Nature Physics, Published online: 30 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03051-z
High-purity quantum states, essential for quantum technological applications, were achieved by cooling optically levitated silica nanoparticles.
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- Impact of low-energy spin fluctuations on the strange metal in a cuprate superconductorNature Physics, Published online: 30 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03034-0 The underlying physics of the strange metal phase observed in many strongly correlated materials is not well understood. Now, evidence emerges that antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations play an important role.
- Gate-tunable double-dome superconductivity in twisted trilayer grapheneNature Physics, Published online: 30 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03040-2 Two regions of superconductivity are observed in the phase diagram of magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene. This may yield insight into the superconducting mechanism in moiré materials.
- From bending to lightningNature Physics, Published online: 30 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03050-0 Laboratory measurements reveal that ice exhibits flexoelectricity — the generation of an electrical field upon bending. This flexoelectricity may be the microscopic mechanism for the mysterious charge separation that creates lightning in thunderstorms.
- Simple cell motility on adhesive gradientsNature Physics, Published online: 26 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03010-8 Haptotaxis — a mechanism of sensing adhesive gradients by motile cells — was thought to rely on complex mechanochemistry. It turns out that this mechanism is simply based on the difference of adhesive friction at cell front and rear.
- Sub-picosecond topological phase transition in nonlinear exciton–polariton superlatticesNature Physics, Published online: 26 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03031-3 Achieving versatile, tunable, real-time topological photonic system is challenging. Now this is accomplished by designing superlattices of WS2 and a polymer embedded in a microcavity.
- Single-cell migration along and against confined haptotactic gradientsNature Physics, Published online: 26 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03015-3 Haptotaxis was traditionally seen as migration up protein gradients. It is now shown that cells can also oscillate or migrate down the gradient.
- Universal anyon tunnelling in a chiral Luttinger liquidNature Physics, Published online: 23 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03039-9 Measurements of anyons moving through a quantum point contact allow the extraction of their tunnelling exponent. This fully characterizes their topological order and confirms that they are well described by the Luttinger liquid theory.
