Nature Physics, Published online: 08 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02540-xA multiscale model of muscle as a fluid-filled sponge suggests that hydraulics limits rapid contractions and that the mechanical response of muscle is non-re…
Nature Physics, Published online: 08 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02583-0It has many names and yet no name. The designation of the universal gas constant as R has remained a mystery, as Karen Mudryk recounts.
Nature Physics, Published online: 08 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02561-6Rhombohedral graphene is an emerging material with a rich correlated-electron phenomenology, including superconductivity. The magnetism of symmetry-broken tr…
Nature Physics, Published online: 02 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02542-9The observation of continuous time crystals has been hindered by atom loss in the ultracold regime. Long-range time-crystalline order has now been demonstrat…
Nature Physics, Published online: 02 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02549-2The complexity of a many-body quantum state grows exponentially with system size, hindering numerical studies. A unitary flow-based method now enables accura…
Nature Physics, Published online: 02 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02558-1The time-dependent viscoelastic moduli of biomolecular condensates are connected to the functions that the condensates influence in cells. Now sticker and sp…
Nature Physics, Published online: 02 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02539-4Dual-rail encodings of quantum information can be used to detect loss errors, allowing these errors to be treated as erasures. The measurement of dual-rail s…
Nature Physics, Published online: 01 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02546-5Orbitally frustrated states have been predicted to occur in twisted bilayer graphene. Now these states have been observed for fractional filling of the elect…
Nature Physics, Published online: 01 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02544-7Acoustic resonators are a promising candidate for making quantum computers scalable. Coupled to a qubit, they have now produced squeezed mechanical states, d…
Nature Physics, Published online: 01 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02565-2Patches of turbulence in straight pipe flow (‘puffs’) display collective dynamics that is not well understood. Now, this dynamics is shown to harbour a phase…