Nature Physics
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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We need to talk about heliophysics
Nature Physics, Published online: 18 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02851-7
Heliophysics focuses on understanding the different processes in the solar system and the influence of the Sun on space and planets. Collaboration between subfields of heliophysics and different communities needs to improve to advance the field. -
Interplay of actin nematodynamics and anisotropic tension controls endothelial mechanics
Nature Physics, Published online: 18 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02847-3
Blood flow through a vessel deforms vessel walls. Cells lining these walls sense the changes in pressure as blood flows and reorient their actin fibres in the direction of largest tension. -
Impact of impurities on crystal growth
Nature Physics, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02870-4
Crystallization processes are influenced by the presence of impurities. Colloid experiments now reveal two distinct types of growth mode that depend on the extent to which a crystallizing system can remove impurity particles from its growth front. -
Hamiltonian engineering of collective XYZ spin models in an optical cavity
Nature Physics, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02866-0
Spin models that can be emulated by quantum simulators are usually restricted to systems with conserved total magnetization. The tuning of photon-mediated interactions between atoms in a cavity enables the implementation of more general models also useful for quantum sensing tasks. -
Concurrent slow and fast frictional ruptures in laboratory earthquakes
Nature Physics, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02871-3
Frictional motion of bodies in contact is facilitated by ruptures at their interface. Experiments with laboratory earthquakes now reveal that frictional ruptures at an interface can happen at both slow and fast timescales. -
Ultrafast room-temperature valley manipulation in silicon and diamond
Nature Physics, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02862-4
Control over electron populations in different conduction band minima in semiconductors can be used to store and process information. Now the ultrafast optical manipulation of such electrons at room temperature has been demonstrated in silicon and diamond. -
Observation of antiferromagnetic order in a quasicrystal
Nature Physics, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02858-0
Quasicrystals lack translational symmetry but display rotational order. Whether antiferromagnetic order can exist in quasicrystals has been unclear. Now, long-range antiferromagnetic order is shown in the icosahedral quasicrystal Au56In28.5Eu15.5. -
Plasticky ice
Nature Physics, Published online: 11 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02891-z
Plasticky ice