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Physics as a human endeavour

This month we start a Collection of articles to provide a forum for an interdisciplinary conversation on the practice of doing physics, in all its complexity and human-ness.

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    This ongoing collection brings together articles from Nature Reviews journals about how physicists can contribute to environmental sustainability – both by working on questions that have direct relevance to sustainability goals and understanding Earth’s climate, but also by changing the ways physicists work.

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    • Entropy is central to statistical physics, but it has multiple meanings. This Review clarifies the strengths of each use and the connections between them, seeking to bolster crosstalk between researchers and to emphasize the power of inference for non-equilibrium physics.

      • Jonathan Asher Pachter
      • Ying-Jen Yang
      • Ken A. Dill
      Review Article

    • Dipolar many-body systems provide a promising platform to study quantum phases and exotic phenomena such as dipolar liquids, dipolar solids and superfluids. This Review discusses dipolar many-body complexes and their interactions in 2D stacked transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers and offers insights into the unique properties of various exciton species.

      • Xueqian Sun
      • Ermin Malic
      • Yuerui Lu
      Review Article

    • This Perspective argues that the development of 99Mo production methods complementary to reactor-based methodology is strategic in the short-to-medium term. Localized and resilient 99Mo production routes might guarantee access to important diagnostic procedures even in the case of unpredictable global events.

      • Antonino Pietropaolo
      • Marco Capogni
      • Lina Quintieri
      Perspective

    • In the 1980s, the discovery of electron states that fractionalize in the presence of a time-reversal symmetry breaking magnetic field opened up new directions in condensed matter physics. In 2023, evidence has accumulated that a version of these states in which the time-reversal symmetry breaking is spontaneous appears in moiré materials.

      • Nicolás Morales-Durán
      • Jingtian Shi
      • A. H. MacDonald
      Year in Review

    • Quantum sensing exploits properties of quantum systems to go beyond what is possible with traditional measurement techniques, hence opening exciting opportunities in both low-energy and high-energy particle physics experiments.

      • Steven D. Bass
      • Michael Doser
      Perspective

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  • Access to quantum computers has been democratized by the availability of cloud services from commercial providers, but the numbers of qubits users can exploit have remained modest, limited by noise and errors. What are these qubits used for and what can we expect next?

    • Tsubasa Ichikawa
    • Hideaki Hakoshima
    • Keisuke Fujii
    Down to Business

  • 90 years after Eugene Wigner predicted the formation of an ordered electron state, direct observations of a lattice of electrons in bilayer graphene not only verify the existence of a Wigner crystal but find unexpected physics.

    • May Chiao
    Research Highlight

  • Doing physics and being a physicist is shaped by complex social factors. This month, we launch a Collection to explore the social and historical context of physics research.

    Editorial

  • Many everyday English words have a double meaning, being used as physics jargon. This month, we share some of our favourite stories of how physics terms came to be.

    Editorial

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