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- Free-electron quantum opticsNature Physics, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02743-2 Free-electron quantum optics is an emerging field that requires a quantum-mechanical description of both the electronic and the optical contributions. This Perspective summarizes recent developments and discusses challenges and opportunities.
- Tissue wrinkles foreshadow cancerNature Physics, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02763-y In a cancer mouse model, wrinkling patterns in bladder-lining tissue differ from their healthy counterparts. Changes in tissue-mechanical properties that alter elastic buckling instabilities explain this observation.
- Where analogue and digital meetNature Physics, Published online: 22 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02755-y Realizing a useful quantum advantage on noisy intermediate-scale quantum hardware is challenging. A proposal now suggests a hybrid digital–analogue hardware-efficient approach for reconfigurable qubit platforms to simulate strongly interacting matter.
- Floquet–Bloch manipulation of the Dirac gap in a topological antiferromagnetNature Physics, Published online: 21 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02769-6 Periodic laser light can modify the electronic properties of solids and offers a path to create new material phases. In a topological antiferromagnet, periodic driving with opposite light helicities is now shown to produce distinct Dirac mass gaps.
- Antihydrogen’s more than fine spectrumNature Physics, Published online: 21 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02733-4 Antihydrogen is the simplest atom of pure antimatter. Measurements of a pair of ultraviolet spectral lines with laser spectroscopy provide stringent bounds on the magnitude by which a symmetry between matter and antimatter may be violated.
- An electronic microemulsion phase emerging from a quantum crystal-to-liquid transitionNature Physics, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02759-8 Competition between different possible ground states of strongly correlated electron systems can lead to the emergence of mixed states called microemulsions. Now this phenomenon is reported at the melting transition of a Wigner crystal.
- Observation of a finite-energy phase transition in a one-dimensional quantum simulatorNature Physics, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02751-2 Long-range interactions have been predicted to enable a phase transition in one-dimensional systems. An experiment now validates this hypothesis in a trapped-ion quantum simulator by observing a finite-energy phase transition in one dimension.
- Precision spectroscopy of the hyperfine components of the 1S–2S transition in antihydrogenNature Physics, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02712-9 The ALPHA Collaboration reports measurements of the hyperfine components of the 1S–2S transition in trapped antihydrogen. They interpret the results as a test of the invariance of charge–parity–time-reversal symmetry.
