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  • Article |

    An exotic s + is multiband superconducting state manifests in a doped pnictide superconductor when a second band moves below the Fermi surface. This creates an internal magnetic field, breaking time-reversal symmetry.

    • V. Grinenko
    • , R. Sarkar
    • , K. Kihou
    • , C. H. Lee
    • , I. Morozov
    • , S. Aswartham
    • , B. Büchner
    • , P. Chekhonin
    • , W. Skrotzki
    • , K. Nenkov
    • , R. Hühne
    • , K. Nielsch
    • , S. -L. Drechsler
    • , V. L. Vadimov
    • , M. A. Silaev
    • , P. A. Volkov
    • , I. Eremin
    • , H. Luetkens
    •  & H.-H. Klauss

  • Letter |

    Transmitting the time signal and generating the secure key with the same carrier photon improves the security of a satellite-based quantum-secure time transfer protocol, which uses two-way quantum key distribution.

    • Hui Dai
    • , Qi Shen
    • , Chao-Ze Wang
    • , Shuang-Lin Li
    • , Wei-Yue Liu
    • , Wen-Qi Cai
    • , Sheng-Kai Liao
    • , Ji-Gang Ren
    • , Juan Yin
    • , Yu-Ao Chen
    • , Qiang Zhang
    • , Feihu Xu
    • , Cheng-Zhi Peng
    •  & Jian-Wei Pan

  • Article |

    Generalization of linear response theory to the non-Hermitian case turns dissipation into a new tool for detecting equilibrium phases. The prediction from this theory remarkably agrees with a recent cold atom experiment.

    • Lei Pan
    • , Xin Chen
    • , Yu Chen
    •  & Hui Zhai

  • Letter |

    Coupling of the quadrupole moment of an electron in a triple quantum dot to photons has been predicted to be a good platform for reducing the effect of charge noise on the decoherence time of a qubit. Here, the authors create such a coupling.

    • J. V. Koski
    • , A. J. Landig
    • , M. Russ
    • , J. C. Abadillo-Uriel
    • , P. Scarlino
    • , B. Kratochwil
    • , C. Reichl
    • , W. Wegscheider
    • , Guido Burkard
    • , Mark Friesen
    • , S. N. Coppersmith
    • , A. Wallraff
    • , K. Ensslin
    •  & T. Ihn

  • Article |

    Ionization delays from ethyl iodide around a giant dipole resonance are measured by attosecond streaking spectroscopy. Using theoretical knowledge of the iodine atom as a reference, the contribution of the functional ethyl group can be obtained.

    • Shubhadeep Biswas
    • , Benjamin Förg
    • , Lisa Ortmann
    • , Johannes Schötz
    • , Wolfgang Schweinberger
    • , Tomáš Zimmermann
    • , Liangwen Pi
    • , Denitsa Baykusheva
    • , Hafiz A. Masood
    • , Ioannis Liontos
    • , Amgad M. Kamal
    • , Nora G. Kling
    • , Abdullah F. Alharbi
    • , Meshaal Alharbi
    • , Abdallah M. Azzeer
    • , Gregor Hartmann
    • , Hans J. Wörner
    • , Alexandra S. Landsman
    •  & Matthias F. Kling

  • Article |

    Symmetry breaking is essential for polarization of cells and generation of left–right body asymmetry. Here the authors investigate the arrangement of hair cells in zebrafish and show that mirror-symmetric patterns arise from a combination of biochemical and mechanical symmetry-breaking events.

    • A. Erzberger
    • , A. Jacobo
    • , A. Dasgupta
    •  & A. J. Hudspeth

  • Letter |

    Error-transparent quantum gates that can tolerate certain error during the execution of quantum operations have been demonstrated. Substantial improvement of the gate fidelity sheds lights on large-scale universal quantum computation.

    • Y. Ma
    • , Y. Xu
    • , X. Mu
    • , W. Cai
    • , L. Hu
    • , W. Wang
    • , X. Pan
    • , H. Wang
    • , Y. P. Song
    • , C.-L. Zou
    •  & L. Sun

  • Editorial |

    On the 60th anniversary of the first functioning laser, we imagine a research landscape without it.

  • Measure for Measure |

    The tool of choice to measure optical frequencies with extremely high precision is the optical frequency comb. Camille-Sophie Brès explains what makes this technique so powerful.

