mechanism for intermolecular Coulombic decay is demonstrated. The process leads to previously unresolved double ionization for excitation energies exceeding double ionization energies.

Nature Physics - Spectral study on 36,37,38Ca isotopes and calculations based on density functional theory reveal the interplay between charge radii and nucleonic pairing correlations.

Nature Physics - Repeated error correction creates a logical qubit encoded in the hybrid state of a superconducting circuit and a bosonic cavity, which is shown to be fully controllable under a...

In situ measurements based on coherent X-ray spectroscopy are performed during the epitaxial growth of gallium nitride films, revealing a memory effect in the arrangement of islands formed on successive crystal layers.

Inelastic neutron scattering is used to probe the spin dynamics of molecular nanomagnets, but extensive supporting computations make the technique challenging. Proof-of-principle experiments now show that quantum computers may solve these computations efficiently.

A technique based on the coherent splitting of the atoms’ wavefunctions according to their internal states in an optical lattice allows the measurement of neutral-atom qubits in a three-dimensional array with extremely high fidelity, up to 99.94%.

General relativity was first experimentally verified in 1919. On the centennial of this occasion, we celebrate the scientific progress fuelled by subsequent efforts at verifying its predictions, from time dilation to the observation of the shadow of a black…

Renormalization group calculations incorporate band structure and interaction effects on an equal footing. Applying this methodology to Ge-doped Pb3Bi shows that this material is a chiral topological superconductor and hosts Majorana fermions.