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A journal for cutting-edge physics research.
Quantum, bio, astro, optical, high-energy, nuclear, plasma, and condensed-matter physics, physics education research, complexity, and more.
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Quantum, bio, astro, optical, high-energy, nuclear, plasma, and condensed-matter physics, physics education research, complexity, and more.
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Our November Issue is out.
Featuring a review on fractional topological states in 2D materials, filamentous funghi that control fluid flows, and reflections on the Nobel Prize.
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Featuring a review on fractional topological states in 2D materials, filamentous funghi that control fluid flows, and reflections on the Nobel Prize.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Our November Issue is out.
Featuring a review on fractional topological states in 2D materials, filamentous funghi that control fluid flows, and reflections on the Nobel Prize.
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Featuring a review on fractional topological states in 2D materials, filamentous funghi that control fluid flows, and reflections on the Nobel Prize.
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Today we publish a Review on the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect and fractional Chern insulators.
It discusses the underlying theoretical ideas, then moves on to describe recent experiments where these exotic states were observed in moiré materials. ⚛️
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It discusses the underlying theoretical ideas, then moves on to describe recent experiments where these exotic states were observed in moiré materials. ⚛️
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Fractional quantization in insulators from Hall to Chern - Nature Physics
This Review describes the concepts behind generalized quantum Hall effects that can take place without a magnetic field, and summarizes recent experimental manifestations of these phenomena in twisted...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Today we publish a Review on the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect and fractional Chern insulators.
It discusses the underlying theoretical ideas, then moves on to describe recent experiments where these exotic states were observed in moiré materials. ⚛️
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It discusses the underlying theoretical ideas, then moves on to describe recent experiments where these exotic states were observed in moiré materials. ⚛️
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We recently published a World View on how a group is working to widen inclusion in high-pressure-physics research.
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An initiative towards better representation in high-pressure research - Nature Physics
Women in High Pressure, a community tackling gender imbalance in high-pressure research, is driving inclusion, visibility and systemic change — so every scientist can thrive, even under pressure.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We recently published a World View on how a group is working to widen inclusion in high-pressure-physics research.
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Many of the articles in the Nature Portfolio collection for this year's Nobel Prize in Physics are currently free to read.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical ...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Many of the articles in the Nature Portfolio collection for this year's Nobel Prize in Physics are currently free to read.
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You can find it here:
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Happy birthday to us!
This month, Nature Physics turns twenty.
We celebrate with an Editorial that looks at the history and future of the journal, and a Feature that catches up with the authors of the papers from our very first issue.
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This month, Nature Physics turns twenty.
We celebrate with an Editorial that looks at the history and future of the journal, and a Feature that catches up with the authors of the papers from our very first issue.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Happy birthday to us!
This month, Nature Physics turns twenty.
We celebrate with an Editorial that looks at the history and future of the journal, and a Feature that catches up with the authors of the papers from our very first issue.
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This month, Nature Physics turns twenty.
We celebrate with an Editorial that looks at the history and future of the journal, and a Feature that catches up with the authors of the papers from our very first issue.
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Want to read a Comment by the three Nobel Laureates on quantum circuits?
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Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms - Nature Physics
In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Want to read a Comment by the three Nobel Laureates on quantum circuits?
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This week we published a Perspective on the rapidly-emerging area of chiral phonons. ($)
There has been some debate about how to define them and how they can be applied. Here, a comprehensive set of definitions are laid out, and prospects for the future discussed.
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There has been some debate about how to define them and how they can be applied. Here, a comprehensive set of definitions are laid out, and prospects for the future discussed.
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Chiral phonons - Nature Physics
Phonons are quanta of the vibrations of the lattice in solids. They can carry angular momentum and allow an emergent chirality. This Perspective defines various types of chiral phonon and classifies the previously observed manifestations of them.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This week we published a Perspective on the rapidly-emerging area of chiral phonons. ($)
There has been some debate about how to define them and how they can be applied. Here, a comprehensive set of definitions are laid out, and prospects for the future discussed.
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There has been some debate about how to define them and how they can be applied. Here, a comprehensive set of definitions are laid out, and prospects for the future discussed.
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Our September issue is live, and our editorial celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the first detection of a gravitational wave.
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Serendipitous signal - Nature Physics
The first direct observation of gravitational waves occurred on 14 September 2015. We look back at ten years of gravitational wave science.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Our September issue is live, and our editorial celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the first detection of a gravitational wave.
