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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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Observation of microscopic confinement dynamics by a tunable topological θ-angle
Nature Physics, Published online: 20 December 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02702-x
Topological terms arise naturally in gauge theories but have been difficult to implement in quantum simulators. Now, a tunable topological θ-angle is demonstrated with a cold-atom platform. -
Publisher Correction: Heavy-tailed neuronal connectivity arises from Hebbian self-organization
Nature Physics, Published online: 19 December 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02748-x
Publisher Correction: Heavy-tailed neuronal connectivity arises from Hebbian self-organization -
Controlling interactions between high-frequency phonons and single quantum systems using phononic crystals
Nature Physics, Published online: 18 December 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02697-5
The phonon density of states in diamond is engineered using phononic crystals to suppress single-phonon processes that induce decoherence in individual quantum emitters. -
Nishimori transition across the error threshold for constant-depth quantum circuits
Nature Physics, Published online: 16 December 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02696-6
Measurements combined with post-processing of their outcomes can be used to prepare ordered quantum states. It has been shown that they can drive a Nishimori phase transition into a disordered state even in the presence of quantum errors. -
Evidence for fractional matter coupled to an emergent gauge field in a quantum spin ice
Nature Physics, Published online: 12 December 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02711-w
Quantum fluctuations in frustrated magnets are expected to produce unconventional emergent behaviour. Neutron spectroscopy measurements now provide evidence for emergent gauge fields in a pyrochlore spin ice.