    • Camille-Sophie Brès

  • Author Correction |

    • F. Zhang
    • , H. B. Cai
    • , W. M. Zhou
    • , Z. S. Dai
    • , L. Q. Shan
    • , H. Xu
    • , J. B. Chen
    • , F. J. Ge
    • , Q. Tang
    • , W. S. Zhang
    • , L. Wei
    • , D. X. Liu
    • , J. F. Gu
    • , H. B. Du
    • , B. Bi
    • , S. Z. Wu
    • , J. Li
    • , F. Lu
    • , H. Zhang
    • , B. Zhang
    • , M. Q. He
    • , M. H. Yu
    • , Z. H. Yang
    • , W. W. Wang
    • , H. S. Zhang
    • , B. Cui
    • , L. Yang
    • , J. F. Wu
    • , W. Qi
    • , L. H. Cao
    • , Z. Li
    • , H. J. Liu
    • , Y. M. Yang
    • , G. L. Ren
    • , C. Tian
    • , Z. Q. Yuan
    • , W. D. Zheng
    • , L. F. Cao
    • , C. T. Zhou
    • , S. Y. Zou
    • , Y. Q. Gu
    • , K. Du
    • , Y. K. Ding
    • , B. H. Zhang
    • , S. P. Zhu
    • , W. Y. Zhang
    •  & X. T. He

  • Article |

    Collective cell migration is usually attributed to large-scale transmission of signals through cell junctions. Here, the authors confine cells into a ring-shaped pattern and show that collective cell migration can arise at the single-cell level.

    • Shreyansh Jain
    • , Victoire M. L. Cachoux
    • , Gautham H. N. S. Narayana
    • , Simon de Beco
    • , Joseph D’Alessandro
    • , Victor Cellerin
    • , Tianchi Chen
    • , Mélina L. Heuzé
    • , Philippe Marcq
    • , René-Marc Mège
    • , Alexandre J. Kabla
    • , Chwee Teck Lim
    •  & Benoit Ladoux

  • Article |

    Biological systems are able to self-assemble in non-equilibrium conditions thanks to a continuous injection of energy. Here the authors present a tool to achieve non-equilibrium self-assembly of synthetic and biological constituents with sizes spanning three orders of magnitude.

    • Ghaith Makey
    • , Sezin Galioglu
    • , Roujin Ghaffari
    • , E. Doruk Engin
    • , Gökhan Yıldırım
    • , Özgün Yavuz
    • , Onurcan Bektaş
    • , Ü. Seleme Nizam
    • , Özge Akbulut
    • , Özgür Şahin
    • , Kıvanç Güngör
    • , Didem Dede
    • , H. Volkan Demir
    • , F. Ömer Ilday
    •  & Serim Ilday

  • Letter |

    Electron spins in solid usually relax their energy through the coupling with phonons in the host lattice. By using the coupling to microwave photons in a cavity as an alternative relaxation path, it is demonstrated that spins can be cooled below the lattice temperature.

    • B. Albanese
    • , S. Probst
    • , V. Ranjan
    • , C. W. Zollitsch
    • , M. Pechal
    • , A. Wallraff
    • , J. J. L. Morton
    • , D. Vion
    • , D. Esteve
    • , E. Flurin
    •  & P. Bertet

  • Article |

    Experiments realizing the indirect-drive fast ignition scheme for inertial confinement fusion are reported. Enabled by a tightly compressed target, an increase of neutron yield is observed.

    • F. Zhang
    • , H. B. Cai
    • , W. M. Zhou
    • , Z. S. Dai
    • , L. Q. Shan
    • , H. Xu
    • , J. B. Chen
    • , F. J. Ge
    • , Q. Tang
    • , W. S. Zhang
    • , L. Wei
    • , D. X. Liu
    • , J. F. Gu
    • , H. B. Du
    • , B. Bi
    • , S. Z. Wu
    • , J. Li
    • , F. Lu
    • , H. Zhang
    • , B. Zhang
    • , M. Q. He
    • , M. H. Yu
    • , Z. H. Yang
    • , W. W. Wang
    • , H. S. Zhang
    • , B. Cui
    • , L. Yang
    • , J. F. Wu
    • , W. Qi
    • , L. H. Cao
    • , Z. Li
    • , H. J. Liu
    • , Y. M. Yang
    • , G. L. Ren
    • , C. Tian
    • , Z. Q. Yuan
    • , W. D. Zheng
    • , L. F. Cao
    • , C. T. Zhou
    • , S. Y. Zou
    • , Y. Q. Gu
    • , K. Du
    • , Y. K. Ding
    • , B. H. Zhang
    • , S. P. Zhu
    • , W. Y. Zhang
    •  & X. T. He

  • Article |

    The Double Chooz collaboration reports the neutrino oscillation parameter θ13 from a measurement of the disappearance of reactor anti-electron neutrinos with the total neutron capture technique.

