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    The trapping of triply charged 229mTh3+ is described and its nuclear decay half-life determined, showing useful properties for the development of a nuclear clock and applications in the search for new physics.

    • Atsushi Yamaguchi
    • , Yudai Shigekawa
    •  & Hidetoshi Katori

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    | Open Access

    We introduce strong tailored light-wave-driven time-reversal symmetry breaking in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride, realizing a sub-laser-cycle controllable analogue of the topological model of Haldane and inducing non-resonant valley polarization.

    • Sambit Mitra
    • , Álvaro Jiménez-Galán
    •  & Shubhadeep Biswas

  • Research Briefing |

    Applications from quantum computing to searches for physics beyond the standard model could benefit from precision control of polyatomic molecules. A method of confining and manipulating single polyatomic molecules held in tightly focused ‘optical tweezer’ laser arrays at ultracold temperatures could boost progress on all those fronts.

  • News & Views |

    Microscopic magnetic fields form in non-magnetic materials when light makes the atoms rotate. A similar macroscopic effect has long been known, but proof of its atomic equivalent could give rise to ultrafast data processing.

    • Carl P. Romao
    •  & Dominik M. Juraschek

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    A magnetic-field-induced Wigner crystal in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene was directly imaged using high-resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy and its structural properties as a function of electron density, magnetic field and temperature were examined.

    • Yen-Chen Tsui
    • , Minhao He
    •  & Ali Yazdani

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    A hybrid topological phase of matter is discovered in the simple elemental-solid arsenic and explored using tunnelling microscopy, photoemission spectroscopy and a theoretical analysis.

    • Md Shafayat Hossain
    • , Frank Schindler
    •  & M. Zahid Hasan

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    Using a three-pronged approach — spanning field-driven negative capacitance stabilization to increase intrinsic energy storage, antiferroelectric superlattice engineering to increase total energy storage, and conformal three-dimensional deposition to increase areal energy storage density — very high electrostatic energy storage density and power density are reported in HfO2–ZrO2-based thin film microcapacitors integrated into silicon.

    • Suraj S. Cheema
    • , Nirmaan Shanker
    •  & Sayeef Salahuddin

  • News & Views |

    Scientists have designed a liquid that behaves as both a solid and a fluid owing to the presence of tiny gas-filled capsules. An unusual relationship between pressure and volume enables this material to grasp fragile objects.

    • P.-T. Brun

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    | Open Access

    Heat flows through thin, crack-like geo-compartments are shown to purify previously mixed compounds and enhance their reactivity, providing a selective mechanism for separating molecules relevant to the chemical origins of life.

    • Thomas Matreux
    • , Paula Aikkila
    •  & Christof B. Mast

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    An optical tweezer array of individual polyatomic molecules is created, revealing the obvious state control in the tweezer array and enabling further research on polyatomic molecules with diverse spatial arrangements.

    • Nathaniel B. Vilas
    • , Paige Robichaud
    •  & John M. Doyle

  • Book Review |

    The aspiring astronaut turned theoretical physicist talks travelling, the accelerating expansion of the Universe, thinking beyond three dimensions and detecting gravitational waves.

    • Davide Castelvecchi

  • News & Views |

    Clever manipulation of electrons has enabled scientists to change a key property of light emitted by a device using electrically controlled magnetization. The method could lead to stable and energy-efficient information transfer.

    • Satoshi Hiura

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    Increased melting of ice in Greenland and Antarctica, measured by satellite gravity, has decreased the angular velocity of Earth more rapidly than before and has already affected global timekeeping.

    • Duncan Carr Agnew

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    Through inelastic light scattering chiral spin-2 long-wavelength magnetorotons are observed, revealing chiral graviton modes in fractional quantum Hall states and aiding in understanding the quantum metric impacts in topological correlated systems.

    • Jiehui Liang
    • , Ziyu Liu
    •  & Aron Pinczuk

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    | Open Access

    An end-to-end quantum error correction protocol that implements fault-tolerant memory on the basis of a family of low-density parity-check codes shows the possibility of low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum memory within the reach of near-term quantum processors.

