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Volume 11 Issue 10, October 2015

A visualization of the titles of scientific articles in Nature Physics, ordered clockwise based on their publication date, and connected by a citation network. Font size, colour and distance from the centre indicate the number of citations, with large titles in green denoting the most highly cited papers. Perspective p791VISUALIZATION: MAURO MARTINO, DATA: ROBERTA SINATRACOVER DESIGN: ALLEN BEATTIE

Editorial

  • Looking back at a decade of Nature Physics.

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Correction

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Perspective

  • An analysis of Web of Science data spanning more than 100 years reveals the rapid growth and increasing multidisciplinarity of physics — as well its internal map of subdisciplines.

    • Roberta Sinatra
    • Pierre Deville
    • Albert-László Barabási
    Perspective
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Thesis

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Feature

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Research Highlights

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News & Views

  • For ultracold atoms experiencing a synthetic magnetic field in an optical lattice, it is possible to observe the translational symmetry-breaking pattern determined by the chosen gauge.

    • Tomoki Ozawa
    News & Views
  • Crushing a brittle porous medium such as a box of cereal causes the grains to break up and rearrange themselves. A lattice spring model based on simple physical assumptions gives rise to behaviours that are complex enough to reproduce diverse compaction patterns.

    • Nicolas Vandewalle
    News & Views
  • Real-time tracking of self-propelled biomolecules provides insight into the physical rules governing self-organization in complex living systems — including evidence to suggest that their alignment requires multiple simultaneous interactions.

    • Shahid M. Khan
    • Justin E. Molloy
    News & Views
  • Nonlocal, nonlinear interactions of optical beams can be described by the Newton–Schrödinger equation for quantum gravity, offering an analogue for studying gravitational phenomena.

    • Daniele Faccio
    News & Views
  • We're well versed on the first-passage time for a random process, but the time required to cover more than one site in a system is a different problem altogether. It turns out that the two measures have more in common than we thought.

    • Eli Barkai
    News & Views
  • When Nature Physics celebrated 20 years of high-temperature superconductors, numerical approaches were on the periphery. Since then, new ideas implemented in new algorithms are leading to new insights.

    • E. Gull
    • A. J. Millis
    News & Views
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Letter

  • An interferometric measurement based on high-harmonic generation now provides direct access to the electron wavefunction during field-induced tunnelling.

    • O. Pedatzur
    • G. Orenstein
    • N. Dudovich
    Letter
  • The efficient and robust manipulation of single spins is an essential requirement for successful quantum devices. The manipulation of a single nitrogen–vacancy spin centre is now demonstrated by means of a mechanical resonator approach.

    • A. Barfuss
    • J. Teissier
    • P. Maletinsky
    Letter
  • When compacting a brittle porous medium—think stepping on fresh snow—patterns develop. Simulations and densification experiments with cereals now provide an understanding of compaction patterns in terms of a lattice model with breakable springs.

    • François Guillard
    • Pouya Golshan
    • Itai Einav
    Letter
  • The first-passage time relates the efficiency of a search process, but fails to do so for searches in which several targets are sought. Now, the distribution of times required for a random search to visit all sites has been determined analytically.

    • Marie Chupeau
    • Olivier Bénichou
    • Raphaël Voituriez
    Letter
  • Small distinctive patterns or ‘motifs’ are more prevalent in real systems than they are in randomly generated networks. It now seems that these motifs emerge naturally according to a principle that favours interconnections biased towards stability.

    • Marco Tulio Angulo
    • Yang-Yu Liu
    • Jean-Jacques Slotine
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