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Metrics for spin-based computing - Nature Reviews Physics A number of different platforms for spin-based computing have emerged over the past few years, offering energy-efficient computing methods. This Technical Review identifies key metrics that must be ev...

Metrics for spin-based computing, by Hidekazu Kurebayashi, Giovanni Finocchio, Karin Everschor-Sitte, Jack C Gartside, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Artem Litvinenko, Akash Kumar, Johan Åkerman, Eleni Vasilaki, Kemal Selçuk, Kerem Y Çamsarı, Advait Madhavan & Shunsuke Fukami

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Simulating fermions with a digital quantum computer - Nature Reviews Physics To simulate physical systems on a quantum computer, their degrees of freedom must be encoded into qubits. This Review assesses the different methods that exist to allow quantum calculation of fermioni...

Riley W Chien, Mitchell Chiew, Brent Harrison, Jason Necaise, Weishi Wang, Maryam Mudassar, Campbell McLauchlan, Thomas M Henderson, Gustavo E Scuseria, Sergii Strelchuk & James D Whitfield discuss methods for encoding fermionic degrees of freedom into qubits ⚛️

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Review: Collective dynamics on higher-order networks

Federico Battiston, Christian Bick, Maxime Lucas, Ana P Millán, Per Sebastian Skardal & Yuanzhao Zhang provide an overview of this rapidly growing field ⚛️🧪
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Writing in the age of chatbots - Nature Reviews Physics As chatbots become more ubiquitous in our everyday lives, we remind our readers that good writing comes from knowing what you want to say.

Our February editorial: Writing in the age of chatbots
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Nature Reviews Physics cover, artistically depicting quantum batteries as a glowing battery in a tangle of string reminiscent of the symbol for an atom, being played with by a black cat

In our February issue:
✨Superconductivity in infinite-layer and Ruddlesden–Popper nickelates
🤔The Yang–Mills Millennium problem
📊Global tuning of hadronic interaction models with accelerator-based and astroparticle data
🔋Opportunities & challenges of quantum batteries

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Terahertz 2D coherent spectroscopy for probing and controlling multicorrelations in quantum matter - Nature Reviews Physics Terahertz 2D coherent spectroscopy can be used to probe phase-resolved, multidimensional spectra of quantum materials. This Perspective discusses the capabilities of this method and provides a compari...

Chuankun Huang, Martin Mootz, Liang Luo, Ilias E. Perakis & Jigang Wang review terahertz 2D coherent spectroscopy for probing and controlling multicorrelations in quantum matter ⚛️

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Simulating topological order on quantum processors - Nature Reviews Physics Topological phases in quantum many-body systems emerge from long-range entanglement rather than symmetry breaking, giving rise to properties such as topology-dependent degeneracy, protected edge modes...

Adam Gammon-Smith, Michael Knap & Frank Pollmann review recent progress towards the experimental realization of topologically ordered quantum states, their potential applications and promising directions of future research ⚛️

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

Obituary: Gladys Mae West (1930-2026) mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

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Opportunities and challenges of quantum batteries

Dario Ferraro, Fabio Cavaliere, Marco G. Genoni, Giuliano Benenti & Maura Sassetti discuss the pursuit of more efficient and scalable quantum energy storage devices
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The Yang–Mills Millennium Prize problem is one of the great challenges of mathematical physics. In the quarter century since it was set, what progress has been made? Michael R Douglas looks at the problem from a physics point of view and surveys promising approaches
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The Yang–Mills Millennium Prize problem is one of the great challenges of mathematical physics. In the quarter century since it was set, what progress has been made? Michael R Douglas looks at the problem from a physics point of view and surveys promising approaches
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Opportunities and challenges of quantum batteries

Dario Ferraro, Fabio Cavaliere, Marco G. Genoni, Giuliano Benenti & Maura Sassetti discuss the pursuit of more efficient and scalable quantum energy storage devices
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Happy birthday to Nature Reviews Methods Primers! 🎂

Nature Reviews Physics cover illustrating the topological boundary between two different photonic crystals.

Happy new year!🎆 In our January issue:
▶️◀️Quantum correlation behaviour in single-molecule junctions
🌡️Warm dense matter studies with XFELs
🥶Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials
⛔🛣️Limitations & possibilities of topological photonics
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Inside the International Asteroid Warning Network - Nature Reviews Physics Kelly Fast, Acting Planetary Defense Officer for NASA, describes the global network working to detect and assess asteroids that could potentially threaten Earth.

