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- High-efficiency optical training of itinerant two-dimensional magnetsNature Physics, Published online: 04 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02928-3 Light at low power densities can be used to manipulate ferromagnetic domains in the two-dimensional van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2. This capability could be used to engineer the behaviour of Fe3GeTe2-based devices.
- Precision is not limited by the second law of thermodynamicsNature Physics, Published online: 02 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02929-2 Clock precision is thought to be fundamentally limited by entropy production in out-of-equilibrium systems. A theoretical work now introduces a quantum clock design where precision grows exponentially with dissipation.
- Supersolid-like sound modes in a driven quantum gasNature Physics, Published online: 02 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02927-4 Driven quantum systems can form long-lived states with emergent order, but their excitation properties remain largely unexplored. Now, an experiment shows that a driven superfluid exhibits sound modes characteristic of a one-dimensional supersolid.
- A resonant valence bond spin liquid in the dilute limit of doped frustrated Mott insulatorsNature 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 embezzlersNature 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.
- Optomechanical self-organization in a mesoscopic atom arrayNature 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.
- Robust Min protein oscillations revealed in living bacterial cellsNature 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.
- Perturbations in out-of-equilibrium quantum fluids diffuse rather than propagateNature 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.
