Old tools, new insights
Nature Physics, Published online: 11 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02682-yAdapting an experimental tool for use in a new field can be as powerful as inventing a new technique.
Growing old nonlinearly
Nature Physics, Published online: 11 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02660-4Growing old nonlinearly
Quantum matter in multifractal patterns
Nature Physics, Published online: 11 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02663-1A fractal material exhibits self-similarity at different length scales across the system size. Theorists now show that an interacting one-dimensional quas…
Incommensurability enabled quasi-fractal order in 1D narrow-band moiré systems
Nature Physics, Published online: 11 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02662-2An incommensurate moiré pattern in a one-dimensional system is numerically shown to produce a quasi-fractal charge density wave ground state that originat…
Strain tuning of vestigial three-state Potts nematicity in a correlated antiferromagnet
Nature Physics, Published online: 10 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02653-3Correlated materials can show nematicity, but the nematic state usually exhibits even-fold rotational symmetry. Now, a correlated antiferromagnet is shown…
Ultrafast high-harmonic spectroscopy of solids
Nature Physics, Published online: 10 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02640-8High-harmonic spectroscopy on solids is an ultrafast all-optical technique to study the structure and dynamics of materials. This Review discusses areas o…
Chirality and topology team up to produce orbital monopole
Nature Physics, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02658-yElectrons in a chiral topological material exhibit a unique orbital angular momentum profile in momentum space that resembles magnetic monopoles. It gives…
Author Correction: Intervalley coherence and intrinsic spin–orbit coupling in rhombohedral trilayer graphene
Nature Physics, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02689-5Author Correction: Intervalley coherence and intrinsic spin–orbit coupling in rhombohedral trilayer graphene
Self-propulsion, flocking and chiral active phases from particles spinning at intermediate Reynolds numbers
Nature Physics, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02651-5A particle rotating in a fluid generates vorticity around itself. Now the dynamics of a collective of such spinners suspended in a liquid is shown to disp…
Emergent actin flows explain distinct modes of gliding motility
Nature Physics, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02652-4Unicellular parasites, such as Toxoplasma gondii, can use different forms of gliding motions when infecting a host. These motility modes arise from the se…