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- Twist angle serves as a tuning knob for superconductivityNature Physics, Published online: 28 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02829-5 Ultra-low-temperature scanning tunnelling spectroscopy measurements indicate that twisting the layers in heterostructures making up a single layer of superconducting NbSe2 on graphene leads to momentum-dependent changes in the superconducting gap. This ability could enable the development of artificial superconductors with nontrivial magnetic and topological properties.
- Acousto-dewetting enables droplet microfluidics on superhydrophilic surfacesNature Physics, Published online: 28 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02844-6 In droplet microfluidic setups, droplets are driven around on a surface, which is normally hydrophobic. Now, droplet microfluidics with superhydrophilic substrates is shown to also be feasible by exploiting acoustic effects.
- Enzymes as viscoelastic catalytic machinesNature Physics, Published online: 28 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02825-9 Enzymes are viscoelastic, deformable machines. Mutating high-strain regions in these machines affect their catalytic function.
- Quantifying second-messenger information transmission in bacteriaNature Physics, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02848-2 Bacterial second messengers carry signals from the environment to target proteins in the cell. Now the associated information transmission capacity is quantified and the optimal frequency to maximize it is determined.
- Quantum statistics in the minimal Bell scenarioNature Physics, Published online: 26 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02782-3 A complete theoretical understanding of many simple problems in quantum physics is still lacking, especially when entanglement is involved. Now the full set of possible observations has been established for a minimal scenario of shared entanglement.
- The limits of quantum correlationsNature Physics, Published online: 26 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02836-6 Measurements on quantum particles produce random outcomes whose correlations can sometimes never be explained by classical physics. The complete set of possible quantum correlations for two particles under two measurements has now been identified.
- Simulating two-dimensional lattice gauge theories on a qudit quantum computerNature Physics, Published online: 25 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02797-w Qubit-based simulations of gauge theories are challenging as gauge fields require high-dimensional encoding. Now a quantum electrodynamics model has been demonstrated using trapped-ion qudits, which encode information in multiple states of ions.
- Light-induced cortical excitability reveals programmable shape dynamics in starfish oocytesNature Physics, Published online: 24 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02807-x Optogenetically induced chemo-mechanical excitations are used to drive and study shape deformations in starfish oocytes. Understanding and eventually controlling such waves is important for the development of synthetic cells.