    • H. de Kerret
    • , T. Abrahão
    • , H. Almazan
    • , J. C. dos Anjos
    • , S. Appel
    • , J. C. Barriere
    • , I. Bekman
    • , T. J. C. Bezerra
    • , L. Bezrukov
    • , E. Blucher
    • , T. Brugière
    • , C. Buck
    • , J. Busenitz
    • , A. Cabrera
    • , M. Cerrada
    • , E. Chauveau
    • , P. Chimenti
    • , O. Corpace
    • , J. V. Dawson
    • , Z. Djurcic
    • , A. Etenko
    • , H. Furuta
    • , I. Gil-Botella
    • , A. Givaudan
    • , H. Gomez
    • , L. F. G. Gonzalez
    • , M. C. Goodman
    • , T. Hara
    • , J. Haser
    • , D. Hellwig
    • , A. Hourlier
    • , M. Ishitsuka
    • , J. Jochum
    • , C. Jollet
    • , K. Kale
    • , M. Kaneda
    • , M. Karakac
    • , T. Kawasaki
    • , E. Kemp
    • , D. Kryn
    • , M. Kuze
    • , T. Lachenmaier
    • , C. E. Lane
    • , T. Lasserre
    • , C. Lastoria
    • , D. Lhuillier
    • , H. P. Lima Jr
    • , M. Lindner
    • , J. M. López-Castaño
    • , J. M. LoSecco
    • , B. Lubsandorzhiev
    • , J. Maeda
    • , C. Mariani
    • , J. Maricic
    • , J. Martino
    • , T. Matsubara
    • , G. Mention
    • , A. Meregaglia
    • , T. Miletic
    • , R. Milincic
    • , A. Minotti
    • , D. Navas-Nicolás
    • , P. Novella
    • , L. Oberauer
    • , M. Obolensky
    • , A. Onillon
    • , A. Oralbaev
    • , C. Palomares
    • , I. M. Pepe
    • , G. Pronost
    • , J. Reichenbacher
    • , B. Reinhold
    • , S. Schönert
    • , S. Schoppmann
    • , L. Scola
    • , R. Sharankova
    • , V. Sibille
    • , V. Sinev
    • , M. Skorokhvatov
    • , P. Soldin
    • , A. Stahl
    • , I. Stancu
    • , L. F. F. Stokes
    • , F. Suekane
    • , S. Sukhotin
    • , T. Sumiyoshi
    • , Y. Sun
    • , C. Veyssiere
    • , B. Viaud
    • , M. Vivier
    • , S. Wagner
    • , C. Wiebusch
    • , G. Yang
    •  & F. Yermia

  • News & Views |

    Equilibrium self-assembly processes find free-energy minima but no such general statement holds for systems driven out of equilibrium. A new study has employed laser-induced convective flows to achieve dissipative self-assembly across multiple scales with universal growth and fluctuation statistics.

    • Gili Bisker

  • Author Correction |

    • Frank Schindler
    • , Zhijun Wang
    • , Maia G. Vergniory
    • , Ashley M. Cook
    • , Anil Murani
    • , Shamashis Sengupta
    • , Alik Yu. Kasumov
    • , Richard Deblock
    • , Sangjun Jeon
    • , Ilya Drozdov
    • , Hélène Bouchiat
    • , Sophie Guéron
    • , Ali Yazdani
    • , B. Andrei Bernevig
    •  & Titus Neupert

  • Letter |

    Compton scattering experiments off helium atoms for photon energies close to the ionization threshold reveal that electrons are not only emitted in the direction of the momentum transfer but also backwards.

