Nature Physics, Published online: 23 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02633-7
Deflection is one of the options discussed for preventing catastrophic collisions of asteroids with Earth. Now, a megajoule-class X-ray pulse is used to simulate such scenarios, demonstrating that it is a viable strategy at higher interceptor energies.
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- Simulation of asteroid deflection with a megajoule-class X-ray pulse
- Phase transition in magic with random quantum circuitsNature Physics, Published online: 23 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02637-3 Coherent noise affecting a random error correcting code is now shown to produce a transition between phases that accumulate and destroy magic.
- A dual-species Rydberg arrayNature Physics, Published online: 20 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02638-2 Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers are a promising platform for quantum information science. A platform composed of dual-species Rydberg arrays has been realized, offering access to unexplored interaction regimes and crosstalk-free midcircuit control.
- Non-Abelian chiral dynamics in a lattice under synthetic SU(2) gauge fieldsNature Physics, Published online: 20 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02645-3 A tunable SU(2) gauge field has been realized experimentally in a Raman momentum lattice using ultracold atoms. The chiral dynamics of the system have been investigated under different gauge potentials, whose non-Abelian nature was confirmed through observation of the non-Abelian Aharonov–Bohm effect.
- Chiral dynamics of ultracold atoms under a tunable SU(2) synthetic gauge fieldNature Physics, Published online: 20 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02644-4 The implementation of synthetic Abelian gauge fields in quantum simulators can result in chiral edge currents. The impact of non-Abelian gauge fields on chiral dynamics of ultracold atoms is now explored using a momentum-space lattice technique.
- Ultracold atoms pushed to the edgeNature Physics, Published online: 19 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02657-z Topological insulators exhibit unidirectional flow of robust electric charge at the edge of the system. Two recent experiments have observed these chiral edge modes in exceptionally controllable settings of ultracold atoms.
- Intertwined vestigial orders in stacked magnetic flatlandsNature Physics, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02634-6 Dimensionality tuning can control fluctuations and induce complex phase diagrams with multiple orders and transitions among them. Now, experiments demonstrate intertwined vestigial order in the two- to three-dimensional crossover region in a van der Waals magnet.
- A general theory of quantum codes connecting quantum computation, complexity and physicsNature Physics, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02622-w Approximate notions of quantum error-correcting codes hold wide importance across quantum information and physics, but are not cohesively understood. Now, general rigorous connections established between approximate quantum error correction and quantum circuit complexity reveal a ‘complexity phase diagram’ for generalized quantum codes — and create a new unifying lens on complex quantum systems.