    • Sergey Bravyi
    • , Andrew W. Cross
    •  & Theodore J. Yoder

  • Analysis
    | Open Access

    Efficiency roll-off in a wide range of TADF OLEDs is analysed and a figure of merit proposed for materials design to improve efficiency at high brightness, potentially expanding the range of applications of TADF materials.

    • S. Diesing
    • , L. Zhang
    •  & I. D. W. Samuel

  • News & Views |

    Complex magnetic structures called skyrmions have been generated on a nanometre scale and controlled electrically — a promising step for fast, energy-efficient computer hardware systems that can store large amounts of data.

    • Qiming Shao

  • News & Views |

    An array of robots has been set up so that pushes between them produce movements that do not conform to the usual laws of motion. Fascinating behaviour emerges from these interactions: wave phenomena known as solitons.

    • Sebastian D. Huber
    •  & Kukka-Emilia Huhtinen

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    | Open Access

    Turbulent energy cascades can be arrested by non-dissipative viscosities, resulting in pattern formation at intermediate length scales.

    • Xander M. de Wit
    • , Michel Fruchart
    •  & Vincenzo Vitelli

  • Article
    | Open Access

    By stabilizing a stationary giant quantum vortex in superfluid 4He and introducing a minimally invasive way to characterize the vortex flow, intricate wave–vortex interactions are shown to simulate black hole ringdown physics.

    • Patrik Švančara
    • , Pietro Smaniotto
    •  & Silke Weinfurtner

  • Article |

    A local driving mechanism for solitons that accelerates both solitons and antisolitons in the same direction, called non-reciprocal driving, is introduced, showing a subtle interplay between non-reciprocity and topological solitons and providing waveguiding and wave-processing possibilities for other fields.

    • Jonas Veenstra
    • , Oleksandr Gamayun
    •  & Corentin Coulais

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Fidelity benchmarking of an analogue quantum simulator reaches a high-entanglement regime where exact classical simulation of quantum systems becomes impractical, and enables a new method for evaluating the mixed-state entanglement of quantum devices.

    • Adam L. Shaw
    • , Zhuo Chen
    •  & Manuel Endres

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    Wafer-scale realization of a nanoscale magnetic tunnel junction hosting a single, ambient skyrmion enables its large readout, efficient switching, and compatibility with lateral manipulation, and thereby provides the backbone for all-electrical skyrmionic device architectures.

    • Shaohai Chen
    • , James Lourembam
    •  & Anjan Soumyanarayanan

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    | Open Access

    A micro-fabricated Penning trap that operates at a 3 T magnetic field demonstrates full quantum control of an ion and the ability to transport the ion arbitrarily in the trapping plane above the chip.

    • Shreyans Jain
    • , Tobias Sägesser
    •  & Jonathan Home

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    We demonstrate an all-optical, mode-locking, Kerr-comb frequency division method that provides a chip-scale microwave source that is extremely versatile, accurate, stable and has ultralow noise, using only a single continuous-wave laser.

    • Yun Zhao
    • , Jae K. Jang
    •  & Alexander L. Gaeta

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    | Open Access

    Laser-based micro-focused angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy reveals both fractionalized and marginal quasiparticles in C3-symmetric electron pockets near the Brillouin zone centre of the ferromagnetic kagome metal Fe3Sn2.

    • Sandy Adhitia Ekahana
    • , Y. Soh
    •  & G. Aeppli

  • Article
    | Open Access

    We demonstrate a photon-counting approach that extends the unique advantages of spectroscopy with interfering frequency combs into regions where nonlinear frequency conversion tends to be very inefficient, providing a step towards precision broadband spectroscopy at short wavelengths and extreme-ultraviolet dual-comb spectroscopy.

    • Bingxin Xu
    • , Zaijun Chen
    •  & Nathalie Picqué

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    A quasi-true time delay is demonstrated for a microwave device implemented in a CMOS technology to miniaturize true-time-delay components of beam-steering systems, addressing the fundamental channel-capacity limitations and increasing data transmission in wireless communications.

    • Bala Govind
    • , Thomas Tapen
    •  & Alyssa Apsel

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