    • Max Kircher
    • , Florian Trinter
    • , Sven Grundmann
    • , Isabel Vela-Perez
    • , Simon Brennecke
    • , Nicolas Eicke
    • , Jonas Rist
    • , Sebastian Eckart
    • , Salim Houamer
    • , Ochbadrakh Chuluunbaatar
    • , Yuri V. Popov
    • , Igor P. Volobuev
    • , Kai Bagschik
    • , M. Novella Piancastelli
    • , Manfred Lein
    • , Till Jahnke
    • , Markus S. Schöffler
    •  & Reinhard Dörner

  • Article |

    A detailed and systematic X-ray and neutron scattering study of hexagonal iron sulfide uncovers the critical role of spin–phonon coupling in promoting the metal–insulator transition in this system.

    • Dipanshu Bansal
    • , Jennifer L. Niedziela
    • , Stuart Calder
    • , Tyson Lanigan-Atkins
    • , Ryan Rawl
    • , Ayman H. Said
    • , Douglas L. Abernathy
    • , Alexander I. Kolesnikov
    • , Haidong Zhou
    •  & Olivier Delaire

  • Letter |

    A passive, heralded and high-fidelity quantum memory network node has been realized, which connects simultaneously to two quantum channels provided by orthogonally aligned optical fibre cavities coupled with a single atom.

    • Manuel Brekenfeld
    • , Dominik Niemietz
    • , Joseph Dale Christesen
    •  & Gerhard Rempe

  • Letter |

    α-RuCl3 is a promising candidate for realizing the Kitaev quantum spin liquid, but the physics governing its magnetic behaviour remain elusive. Resonant elastic X-ray scattering data now set unambiguous constraints on the leading terms in the Hamiltonian.

    • Jennifer A. Sears
    • , Li Ern Chern
    • , Subin Kim
    • , Pablo J. Bereciartua
    • , Sonia Francoual
    • , Yong Baek Kim
    •  & Young-June Kim

  • Article |

    Majorana bound states at the end of nanowires may be used for quantum computation if they can be coupled sufficiently strongly. Here, the Copenhagen lab show strong and tunable coupling, a step along the road towards devices.

    • David M. T. van Zanten
    • , Deividas Sabonis
    • , Judith Suter
    • , Jukka I. Väyrynen
    • , Torsten Karzig
    • , Dmitry I. Pikulin
    • , Eoin C. T. O’Farrell
    • , Davydas Razmadze
    • , Karl D. Petersson
    • , Peter Krogstrup
    •  & Charles M. Marcus

  • Letter
    | Open Access

    Isotopes with an odd number of neutrons are usually slightly smaller in size than their even-neutron neighbours. In charge radii of short-lived copper isotopes, a reduction of this effect is observed when the neutron number approaches fifty.

    • R. P. de Groote
    • , J. Billowes
    • , C. L. Binnersley
    • , M. L. Bissell
    • , T. E. Cocolios
    • , T. Day Goodacre
    • , G. J. Farooq-Smith
    • , D. V. Fedorov
    • , K. T. Flanagan
    • , S. Franchoo
    • , R. F. Garcia Ruiz
    • , W. Gins
    • , J. D. Holt
    • , Á. Koszorús
    • , K. M. Lynch
    • , T. Miyagi
    • , W. Nazarewicz
    • , G. Neyens
    • , P.-G. Reinhard
    • , S. Rothe
    • , H. H. Stroke
    • , A. R. Vernon
    • , K. D. A. Wendt
    • , S. G. Wilkins
    • , Z. Y. Xu
    •  & X. F. Yang

  • News & Views |

    Artificial neural networks now allow the dynamics of supercooled liquids to be predicted from their structure alone in an unprecedented way, thus providing a powerful new tool to study the physics of the glass transition.

    • Giulio Biroli

  • Letter |

    What happens to topological materials when their electrons are strongly interacting is an open question. Shao and others demonstrate that ZrSiSe is a material that can address this as it has a topological band structure and non-trivial correlations.

    • Yinming Shao
    • , A. N. Rudenko
    • , Jin Hu
    • , Zhiyuan Sun
    • , Yanglin Zhu
    • , Seongphill Moon
    • , A. J. Millis
    • , Shengjun Yuan
    • , A. I. Lichtenstein
    • , Dmitry Smirnov
    • , Z. Q. Mao
    • , M. I. Katsnelson
    •  & D. N. Basov

  • Article |

    The physics that underlies the glass transition is both subtle and non-trivial. A machine learning approach based on graph networks is now shown to accurately predict the dynamics of glasses over a wide range of temperatures, pressures and densities.

