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  1. Chiral dynamics of ultracold atoms under a tunable SU(2) synthetic gauge field
    Nature 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.
  2. Non-Abelian chiral dynamics in a lattice under synthetic SU(2) gauge fields
    Nature 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.
  3. A dual-species Rydberg array
    Nature 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.
  4. Ultracold atoms pushed to the edge
    Nature 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.
  5. Intertwined vestigial orders in stacked magnetic flatlands
    Nature 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.
  6. A general theory of quantum codes connecting quantum computation, complexity and physics
    Nature 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.
  7. Propagation of insulator-to-metal transition driven by photoinduced strain waves in a Mott material
    Nature Physics, Published online: 17 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02628-4 The mechanism behind the ultrafast insulator-to-metal transition in Mott materials is still not well understood. Now, it is shown that this phase transition propagates along the pathway of a photoinduced compressive strain wave in prototypical V2O3.
  8. Probing inhomogeneous cuprate superconductivity by terahertz Josephson echo spectroscopy
    Nature Physics, Published online: 16 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02643-5 By measuring terahertz photon echoes, multidimensional spectroscopy demonstrates that interlayer tunnelling in a cuprate superconductor remains largely unaffected by electronic disorder, even near the phase transition.