"What’s exciting is that we have the ability to search for asteroids, predict if one might hit us, and actually do something about it. So it’s cool science, and we can defend ourselves," says Kelly Fast, Acting Planetary Defense Officer for NASA ⚛️🔭🧪
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This is relevant for a lot of physicists too: how much e-waste is out there? What happens to it? How could we handle it better? ⚛️

Quantum training in the UK needs better visibility - Nature Reviews Physics Quantum education in the UK is fragmented and poorly advertised. Raising awareness of available training and career pathways will expand and strengthen the quantum workforce and is essential to meetin...

Quantum education in the UK is fragmented and poorly advertised. Raising awareness of available pathways is essential to meeting national quantum ambitions, argue Josephine Hunout, Shey Dylan Lovett, Jessica Wade & Isabella von Holstein ⚛️

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The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and government-funded science Nature Reviews Physics - Over its 350 years of history, the establishment and evolution of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, reflects the history of scientific institutions in Britain.

I have a short Comment piece just published in Nature Reviews Physics on the 350-year-old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its funding rdcu.be/eSXb2 #histSTM

Superconductivity in infinite-layer and Ruddlesden–Popper nickelates - Nature Reviews Physics Nickelates have recently joined the cuprates and iron pnictides as unconventional superconductors with transition temperatures above 80 K. This Review looks for their shared superconducting mechanisms...

Pascal Puphal, Thomas Schäfer, Bernhard Keimer & Matthias Hepting summarize progress in research on superconductivity in infinite-layer and Ruddlesden–Popper nickelates ⚛️

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Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials - Nature Reviews Physics This Technical Review highlights advances in cryo-electron microscopy for materials science, covering sample preparation, low-dose imaging and analytical scanning transmission electron microscopy tech...

Yi Cui (崔一), Zewen Zhang, Robert Sinclair, Wah Chiu & Yi Cui (崔屹) look at sample preparation methods and imaging strategies to enable high-resolution imaging of beam-sensitive materials while avoiding electron-beam damage ⚛️

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Warm dense matter studies with X-ray free-electron lasers - Nature Reviews Physics Warm dense matter — the peculiar state between condensed matter and hot plasma — can be studied with exceptional detail at X-ray free-electron laser facilities. This Review summarizes pioneering exper...

Dominik Kraus, Thomas R. Preston & Ulf Zastrau provide an overview of experimental techniques and summarize the past decade of XFEL research on warm dense matter ⚛️
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Cooper pairs in a metallic state - Nature Reviews Physics An article in Physical Review Letters reports evidence that Cooper pairs exist in an anomalous metallic state.

And Ankita Anirban on a paper reporting evidence of Cooper pairs in an anomalous metallic state (4/4)
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Ratchet effect helps explain how a carnivorous plant predates - Nature Reviews Physics A paper in PNAS shows how ideas from the physics of active matter can help explain the workings of a rare carnivorous plant.

Zoe Budrikis on how ideas from active matter can help explain the workings of a rare tropical carnivorous plant (3/4)
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A changing of the guard for dark energy? - Nature Reviews Physics Nature Reviews Physics - A changing of the guard for dark energy?

May Chiao on some intriguing but not yet compelling evidence that the expansion history of the Universe deviates from the simple ΛCDM picture (2/4)
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The sound of ionization - Nature Reviews Physics A paper in Optica shows how sound can be used to determine properties of an optical pulse.

It's December, so our editors picked some papers we enjoyed reading this year and wrote about them 🧵⚛️

Nina Meinzer on a paper showing how sound can be used to determine properties of an optical pulse (1/4)
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A timeline cleanse for your Thursday: all our pretty 2025 covers 😍⚛️🧪

Array of all the Nature Reviews Physics covers from 2025

Our December editorial looks at what we've done this year and shows off our beautiful covers 🤩 Which is your favourite?

(We can't choose just one)

Big thanks to Susanne Harris, Sam Whitham, Richard Tibbitts & Neil Smith for the cover designs

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Nature Reviews Physics December 2025 cover, featuring a stylized snowflake and structures of 2D materials

Our December reviews:
⚡Balancing innovation & safety in FLASH radiotherapy
☀️Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar & nuclear physics
🏍️Ultrafast physics with structured light
📋Protocols & tools to enable reproducibility in 2D materials research
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