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Last week we published a World View that discusses how the current political climate amplifies the need for science education research. ($)
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Invest in science education research to make science open to all - Nature Physics
Attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts expose the need for science education research.
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September 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Last week we published a World View that discusses how the current political climate amplifies the need for science education research. ($)
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Our August issue is out, and in the Editorial we make the case that the fractional quantum Hall effect is an under-rated platform for topological quantum computing.
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Fractional computing - Nature Physics
We highlight how an abstract piece of condensed-matter physics — the fractional quantum Hall effect — may be ideally placed to implement quantum computers.
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August 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Our August issue is out, and in the Editorial we make the case that the fractional quantum Hall effect is an under-rated platform for topological quantum computing.
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This month, we feature a Comment that suggests a way to verify complicated high-pressure measurements of superconductors.
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How to soothe the turmoil in the field of pressure-induced superconductivity in the hydrides - Nature Physics
A crucial issue in condensed-matter physics is the assessment of superconducting diamagnetism in highly compressed hydrides. We propose a suitable reference sample that can be used to gain more consen...
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August 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
This month, we feature a Comment that suggests a way to verify complicated high-pressure measurements of superconductors.
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Our July issue is out!
We have two papers reporting observations of Floquet states in graphene, one proof-of-principle implementation of a laser-powered muon source, and an editorial that discusses physics-y places you can go on your vacation.
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We have two papers reporting observations of Floquet states in graphene, one proof-of-principle implementation of a laser-powered muon source, and an editorial that discusses physics-y places you can go on your vacation.
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Nature Physics - Floquet states in graphene
Intense femtosecond laser pulses facilitate the time-periodic and coherent perturbation of electronic phases in quantum materials, including their band...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Our July issue is out!
We have two papers reporting observations of Floquet states in graphene, one proof-of-principle implementation of a laser-powered muon source, and an editorial that discusses physics-y places you can go on your vacation.
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We have two papers reporting observations of Floquet states in graphene, one proof-of-principle implementation of a laser-powered muon source, and an editorial that discusses physics-y places you can go on your vacation.
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Our colleague @ninameinzer.bsky.social reviewed Aristotle's Wife, six plays about women in science. ($)
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Women scientists through the ages - Nature Physics
Nature Physics - Women scientists through the ages
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July 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Our colleague @ninameinzer.bsky.social reviewed Aristotle's Wife, six plays about women in science. ($)
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Our friends at @natcomms.nature.com are hiring an editor for quantum physics and technology. Can be based in China, the US, Spain, or Italy.
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Associate or Senior Editor (Quantum Physics/Technology), Nature Communications - Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Milan, Madrid (Hybri job with Springer ...
Title: Associate or Senior Editor (Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies), Nature Communications Location: Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New York...
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July 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Our friends at @natcomms.nature.com are hiring an editor for quantum physics and technology. Can be based in China, the US, Spain, or Italy.
Full details here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Our June issue has been out for a little while now, but it features three papers about quasicrystals, a Review on how plasma-based accelerators can be used for positrons, tales of student interactions with LLMs, and much more. ⚛️ #Physics
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June 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Our June issue has been out for a little while now, but it features three papers about quasicrystals, a Review on how plasma-based accelerators can be used for positrons, tales of student interactions with LLMs, and much more. ⚛️ #Physics
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Are quasicrystals thermodynamic ground states? I wrote a News & Views piece for @natphys.nature.com on the work of Baek & coauthors, who used DFT (density functional theory) with clever extrapolation to show that there is strong evidence that two quasicrystals indeed are ground states. rdcu.be/eqRPM
Scooping for ground states
Nature Physics - More than a hundred quasicrystals have been found so far, but their thermodynamic stability has remained an open question. Extrapolating density functional theory calculations of...
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June 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Are quasicrystals thermodynamic ground states? I wrote a News & Views piece for @natphys.nature.com on the work of Baek & coauthors, who used DFT (density functional theory) with clever extrapolation to show that there is strong evidence that two quasicrystals indeed are ground states. rdcu.be/eqRPM
A new Review article online this month. It discusses the current status and future prospects of using plasma-based accelerators for positrons. ($) #Physics ⚛️
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The positron arm of a plasma-based linear collider - Nature Physics
The status of plasma-based acceleration of electrons and positrons is discussed, with a focus on developing the positron arm of a plasma-based electron–positron linear collider.
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June 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A new Review article online this month. It discusses the current status and future prospects of using plasma-based accelerators for positrons. ($) #Physics ⚛️
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On the 150th anniversary of the Metre Convention, Wynand Louw and Gert Rietveld take the opportunity to consider the future of metrology ($).
