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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A resonant valence bond spin liquid in the dilute limit of doped frustrated Mott insulators
Nature Physics, Published online: 29 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02923-8
The concept of resonant valence bond phases has inspired many areas of condensed matter physics, but few realistic models have been identified. Now an analytical solution of such a phase has been found for pyrochlore and related lattices. -
Critical fermions are universal embezzlers
Nature Physics, Published online: 27 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02921-w
One-dimensional critical fermionic models play an important role in many-body physics. Now it has been shown that any entangled state can be extracted from a bipartitioned critical fermion chain with an arbitrarily small change to the initial state. -
Robust Min protein oscillations revealed in living bacterial cells
Nature Physics, Published online: 26 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02879-9
Bacteria can sustain spatial protein oscillations for a remarkably wide range of protein concentrations. The robustness arises from a conformational switch of a key protein between latent versus active states. -
Optomechanical self-organization in a mesoscopic atom array
Nature Physics, Published online: 26 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02916-7
Investigating mesoscopic systems can offer insights into the crossover between few-body and many-body regimes. Atomic arrays inside an optical cavity are now shown to enable the controlled study of critical properties on mesoscopic scales. -
Perturbations in out-of-equilibrium quantum fluids diffuse rather than propagate
Nature Physics, Published online: 26 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02913-w
Symmetry breaking is routinely observed in isolated systems, where perturbations propagate through the system. For out-of-equilibrium systems, however, perturbations are predicted to diffuse; and this key signature of spontaneous symmetry breaking has now been observed in a polariton quantum fluid. -
Watch them grow
Nature Physics, Published online: 23 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02924-7
Quasicrystals were discovered by chance about 40 years ago, and it has largely been a matter of luck to find new ones since. Now, an approach has been found to grow colloidal quasicrystals by turning a dial while directly observing them with an optical microscope. -
Flows of liquid light seen in the synthetic frequency space of modulated fast-gain ring lasers
Nature Physics, Published online: 22 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02886-w
Photon interactions in materials typically create a gaseous bosonic state, which is prone to turbulent behaviour that disrupts coherence. But it is now shown that, using fast-gain processes in a modulated semiconductor laser, light can be stabilized in a liquid-like state, enhancing the coherence of its flow. -
Author Correction: Observation of polarization density waves in SrTiO3
Nature Physics, Published online: 22 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02940-7
Author Correction: Observation of polarization density waves in SrTiO3