    • V. Bapst
    • , T. Keck
    • , A. Grabska-Barwińska
    • , C. Donner
    • , E. D. Cubuk
    • , S. S. Schoenholz
    • , A. Obika
    • , A. W. R. Nelson
    • , T. Back
    • , D. Hassabis
    •  & P. Kohli

  • Perspective
    | Open Access

    Within the Physics Beyond Collider programme, complementary methods to high-energy frontier particle colliders to investigate the physics of elementary particles and their interactions are studied.

    • Joerg Jaeckel
    • , Mike Lamont
    •  & Claude Vallée

  • Comment |

    Astrophysical neutrinos could originate from blazars, but their modelling is challenging. Instead, the source of cosmic neutrinos could be a special yet unidentified class in which jets burrow through stellar material and produce neutrinos.

    • Francis Halzen
    •  & Ali Kheirandish

  • Editorial |

    The impending update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics is an apt moment to chart the future of the field — a future that should be supported and ensured.

  • Research Highlight |

    • David Abergel

  • Letter |

    Moiré engineering has rapidly gained currency as a means to manipulate electronic states of matter in van der Waals heterostructures. Now, the feat is achieved in epitaxially grown oxide heterostructures, thus opening up fresh opportunities for strongly correlated electronic systems.

    • Xinzhong Chen
    • , Xiaodong Fan
    • , Lin Li
    • , Nan Zhang
    • , Zhijing Niu
    • , Tengfei Guo
    • , Suheng Xu
    • , Han Xu
    • , Dongli Wang
    • , Huayang Zhang
    • , A. S. McLeod
    • , Zhenlin Luo
    • , Qingyou Lu
    • , Andrew J. Millis
    • , D. N. Basov
    • , Mengkun Liu
    •  & Changgan Zeng

  • Perspective
    | Open Access

    The Compact Linear Collider is a proposed high-luminosity electron–positron collider that can reach TeV-scale energies. Its accelerator design and physics programme, mainly focusing on precision measurements and new physics searches, are discussed.

    • Eva Sicking
    •  & Rickard Ström

  • Perspective
    | Open Access

    The Future Circular Colliders are proposed as a future step after the Large Hadron Collider has stopped running. The first stage foresees collision of electron–positron pairs before a machine upgrade to allow proton–proton operation.

    • Michael Benedikt
    • , Alain Blondel
    • , Patrick Janot
    • , Michelangelo Mangano
    •  & Frank Zimmermann

  • Perspective |

    Proposals for the particle physics programmes in the United States and Asia are discussed; mainly the International Linear Collider in Japan, the Circular Electron–Positron Collider in China and accelerator-based long-baseline neutrino experiments in the United States.

    • Pushpalatha C. Bhat
    •  & Geoffrey N. Taylor

  • Measure for Measure |

    Watching the ocean’s ebb and flow may be soothing, but the history of the sverdrup unit for ocean flow is more turbulent. Tor Eldevik and Peter Mosby Haugan recount an oceanographic journey reaching high tide with Harald Ulrik Sverdrup and his unit.

    • Tor Eldevik
    •  & Peter Mosby Haugan

  • Letter |

    In one-dimensional quantum magnets, complex bound states of magnetic excitations known as Bethe strings have long been predicted. Now, a detailed neutron scattering study of SrCo2V2O8 reveals their magnetic-field-dependent dispersion relation.

    • Anup Kumar Bera
    • , Jianda Wu
    • , Wang Yang
    • , Robert Bewley
    • , Martin Boehm
    • , Jianhui Xu
    • , Maciej Bartkowiak
    • , Oleksandr Prokhnenko
    • , Bastian Klemke
    • , A. T. M. Nazmul Islam
    • , Joseph Mathew Law
    • , Zhe Wang
    •  & Bella Lake

  • News & Views |

    An ultra-cold atomic gas is used to image a phase transition in an iron pnictide with micrometre resolution.

    • James Analytis

  • Letter |

    A trapped quantum gas and optical microscopy are simultaneously employed to measure the nematicity of an iron-based superconductor. This demonstrates the potential of quantum gases to be used for scanning microscopy of quantum materials.

    • Fan Yang
    • , Stephen F. Taylor
    • , Stephen D. Edkins
    • , Johanna C. Palmstrom
    • , Ian R. Fisher
    •  & Benjamin L. Lev