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The international measurement system beyond 2030 - Nature Physics
Measurements play a crucial role in our daily lives; and we rely on metrology to ensure that measurements are accurate and comparable. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the global ...
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May 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
On the 150th anniversary of the Metre Convention, Wynand Louw and Gert Rietveld take the opportunity to consider the future of metrology ($).
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The May issue of Nature Physics is now out.
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In it, we celebrate 150 years since the signing of the Metre Convention, consider quantum Hall effects and altermagnets, and learn how snakes move not on a plane.
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In it, we celebrate 150 years since the signing of the Metre Convention, consider quantum Hall effects and altermagnets, and learn how snakes move not on a plane.
Nature Physics - Chiral spin current
Magnons, quanta of spin waves, can transfer pure spin current without electron transport. Now, Lutong Sheng and co-workers demonstrate an alternating spin...
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May 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The May issue of Nature Physics is now out.
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In it, we celebrate 150 years since the signing of the Metre Convention, consider quantum Hall effects and altermagnets, and learn how snakes move not on a plane.
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In it, we celebrate 150 years since the signing of the Metre Convention, consider quantum Hall effects and altermagnets, and learn how snakes move not on a plane.
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Canadian 🇨🇦 early-career physicists, please consider submitting an abstract to this conference. It's a unique opportunity to present your research in a supportive environment and network with other like-minded women+ in physics. The submission deadline is today! ⚛️ 🧪 🎢 👩🔬
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Canadian 🇨🇦 early-career physicists, please consider submitting an abstract to this conference. It's a unique opportunity to present your research in a supportive environment and network with other like-minded women+ in physics. The submission deadline is today! ⚛️ 🧪 🎢 👩🔬
Our April issue is live! www.nature.com/nphys/volume...
This month we consider the gender breakdown of authorship in Nature Physics, visualise how cells move in feeding currents, and highlight our first physics education research paper.
This month we consider the gender breakdown of authorship in Nature Physics, visualise how cells move in feeding currents, and highlight our first physics education research paper.
April 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Our April issue is live! www.nature.com/nphys/volume...
This month we consider the gender breakdown of authorship in Nature Physics, visualise how cells move in feeding currents, and highlight our first physics education research paper.
This month we consider the gender breakdown of authorship in Nature Physics, visualise how cells move in feeding currents, and highlight our first physics education research paper.
Today is an important day for us as a journal. We publish a Comment that analysis the gender of last authors of Nature Physics papers over the last decade ($):
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Many thanks to Alannah Hallas for taking the time to collect the data and write the piece.
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Many thanks to Alannah Hallas for taking the time to collect the data and write the piece.
Underrepresentation of women last authors in Nature Physics - Nature Physics
Last-author papers are vital to the career advancement of researchers in many physics subfields. We present data on the underrepresentation of women as last authors in Nature Physics and discuss the i...
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April 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Today is an important day for us as a journal. We publish a Comment that analysis the gender of last authors of Nature Physics papers over the last decade ($):
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Many thanks to Alannah Hallas for taking the time to collect the data and write the piece.
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Many thanks to Alannah Hallas for taking the time to collect the data and write the piece.
Reupping this from our March issue. Sarah Bakewell writes about the @ioppublishing.bsky.social's Physics Inclusion Award.
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Physics should be for everyone - Nature Physics
Physics is amazing and transformational. But for far too long the people most likely to benefit from its opportunity and wonder have been too narrowly defined.
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April 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Reupping this from our March issue. Sarah Bakewell writes about the @ioppublishing.bsky.social's Physics Inclusion Award.
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A Comment published in our March issue discusses the phenomenon of altermagnetism. ($)
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Different facets of unconventional magnetism - Nature Physics
Recent advances in classifying magnets according to spin-group symmetry have expanded the possibilities of unconventional magnetism. Unconventional magnets — such as collinear spin-split antiferromagn...
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April 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A Comment published in our March issue discusses the phenomenon of altermagnetism. ($)
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Our March issue is live!
We learn how thermal excitations can control polar structures, feature a Perspective on higher-order networks, and consider the progress towards parity for women in physics.
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We learn how thermal excitations can control polar structures, feature a Perspective on higher-order networks, and consider the progress towards parity for women in physics.
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March 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Our March issue is live!
We learn how thermal excitations can control polar structures, feature a Perspective on higher-order networks, and consider the progress towards parity for women in physics.
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We learn how thermal excitations can control polar structures, feature a Perspective on higher-order networks, and consider the progress towards parity for women in physics.
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