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Science is a process not a product 科学是一个过程，而不是一个产品

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-09-02 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00983-0

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Four faces of information in natural systems 自然系统中信息的四个面

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-08-28 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00971-4

Fernando E. Rosas, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Andrea I. Luppi, Alexander B. Boyd, Mario Berta, Henrik J. Jensen, Michael Gastpar, Sean M. Carroll

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Topological pair density waves in kagome superconductors kagome超导体的拓扑对密度波

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-08-27 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00974-1

Jia-Xin Yin, Xianxin Wu, Mark H. Fischer, Xiao-Yu Yan, Yigui Zhong, Kozo Okazaki

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The post-quantum transition is a problem of coordination not of cryptography 后量子跃迁是一个协调问题，而不是密码学问题

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-08-21 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00979-w

Fabian Teichmann

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van der Waals Josephson junctions for quantum science and technology 量子科学与技术的范德华斯-约瑟夫森结

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-08-17 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00970-5

Joydip Sarkar, Ayshi Mukherjee, Amit Basu, Ritajit Kundu, Arijit Kundu, Mandar M. Deshmukh

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What’s wrong with this intuition 这种直觉有什么问题

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-08-04 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00976-z

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What’s wrong with this intuition 这种直觉有什么问题

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-08-04 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00976-z

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Artificial intelligence for representing and characterizing quantum systems 用于表示和表征量子系统的人工智能

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-29 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00962-5

Yuxuan Du, Yan Zhu, Yuan-Hang Zhang, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Patrick Rebentrost, Weibo Gao, Yi-Zhuang You, Jens Eisert, Giulio Chiribella, Dacheng Tao, Barry C. Sanders, Ya-Dong Wu

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The work that holds physics together 把物理学结合在一起的工作

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-23 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00969-y

Saad Bhamla

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Drifting in the intestinal stem cell niche 在肠道干细胞生态位中漂移

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-23 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00975-0

Linus L. H. Chang

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